WEEK ONE REFLECTION: VLOGGING

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0-r8-vqUR4

Online media is a forever growing and adaptive form. Through changes in viewer trends and progression in technology, online media platforms and the content we see on them can change significantly in a short period of time.

This week in class, we focused on the creation of ‘vlogging’ and how this term has led to a different art style of filming content. In particular, this piece-to-piece style of filming led to a spark of interest within consumers on YouTube. In class we watched a documentary called Vlogumentary, which focused on vlogging and YouTubers who specialised in this style. Creators such as ShayCarl (Shaytards) and Charles Trippy (CTFxC) were the main subjects of this film and showcase their love for not just vlogging, but creating and distributing vlogs DAILY. Unlike most of the people in the class, I knew of those YouTubers; I watched ShayCarl years ago and enjoyed watching his content. What surprised me was how most of the YouTuber’s shown in this film have either stopped creating videos or have become insignificant. The ‘top dogs’ of YouTube back when this film was created (2016) are now so irrelevant that most young people in 2019 don’t have the slightest clue who they are.

Why is this so? Of course the ShayTards lost traction when they went on a year long break and Shay’s affair got exposed, but not all of these vloggers had scandals. Has vlogging become an overdone concept through online media? I am prompted to learn more about the trend of ‘vlogging’ and how the style has changed from 2016 to now.

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