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As a white dude, I didn't find it offensive. I did find it completely not funny though, that was classic low hanging fruit comedy thats been 100x over. It was slightly chuckle-worthy the first time, but has been way over played since.
Those thinking YouTubers are inconsequential are wrong. You may not have heard of them, but kids don’t watch TV anymore, they watch YouTube, and these influencers are their Walter Cronkites. Took our 12 year old daughter to Vid Con in Melbourne last year, the place was sold out at $450 a ticket, and the YouTubers are rockstars to the Internet generation.
This is where Gen Z gets their news and world view. You having never heard of them is immaterial. They’re the voice of the future, like it or not.
Monologue became boring by about a minute in. It's no different than if a white male came on and started talking fixatedly about his whiteness and maleness. I'd flip to another channel.
Those thinking YouTubers are inconsequential are wrong. You may not have heard of them, but kids don’t watch TV anymore, they watch YouTube, and these influencers are their Walter Cronkites. Took our 12 year old daughter to Vid Con in Melbourne last year, the place was sold out at $450 a ticket, and the YouTubers are rockstars to the Internet generation.
This is where Gen Z gets their news and world view. You having never heard of them is immaterial. They’re the voice of the future, like it or not.
Influencers are paid shills that push products and entertain. Walter Cronkite was an actual reporter. The wold of difference there couldn't be larger.
If kids perceive influencers to be actual news sources, thats a problem, although I do know they get their minimal amount of news from people like John Oliver and Trevor Noah.
Influencers are paid shills that push products and entertain. Walter Cronkite was an actual reporter. The wold of difference there couldn't be larger.
If kids perceive influencers to be actual news sources, thats a problem, although I do know they get their minimal amount of news from people like John Oliver and Trevor Noah.
YouTubers come in all shapes and sizes. Kids flock to various arbiters of numerous topics for their own reasons. Of course they aren’t comparable to Cronkite journalistically, but sure as your parents were influenced by the nightly news, kids are influenced by YouTubers. Your dismissive language matters not. It’ll roll on without your approval.
It’s not just kids either. Plenty of adults on this forum alone quote YouTubers as their source of information. Dubious or otherwise.
YouTubers come in all shapes and sizes. Kids flock to various arbiters of numerous topics for their own reasons. Of course they aren’t comparable to Cronkite journalistically, but sure as your parents were influenced by the nightly news, kids are influenced by YouTubers. Your dismissive language matters not. It’ll roll on without your approval.
It’s not just kids either. Plenty of adults on this forum alone quote YouTubers as their source of information. Dubious or otherwise.
Sounds like we both agree that your original analogy was way off base then.
Sounds like we both agree that your original analogy was way off base then.
Not at all. I never compared Cronkite’s journalistic integrity to YouTubers. I said, YouTubers are Gen Z’s Cronkites as in they listen to YouTubers like people used to listen to news anchors. Whether you approve of my analogy is immaterial, as are the dismissive attitudes of CD posters to YouTube.
It’s quite ironic actually considering a large percentage of you get news from the POTUS directly off Twitter. He’s the world’s most famous influencer. And he too, is no Walter Cronkite.
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