Youtube, as many of us know, is a marvelous creation. We spoke about this in class the other day, but it got me thinking about how truly revolutionary it is for the world of video. Before the advantageous invention of this site, in order to share videos with one another you had to distribute them somehow, either through a big corporation (if you had enough money), or by making your friends sit down and watch it with you. Since Youtube, any moron with a point and shoot camera and iMovie can make a video. I'm not saying that Youtube is bringing about the death of good videos, because I think that is probably the opposite of the truth. Youtube, although it can be used for evil, is mostly a tool of good, spreading videos to the masses in hopes of bringing a smile to their bleak lives. Youtube is a powerful weapon. For though there are videos such as Marcel the Shell, which is the most amazing video to ever be created. Ever.
There are also videos of The Annoying Orange, which I think is dumb and stupid. (And yes, annoying, but not in an endearing way. It's just annoying.)
My point is that Youtube is easily abused by those who don't appreciate the great gift of instant sharing. Or maybe they appreciate it too much, and that's the problem. Maybe if they had to work to get people to watch it they wouldn't make such depraved videos.
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Some insightful comments here. like people abusing the gift of instant sharing (perhaps because they were born into it) and that they have no notion of the work that they had to go through to distribute their ramblings.
The Annoying Orange which you dislike has of course over 80 million views! and it gets money by advertisers (like Full Sail) who know that perhaps animators and film students for sure are going to be the captured eyeballs on the site.
The problem is that although the free venue is there for everyone to use, some people take advantage of the lowest common denominator (therefore the biggest number) of viewer intelligence and cater to their mediocre taste, instead of really doing something worthwhile spreading as an idea.
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