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photosinensis at 07:33pm on 22/06/2009 under i have too much free time, internet, rotfl, youtube
photosinensis at 07:33pm on 22/06/2009 under i have too much free time, internet, rotfl, youtubeYouTube has become my primary means of entertainment. Sure, I'll occasionally do Hulu for what most people watch on teevee, but let's face it: most of the crap on television is just that. However, watching people drink blenderized hamburgers never loses its charm.
In my watchings, I've found that a number of YouTube entertainers collaborate frequently. After a few days of watching, I came to the realization that there must be a Kevin Bacon of this particular medium: one to whom I can connect any other participant through appearances in the same video within six steps.
However, when I found the nexus of the YouTube entertainer community (mathematically speaking), I was mildly disappointed (though incredibly amused) to find that it's actually a shared channel: vlogbrothers1. As such, I'm fairly certain I can connect pretty much any two YouTubers to either Hank or John Green in six YouTube videos or less. I call it "Six Degrees of Brotherhood 2.0". Sure, I've got videos up, but let's face it, I don't participate in video-making culture, and instead was either going for something akin to the 2girls1cup reaction videos (in one case, I notably overact to a goat giving birth...in reverse) or computer screencasts intended for the edification of fellow students.
I personally blame the Brothers Green's centrality to the YouTube entertainment community due to the size, age, and general attention whore nature of their fanbase. Sure, John is over 30, and by YouTube standards, a senior citizen (Hank is the younger of the two, but is not much behind him), but their content will generally appeal to the high school and college age crowd2.
"What about the vidders?" I hear you ask. "Surely they're a part of this community you're referencing." Indeed, they are, and they don't generally appear in their own videos (based on my understanding of vidders). I'm not sure how to treat them: they're not the performers that you see in the vlogging, comedy, and stunt channels, but they certainly need to be included somehow, particularly since I know I can connect the gamers in to the rest of the network using E3 videos (Lisa Nova has done collabs with fallofautumdistro, in whose videos both John and Hank have made appearances).
Now, to debunk the myth that Ashton Kutcher is actually at the center of Twitter.
1. The pitch for their channel goes as follows: it's like lonelygirl15, but unscripted, with grown men, and without the whole Thelema business going on (though I know that the New York times printed suspicions that the titular character's parents were, in fact, scilons3).
2. Given that John is actually a young adult author in real life, this shouldn't be surprising I'm thinking that I should probably read Looking for Alaska (in your pants) and An Abundance of Katherines (in your pants), if only to get the remaining in-jokes (the first couple of seasons of their channel make significantly more sense if you read Paper Towns (in your pants) beforehand, considering that John's writing the book through the first year).
3. Given that Scientology is a more fraudulent branch of the Thelema family tree, this actually makes sense.
In my watchings, I've found that a number of YouTube entertainers collaborate frequently. After a few days of watching, I came to the realization that there must be a Kevin Bacon of this particular medium: one to whom I can connect any other participant through appearances in the same video within six steps.
However, when I found the nexus of the YouTube entertainer community (mathematically speaking), I was mildly disappointed (though incredibly amused) to find that it's actually a shared channel: vlogbrothers1. As such, I'm fairly certain I can connect pretty much any two YouTubers to either Hank or John Green in six YouTube videos or less. I call it "Six Degrees of Brotherhood 2.0". Sure, I've got videos up, but let's face it, I don't participate in video-making culture, and instead was either going for something akin to the 2girls1cup reaction videos (in one case, I notably overact to a goat giving birth...in reverse) or computer screencasts intended for the edification of fellow students.
I personally blame the Brothers Green's centrality to the YouTube entertainment community due to the size, age, and general attention whore nature of their fanbase. Sure, John is over 30, and by YouTube standards, a senior citizen (Hank is the younger of the two, but is not much behind him), but their content will generally appeal to the high school and college age crowd2.
"What about the vidders?" I hear you ask. "Surely they're a part of this community you're referencing." Indeed, they are, and they don't generally appear in their own videos (based on my understanding of vidders). I'm not sure how to treat them: they're not the performers that you see in the vlogging, comedy, and stunt channels, but they certainly need to be included somehow, particularly since I know I can connect the gamers in to the rest of the network using E3 videos (Lisa Nova has done collabs with fallofautumdistro, in whose videos both John and Hank have made appearances).
Now, to debunk the myth that Ashton Kutcher is actually at the center of Twitter.
1. The pitch for their channel goes as follows: it's like lonelygirl15, but unscripted, with grown men, and without the whole Thelema business going on (though I know that the New York times printed suspicions that the titular character's parents were, in fact, scilons3).
2. Given that John is actually a young adult author in real life, this shouldn't be surprising I'm thinking that I should probably read Looking for Alaska (in your pants) and An Abundance of Katherines (in your pants), if only to get the remaining in-jokes (the first couple of seasons of their channel make significantly more sense if you read Paper Towns (in your pants) beforehand, considering that John's writing the book through the first year).
3. Given that Scientology is a more fraudulent branch of the Thelema family tree, this actually makes sense.
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