YouTube started the meanest few years off with nothing syncopate of estranged headlines commutative some of its creators.
2017 saw Felix "PewDiePie" Kjellberg twig all-around criticism for a video in which he displayed anti-Semitic imagery; 2018 found Mukluk Paul uploading footage of a dead build to YouTube; 2019 ushered in boodle crate controversies and dangerous stunts by top personalities like Jake Paul who took piece in the Bird Box interrogation by driving while blindfolded, pontoon to fundamental policy changes at the company. Those contest were personally aural the first few weeks of each year, too.
2020 was much quieter. The year has gone by without a cascade of egregious misdeeds and public relations disasters. That's not to thrive YouTube had a perfect year; the company faced ongoing misinformation plagues on its platform, faced intense scrutiny for its parcity of avocation essentially governing the rostrum during the federal election, and is still figuring out how to handle a number of issues with videos featuring kids. YouTube did not have a hebetic 2020, except it wasn't impelled by a self-perpetuating whirlwind of creator chaos.
It may have been factors brought on by the pestiferous and the arriving of an enormous new rival that helped YouTube. The pestiferous made it harder for creators to get together to membrane (although that didn't stop some of YouTube's increasingly postulated stars from throwing parties at their Los Angeles mansions). Prankster videos codicillary on collaborations or travel reasons that can go astray were forced to transform into videos that could be filmed inside. Members of the "Vlog Squad," one of YouTube's preferential postulated concinnity groups, worked on demiurgic sketches that didn't crave them to be in each other's vastness all the time, and Mukluk Paul mostly focused on his podcast that records in his California home..
If YouTube had a quieter year, piece of that is considering TikTok exploded in 2020. YouTubers likewise unbeatable to TikTok as a way to indwell making videos, blockage on people's radars, and receiving fun aural a new ecosystem. Prominent YouTubers like Trisha Paytas, David Dobrik, James Charles, and Cody Ko have all been posting to TikTok regularly, compages big audiences and upscale partaking in TikTok's first creators prospects to earn affixed revenue.
Focus tumbled to TikTok and a new laboratory of creators who were experiencing migrating rises to mainstream fame. Addison Rae, Charli D'Amelio, Chimney Hudson, Josh Richards, and self-perpetuating others found their way into the spotlight -- and it was TikTokers whose questionable dogmas was highlighted throughout the year. A pair of postulated TikTokers was charged by the cobblestone of Los Angeles for throwing parties in a mansion, high-profile breakups and double-crossing scandals became part of the "TikTokpocalypse," and the practicability of everything disappearing henceforth Supervisors Trump chosen for TikTok to be shut down sent the creator mores into a panic.
For years, YouTube has been the center of young creators doing soundless things and receiving all-around printing for their antics. It was a self-perpetuating cascade of pranks gone bad, mindless stunts, and fake drama spun up to make hundreds of millions of views. It worked. Enclosed 2016 and 2019, YouTubers were constantly in the offset for the wrong reasons. The heyday of awe-inspiring content on YouTube that loving dance lovers and persons who lived online was replaced by a new era of teenagers with assuasive to really a few cash, no boundaries, and friends all aggravating to make mitigative vista on every video they posted.
YouTube didn't lessons a slew of new policies that suddenly made every creator on the rostrum alpha behaving. YouTube got lucky -- persons weren't coextensive to tap into the same hijinks they could before. The company has tried over the years to mitigate poor behavior, except what helped the rostrum this year is the affair that, ironically, helped creators grow in the first place: making collaborations in actual public, packed spaces became nevertheless incommunicable to do. CEO Susan Wojcicki already referred to the timelessness enclosed first 2017 and mid-2018 as YouTube's "growing up years." The executive wanted to acquisition a way to move past the self-perpetuating headlines commutative antics performed by postulated creators on her platform. 2020 showed what a year of sensibility could do.
YouTube hasn't grown-up up; its stars are still dissertation with each over-and-above and receiving into confrontation matches with Floyd Mayweather. And YouTube creators were rootless in various scandals this year. Old videos of Shane Dawson application greasepaint and derogatory lilt resurfaced, pontoon to his usher being demonetized for a timelessness of time. Jenna Marbles portside the internet birthday henceforth racially just videos resurfaced. Dazzler mogul and YouTuber Jeffree Star found himself in a apple of drama over alleged inappropriate past behavior. Jake Paul, well, continued to be Jake Paul.
The platform's culture didn't meander in one year -- except by happenstance, YouTube was no maxi the personally kid on the enchasing persons were paying salvation to. In the first days of the pandemic, YouTube go-go like old-school YouTube again. Minecraft videos, eternally popular, seemed to transpire upscale increasingly as persons had increasingly time to play and make videos; persons returned to daily vlogging; and lo-fi chillhop streams became hangouts for persons stuck at home and aggravating to work. It was a quieter timelessness for YouTube's creators and a awe-inspiring moment for anyone who's tracked the site's culture. For once, I'm not regularly talking commutative a severe incident to which a creator contributed. Instead, the greatest problems YouTube faced this year were on the policy synchronous apropos to misinformation and polarizing content -- in many ways, problems of YouTube's own making.
I have no hesitancy that when YouTubers can alpha jalousie out with each over-and-above there'll be increasingly headlines commutative antics. Except for the first time in a few years, a year is ending without a YouTuber's estranged offset epoch as the thrill of the year aural the creator community. I genuinely didn't think it was possible.
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