9/11 Has A Big Of A Cultural Impact Of Youtube

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Youtube as an entity has had as big of a cultural impact on present day life as 9/11 has, as the plethora of changes on our society proves. A lot of them may be unseen, but should be emphasized more as they have helped shape our modern society. America has culturally diffused with multiple other countries due to this worldwide phenomenon, with a big example being Gangnam Style by Psi, which seemingly became a fad over night. When searching through the website, you’ll notice it’s broad range of provided content. This vast material is due to all of the different people uploading to Youtube on a daily and/or weekly basis. Therefore, you have content of literally everything under the sun, right there for anyone to view. In all actuality, it’s a database of information much in the same sense Google is, but is also used for the entertainment purposes of all ages. It has been a pertinent part of the rise of Mass Media, to say the least. With the concurring factors of viral, lightning-fast video sharing and the material shared, one can ascertain the …show more content…

To the average person that is not plausible. The Youtube Founders, Steve Chen, Charles Hurley, and Jawed Karim (Dave, 2006) certainly agreed it is not plausible. Originally, they set out to create an instant video sharing website after searching for videos pertaining to multiple world events, to find none were attainable over the Internet. Once it was created, with an 11.5 million dollar investment in thanks to the Sequoia Capital (Dave, 2006), their dream was an accomplishment. 2 years later, Google bought the website for 1.6 billion dollars worth of Google Stock (Dave, 2006). Post the aforementioned event, Youtube became an illustrious website which became a conventional part of daily life. Through rapid development, the Google-owned site transformed into one of the most visited sites ever, of all