I love music it’s not a shocking statement really. Most
teenagers love music so we spend time on YouTube a lot. So my observation is on
YouTube. I love going on YouTube to watch funny videos and music videos. But
what I did differently is that I read the comments and that I tried to analyze
the funny videos. Why were these videos so funny? Who is watching them? What I
found out was very interesting actually. At first I started analyzing the funny
videos I watched and when I kept in mind why? Do I find this funny? And so on I
felt ignorant the video that I and many people claimed were so funny actually
weren’t so funny. I’m always talking about female empowerment; women should
have equal rights, yet the video I watched were degrading women. I thought they
were funny but every time a male referred to a female in the videos I watched
they were called b***hes. Not once did they say woman or girl. They were
referred to as b***ches and a lot of time hoes. Also most of the comedians were
males. There were some female YouTube comedians but not famous ones with like 2
million subscribers. Even so they also referred to their fellow comrades, women,
as b***ches or hoes. It made me rethink what I was watching. Then another
question popped up as I was scrolling down looking at the comments. Who is
watching these videos? I was watching a Carrie Underwood video the video for
Just A Dream because I love that song. The video was about a female who instead
of getting married and having a happy ending, had to attend the funeral of her
loved one just as life was getting good. As I scrolled to look at the comments
I learned of a 12 year old and her 14 year old boyfriends struggle because he
wants to join the army when he grows up. For me it was just like wow put your
whole life out there why don’t you. Then it was pure bewilderment because your
12 why are you thinking about that? Another thing that bothered me also was
that some music videos had nothing to do with the song like it literally was
like saying how the weather is and answering your mama. It was so ridiculous
and meaningless, why do we have music videos again there’s like no connection
to the music whatsoever.
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