The rise and fall of YouTube’s celebrity pioneers (Wired UK)
▻http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-11/27/youtube-community
Almost a decade ago #YouTube hosted a small group of content creators and consumers with a desire to communicate and experiment with the future of modern media. The “vloggers” of “YouTubia” provided a new and erratic video-sharing website with an initial purpose it didn’t know it had and an audience it didn’t know it could acquire. Along the way those involved saw their share of successes, failures, celebrities, scandals, fights, friendships, deaths and love affairs — but as the years passed, an inexorable autophagy took hold, destroying everything that gave life to a community that was responsible for begetting the YouTube we know today.
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-3LhFZyFJw
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“I truly believe that Chad and Steve got the fuck out of YouTube Town as fast as they could because they had no i-fucking-dea what was going on.” Explained Paul, “They tried to sell it to dating sites, to eBay, you name it — which I think means they didn’t know what to do with it. Suddenly YouTube goes off in a whole different direction to one they were expecting and then a guy like me stands up and screams THIS IS A REVOLUTION and all of a sudden they’re like, ’what he said!’”
And then, #Google :
In 2012 YouTube changed its slogan from “YouTube: Broadcast Yourself!” to simply “YouTube”.
