Please Subsribe

Please Subscribe, a film by Dan Dobi,  is a documentary about YouTube and the people who work for it. Not the people who work in an office doing technical aspects for the website, but the content creators; the creative minds responsible for the website traffic. YouTube is the 3rd most visited website on the internet, and that is because there is constantly new content being put up at all hours, for everyone to watch and enjoy. The film explores the more prominent “YouTubers”, from Hannah Hart, whose series entitled “My Drunk Kitchen” became an overnight sensation in the YouTube Community, to people like Mitchell Davis and Grace Helbig, who are popular for sketch-vlogging techniques, and even MysteryGuitarMan, who makes stop motion videos that are viewed by millions.

The film explores the life of eight different YouTubers, and has them explain how they got to where they are and how they’re staying relevant. It exposes their daily lives to show what it’s like and what drives them to make content. For a lot of them, YouTube is their only source of income, so they have to constantly be thinking of ways to attract new audiences and gain a wider viewership. YouTube holds annual conventions, like Playlist Live in March and Vidcon in the summertime, where YouTubers can go and perform and meet their audience and attract new people to their videos. This also gives YouTubers time to collaborate with other YouTubers, which will help get their name out in more places as well.

Dan Dobi announced at the end of his showing of the film in theaters that he was holding an open spot for another YouTuber before the final copy of the film was released. He began a contest that allowed for anyone to submit a two minute video about who they are and what they do in the YouTube community, and the winner will be put in the film and given free tickets to Digitour, another YouTube convention. The finished film will be released on March 23, 2013.

Lil Poopy reaction

In response to the assignment about Lil Poopy, I decided to film my friends, Emma and Liz, reacting live to the music video. (And then we got distracted a bit towards the end.)

Lil Poopy

For Journalism, we write weekly articles for our local newspaper, "The Sun Chronicle," in the section for High School students, "The Page" . This week, we had to write about whether or not Brockton police were justified in investigating 9 year old rapper Lil Poopy's home life because of the content in his videos. This is what I submitted:

Lil Poopy's content is very risque, which would be fine if he wasn't a nine year old. His music is very sexual for his age, to the point where YouTube is even beginning to remove his videos due to sex and drug references. While this may not be a result of a bad home life, the police were still entitled to investigate the situation. 

Here is one of Lil Poopy's videos, entitled "Pop That Remix"