YouTube is an online video sharing platform which allows any folk like you and me to upload and share all sorts of video content to the site on their YouTube channel, and users can keep tabs on their favourite content creators, by subscribing to their YouTube channels.
Currently, YouTube has around 1.8 Billion users every month, and over 500 hours of video content get uploaded to the site every minute.
YouTube isn’t all just video content though, as much like other social media platforms, users can like ad dislike other people’s videos, as well as leaving comments too, and users can also share videos outside of YouTube and onto social media via sharing YouTube video links.
User can upload almost any type of video content they want, from vlogs, music and make-up tutorials, to tech reviews and gaming videos (as long as those videos are clean and kept inline with the YouTube community guidelines, as well as not infringing on any copyright)
Pros: It allows people to express themselves and channel their inner creativity, as for the most part there are virtually not limits to the type of video content users can upload and share onto the site.
Cons: With users having the ability to upload almost any type of video content they want, and with the mass amount of video content being uploaded to YouTube every minute, allot of that content will presumably be low effort rubbish, like Minecraft videos recorded by little kids who have access to mobile or tablet devices, to videos with misleading titles and thumbnails that trick the viewer into thinking the video is actually something else.
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