YouTube Wiping Out All Other Forms of Media

YouTube was created in 2005 and has blown up since. Beauty gurus, vloggers and gamers are all able to share their knowledge and life with the world as their audience. These YouTubers are looked at as the average person because anyone can create content and upload it to the site. They have taken it one step further and now a lot of the YouTubers like ItsJudyTime (from Marysville) have producing videos as their full time jobs making as much as 6 figures a year. People fear sites like these will make newspapers and magazines go extinct. When in reality they are keeping up with technology and tweeting live news and putting magazines online. Serena Kutchinsky wrote about this in her article "Has technology changed cultural taste?" Technology has changed the way we can access culture in a way we never could before. Everyone has smart phones now and if you have a question it takes 10 seconds to type it in and get hundreds of results on Google. Something that Kutchinsky explained in her article was that, "It’s not technology shaping taste, but the human desire to connect, share and evaluate culture. Technology provides the tools but it is still society that shapes taste." Technology isn't shaping us we are. I think a lot of people blame technology for our culture changing into what it is now but it is the people shaping it.