I personally dislike the soaps you can watch on TV. Supposedly capturing everyday life, the over dramatic emphasis on disasters such as weekly explosions, car crashes and death make things rather unbelievable and frankly soul destroying. In terms of real life, I'd much rather watch a vlog.
The thing I love most about YouTube is how the people are real people. Anyone could upload a video and have a million subscribers. You don't have to be unrealistically perfect or have boob implants in order to have people watch your videos. And there are YouTubers that make every single genre of video you can imagine. It's like one great big TV network that you can watch on your own terms.
The fact that you can have a contract with YouTube and make money off of making the videos is such a good idea for the YouTubers themselves and for the people watching. People are more likely to watch those videos made by people who have earned their platform than some fake family on the TV that waste their money on fake duck lips. If you think about it on a wider scale, we're on the way to ruling out the whole 'Fake Celebrity' status by producing a new platform to overtake the old one.
I hardly ever watch TV. I find it boring. Real life is much more entertaining for me and for the people I know too. There are videos for every type of person and their interests. Personally, I love watching a good vlog on a sunday evening - Hannah Magg's videos are edited beautifully and will put you in such a good mood! There doesn't seem to be any reason to need a TV anymore. Give it a few decades and no one will be watching Eastenders and dull shows like that when you could watch the Sacconejolys and actually see what real life is like for a family.
Not only does it give out a better message to younger people giving them much healthier role models (Kim Kardashian VS Zoella...hmm tricky one) but it's also beneficial for the people starring in these videos. A lot of people would find this controversial especially when it comes to family vloggers because they're putting their children in the public eye; however, you only have to watch the sacconejolys once to realise how beneficial Anna and Jonothan's career is on their children. Emilia and Eduardo are so confident and have such a great relationship with their parents because Anna and Jonothan get to stay at home and bring up their children rather than constantly leave them with different strangers whilst they go to work. Another positive outlook to have is how you only see 15 minutes of their day and they can make a living out of that! I'll admit, I'm slightly jealous but it's so good for them because they get to put all their time into their family!
By being able to make a career out of making videos you can specialize in something you enjoy and not have to work in a field that you felt was more practical despite not being the slightest bit interested.
YouTube might not be for everybody, but so many YouTubers have found a career they love out of it and escaped a life they would otherwise have hated. It makes having an interesting job so much easier because you don't have to have media platforms interested in exploiting you. You just have to have regular people have the same things in common as you do. I'm an advocate for sending out positive messages to the younger generations and I think in the future younger people would much rather watch YouTube than TV and thus the false media image will become less prominent in our everyday lives. It's an interesting thing to think about... Do we need the television or do we just need a wide screen computer?
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