YouTube has really grown in such a short time. In 2000, Google bought a website practically nobody ever heard of. In that relatively short time, it EXPLODED. Look at YouTube today. So many different people, so many different channels, so many videos. But is it really for the better?
You could literally be lost among the traffic on YouTube. It will swallow you up. And if not, if you stay afloat, the people will roast you alive. When I first started using the internet in elementary and middle school, the communities were rather small, and people were given support. It was a positive vibe, and it rarely got out of hand. You had pretty awesome, genuine YouTubers who kept it REAL. Now, not so much. Sure, there are some oldie but goodies that stay true to themselves, but those are rare and scattered. Now, almost everybody is some kind of vlogger.
Take the Beauty Guru community, for example. Back in the day, those girls gave actual tutorials. They were actually helping, and that was why viewers kept coming back. Nowadays, you see a makeup tutorial for practically EVERYTHING. Who needs that much makeup tutorials for the SAME EXACT smoky eye? The older beauty gurus, running out of material, decide to review and critique and advertise products. Make a 7 minute video about 1 product. *cough cough juicystar07 cough cough allthatglitters21 cough cough michellephan cough cough ilikeweylie cough* They became sellouts. Even Queen Beeauty, THE guru of her time, left because of that very reason.
YouTubers now get so much hate. Queen Beeauty did. TradeChat does. Jlovesmac1 does. Leda did. The YouTube community is just filling with more and more negativity. Yeah, haters gonna hate, but today there is 10x the many haters of 4-6 years ago. People were more supportive and positive. Back then, somebody was MORE likely to exit out of a video than troll and offend in the comments. Back then, only responsible individuals had access to the internet. Now, everybody, sane, insane, troll, serious, hater, fan can comment like no tomorrow.
YouTube also used to be so much more about individuals just filming funny or otherwise entertaining stuff. When it literally was "Broadcast YOURSELF." Now, companies can make accounts and advertise. Already famous people can just keep their fame going. YouTube was more about the YOU back then, more so than now. You could even interact with people more, back then. You could actually give stars, rather than just a thumbs up or down. You could look in the sidebar, rather than the bottom bar. So much more convenient. You used to message over YouTube. And whatever happened to actually NAMING your channel some crazy name, instead of just putting your Google+ name? Seriously. The whole thing was just smaller, more individualized.
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Also, YouTube used to be more diverse and unique. When before, people who made videos were fun but DIFFERENT people. Nobody heard of YouTube yet, so only the "antisocial" people (if you can call them that, but I personally prefer unique) made videos to put on the internet. Nowadays, any plain ole Joe can put out videos that have nothing special about them, content wise.
So YouTube definitely changed, but imo for the worse. I thought about making videos, but now, I really don't know. I don't really want to become part of that. I guess I sound like such a hipster, but I will be looking for something less mainstream.
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