The World Wide Web is known as a place to locate information needed to complete course or job work, keeping in touch with friends or even making a name for ourselves. According to PBS.org, YouTube’s growth exploded in 2006 and ever since, it’s growth rate has continued. According to phys.org, YouTube has more than 1 billion users and 300 hours of video are uploaded to the site every minute.
Over the past few years, according to pbs.org, millennials were exposed to sites such as Vevo, a cross venture between YouTube and Google, which gives access to videos for entertainment and information. YouTube is a route some people go to make a name for themselves. Users are seen online, making videos with over thousands of views and even more subscribers.
But what makes them so ‘famous?’
Maybe it’s just the content they post or maybe people can relate to their videos. Some YouTube sensations grow to become more than just people posting videos. With appearances, conventions and other events, they are asked to speak to youth about different causes or sometimes just their story and how they became what they are today.
Timmy Alvarez, also known as Timmy FellDownTheWell, is a YouTube sensation, famous for his parodies of top 40 songs and other videos. With his witty and odd videos, he has reached 143,150 subscribers and over 20,000,00 views. Before his YouTube fame, Timmy struggled to come out with his sexuality and turned to YouTube to make a name and to have a sense of feeling good about himself.
Many people find the internet to be an outlet to escape from their problems. People find that sharing their stories online and having strangers give advice seems to be a great stress reliever and could potentially save lives. This outlet can be so powerful and have a great impact on a person’s life, just like Timmy.
The internet can be used not only to make videos and become famous, but there are other routes to becoming known online and only a certain type of person can blow up into an internet sensation overnight.
Musicians use SoundCloud and other MP3 sites to upload their music and in some cases get a record deal. This can be just pure luck for some people and it doesn’t happen to people over night often. Justin Bieber, a worldwide known name, is now famous and making millions for being discovered by Usher and his manager on YouTube. Bieber had a “look” that would attract girls of all ages, which soon led him to fame and fortune.
Over the years, millennials have had access to the world with a click of a mouse. The way we choose to use the internet varies within generation and person preference. Personal branding is what has come to the conclusion of this, many musicians and video sensations have been able to entertain and become big.
Branding is a way to make a living and with this, YouTube, internet and gaming sensations around the internet and around the world have been able to do what they love and make money from that.
