Upon watching the first YouTube video, I realized that I had never even thought about what the first uploaded video would be about or what it’d be like. When I thought about it for a second, I began to realize how disappointed I was in the first video upload. I had been expecting more, but I suppose that’s because the wide variety of weird, crazy, and awesome videos available on YouTube now. But then, I thought that the first video had the same basic reason for being as many videos on YouTube now have; it has no purpose. The video was made to point out that the elephants in the zoo have very long trunks and that was it. The video was made because it could and that is simply it, as it is for a lot of YouTube videos.
Having said all that, I realize that YouTube enables normal, everyday people to do some pretty cool things and get a lot of recognition and attention from doing so. Like the Numa Numa guy, who hasn’t heard of him? One comment on his original video said, “yah this guy pretty much made YouTube famous.” While it may have not been just him who made YouTube famous, it was him and a lot of other people like him who could make videos of outrageous things and post them on YouTube for the whole world to see. I will admit, that now, some videos on YouTube do serve a purpose now, such as promoting an idea, sharing thoughts, and bringing attention and calling for action in response to issues like starving kids in Africa, drought in the Southwest Asia, or guerrilla fighters in South America.
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