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On the Media

Joke, Threat, Obvious

On the Media

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

YouTube is one of the biggest media companies in the world. In 2020, we uploaded 500 hours of footage to the site every minute. And on average we watched over 5 billion videos every day. It’s a broadcasting machine so complex, it would make Marshall McLuhan’s head explode. OTM Correspondent Micah Loewinger has been obsessed with YouTube since he was 13. Last fall he sat down with journalist Mark Bergen to discuss his new book, Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination. According to Bergen, the founders of the site originally envisioned something more akin to Tinder than homemade TV.

This is a segment from our September 30, 2022 program, Still Loading….

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Michael Lonescher. You're listening to the OTM Podcast Extra.

0:03.8

This week, we're re-hairing an interview I did about the best, the worst, the silliest,

0:08.8

the dumbest, the most entertaining website on the internet.

0:12.2

You're the bit, babe.

0:14.2

Hey, everyone. This is Kenji Lopez-Olt-Dom here at home.

0:16.8

Today, I'm going to show you how to make probably the easiest pasta dish around.

0:19.8

I'm cut yo head pepper. It's kind of like Italian.

0:21.5

See how I start my makeup routine.

0:23.1

Sometimes I pluck my eyebrows and pick at my skin first.

0:25.5

I don't know why to that, but we're going to skip that part and just go right into my eye.

0:29.7

I was hitting some nasty shots. Did you see that?

0:35.1

Serious video today. I was elusive.

0:37.8

You know, I was that kid that sat at the table with three other people that were also

0:42.8

like the super rejects. That was me.

0:45.6

I got 100 of my subscribers and gave them each $10,000.

0:49.7

And I also rented one of the largest malls in the world and locked them inside.

0:53.9

And for the-

0:54.4

These are facts.

0:55.3

And facts don't care about your feelings.

0:57.3

Yeah, there was a survey that we're not recently that it's like more kids want to be

1:02.4

professional YouTubers than astronauts.

1:05.0

And everyone like even I'm like,

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