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2.5a YouTube Community

Figure 1

Before going into the hard stuff. From Figure 1, try recognising as many YouTubers as you can ☺ 


No doubt the YouTube community is extremely big. What makes them equal is that they create videos. Videos that range from educational, political, rants, product reviews, gaming, animations and many more. When registering for a YouTube account, there are actually several accounts that you can create. There is the usual YouTube account which is known for YouTubers, director account which enables directors to personalize their own member channels, comedian accounts which enables them to include a schedule of performance dates on their personal member channels, musician accounts to promote their musical talents with schedules, guru accounts which have a special section for personal information in their personal channels, non-profit account for gathering donations, partners are for popular YouTubers and YouTube partnership, sponsors who pays to have their content featured on the home page of the platform. (Strickland, n.d.)


YouTube being a free platform for both its video creator and viewers, both definitely have their individual advantage. As part of being the creator of YouTube videos also known as YouTubers, they have the advantage of working anywhere and anytime they want. They are in control of every single thing unlike working for a company or owning a business. Everything is flexible but popular YouTubers with millions or even billions of subscribers normally has a schedule on when their videos will be uploaded as they post up videos very frequently to engage with their subscribers and also subscribers normally anticipate their videos.(Vlog Nation, n.d.)This is the reason why it's hard for popular YouTubers to slack.


Ever wonder how YouTubers are paid ? Hmmm..... back in the days, most of us don't even know YouTubers get paid but today, many people make YouTube videos solely for the fame and fortune. Popular YouTubers today share to their audience that they started off using YouTube just for the fun of it, to stay connected with their family, express their feelings or even just to document their life (home videos). Who knew it became their job? Most of them quit their jobs to concentrate on YouTube once they had a huge amount of audience watching their videos because who doesn't want to enjoy doing what they do and also work at home with high income? Moreover, parents who are YouTubers get to spend more time with their kids nevertheless working to feed the family. 

In 2013, Draw My Life videos was going around YouTube among YouTubers. Watching multiple videos from different YouTubers, made me conclude about the points I wrote on the 3rd paragraph. Below are some videos about the journey of YouTubers on how they started using YouTube. Take a break and watch this interesting video from popular YouTubers whose audience are still growing ☺
Draw My Life | Tyler Oakley


 
Draw My Life | Superwoman (Lily Singh)


Draw My Life - Ryan Higa

From the videos above, you can actually see that even though its just about their life story, there were huge amount of views and their videos were also inspirational and fun. That is one of the way how YouTubers make their videos addictive.

On the other hand, YouTubers have a way of of speaking to the camera/audience which will catch the attention of viewers. This can be seen in the opening of their videos as they have their "own on-screen personalities addictive" as shown in the video below. (Beck, 2015)




Bibliography
Images
Fig. 1 Digital Fan Art of " Youtubers " (2014) [image online] Available at: http://veronicazoo.deviantart.com/art/Youtubers-466752359
Website
Beck, J. (2015) 'The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice'. The Atlantic' [online]. Available at: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/12/the-linguistics-of-youtube-voice/418962/

 Elgan, M. (2015) 'Social media addiction is bigger problem than you think'. Computer World [online]. Available at: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3014439/internet/social-media-addiction-is-a-bigger-problem-than-you-think.html

Strickland, J. (n.d.) 'How YouTube Works'. How Stuff Works Money [online] Available at: http://money.howstuffworks.com/youtube3.htm

 Vlog Nation (n.d.) ' Top 6 Characteristics of Popular YouTubers and Vloggers'. Available at: http://www.vlognation.com/top-characteristics-popular-youtube-vloggers/

Videos
Nigahiga (2013) Draw My Life - Ryan Higa. YouTube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPmoDYayoLE

 Superwoman (2013) Draw My Life | Superwoman. YouTube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfTV3UV_WlY

 Tyler Oakley (2013) Draw My Life | Tyler Oakley. YouTube [online]. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqfSdF6M-g4

 Youtube (2015) How YouTubers Get Paid! - How To Get Paid on YouTube! Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wfk1EJnlBlk



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