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it’s judy’s life
good morning chicklets
good morning internet
John!
Hey I’m vlogging here
Have you ever asked yourself what the heck
is vlogging and why would I want to waste
my limited free time watching somebody else's
life?
what do i do, like tell you a joke or something.
like How do you make daily stuff interesting
tell you a joke.
whats a joke, ha ha.
My career
Hey my name is James Chick and this is A History
of Vlogging.
Are you ready cause this might get boring,
I mean really cool!
Odds are you have seen some or all of these
people before. They question is, why?
Before we answer that let's go back. Way back...
to a time before youtube!
What is vlogging and how did it even get started?
well On January 2, 2000, Adam Kontras uploaded
a video to his “blog” as a fun way to
keep his friends and family up to date on
his cross-country road trip to LA, this was
the first video uploaded in what is now the
longest running series of vlogs.   In November
of 2000, Adrian Miles posted a video and combined
the two words, coining the term “vog”
to refer to his video blog. Which later would
become widely know as a vlog. And this was
next step in sharing your thoughts and feeling
on the internet.
And then in 2005 something amazing happened.
YouTube was born. And that is when everything
changed!
alright so here we are infront of the elephants
the cool thing about these guys is that they
have really really really long umm trunks.
The first videos were uploaded to youtube
back on april 23rd 2005.
But before YouTube, hosting video on the internet
was extremely cumbersome and expensive! Believe
it or not you actually had to PAY for your
bandwidth.  Think about your cell phone plan.
If you go over on your 4G data, your bill
sky rockets.  So when and if your video went
Viral, you didn’t really make money you
lost money! This is kinda how hosting video
on the internet worked on the internet before
sites like YouTube and Vimeo blessed us with
free video hosting.
With that burden lifted, and now having a
platform for sharing your content vlogs and
video content in general had a place to thrive.
Because of this vlogging saw a huge increase
in popularity in 2005. The Yahoo! Videobloggers
Group’s memberships increase dramatically
and vlogging was starting to make a name for
itself.
By July 2006, Youtube had become the 5th most
popular web destination, with 100 million
viewsand 65,000 uploads every day.
Now let’s go ahead and fast forward to some
people you might have heard of.  Let me know
if you recognize any of these guys?
now Most of you guys recognize this guy.
but what about copy right, son of a monkey.
how did that happen, sorry you just fell.
Hsssss, shhhh sssssss hissss.
or what about this guy?
hello john, by now you have received my message
that we will no longer me communicating by
textual means. no more instant messaging no
more emailing only video blogging.
and what about him?
it would just be like kissing yourself, have
you ever looked into a mirror and kissed yourself.
mmmmm. yeah me neither.
Now the content these guys put up back then
is far from what you see today, but it was
the beginning of this crazy thing called vlogging!
If people think YouTubers are weird now, imagine
how much guts it would have taken to be one
back in 2006! #Awkward
Now that we kinda have a brief history of
where YouTube came about and changed the way
people could share content let's talk about
why vlogging is such a massively popular form
of entertainment.
where gonna go ahead and break it down into
three categories
First off lets talk about Entertainment
Entertainment is probably the #1 reason why
people start to watch vlogs.  They see a
thumbnail or a title that looks like it could
be entertaining and they click it.  If they’ve
never seen a vlog before they are probably
immediately confused at what they are watching,
and why. But, if the topic or style of the
vlog is entertaining enough they might continue
to watch. And if they do they will eventually
reach a point they feel as though they have
a connection to this person or at least feel
like they know them to a certain extent.  Vlogging
has this power to give millions actually billions
of people all around the world this 1 on 1
interaction with these youtubers.  The Vlogger
might never even know your screen name, but
you feel as though you two are connected because
you have been invited into these personal
intimate moments of their life on a daily
basis.  and That is the power of vlogging!
This brings me to category #2.
Human Connection
We as as a species strive for connection,
especially human connection.  Vlogging is
a safe, fun and easy way to connect with people
who you would otherwise never have the ability
to connect to.  And once you have reached
that stage where you feel like you know this
person you then become invested in their lives.
So when they upload a video titled, “you
won’t believe what happened” you click
tha button immediately to find out what happened
to them.  They same way you would if your
best friend told you they have a insane surprise.
 You would say what is it?  This is what
sets vlogging apart from every other format
of entertainment. Human Connection.
The third and most meaningful reason people
enjoy watching vlogs so much is very similar
to that of why we love going to the movies
so much. It is an escape from our reality
as we know it.  Weather you have a stressful
job, you hate having to be in school all day
or you kinda have a crappy situation at home.
 Vlogging gives you a way to join another
family, a virtual family.  Weather you are
Peeps, Shaytards, Chicklets, Bumpers,  Sprinklerinos,
friends, or Shigity Shankers.  Being part
of these families, these communities allows
you to be part of something bigger, better
or just different than what your normal day
to day brings you.  You can travel the world
and never need anything more than your cell
phone.
So next time you hear your friend talk about
their favorite vlogger, hopefully you have
a better understanding of why they’re so
emotionally attached to what there going through.
imagine that, my job is to hang out with my
family. And we have made it work, we have
made it work. And it has taken us more places
than I ever could have imagined.
I’m James Chick and this has been A History
of Vlogging.
and if you guys want to see more videos like
this let me know down belows in the comments.
Im excited to see what you guys think.
And I want to give a huge shout out to everyone
highlighted in this video as you have all
had a massive impact on our vlogging journey.
So go check them out.
Thanks for watching and I’ll see you guys
tomorrow.
