Project 3----Part II

I am creating a little video of the semesters shenanigans for my friends eyes only, and for my project I decided to give them a little preview of just a few funny clips. It was not necessarily a YouTube hit, but it was definitely a hit with my friends. As of this post I have over 150 views, which is not bad I guess because I definitely don't have 150 friends. I was a little disappointed on the commenting aspect though, none of my friends have a YouTube account and no one from the class commented on the video so there wasn't really a conversation going on. I left a comment: "no comments?" so I'll have to wait and see if anyone responds to that.

My plan going in was to put together some funny clips and hopefully people would like it and show their friends and it would be seen that way. One way I definitely could have got more hits was by changing the name to something to do with Umass partying or something. Under the tags for people's searches I did put a lot of different things in including Umass, but that didn't seem to help because of the title. It was a trailer for a movie, and I didn't want to mislead people by putting up a different title. So basically only people who know me knew what the video was about.

The comment aspect of it was tough for this kind of video because I posted the link on my Facebook wall and a lot of my friends Facebook walls. That is where I got all the comments. Some of the comments were: "hahahahaahhahh," "I just laughed out loud in du bois," "That's awesome," and some repeated quotes from the trailer. Other people asked me when the video was going to be done. I attribute the lack of comments on YouTube to the fact that the video was aimed at a circle of friends and they can more easily talk to each other on Facebook.

There are other videos that have to do with Umass partying on YouTube and the ones that have the most hits were all sent to Barstool. Maybe I should have tried to send my video to other blog websites for more exposure.

Favorite Youtube Clips: Unforgivable

Seriously, is this guy not a legend? The Unforgivable series was the greatest thing to YouTube watching stoners of all time, and in my opinion put YouTube on the map for those stoners. "Bitch that's just my B.O."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dJu1Jj7VTw Unforgivable #1


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mz1nQEQ6UAQ&feature=channel Unforgivable #2


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll5Pp41PRAw&feature=channel Unforgivable #3


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Prn_WVYC7vs&feature=channel Unforgivable #4

YouTubes Popularity

"YouTube proves that in practice the economic and cultural rearrangements that “participatory culture” stands for are as disruptive and uncomfortable as they might be potentially liberating. The debates and struggles around YouTube as a site of participatory culture…are less about technology and more about cultural and political questions: who gets to speak, and who gets the attention; what compensations or rewards there are for creativity and work; and the uncertainties around various forms of expertise and authority."


Everyone gets to speak. That's why YouTube is so popular; anyone can post anything. Who gets the attention is the most interesting part. The things that are entertaining to people are usually things that you wouldn't think would get the attention. People doing dumb stunts, drunken things; ugly little girls who are atrocious at singing. Why do people give this stuff attention? Don't they have better stuff to do than watch a 50 year old father visiting his son on parent weekend do a running belly flop on a"Beirut" table in his underwear? Obviously not, that's absolutely awesome, who wouldn't want to see that? Things that people want to see are things they can laugh at whether that laughter comes from making fun of somebody else or seeing something that without any other explanation is just hilarious.

I would like to see what kind of rewards or compensations people get on YouTube because if anything on that list is worthwhile I might have to start uploading my weekends. I can't imagine anyone is getting any actual money. Just like in the south park episode that my blog wouldn't let me post...at the end of the normal YouTube url put this: watch?v=sjtCN4aNLMc