COMM 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Miranda Sings, Markiplier, Vlogbrothers
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General purpose: to inform on a specific culture/co-culture. Both of these references are from the one and only youtube, a worldwide social media site where people share their lives through videos. Youtuber has taken the title of king of the web. How did a small company started by former paypal employees go to getting 4 billion hours worth of video each month (dickey, 2013). Super bowl, and the devastating tsunami in the indian ocean (hopkins, 2006, para. They had many competitors, including google video and blip tv, yet copyright infringing videos attracted more and more audiences. Soon towards the end of 2006, youtube began attracting. Youtubers such as ian and anthony of smosh, the first youtubers, and fueled by ramen, who initiated the uploading of music videos (green, 2015). Presently, the website has everything from movies to tutorials on how to use a safety pin.
