YouTube has meant a lot of different things to me over the years.  I have spent a lot of time as a youth looking up music and beats on YouTube.  It used to be one of my main mediums for searching for music when I was just getting into it.  Obviously I have moved on to other sources since, such as Soundcloud, Bandcamp, Twitter, etc.  But YouTube has still remained a huge database for archives of old music and a growing base of new sounds.  It is still one of the best online communities for artists to share and post music they listen to and create.  From time to time I still find super specific sub-genre’s of music that I really enjoy and want to explore.  YouTube does a really good job of reflecting the internet’s musical tastes.  Every type of music is represented to heavily, and it is always expanding with an ever-growing user base.  Above I posted a small sample of electronic, wavy house music from one of the biggest up and coming LA indie electronic record labels Soulection.

I used to use YouTube as a medium of watching random funny videos and for various educational purposes.  During my first two years of college I was a computer science major.  During that time I would often use YouTube to look up how to do certain calculus and physics problems.  YouTube has become one of the best tools for students who need a quick visual tutorial of a problem while doing homework or studying.  I am interested to see how YouTube progresses.  It seems to be spreading itself out across various mediums such as film, tv, music, and streaming services.  Which of these will their most successful platform is the most curious thing about YouTube’s future.