Why YouTubers Hold Microphones Now

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Get Nebula using my link for 40% off an annual subscription: https://go.nebula.tv/tomnicholas Watch my Nebula-exclusive class "How To Research Like a PhD Student": https://nebula.tv/how-to-research-lik... A video about the rise of YouTubers holding microphones, and what this can tell us about the future of the platform. Written, directed and presented by Tom Nicholas. Edited by Georgia Burrows. Chapters 00:00 YouTubers All Hold Microphones Now 05:49 I, YouTuber 15:27 PragerU and the Politics of Style 26:54 Casey Neistat and the Rise of Internet Ugly 36:39 Why YouTubers Hold Microphones Now 56:33 Epilogue Bibliography You can find a bibliography for this video on my Patreon, here:   / video-why-hold-94835669   Over the past year, a new trend has been sweeping YouTube: holding microphones. On one level, this might seem like a fairly silly little trend; but it can actually tell us a huge amount about some of the underlying tensions which exist beneath the site and where it is headed in the future. Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/tomnicholas-... Support my work on Patreon at   / tomnicholas   Twitch:   / tom_nicholas   Twitter:   / tom_nicholas   Instagram:   / tomnicholaswtf   Patreon:   / tomnicholas   Website: http://www.tomnicholas.com Select footage courtesy of Getty Music from Epidemic Sound