YouTube has been an outlet for many up and coming artist can
show their talents and skills, but as time goes on its becoming more difficult
for people to get into the YouTube community and be successful. The Creator of
this video, Ross O'Donovan, discusses this issue thoroughly from a personal
perspective. Ross is considered a YouTube celebrity, well known for his appearance
on the gaming channel "Game Grumps", he also has a strong passion for
animation that he post on his personal channel RubberNinja.
This love animation is what created this video whereas
Ross discusses his concern for the future of animation on YouTube and the
intended audience for this video was for the YouTube community on a whole to be
able to address the issue, that animation and other types of videos, that have
longer production cycles, cannot be sustained in the current YouTube system.
This issue will have a huge impact if not properly address
as it squelches the potential of new artist of any type to make a name for
themselves through means such as YouTube. Ross uses his position as a YouTube
celebrity to give himself legitimacy as well as bring up factual information to
back up his claims, the strong driving force behind this video though is Ross’s
personal perspective on the issue as the viewer can understand why this matters
so much to him and that he honestly wants change to better the community and
help people.
Overall this video shows how someone can use the internet to
start the discussion of what needs to change and how to convey a message that
is both simple, efficient, and told in a way to keep people watching until the
end and actually want to make a change themselves.
What a solid first post to this blog, Luke! You've done well at examining the "why" and the "how effective is it" behind the video you chose. I would say that the elements of Context, Logos, Ethos, and Pathos could be addressed a bit more in your analysis, though.
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Good start to this class, all in all, though.
I really like that you knew a lot about what you were talking about and who you were talking about. This is something i am not familiar with so it was really interesting!
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