May I just take a moment to suggest that YouTube can inspire kids to do some pretty big things? I was just reading this article in the Globe and Mail and it's fifth point regarding YouTube celebrities made me think that a lot of younglings likely aspire, among other things, to be adorned with YouTube fame. Hear me out.
I don't mean that they go on about it incessantly, I argue that YouTube can naturally find its way into anyone's thoughts at any given time. It wasn't just me who played with video cameras when I was growing up, was it? I used to make videos with my friends and cousins all the time (we never had a video camera at home) - I think they've all disappeared into oblivion now. Had the technology of today been available at that point, most of those videos would probably be on YouTube. Our thoughts would have been along the lines of "Maybe this backyard-trampoline-wrestling video will get a million views." The product of this thought process is that it is now hard to think about making a video without having a sub-thought of YouTube attached.
Considering the taken-for-granted ability to create video, it may be naive of me to think that this is as exciting of a pastime as it used to be, but I do believe that it is fair to assume that YouTube, as a thought, is always attached to the concept of self-made video. If everyone is anything like me, they are always wondering as they shoot a video clip on their iPhone: Should I upload this? Who am I uploading this for? Will it go viral?
I haven't so thoroughly explored YouTube as a gateway to fame as I thought I might in this post, but I'll look further into that phenomenon, as I do believe that young students put a lot of stock into fame-producing qualities that YouTube is bursting at the seams with.
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