Creativity is universal. Just because you're making something "mediocre", or the same thing as everyone else, doesn't mean that it's not worth making.
Maybe I would agree that mediocre stuff is getting too much coverage. If we could limit the stuff we make to just friends and family, instead of making it public to everyone, then we could all make mediocre stuff without flooding strangers with mediocre crap :)
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I think the tradeoffs are worth it though. It's much easier to identify talent now that the barriers to entry are so low. You don't have to judge them by some proxy like whether they have decent equipment, or if they're friends with someone famous.
Maybe I would agree that mediocre stuff is getting too much coverage. If we could limit the stuff we make to just friends and family, instead of making it public to everyone, then we could all make mediocre stuff without flooding strangers with mediocre crap :)
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I think the tradeoffs are worth it though. It's much easier to identify talent now that the barriers to entry are so low. You don't have to judge them by some proxy like whether they have decent equipment, or if they're friends with someone famous.
Example: Hannah Hart made a stupid drunk video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vq7G-Q9ZwC0 but people realized that she was pretty funny and had good editing skills. So they encouraged her to make more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLYxeJjxc8s and she got the attention of internet celebrities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oLsTc_kETY and she got to do a music video with a musician she likes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvOqHfia2s and that wouldn't have happened if that first stupid drunk video wasn't available to the entire internet.