Youtube vs. The world!
I would like to start of by saying the newest episode of Becoming Youtube is by far the best I've ever seen. If you haven't seen it,check it out HERE
Now to why the video struck a chord with me. Video blogging has revolutionized entertainment in today's world. Like Tomska says 'today people watch more of youtube than television' and i totally agree with it. Fandoms surrounding these weekly 'vloggers',fame that has been earned by the youtube 'celebrities' are just a few instances to say that "yeah It's pretty BIG mate".
I logged on to twitter right after watching the video and saw the whole lot of accounts, who happen to be dedicated youtube fandom accounts, mad angry. For what? All i did during the video was mentally applaud Benjamin Cook on his well worded fierce monologue. And then I realised what err'd people,THE MONOLOGUE of course.
Audience misinterpreted the whole episode,causing shitstorms and blowing the issue out of proportion (like they do). I just want to stop you right there and correct you. NO he did not mean that your a worthless piece of shit who just sits on their bottom watching videos for free. NO he did not mean it's not worth being a youtuber. All he meant was Our generation needs to get our asses up and start doing something for the world! In place of wallowing in sadness about not able to send Carrie a present or not able to buy more Dan and Phil posters,understand the fact that they don't need it!
Going through the comments all I saw was people freaking out about Ben and Jack's kiss or how tight ben's pants were or how hot Troye looked with blue hair. Just not a single comment saying 'Yes! i will start working to improve the world' or 'I can do away by not buying a merchandise instead I'll donate the money to charity'.
That's when I realised yes,the world is IS full of fucking idiots isn't it?
Yes,I didn't like getting shouted at by Ben,But it was needed. We need to get our first world butts out and help humanity. Other wise we would be the generation that goes into a doom. None of us wantto talk about politics or world issues because of the attitude 'the older people will take care of it'.
We are the generation that has to govern the world tomorrow.
Getting back on the point,the experiment by getting to two male youtubers kiss was a succesful beacuse it showed how we thought about everything. People forgot about the impactful speech and got excited over a petty kiss. Its all like "lets forget the Egypt crisis because Ben and Jack kissed".
Maybe this is all because the youtuber cult has been given the sense of being a"celebrity" but that's a topic for a whole other blog post.
I guess I'll end it by saying that stop finding faults about what others said and try correcting the flaws inside yourself. If someone is compelled to rant about something,look around,you actually might be doing something wrong.
thanks! comments would be appreciated.:)
