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Top 15 YouTube Playlist

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I have YouTube bookmarked in my browser, but I find that it’s a link I rarely click. In fact, a quick peek at my browser history reveals that I only visited YouTube twice in the last month: once to view a lyric video of a song I like, and another time to watch an episode of LAHWF, a comedic web series which features a guy playing awkward pranks on other people.

LAHWF is hilariously awkward:

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I would like to believe that YouTube doesn’t play a significant role in my life. When YouTube first started gaining popularity, I held no interest in what the site had to offer: a bunch of people vlogging about their personal lives. I didn’t care about what they were talking about. I didn’t care about their teenage angst, their drama, their hair. It was all so irrelevant. I found more amusement from actual cable. I chose Spongebob over RandomYouTubeUser123. Despite YouTube’s growth since that era, I find that I still choose Spongebob.

I don’t have cable, but I still tend to avoid turning to YouTube for recreation. Instead, I turn to Netflix. I binge on Netflix. Hours and hours will pass before I move an inch from my couch thanks to Netflix—not YouTube. When I do use YouTube, I use it sparingly and briefly.

I’m much like Michael Scott in that I just don’t “get” YouTube sometimes.

I use YouTube when I need a brief distraction. I use YouTube as a last resort when I find that I can’t engage in something more exciting. For example, if I’m in a long line between 2 strangers, and I see that it won’t be moving any time soon, I pull out my phone and watch a short clip. I find that I don’t open the YouTube app, but I open an app like BuzzFeed that in turn opens up a video on YouTube that BuzzFeed created. For example:
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I also use YouTube for tutorials. If I want to mix up my makeup routine I check in with one of my favorite makeup gurus for a step-by-step guide on how to create the perfect winged liner or how to contour like a Kardashian. Or if I’m having problems with my laptop or an application on my laptop, I’ve utilized YouTube to guide me through many technical issues. For example, I’ve used videos like the following to run Windows on my Mac:
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I use YouTube for reviews. I watch videos on YouTube if I want to buy an expensive makeup product, but don’t want to invest without the honest opinion of a normal, everyday person like myself. I watch videos created by obviously unpaid laypeople like myself. They tell me if its worth the money, and I know I can trust them because I know they aren’t being paid to lie about how awesome a product is. For example, in the following video the author doesn’t appear to be being paid. She’s trustworthy. Her review is honest, straightforward, and well-organized:
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I use Youtube to watch short clips of moments in shows I like. For example, I’ve watched this video a thousand times and I could watch it a thousand more:
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Finally, I use YouTube for music. If I can’t find a song I like on Spotify, I turn to YouTube. If I want to know the lyrics to a song, I turn to YouTube. If I want a friend to get into a band I like, I share one of their best music videos. For example, the following is the last song I searched for and listened to via YouTube. It’s a reggae band from Hawaii, too unpopular for Spotify:
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I think that YouTube is definitely a valuable and useful tool, but I don’t think it’s as significant an aspect of my life like either Google, Facebook, or Netflix are. Google offers me information. Facebook offers me social interaction. Netflix offers me hours upon hours of entertainment. However, I find that YouTube doesn’t offer me one sole thing. YouTube offers information, social interaction, and entertainment but these aren’t its specialties. Perhaps I find YouTube so unappealing because it offers all of these aspects instead of specializing in just one. YouTube concentrates on the user and user-created content. For this reason, I think YouTube is incapable of specializing and catering to one sole feature, and is therefore unable to be the provider of any one thing (as Google does with information, Facebook does with social interaction, etc). A lot of the time, unless it directly affects me, I have no interest in other people’s videos like mashups, OOTD (outfit of the day) videos, etc.

Here is my complete playlist which includes the above videos and more!
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YouTube is About Community

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My first three videos on this list are all Harry-Potter related, which I think tells two things about me: 1) that I love Harry Potter (especially around the time of these videos, when Book 7 was about to be released) and 2) my initial Internet experiences involved expanding on my interests. While the first statement is still true, the second statement describes how I interact with YouTube today.

Entertainment has been YouTube’s prerogative from the beginning, I think – music and videos and funny webseries are what the site is best known for. So I included a few of those on my list – but I tried not to go for the big and famous artists (save Ed Sheeran, whose “You Need Me, I Don’t Need You” video is still my favorite music video ever.) Instead, I went for the people that have written or covered songs in new ways that have gone viral, but ultimately keep going for

You might also notice that the majority of this list is from the Vlogbrothers channel or is affiliated with the channel (see CrashCourse, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, The Art Assignment, and hankgames.) While I watched YouTube before being introduced to John and Hank Green of Vlogbrothers, it wasn’t until I started binge-watching their channel that YouTube became a part of my daily life. (And if you don’t know who the Vlogbrothers are, I suggest you google them or check out their Wikipedia page.) I joined the Nerdfighter bandwagon in high school, and while they’re no longer the only channel I watch, they make up a big part of YouTube life. They are creators at heart, truly representing what used to be YouTube’s slogan – “Broadcast Yourself.” Their way of looking at the world has helped me find my new interests and reinvigorated my old ones.

And mostly thanks to Vlogbrothers, education is a huge part of my YouTube experience. I love learning and exploring and discovering new things, and watching channels like PBS Digital Studios and The Brain Scoop have allowed me to pursue educational interests outside of my major requirements for free – something not always available here at UMass. I’ve watched Emily Graslie skin a wolf and explain the process of taxidermy. I’ve debated with Mike Rugnetta over the philosophy of Internet culture. I’ve discovered the history of contemporary art with Sarah Urist Green and learned about the artistic process. I’ve learned the basics about astronomy and biology and chemistry (all sciences I never jumped for joy about in high school) alongside my actual interests like world and American history. When I come to YouTube, I’m looking for experiences that can broaden my horizons – and entertain me while doing so.

But if I had to pick one word to describe what my YouTube is all about, I’d have to pick community. Whether you’re a musician or an educator or just someone vlogging about your daily life, YouTube is a platform that encourages creativity and relationships between creators and viewers. I feel like I have a personal relationship with these creators on some level – I interact with them through comments, I’ve tweeted and reblogged their posts, I’ve even donated to some of their campaigns and projects. And I’ve met people because of my love of YouTube personalities or videos. YouTube is a form of entertainment unlike anything else I use, because it’s all about involving myself at a personal level – it’s new media at its finest.

Oh, also – make sure you watch video #4 on my list.

My Digital Reflection

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As I plan to reflect in our team paper, this class has greatly influenced the way I immerse myself in new media. I have not withdrawn myself from digital media nor altered any of my interactions with new media, but I am more aware of how the world is represented to me via media and, reversely, how I am represented to the world via media (social media in particular.)

The relationship between this class and new media reminds me of the quote: “Fish don’t know they’re in water until they’re taken out of water.” I didn’t realize how heavily skewed representations of gender and sexuality are in new media until I was granted access to the readings and discussions relevant to this course. Previous to this course, when I flicked through magazine advertisements I glanced at them without much thought (except perhaps, Wow I wish I looked like her or Wow I wish I could afford that purse.) Now, however, my perception of these advertisements (and other forms of advertising as well, this is not limited to just magazine/paper ads) has completely morphed. This course has equipped me with the tools necessary to analyze just how disturbing contemporary advertising in new media can be. For example, take the Dolce & Gabbana advertisement below:

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This SCREAMS of issues relating to gender and sexuality in new media that we’ve discussed throughout this semester. First of all, hello hypersexuality of both the male and female form. Do regular human beings walk around this scantily clad, fit, and dripping in oil? I wasn’t aware (sarcasm.) Second of all, to me this looks like a rape scene. One woman is being pinned to the ground by a man while a bunch of male onlookers stare admirably, perhaps waiting their own turns. Before taking this class, I would have just flicked by this ad without a care in the world. Now I analyze it for what it truly is: an artifact primarily relating to objectification of the female gender taking place in new media.

As I said before, this class has not only informed me of aspects of new media that I am more unfamiliar with (such as topics of gender and sexuality in video games, example: Assassin’s Creed Freedom Cry) but it has also gone beyond the series of the digital culture I once thought I knew but clearly do not. I now question my digital life, as demonstrated in my battle with the Dolce & Gabbana advertisement above. I’m not sure if that is a good or bad thing…

The assignments in this class were never tedious nor boring nor uninformative. Literally every reading/in-class discussion we’ve done has informed how I think about digital culture. As I grew up with digital technology, (it advanced as I advanced and vice versa), I take it all for granted. Although I likely still take new media for granted as it is so deeply ingrained in my life (twitter addict!!), I am very confident that I am better equipped to analyze gender and sexuality misrepresentations and problems in new media because of this semester.

I Do Not Liek Mudkips

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When I first moved on to campus at UMass, I found that everyone else seemed to converse with the assumption that everyone understood certain references to the internet.  I had never heard of almost anything they mentioned.  I did not know why it was so important that everything be over nine thousand as opposed to simply ten thousand.  I had no idea why it made someone the most interesting man in the world just to drink a certain beer.  I wrote to my best friend from high school, begging her to educate me in the ways of the internet.  She replied with a crash course in the memes of the time, including a ten minute long YouTube edit of two pokemon repeatedly saying the word “mudkip.”  In an undeniable sign that I was new to this game, I thought I was supposed to watch all ten minutes, which I in fact did.

Searching for what I actually wanted to watch, rather than something I was told I needed to watch to understand pop culture, led to videos with more than one word in their dialogue.  Eventually I started finding media formerly only available as dispensed from the company that owned it, which often meant that it was not available at all.

For example, though Disney owns the Muppets and therefore the entire archives of the Muppet Show, they have stubbornly refused to release the fourth and fifth (perhaps the best) seasons of the Muppet Show on disc, nor do they currently broadcast them.  This means that they are not in any way profiting from their ownership of the Muppet Show, and presumably that there is no way to properly sate a Muppet addiction.  Muppet lovers found this to be an unacceptable condition, and turned to YouTube to rectify it.  Despite the fact that they have no source of income coming from these particular episodes, as they will not release them legally, Disney frequently demands that particular clips be taken down from the internet on principle of the matter—but fights ineffectively, choosing one segment at a time (episodes are almost always posted in multiple parts).  The communalism and common goals of people who wish to watch the Muppets make this a ridiculously losing battle for Disney—there are three different accounts run by separate people, all of which upload the same clips, so if any segment of an episode is ever missing from one account, it will be accessible from either of the other two until the user attacked by Disney can re-upload.

Yet as much as Disney and other copyright-holding corporations fight the promulgation of their work on free sites, it functions as advertisement for the things that can be legally purchased.  The ability to stream classic (superior) Muppet sketches increases interest in the mew Muppet movies of two years ago and next month.  Similarly the multitudes of people scrambling for any clip of the new movie Frozen that there is to be had are only increasing their appetite for when the full movie can be bought.  There has even been a resurgence of those unfortunate videos repeating a single word or phrase over and over again, though now it’s Kermit’s flailing “YAAAAY!!” or Princess Anna speaking the word “balls.”

 

 

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What YouTube means to me

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Being totally incapable of doing anything else on a computer than using my mouse and the keyboard for more than the basic things, it is not surprising that I am a mere YouTube user and not a provider. I have never ‘overused’ the internet but I definitely have to admit that I am completely dependent on the internet and life without it is hard to imagine. But where do I have to place YouTube compared to all the other websites in the World Wide Web?

For me, YouTube is not one of the websites that I could not live without (that would rather be e-mail providers and research possibilities) but I suppose it is still in the top ten as I use YouTube quite frequently; not entirely but mainly for entertainment purposes. I also use YouTube for following up on my interests or sometimes it is just useful in daily life.

As I mentioned before entertainment takes up a huge part on why I use YouTube and what it means to me. I am guessing that a lot of people are using YouTube to listen to music and to watch the music videos belonging to it. For me, YouTube definitely is about music but not mainly. The kind of music I listen to on YouTube has more to do with nostalgic feelings than anything else (does not entirely exclude other music). I love to listen to British/Irish bands because I spent a year in Great Britain as an AuPair and this brings memories back (f.e. the ‘Maximo Park’ video) and I saw them a couple of times live. As child I also saw a lot of Disney movies and for me they never lost their charm so I like to listen to some of the songs every once in a while (however they are in German (as I am from Germany) and it is weird to listen to them in English).

Entertainment wise I use YouTube mostly to watch something funny. Parodies, blooper scenes from movies or TV shows, the funniest scene taken out of a show/movie etc. are the ones that I watch mostly. But there really is no deeper meaning to it and I simply have to admit that I usually watch videos like that out of boredom or as a distraction (way more than I would like it to be).

If YouTube has any movies they are mainly older movies. Regrettably they took one of my favourite movies from there (‘1 2 3’ by Billy Wilder, 1961) otherwise it would have been on the list. I learned a lot from it (historically) just by watching it even though it is meant as a parody. However, the movie that is on my list has equal meaning to me: it entertains me every time but it also teaches me one or two things. Unfortunately it is in German but being German is a part of me that I cannot simply cut off but I apologize for putting it up. In this respect, YouTube also means for me to be able to have some ‘German time’ if I want to.

Besides for all the entertainment, I really like YouTube for its documentaries. They are easily accessible, interesting (of course not all of them) and help me to add new knowledge to my so deeply loved list of random facts. Sometimes I just use it if I need help with something. Last fall my bike breaks needed replacement and my Dad was not around, so I asked YouTube and it gave me a very good and useful answer.

To sum it up, YouTube most of the time means nostalgia, annoyed roommates because I laugh too hard and too much, following up on interests and getting useful advices and tips to me.

Check out my Top 15:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biFX2URXmxE&list=PLcFpbCTwySteCH4vKjSLU-lfSR9rGy28E

What to The Surfer is YouTube

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When I first heard that we would be required to curate a playlist of YouTube videos that we felt best represented our relationship with the prolific website, I was excited. Also a little relieved, as students often are encountering an assignment that sounds easy, painless and fun. “Fifteen videos!” I said to myself, “That’s nothing. That’ll be a breeze.” Unsurprisingly I had a fair bit of trouble finding fifteen videos that: a.) I felt so strongly about that I thought they ‘represented’ me and my constantly evolving relationship with the popular video service and b.) didn’t horrendously embarrass me. I’m still not sure I succeeded with the latter.

More than any other website, YouTube lives up the pop-culture hype of the internet changing our relationship to information. While the internet has provided unprecedented redistribution of who has access to information in the form of news, articles and other forms of media, it simply cannot be denied that, on the internet, the video is king. If we measured the ‘viral’ success of the most shared and read article of 2013, it wouldn’t hold a candle to whatever Beyonce video was the most watched of the first month of 2014. The sheer magnitude of that sort of reach is staggering and has become so ubiquitous that YouTube has become a fixture in our culture that I think goes beyond gimmicky “Word of the Year” awards. YouTube appears on our prime time new media outlets. Our president shares State of the Union addresses through YouTube.

What does that mean for me, as an individual user of the internet? Well, I often find myself commenting, with surprise, that YouTube was only founded in 2006. It has changed my relationship with media, the casual approach I have to gaining access to almost any visual piece of media, so drastically that it’s hard to imagine it didn’t exist a mere 8 (!! I’m getting old though) years ago. I use YouTube pretty much every day at least once. Usually I’m watching something silly or funny that happened recently. But often I’m looking for pretty specific intellectually engaging material. The miracle of YouTube is not just that you can find things that people put on the internet, but that video from before either of my parents were born exists on there as well. If a researcher from the 1950’s was brought to our time and shown YouTube, they shit bricks. Maybe literally. (James Baldwin’s famous debate and Toni Morrison’s talk are two examples of this.)

YouTube has also supplied a platform for entertainment that would never be allowed to flourish in more tightly controlled outlets like cable television. It’s naive of course to pretend that the same power structures that restrict media in ‘old media’ is completely absent in newer platforms like YouTube, but there’s a simpler logic at play here. If you can find your audience, your videos will flourish. And many, many small producers of video material that might be considered less safe for conventional distributors have found their audience.

Also, I’m not gonna lie and say that I don’t sometimes look at videos of really good twerking videos or guys kissing when I need some feelings in my life.

-Hasani

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Youtuber

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I’ve been using youtube for quite some time now. I have to say, for a free service, I take it for granted. I’ve uploaded a few videos myself. None of them are particularly great but it has been an experience to say the least. Lately, I’ve been using youtube to learn how to become a better hearthstone player. Hearthstone is a Blizzard game where the heroes of World of Warcraft duke it out in a trading card game format. Naturally, as soon as the closed beta test invites went out, a ton of streamers, podcasters, and the like, posted hundreds of videos for eager gamers to check out. Most videos are top plays of the week or top ten plays made but that particular player. The videos I like to watch are the more educational ones. These educational videos analyze the mechanics of the game from a different players’ point of view.

I also use youtube for music. Whenever I hear a new song on the radio I always look it up on youtube before purchasing it. It’s also great for entertaining guests that demand to listen to their own music. They can just simply log onto their youtube account and play their favorite playlists for everyone.

Back to the videos I’ve made- I’ve posted a short playlist to demonstrate that even after making 7 videos I’m still new to it. In the first two videos, I grapple with the term YOLO in an attempt to redeem it. YOLO has become an excuse to do unwise things. In videogames it doesn’t really apply because you respawn (you can’t really die in videogames ever).

In the first video, I recorded myself playing Grand Theft Auto. I deliberately chose the game for it’s violent nature. I wanted to show the main character Nico being the most nefarious outlaw ever. There are countless youtube videos of people saying YOLO then doing something stupid. In this video I wanted to imitate that in a mocking way. I was trying to be facetious.

Similar to the first video, the 2nd video shows some Umass hooligans partying to the extreme. That last clip is indeed a couch on fire. And yes the kid yelled yolo before igniting it, I was there. I’m all about partying but sometimes things can get out of hand so I looped an elevator ride in the mix to hopefully convey the idea that yolo+drinking= downward spiral.

The last video was our digital project for Russworm’s 383 course comic books, video games, and new media. I think it came out good although it takes a much more serious tone from the get go.

All in all, youtube is one of the most visited websites around and rightfully so. You can learn how to make videos, watch other user created material, listen to music, learn how to play video games and much more. I feel like the internet as a whole wouldn’t function without youtube. Youtube is like the spinal chord of the internet.

 

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What Youtube Means to Me

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Corrina Parham
English 302-01
New Media
Reflection on Youtube

My interactions with youtube started when I was in middle school. My friend Caroline, who was and continues to be a huge internet nerd, told me about it, saying that it was a place where I could watch videos and upload if I wanted. I first used youtube to watch Anime Music Videos, which are videos that compile clips from episodes of an anime and set them to music. This was also the way that I was introduced to one of my favorite bands, Mindless Self Indulgence. I would watch a video and then look through the related video section and find similar videos. Soon I learned that I could watch entire episodes of an anime on youtube as people would upload the episodes in many parts. I watched Cowboy Bebop and Death Note like this for some time before a found other websites that had complete episodes. To this day I have never uploaded a video to youtube or made an account but when I was in middle school my sister and I made two videos that she uploaded on her account. When I started high school a friend made a facebook for me so my interactions with the Internet spread from watching videos on youtube to having my own page on facebook.
Once I was in high school I stopped watching anime and started using Youtube to watch music videos. I was introduced to many of my current favorite artists, including Die Antwoord, whose video Evil Boy is featured on my playlist. Since then I have mainly used youtube to see music videos or listen to music. For a long time I didn’t have my own computer so I couldn’t and still don’t use iTunes or have any kind of music storage system besides CDs, so youtube has been very useful to me for music. Youtube has made it possible for me to see and hear music for free. Through youtube I have been able to watch music videos that I wouldn’t have had access to from artists like Die Antwoord and Big Freedia. I eventually saw both groups perform live in Boston and Providence respectively.
Like most people, I use youtube to watch entertaining videos from full episodes on a TV show to full moves. Even though I don’t have a TV or cable I can watch the Olympics or clips from the News all on youtube. I also use youtube to watch tutorial videos of stage make up and hula-hoop and poi tricks. The make up tutorial videos are very helpful because you can see what the person is doing and they can explain every step. The poi and hula-hoop videos are useful as well but it is more difficult to learn complicated tricks, especially with poi, from a video rather than from a person. The hula-hoop, poi and dance videos that I watch have given me a lot of inspiration. Once again, it’s better to hula-hoop with someone in person, but the videos have their uses.

History in Youtube

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I found Youtube when I was probably around twelve years old and mainly just used it to watch the funny videos my friends were talking about. One of them I put into my playlist which is “Harry Potter Puppet Pals.” For awhile I just used it for that, but as time went on my use for youtube changed. I started exploring it more, I started finding funny videos on my own, watching hilarious youtubers trying to make a name for themselves, exploring the vast world of music. For awhile I was hooked on youtubers, I followed a vast majority of them and would spend my spare time watching their videos and all the ridiculous stuff they did in them. This addiction only lasted half way through highschool however, and then I started getting on the “weird” part of youtube due to my friends sending me strange videos and then myself wanting to be able to weird my friends out with videos as they did to me.  That fad faded too, and when I got to college I mainly used Youtube as a source for music.

I basically still do this today. Occasionally I’ll watch something that’s not music- cute animal videos, a video related to something I’m interested in, or just a video that me and my friends will watch to reminisce about the good old days.  I think it is important to know my Youtube user history to help explain my experience with Youtube. It shows not only what type of Youtuber I am today but how it has changed as a site for me since I have started using it. I use Youtube almost everyday and I do not really realize it, because a lot of the time I’ll be on a different website that will have a video posted on it, but the site itself got the video from Youtube. I still do however knowingly use Youtube everyday. I have tons of playlists on my account that show all of my Youtube history over the years, how my interests have varied as the years passed. I don’t use Youtube to upload any videos myself, because I don’t make videos except for my own enjoyment or to just show family and friends. I don’t take any videos that I would want to make so public that I would feel necessary to post them to a public site.

I personally love Youtube, there is just so much to explore and there is millions of new things on it everyday. When I’m bored it is the perfect place for me to go, or if I just want some music as background noise while I do work I just throw on a playlist with my favorite songs on it and get to work. It is amazing of how many different things can be found exploring the site. The one thing that does upset me about Youtube is that it is such a publicly used domain that people sometimes put personal things or videos of their friends on it that may be embarassing, and the next day they blow up into viral videos that are only viral because the people watching it are laughing at the person. With such a large public site though this is bound to happen, but before Youtube viral videos did not seem to be such a big deal. Despite that, I do love Youtube as a site and it is part of my everyday life. The playlist I am putting up with this is mostly filled with the various music I use Youtube for, but the other videos are to display what I will occasionally use Youtube for, such as parodies, remixes, funny videos, personal interests, and reminiscing videos.

Mae’s Youtube Playlist