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 Post subject: 10 Years of YouTube
PostPosted: February 23rd, 2015, 6:05 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: 10 Years of YouTube
PostPosted: February 23rd, 2015, 9:15 pm 
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First, a quote from the Youtube page this video is on.
Henry Blake wrote:
The evolution of YouTube can be divided into three phases.

Phase 1: 2005-2008
Most YouTube videos are videos made by regular internet users from around the globe. Home videos of humorous events in everyday life are found throughout YouTube and are the top viewed videos on the site. The quality of most videos ranges from 144p to 360p, as they are taken using Hi8 camcorders, digital cameras, or Nokia phones, which are not capable of shooting high-quality footage. Let's play videos are mainly of Nintendo games. Rick Roll'd and Chocolate Rain are the most popular music videos uploaded by independent users. 11 year old boys make their own ******* videos, such as YouTube Poops, Try Not to Laugh videos, and screamer videos. Lego stop motion videos are also popular among users. Barack Obama is looked at in a completely different way than he is nowadays. Chuck Norris is the God of the internet.

Phase 2: 2008-2011
Viral videos of pets, mainly cats, invade YouTube, as well as Music Videos uploaded by Vevo. Large corporations begin to make their own YouTube channels to promote their products. Japanese Anime becomes huge on YouTube, but most viral videos are made in America rather than other countries. With the introduction of smartphones, video quality becomes higher, and the 720p and 1080p HD format is introduced. Music videos become the most viewed videos, as well as the most disliked. Minecraft let's plays begin to emerge, as well as game commentators such as Pewdiepie, which brings us to the "Big YouTubers", who start their own web shows, such as Smosh, Annoying Orange, Epic Meal Time, and TheFineBros' React. Subscriptions to YouTube channels start to hit the millions.

Phase 3: 2011-present
Educational channels for nerds become popular, such as Vsauce and SciShow. Vevo Music videos dominate the most viewed videos, rivaled by the cat videos and let's plays dominant in Phase 2. Mass fandoms also begin to emerge, such as My Little Pony, Attack on Titan, and Doctor Who. The age of independent user-uploaded home videos is over, as the big companies promote themselves by making hit videos to promote their products or programs. Comedy music channels, such as ERB, Shane Dawson, and Bart Baker hit the front page. Gangnam Style becomes the first video to hit over a billion views. Trailers for action movies are also largely promoted, and YouTube starts to mimic Netflix and Hulu by selling instant streamed movies and TV. However, YouTube has now become nothing but a puppet for Google, as Google+ has connected to YouTube, which had a negative reaction at first, but now people have gotten used to these changes.

I wonder what's in store for the future of YouTube...

I think this quote in a lot of ways capture how YouTube has evolved over the years. It started off being your average, ordinary video sharing website. But overtime, YT has come to be a lot more commercialized and corporately driven. I'm not saying there isn't original content anymore or natural/unplanned videos, but it certainly is the minority.

On another note, I believe that now more than ever, information overload is becoming a real problem for our society. There is just so much information out there on the web than our brains are able to handle or take in. Not that there is anything that can be done to fix this problem or prevent it from growing and spreading, but YT is certainly a part of this equation.

Although YouTube is useful, it also demonstrates the imperfection that results from any social interaction tool. Entertainment and life comes down to being just one big popularity content, a competition for attention. This is neither healthy nor conducive to moving society forward. And even though YT has many useful aspects to it such as education, entertainment, and historical preservation, it's detrimental affects far outweigh such usefulness.

Going back to Henry Blake's quote and his final thought "I wonder what's in store for the future of YouTube...", another YT user cynically replies "Easy... Porn." In truth, the possibility isn't out of the question. YT already asks people to verify their age when looking at certain "questionable" content. Would it even be a big deal to most people to include porn on YT, esp. now that it is owned by Google who, let's face it, is just a content provider not society's moral police.

But to me, the overarching question that comes to mind isn't "What is the future of YT?", but rather "What is the future of the internet?" Only the future holds that answer...but I don't want to be too gloom and doom over one little YT video with less than 500k views so far. :P

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 Post subject: Re: 10 Years of YouTube
PostPosted: February 27th, 2015, 6:04 pm 
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On a tangent from information overload is the issue of misinformation overload. There is just so much information out there that it becomes easy to cherrypick what you want and be led astray through a supposedly vast body of evidence. Just because a lot of people are saying it or it is popular at the time does not make it a truth! Yet again and again people seem to fall into this trap.

As Galileo said, "In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."

I might be getting a little off-topic though :S.

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