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Grammarly is a writing platform designed to proofread and check for plagiarism. The company has an online presence on YouTube with more than 76 500 subscribers, on which they upload videos to promote their product.

In late 2015 Grammarly uploaded a video to YouTube titled "The Best Writing Tool for Students" which has since become notorious for being an annoying YouTube advertisement. The video has over 84 000 000 views as of March 2017. Many users became annoyed at the frequency at which they received the ad, leading to a nearly 1:1 like/dislike ratio.

In October of 2016, Grammarly released a new video called "Better Writing with Grammarly", which led to similar controversy as their previous video. This video has over 44 million views, 346 likes, and 304 dislikes.

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The first sentence of the "Better Writing with Grammarly" video was mocked by displeased people who got the ad before nearly every single video.

Let's suppose you're writing a really important email to a colleague or a post on Facebook that all your friends will see…

On October 10th, 2016, twitter user chaz hutton tweeted about Grammarly. His tweet was retweeted 4 times and liked 18 times.

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Roblox Forums

On October 25th, 2016, ROBLOX user Dedotated_Wam created a thread on the Off Topic section on the ROBLOX forums, titled "Let's supposed you're writing a really". In the thread he purposely writes in broken English to mock the Grammarly ad. Four other users posted replies.

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