A world fit for humans

Ben Sixsmith says the internet must change and our physical shared spaces improved if we are to have …

ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO, a classmate of mine began uploading videos to a website called “YouTube”. In the videos, he played little songs and performed skits about gaming, school and “How to be English”. He was a well-liked chap, but it struck everyone as a strange thing to be doing. It was only The Internet. It wasn’t TV. His video on being English went viral before “going viral” was a thing. Hundreds of thousands of young people across the world admired our classmate’s quirky sense of humour and boyish good looks. Soon, he became the first British person to hit a million subscribers and was able to turn making YouTube videos into a full-time job. No one still maintained that it was an odd thing to do. Sure, we had been on…

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The Critic (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 2022

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