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Hence, the rapid montage of this heterogeneous content is just as much part of the intensified aesthetic expressiveness as are the applied special effects available in the digital video editing software. The re-created remixes and mash-ups are characterized by their random selection of original material and their nonsensical humor. The loose collective of independent amateurs behind the YouTubePoop videos makes use of already existing audiovisual material ranging from television shows to videos of other YouTube users. Based on an experimental ethnography of the online video subgenre/subculture “YouTubePoop”, the paper will elaborate on the connection between the individual experience and the creation of digital media. This paper will consider a combination of both as a crucial part in understanding strategies of inter- and transmedial amateur creativity.

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The website: The full pdf: ĭigital technology has often been discussed in relation to how it changed either the production or the reception of audiovisual cultures. How is YouTube an extension, transformation, or break from media like film and television? How can YouTube videomaking be situated with regards to other cultural practices? This study offers novel insights. It shows how YouTube users employed their performing bodies and audiovisual techniques in creative ways to produce their videos – and how they made their videos successful and generate revenues on and off YouTube. It shows that dedicated video production mattered already in the early years of the platform. The aspects in focus are users’ backgrounds and motivations for using YouTube, video production, settings, modes of performance, cinematography, editing, the overall form of videos, and the activities of the contributing users and of others with regards to the videos once uploaded to YouTube. It offers an analysis of the most subscribed YouTube channels of the first two years of the platform's operation (20).

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Is today’s professional and commercial YouTube culture the downfall of a ‘participatory culture’ in which there were no lines between producers and consumers and the approval of the ‘YouTube community’ was revenue enough? This study argues otherwise and challenges the participatory culture and social media paradigms which have been predominant in the research thus far.