Not that hits matter really; it's not like I even want to make money off of doing this...
Downloaded Adobe Animate (The Animation Program Formerly Known as Flash) today, now that my Adobe Creative Cloud (CC) opens up when I tell it to (it hasn't been doing that lately for some reason, and so I could only open up Adobe programs I'd already downloaded, and even for those couldn't receive any updates.) I haven't actually touched Flash since high school, once for about five minutes, and being horribly confused by it and never touching it since. I've learned a lot about animation since then, viewed some tutorials, learned how to navigate and everything, and I'm already laying down some slick smooth motion picture. Watch this head roll (oh Pathos!):
Outta sight.
Okay, getting along with it. Markiplier's video of a few days ago, reflecting on how YouTube has changed ever since he started his channel four years ago (holy crap, this blog has been around longer than Mark Fischbach has been on YouTube!), the change of focus from YouTube as a platform for content creators to make content, to a platform for content creators to make money off of content, the drama and inter-channel sniping caused thereby, has spun my wheels. About, a lot of things- including things that I'd meant to post about earlier in the week!
YouTube's evolution: There's a law, called the rule of first adopters, basically rule 34 applied to all media-- every new medium of communication is going to be used for pornography, as one of the very first uses of the medium. This thought doesn't have to do with pornography, or media; it does have to do with the way that media are pioneered, so it reminded me of that. The shift from YouTube as an intrinsic motivator to create quality content evolving to a motivator extrinsic, maybe that's how platforms work as well. A platform starts off free and adventurous and unprecedented, making up the rules as it goes along, until it discovers the way to operate. Children start out this way, creating art intuitively until they learn the "rules" of drawing. Captain Picard in the first seasons is different from Captain Picard of the later seasons, because the show was still grasping to find out what it meant to be Picard. Animation in television shows evolves quickly from its early days; the pilot episode of Friendship is Magic has a much looser style of animation than later episodes, because the horizon was wide open in the beginning.
Drama, and not being a jerk: I was going to bring this up as some tangent involving Doctor Strange, but didn't...: You don't lose much respect for someone when they profess a love of something you loathe, but you lose respect for them when they loathe something you love. Or, that's how I feel about it. You can't begrudge someone's fanship of anything, but someone disliking something that's clearly awesome, that person's an imbecile. Don't call things overrated, call other things underrated. We're all happy. Don't say Big Bang Theory is overrated. Say, you know what's underrated? Community. Fan of the Hunger Games series, eh? If you like that, you know what's underrated, Battle Royale.
YouTube as a platform: I'm not saying, from either of those above points, that YouTube is dead as a platform, of course, or even broken, from its drama to its economic model to whatever. It's fine. What I do say is this. Maybe we need to keep evolving, discovering and creating new platforms, where there are no rules yet, tropes so rigidly defined we don't think to question them. Science fiction always imagines the future, but can only extrapolate from the present. What if the science you're taking for granted is vastly off? That's a good thing. It means that you created something that could only have been produced at that point in time, something entirely unique.
YouTube YouTube YouTube?: I'd been meaning to bring this up recently as well, somewhere. If I do ever watch Zootopia 365 times in a row (that's, a lot of times) I think I'd vlog it instead of blog it. I mentioned above I'm not really planning on making money off of this blog, but I think it would be nice to receive some sort of monetary compensation for putting myself through such an insane task, and, hey, YouTubers make money. I could invite guests, celebrities YouTubers friends whatever, to watch with me, and we could have banter, and talk about what strikes us from this particular viewing. And it'd be an actual job, because I'd be making money off of it, so it wouldn't be just some crazy gauntlet to pass through for only nominal and arbitrary reasons.
But, turns out that even though Mom won't be paying for any of my tuition or rent or anything this next semester (seeing as how I blew all the money from home on more Zootopia tickets, WORTH IT,) I don't need any of that money, from home or YouTube or anything, right now, because my Pell Grant came through today, which means I'm monetarily solid, at least right now...
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