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Why YouTube Is Better Than Television

"Social Media is the ultimate equalizer. It gives a voice and platform to anyone willing to engage"

Peri Long

Nov 14, 2016

Cleveland, OH

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YouTube is one of the biggest social media platforms, in the year 2016, it is accumulated that over one billion active people go on youtube in one month. "If YouTube were a country we'd be the third largest" Said Creators of YouTube. As a person who has had both cable and Youtube in their lives I would chose Youtube over cable anyday. Don't get me wrong I am still an avid TV lover but it has gotten easier to watch TV on my computer with platforms such as Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime etc.

With the attention YouTube has been getting people have started to make a living off YouTube. Some of their creators make up to six figure salaries per year. YouTubers such as Swedish creators Pewdiepie who has over 49 million subscribers makes a total of 7.4 million per year. Other major YouTube channels are JustinBieberVEVO and RihannaVEVO but most of the most subscribed YouTube channels are from the people who have turned YouTube into job.

YouTube has become its own culture and has become a major way for businesses to get their product across a bigger audience. TV has commercials but starting at a random person telling me how great a makeup product does not have the same effect as a person I watch everyday telling me how much they like it. YouTubers talking about a product has more of a effect than a spokesman. You want someone who you feel like know personally and trust to tell you about a product than a spokesman.

YouTube has also been the cause for many viral sensations such as

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Some of the Creators of YouTube have become so successful they are starting to branch off YouTube with book deals, being on TV and creatoring their own makeup being sold in major stores such as Target and Walmart. This past fall YouTuber Miranda Sings created and started in her own Netflix original show "Haters Back Off." And becoming household names for their them and their products. Youtuber Troye Sivan came out with two EPS and one album all three were both in the top ten in the Billboard 200.

Youtube has also become a gateway for people and their coming out as being gay, bi, trans etc. Coming out videos have reached over 10 million views with hundred of thousands of positive comments of support.

Youtube has become much more than a website to others, its a place to learn and share and find people who make you genuinely happy. The platform has everything from tutorials of how to clean a bathroom to a family showing you their daily lives. There is always something to new on this website that brings people from every aspect of the world together.

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

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What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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