YouTube

Now When YouTube was just starting out, I had no idea what YouTube was. I thought it was only for listening to or watching music videos or finding funny, weird, and crazy clips of people. On a broad spectrum that is what YouTube is to someone who has only seen the surface. I have to admit that I was one of those people and that changed completely in the summer of my sophomore year of high school.

I was sitting at my home computer and I for some reason, I wanted to look up "How to speak with an Australian Accent" and to this day I have no idea why I wanted to look up that video revolving around that subject, but I am so GLAD I did.

As I started typing in the search bar of YouTube,  "How to.." And only those two words were typed in, I got suggested videos and (the girl that I am) a thumbnail of video caught my eye ONLY because the guy looked cute. Now I hope I'm not upsetting the YouTuber just because I clicked on his video due to the fact that he had symmetrical features, but over the years, which included a craving to watch his videos, I have grown to love and enjoy his videos. For those of you who know the YouTube community, it was a video made by Charlieissocoollike and clicking on this video has led me to a new platform of media, creativity, and countless other people who make their own YouTube videos. (If you'd like to watch the video that changed my whole perspective on YouTube, click here.  BUT PLEASE COME BACK TO READ THE REST, AS HARD AS IT MAY BE TO WATCH HIS OTHER VIDEOS, RESIST! Haha :D)

After watching Charlie's video, I couldn't stop watching other videos made by him. It was like watching one video wasn't enough to quench the thirst that I had to watch another. But as time passed and hours studying, writing papers, and going to class, I am now able to control it... kind of.

After four years watching videos by people like Charlieissocoollike, Jack Howard, PointlessBlog, Zoella, Tyler Oakley, Troye Sivan, JaskGap, and countless more --All whom I highly suggest you check out-- I (including millions more) have the privilege of getting to know these people and experience so many of their adventures with them. A person who has made such observations in an even more elaborate aspect, I highly recommend watching this YouTube series by NineBrassMonkeys: Becoming YouTube.

YouTube isn't just a site that allows people to post videos of themselves or is an easy way to enjoy free music, but it allows a different window to connect, communicate, and learn about people you wouldn't normally meet. I --as countless others-- have the opportunity to learn, love, cry, laugh, and grow with so many people-- REAL people who enjoy making content that allows them to simply share whats on their mind or make short wonderful, funny, or creative sketches. Investing time on these YouTubers is completely worth it because there is beauty, love, friendship, and memories that I am so honored to get to witness with them.