When representations of the real are better than the real that they replace, that’s called simulacra. Simulation is when the reality itself has begun to imitate the model and it begins to determine the real world.

 

What I find really interesting to think about, are the representations that vloggers can give themselves through their videos.

 

 

The first videos I saw of ThatcherJoe (aka Joe Sugg) were his prank videos.

 

In these videos, he films himself mercilessly pranking his roommates and friends. I found those to be fairly amusing, yet it sometimes—usually—made me feel sorry for his victims (mostly Oli White and Caspar Lee).

 

My first view of Joe Sugg was him as a prankster.

 

Now, I want to say, that I really like this group of YouTubers' videos—as in Oli White, Joe Sugg, and Zoella. They are all friends or siblings, in Joe and Zoe Sugg's case.

 

I don’t know why exactly, except that I know I find people interesting. And other people must too, because their YouTube channels have many subscribers and Joe and Caspar came out with a movie.

 

 

Now, I don’t actually know if this is how their life is. They might be just doing this for the video, or the viewers and likes, but this is what I now think of when I see Joe Sugg or Caspar Lee (probably not in real life since they’re not in CA, but more in videos).

 

One thing I think I’d find very annoying if I had YouTuber friends, is that they seem to be recording all the time. In several of their vlogs, they are recording and talking to the camera while their friends are recording and talking to their cameras in the background.

 

Don't get me wrong, I love their videos, but I'm looking at it from the perspective of their life and their friends.

 

However, if your group of friends are all YouTubers, that is rather helpful.

 

You all understand that there is a specific schedule to uploading videos you have to follow, which means you can get each other to help out in videos or you can help edit each others’ videos. If you’re vlogging for your channel, and your friends are also vlogging for their channels, then I can see why that wouldn’t be as rude or annoying, since they all live that YouTubing life.

 

It's the same with music majors at school. We are always practicing or taking thousands of credits worth of classes. This is just a different portrayal of looking at it through a YouTuber's eyes.