A Non-Scientific Examination Of The YouTube Attention Whore Spectrum
I crawl around on YouTube two or three times a month, generally watching music videos of songs I’m thinking about buying on iTunes.
Thanks to the “related videos” section on YouTube, I tend to wander off my intended path. Tonight, for example, I started at Jeff Buckley’s Sin-e performance and wound up, about two hours later, at Junior Senior.
As I checked out the video for “Move Your Feet,” I couldn’t help but notice this related video:
Which leads not to a discussion about teen-aged girls posting ill-advised YouTube videos without their parents’ knowledge — that ship has long since sailed, regardless of all the TV news stories during every sweeps week about “protecting your kids online” — but rather to a different question altogether:
What in the world would compel this girl, or anyone for that matter, to post a video of herself spazzing out to what has to be one of the gayest disco tunes ever recorded?
It is this phenomenon — the varying types of YouTube attention whore* — that I wish to examine.
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