This is in response to the thumbnail collage, not the overall argument, but Pitch Meetings (bottom left thumbnail) are some of the most consistently clever and hilarious videos on youtube. Ryan George is a national treasure.
I don't think you're wrong exactly - YouTube face is very real and very irritating - but I think it's also a bit depressing that you see people doing a choreographed dance at a wedding and think "they just want to go viral" - as though people weren't doing choreographed dances at weddings for decades before Youtube existed.
Yes, Youtube creates a way for attention-seekers to seek mass attention. I think it's a mistake to say that that's all the platform is. Facebook is full of boomers spreading COVID misinformation memes, and that IS bad and DOES have a concrete effect on our society that's worth talking about, but it's hard to take seriously critiques that seem to say that is the only thing happening on the platform.
The act of posting a video on Youtube is not the same as the act as chasing clicks by trying to hit it viral, but this piece seems to equate them 1:1, which is uncharitable to the people involved and dismissive of all the things happening on those platforms that have greater value.
So glad they’re living happily ever after. Maybe it’s not all bad after all 😊
great trip down memory lane!
This is in response to the thumbnail collage, not the overall argument, but Pitch Meetings (bottom left thumbnail) are some of the most consistently clever and hilarious videos on youtube. Ryan George is a national treasure.
I don't think you're wrong exactly - YouTube face is very real and very irritating - but I think it's also a bit depressing that you see people doing a choreographed dance at a wedding and think "they just want to go viral" - as though people weren't doing choreographed dances at weddings for decades before Youtube existed.
Yes, Youtube creates a way for attention-seekers to seek mass attention. I think it's a mistake to say that that's all the platform is. Facebook is full of boomers spreading COVID misinformation memes, and that IS bad and DOES have a concrete effect on our society that's worth talking about, but it's hard to take seriously critiques that seem to say that is the only thing happening on the platform.
The act of posting a video on Youtube is not the same as the act as chasing clicks by trying to hit it viral, but this piece seems to equate them 1:1, which is uncharitable to the people involved and dismissive of all the things happening on those platforms that have greater value.