Throughout the past couple weeks, I’ve noticed that the way we use YouTube has evolved. For me, at least, YouTube started out as a site to watch random videos for hours on end, with no concrete goal of what to watch. However I feel like I now use it very differently. Now whenever I go to YouTube, it’s with the intention of watching something specific, or seeing is a specific channel has updated. I’ll head over to the LetsPlay channel, or RoosterTeeth, or maybe SeaNanners, watch their content, and then leave. It’s gone from a site I use to take in random content, to a site where I look for very specific, tailored content. I feel like YouTube can also be seen as MyTube, a place where I get specific content that I am interested in watching. It’s funny, as at the beginning of the semester, I contemplated on the evolution of the purpose of the internet. I guess a lot of the topics we deal with have a habit of starting as one thing and becoming another.
For me personally, YouTube is mainly a platform for watching videos from Rooster Teeth, Achievement Hunter, SeaNanners, and other YouTube gaming personalities. My YouTube is very much tailored to gaming and nerd culture topics. It’s very much a change from the random anime music videos and random machinima I used to watch. Of course like anyone else, I’ll use it to listen to random music, but it’s primary use has become a delivery service for the content I listed above. Looking at my top 15 playlist, it definitely pushes the specificity of content point I noted earlier.
1) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjXcWDDdNrc[/youtube]
2) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnoksmvOFjA[/youtube]
3) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzkfGtnv3S8[/youtube]
4) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2DyJMJJ4Gs[/youtube]
5) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDQx-guzx2s[/youtube]
6) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7ONq8m3Vc[/youtube]
7) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJB4WkyuYnE[/youtube]
8) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mc98JC1Q1ik[/youtube]
9) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eURMNR_J-ew[/youtube]
10) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P-5YyY-vss[/youtube]
11) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEVerd5xhq0[/youtube]
12) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNT0iqJbzLs[/youtube]
13) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IardETg8ku0[/youtube]
14) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZgZ84ytfh8[/youtube]
15) [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIxtcfLwmPE[/youtube]