Coming Out
Yesterday Ingrid Nilsen came out as gay to her 3 million plus viewers. While YouTubers have been coming out this way for years, she is the first beauty guru to do so within a community that typically is not associated with diversity. … Continue reading Coming Out
Feeling Philanthropic
The strong communities within YouTube can be more than content creators; they can also be a huge machine of charity promoters and donators that last year made over a million dollars for charities around the world. The Project for Awesome is … Continue reading Feeling Philanthropic
Dolla Dolla Bill Y’all
Ray William Johnson was the first YouTuber to publicly make a million dollars in a year. This was in 2011. Nowadays 1 million is pocket change to what popular YouTubers are making, which in one case is 7.5 million more. In the … Continue reading Dolla Dolla Bill Y’all
The YouTube Migration
YouTubers across the world are slowly disappearing. In vlogs days before their disappearance they appear to be nervous, emotional, saying goodbye to their friends and family as if for the last time and packing all their things like they are running from something. … Continue reading The YouTube Migration
Vlog Everyday 24/7
A large subset of YouTube, aside from viral videos and cats, is devoted to vlogs. Vlogs consist of multiple clips throughout the creator’s day, edited into a video that ranges from 5-20 minutes (personally my attention stops at the 8 minute mark), and … Continue reading Vlog Everyday 24/7
Jenna Marbles
Jenna Marbles is Queen of the Internet. I’m not joking. Like, Queen with the capitalized Q and everything. She’s the Queen of being real Queen of hair View this post on Instagram Hi I'm now Jenna The Party Parrot. Thank you … Continue reading Jenna Marbles
All Hail the Queen
There are over 7 billion people in the world. 2.8 Billion of them have access to the internet. 1 billion of those people use YouTube each month which means that nearly one out of every two people on the Internet use YouTube. … Continue reading All Hail the Queen
The One that Started it All
This is going to be a really short post. I don’t think I’ve been so excited about something online (maybe chipotle’s online ordering, but this is a close second). Of course, since it’s YouTube related I absolutely needed to share … Continue reading The One that Started it All
Beauty Gurus and You(Tube)
I tried so many times to write this article. I’ve opened and closed this draft so many times that chrome considers it one of my most viewed sites. Every paragraph I plan or group of people I decide to focus on … Continue reading Beauty Gurus and You(Tube)
The Viral Epidemic
Going Viral: Meaning content that spreads from person to person through the web at a very high rate, attracting an exponentially growing audience as it gains popularity (Rob Stokes, eMarketing 5th Edition) When you think of viral videos, what runs through your mind? … Continue reading The Viral Epidemic
