O.L.O.B my friends! If you haven't read my first blog The Proust Questionnaire, you don't know what that means. It's a greeting I coined, and it means one life one body. Moving on, welcome back! This is a very difficult assignment. But I must complete this mission.
Today, I am assigned to write about my research project itself. But since I have yet to start it, I'm going to write down my focus for this project, and the sources I will be using. I hope that's what Professor Sabatino was looking for in this blog. Let me know how I did, enjoy! RESEARCH PROJECT - THE FOCUS I'm going to focus on the tremendous attention one gets from YouTube for not really doing anything that requires talent. Don't get me wrong, there are a lot of YouTubers that are extremely talented. But I want to show how on YouTube, you don't necessarily need skill to become famous. All you need is a camera, and some kind of personality. I also will be focusing on how that makes the everyday person feel. YouTube would call these people the viewers. So many viewers want to become YouTubers, because they see the extravagant life one can live off YouTube. And I want this project to show how that messes with a viewer's mind. To see your favorite YouTuber vlogging about their amazing lives, to see the numbers that they gross, and to see how they've achieved all this by, recording their day to day life, getting into a relationship and reacting to videos with partner, or playing video games, I want to show how when you see all that, how it makes you want to be famous too. It gives you the false impression that you can be as big, and grow as fast as them. Because they're just like you, at least that's what they tell you. You've caught fame fever, and dropped out of school, pushed family and friends away, all to pursue this fame that seems so easier to achieve. But after doing all that, you still aren't famous, you still have to work a nine to five, and you still watch your favorite YouTuber live an amazing life. Is this why you become a hater, Is this why cancel culture exist? Has fame become more achievable, or is it simply in our faces more? These are questions I find important for my research. RESOURCES I WILL USE I like how we got to comment some helpful links on each others blogs in my English 100 class. It really is a big help to me. These are the links my professor and classmates have left me in my comment section. How to get famous on youtube and make money, I love this link because it gives me a story to focus on. Another story I didn't even look at. Thank you Sharea! This article is written by Murray Newlands. And focuses on the story of Bart Baker's growth on YouTube. Generation famous, a part of the title of this article says "Why You Probably Can't Become A YouTube". That right there grabbed my attention. Thank you Sabatino! Already this article tackles a part of my project. It speaks about how it actually isn't easy to make videos for a living, how people have the false impression that they can do this too if they wanted to. But that isn't the case, says I believe Michael Humphrey. One more link by Sabatino, thank you again professor. Nine year old instagram star Lil Tay, Lil Tay is a young girl who was forced to make videos on instagram by her brothers. They knew that this would get publicity, thus making them their little sister a star. You see even though Lil Tay became famous on another platform, her story is exactly why I chose this fame topic. Her own brothers took advantage of her all for fame, and they probably did so because of some other little girl they saw become famous on the internet. Danielle Bregoli is one, and Woah Vicky is another. You see, that's my point, people will do anything to become famous and most of the time it works, but what about those who do the same stupid stuff, and don't become famous? Has fame become more achievable, or it is more in our faces nowadays? I will be using those links to help me with this assignment. Believe me when I say that I am excited for this project. I'm just worried I won't do the topic I've chosen justice, due to my lack of skill in research. But all I can do is try and try again, wish me luck.
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