YouTube and Meme

Other important components of the online are represented by Youtube and  Meme.

 YouTube is a Web site where users can upload and watch audio and video. It was created in February 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. It displays a wide range of user-created videos, including TV or movie clips. YouTube is part of the recent phenomenon called Web 2.0. Unregistered users can view all the videos on the site, and registered users can upload videos, make comments and make notes on videos.

 First of all, YouTube influences us through vloggers, those people who post on their channel all kinds of videos from updates of their lives, educational videos to funny videos and grocery hauls. We relate to them, they give us content that we enjoy, is relatable to us or just helpful in a way. There are millions of vloggers offering all different kinds of content that is going to appeal to everyone, or at least to some of us.

YouTube is an important component of the internet and online environment because it has music to wich we listen everyday, because it has vloggers who offer us a variety of videos. YouTube channels have been developing and vloggers are adapting to new trends creating content to please us and they are succeeding, especially with younger kids, they  have a huge impact on adults, teens and even children, exactly because their videos are relatable.

The impact can be positive for example the educational channels that have videos  showing study tips, teach you a language or anything helpful. To give you a real example, I had a faze in high school, tenth grade when I developed a passion for Korea and Korean culture. I started learning korean and in order to do that I looked for every single video on YouTube that could help me learn this language. 

The second component is represented by the miraculous memes, you know the ones you’ve been tagged in by friends, or the ones you have been tagging your friends in. Memes, today, have reached an unbelievable popularity, because like vloggers, they are  relatable, funny and they touch a variety of subjects, from love, friendship, student life, dark humor or just daily things.

The term also refers to the concept of memes, but refers to a wider category than that of cultural information. An internet phenomenon is an idea spread on the World Wide Web. The idea may take the form of a hyperlink, video, image, site, hashtag, or just a word or phrase, in which a word is written and pronounced intentionally wrong.

An internet phenomenon may stagnate or may evolve over time by commenting, imitating, parodying, or incorporating it into news.

Memes have a long history, the first meme that went viral was in 1996 called the dancing baby, practically a video of a baby mannequin dancing. Ever since then, it kept evolving eventually becoming the memes we all know  today.

Today they dominate the internet and sneak into everyone’s heart, personally I am a big fan.