i welcome our video overlords
Remember when blogging was going to change the world? The internet was going to magically transform a series of websites selling crap you don’t need into the collective thoughts and voices of millions of people.
Then YouTube became big, and we all got sidetracked watching girl fights. (By the way, I don’t recommend you clicking on that link, lest you want to spend the next three and a half hours watching video of girl fights. I suddenly have an urge to punch a 14-year old girl in the face.*)
No matter. It might have reduced the average Internet consumer to watching TV on a computer screen instead of on a television set, but I for one embrace our video, pop-culture overlords. Take for example, this video of a gay Latino New Yorker dancing along to a K-Pop video (which, for the record, is AWESOME):
And this is why I love YouTube. Could this scenario have happen five years ago? Technically, sure, but inserting a flash applet of a 20-year old doing the shimmy to a Korean song is so much easier. And I have a feeling there’s going to be a lot more pop-culture references on this version of the weblog because of it.
* Just kidding, Dad
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