An Anthropological Introduction to Youtube Reaction

Michael Wesch's video is a presentation of the introduction of the popular internet site, YouTube at the Library of Congress in 2008. At the time, YouTube was still a relatively new platform, and is being introduced for its culture shift and how it could be beneficial for our future. Wesch would explain how the video-streaming site gained its popularity as well as how essentially its viral culture contributed to its rise. He does this by including numerous viral videos from the time and explaining YouTube's spoofing culture that allowed such videos to gain popularity. Later in the video he focuses less on the community aspect of the website to the weird sense of anonymity that it also presents due the "large audience, private setting." I liked how he explained the culture that I already perceived the website to have based on the content, even eleven years later. It was kind of odd watching the explanation of the website with all the changes that's happened since then.