YouTube is the mother of all inventions that allows lazy teens and bored office workers like myself whittle away the hours of the day laughing at others misfortunes and/or stupidity.
Just search 'man falling down' and you'll find hours of entertainment, or more importantily you'll find hours of free entertainment. YouTube is a canvas for many to post their latest short film or a place for fans to share their videos of a their favourite band playing live.
This video shows how amazing YouTube really is.
Don't judge me. I know you laughed too! OK, so if you have somewhat of a conscience (I said if) how about this? Basically the same video, only you won't get bad karma for laughing at young children crying.
The best thing about YouTube is that you can even do it yourself. So, go get yourself a camera, a young child and scare away.
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Good post - I like that you've engaged with YouTube culture on a more general level and moved into the territory of net memes/fads... Personally, I'd be very uncomfortable with running the Maze game on a small child... There was a recent court case in which various women were found guilty of something like child cruelty for encouraging two toddlers (their own kids) to punch each other hard enough to make them cry, then filming it with their mobile, presumably to share with friends via YouTube or whatever...
Often people use themselves as 'material' on YouTube - often people offer themselves up as material. But there's a problem in callously using people as material without their consent, in using them as material in a way that may damage/traumatise them...
What have people said about these vids on YouTube - it might have been interesting to look at the comments. But an interesting post.
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