http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sxephil http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/sxephil The Queen of England and her less impressively born husband will visit Google's U.K. headquarters on October 16. Google said it invited her to celebrate the "Royal Channel" on YouTube. One hopes that by the time of the monarch's visit, Google will have drummed up more than 22,000 subscribers for the video series. At present, Her Majesty has a tenth as many fans on YouTube as Sxephil. We'd show you an example of the Queen on YouTube — like the time she spoke to TV cameras on Christmas Day in 1957 — but YouTube won't let commoners like us embed them.

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5050066&view=rss&microfeed=true Leading online video site YouTube has updated its community guidelines, and among the "common sense" restrictions are rules against "drug abuse" and "underage drinking and smoking," both of which are commonly featured in the thousands of videos of kids smoking psychotropic Salvia Divinorum. Also against the rules? "Don’t create misleading descriptions, tags, titles or thumbnails in order to increase views." In other words, quit it with the gratuitous tits in your preview stills, sxephil. The best part is where YouTube effectively calls its users higher-order illiterates: "We know most of you video heads are not necessarily interested in reading a novel, but this is an essential read for anyone with a YouTube account." Why not just produce a community guidelines video? That seems easier.

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