Talk:Angela's WikiProject - YouTube/@comment-27012110-20151020222310

Poeple make Youtube videos for various reasons, entertainment, money, boredom, etc. These people do this in a similar manner that people creeate personas on Instagram and Facebook; they are seeking attention and want to become popular through an online medium. Both are trying to gain fans and entertain the audience, whether it be L.A. Beast and his insane eating challenges or some random guy from Kentucky lecturing about various birds. The people who use YouTube for revenue are the ones with the most to lose, as they have essentially given up everything else in order to make a YouTube career work. Their accomplishments are online ones, such as most video views and number of subscribers but recently, YouTube started awarding these people with plaques that certifies they have achieved a certain number of subscribers or reached a certain number of views on their videos.

YouTubers cannot interact with all their fans, so they make videos to try to appeal to as many of them as possible. Where they fail in entertaining their audience, they may find their videos repurposed for another audience, For example, 'cringe' compilations are a popular form of mocking users on the website, and these incorporate videos that one YouTuber was trying to make for a specific audience yet somebody outside that demographic saw it and turned it into something else. The best part about YouTube is its unpredictability; one day one type of video might be popular, the next day it won't. There is no way to pinpoint an exact way YouTube works, but through its users, people can get a general understanding of how the site works.