Sublime

One reason YouTube had struggled to recruit TV networks was that networks wanted to use their own video players. So Kamangar and Google higher-ups voted to morph the site to allow them to do so; YouTube would show its own videos as well as links to clips from Hulu, CNN, and so on, something that looked like Google search.

Hurley ran YouTube like someone who used YouTube and his exit cleared the way for managers to run YouTube Google’s way, with spreadsheets and algorithms.

Her tribute became emblematic of YouTube’s emerging aesthetic: re-creation, conversation, inanity. It was a copy of a copy, each as famous as the one before.

the first VidCon, Wong watched in admiration as dozens of aspiring YouTubers raced around the hotel with handheld cameras, filming one another. In 2012, VidCon moved to Anaheim, near Disneyland, and Wong saw swarms of attendees all start to hold cameras at arm’s length, pointed back at themselves. •

mr beast: i hate the comment section on youtube. on reddit its nice to click on posts and see what people have to say, but you dont have that same feeling on youtube.