The most of the village sharing YouTube videos

At this service, people can find videos of weekly trials in Ohio (USA) or tests of chemical reactions between Mentos candy and Coke drinks. The Associated Press announced a list of 10 YouTube phenomena in 2006.

'Character of the year'

Cute girl Lonelygirl15 has become the most memorable and memorable face of YouTube. Introducing herself as a high school girl named Bree, 19-year-old Jessica Lee Rose made a series of video clips that looked like "homegrown" under the direction of two Hollywood filmmakers. The story of Lonelygirl15 shows that the gap between real and virtual, specialized and unprofessional is very close, especially on YouTube - where anyone can become a star.

Opponent of television

Saturday Night Live's Lazy Sunday program drew more than 5 million viewers before NBC (USA) asked YouTube to take down in February. For the first time, broadcasters clearly recognized the competitiveness of the Internet. . NBC later built a website containing its own video. Meanwhile, CBS confirmed that their "The Late Show with David Letterman" and "The Late Late Show" were more popular thanks to the posting of YouTube videos.

Political weapons

YouTube, as well as the Internet in general, turns gossip and silly mistakes of celebrities into disaster. George Allen, a member of Virginia State (USA), always took the lead in the polls before the video recorded him calling a rival faction "macaca" (words considered racial ridicule) loaded. thousands of times on YouTube. Allen failed when the second term election in the US Senate ended. Meanwhile, the YouTube campaign for Michael J. Fox's Democrat candidate was surprisingly effective when attracting millions of views.

Community achievements

When Google bought YouTube for $ 1.65 billion in October, the founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen posted a video with a silly-looking laugh and declared, " We just got rich ." They followed the "YouTube style" correctly, but the video sharing community was wondering: " Are we the people who make all the content on YouTube? ".

MTV channel Monday

This year, MTV is 25 years old but their programs are no longer the most prestigious music video promotion tool. The "virus-type" spread has turned YouTube into a powerful tool for pop groups. Like OK Go's "Here it Goes Again" video with random dance and amateurs have been "respected" by YouTube.

Infinite source of information

Actor Michael Richards' racial banter, famous for his role as Kramer in the Seinfeld comedy series, is enough to appear on the front page of newspapers without YouTube, but how many people have the opportunity to follow watch? The Internet community has experienced one thing: If something happens, they should go to the YouTube page.

Not just of young people

The majority of YouTube users are teenagers, but many older people also consider it a place to help them update and communicate with the world. The 79-year-old "old man" Peter, known for his nickname Geriatric1927, has become one of YouTube's most "different" characters with the "Telling it all" video series recounting his life from his days. about radar in World War II so far.

Evidence in court

The clip of the police officer beating suspect William Cardenas was shown in court in September but the US Supreme Court considered the police officer 's behavior "reasonable". However, after the video was re-posted on YouTube, the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the FBI decided to conduct a serious inspection. In addition, two Nebraska teenagers were arrested and accused of harassing orderly when posting videos threatening their schools.

Multilingual world

People are no longer surprised to see videos in Japanese, Lao . on the world's number one video sharing community. And also in this environment, two Chinese students Huang Yixin and Wei Wei, also known as "Two Chinese Boys", were uneasy about imitating the Backstreet Boys' As long as you love me song.

Means of "manufacturing stars"

One of the most discussed clips of YouTube is a video about a young man wearing a beige hat, sitting in front of a computer in his bedroom and playing electronic guitar. Just so simple that "artist" Funtwo, whose real name is Jeong-Hyun Lim, 23-year-old Korean, has been known almost by the entire video community. Or as the comedy duo Barats & Bereta signed a contract with some entertainment companies, including NBC Universal.

Hai Nguyen