Video killed the current generation

Youtube blogging had become a trend ever since the website was first invented. To this day a dedicated group of 'video bloggers' or 'vloggers' continues to utilise the site for this purpose. People would be given to believe that those most likely to use Youtube as a blog site are of the 'angry youth' demographic, and though this is largely true, personal experience has indicated that vloggers can be of any age.

To me, vloggers are nothing more than attention whores. There's a big and imperative difference between having a blog like mine, and one that you have to grab people's attention. My blog exists not so much because I want people reading it, but more as a place for me to put down opinions I feel are worthy of authoring. Technically it's essay practice, and though there is a slight element of hypocrisy in doing so, I see no problem in making my writings public domain, but not publicised. I doubt I have many readers, indeed for confirmed readers I have only two, the fact is I don't put up a blog with the express interest of having millions of people see my opinion.

All vloggers and many bloggers are not like that. People like these not only want to know people are reading or watching their material, they absolutely revel in it. Vlogging is worse because rather than put their opinions in an editable format, they have to think up whatever they want to convey on the spot. Blogging is a much more effective way of conveying an opinion because you get to measure what you're saying as it's put down in writing. For instance even though I know what I wish to write about and how I wish to go about it, I make innumerable edits to my posts, and I determine to do so so that I wouldn't have to once I press the 'Publish' button. In vlogging on the other hand whatever is spoken is recorded and is usually irretractable, unless the vlogger at hand were to edit their posts, and by far and large most of them don't. The allowance to convey an opinion moved by emotion [often blind], along with the need for spontaneity, has bred a generation of people who speak before they think and think it fine to do so; after all, these are the same people who labour under the illusion that their opinion is important, profound and therefore requires publicising. Below is a good example of the painfully idiotic, psuedo-intelligent rantings with which vloggers assail the consciousnesses of the public:



The reality is this: no one who matters gives a toss about bullshit opinions. Despite the obvious attempts at conveying individualism, an open mind and even God forbid, a measured opinion, very few vloggers actually illustrate any form of genuine intellect. These are the opinions of an impressionable, angsty, often misguided person who thinks that by acting rebellious or controversial they're breaking mainstream school of thought, and we're supposed to interpret them as being worthwhile? I certainly wouldn't even regard my blog posts as being worthy of public consideration, I won't expect that anyone younger than me speaking into a webcam and a dodgy microphone can deliver any measure of opinion worth publicising.

The worst part is many vloggers don't even try this. Instead of trying to convey an opinion or thought process, many instead choose to use vlogging as a diary tool, so we get William Winterton and Susan Smith telling us about how they ate an apple and found a worm ["Like, oh my God, was the grossest thing ever!"], or how Barbara Brown wouldn't be their friend for a day. If there was any attempt in conveying profoundness, it would pretty much extend to either a quick line about how much they associate with some shite band's lyrics, or how some random undertaking [looking at the clouds, sitting on a park bench, or seeing a rainbow] made them come over all profound in ways they "can't even put into words" as they marvel over "how beautiful and powerful nature is".

I'll spell it out here : these are not individualistically profound opinions, these are observations everyone has had, and we need to know about it as much as we would a person's first erection or the colour of this month's period stains. Apparently we've reached that gulf of intellect where rambling about awareness of mortality can be confused with deep thinking. Here's a thought: NO ONE CARES. I'm frankly sick of the people who think their opinions are so important that the world is just screaming out to hear them. The fact is they have it the other way round, such is their lust for acknowledgement and self-insecurity that it is they who wish for the world to hear their vacuous, pretentious and misguided opinings. Vlogging, by streamlining the method in which these people can convey their pseudo-opinions without allowing them the discipline of considering what they think before they say it, is one more nail in the coffin of intellect, and judging by the look of it, this coffin doesn't need many more.