For the Love of the Game

Photo courtesy of Katie Elliott One of the channels fans of early YouTube might remember is CollegeHumor, a sketch comedy channel. CollegeHumor originally posted content to their own website, and then eventually started posting it to YouTube. Looking back on some of their earlier content, it was a perfect example of what YouTube could be. Sure, it was just comedy videos, but it was done through a high production value that showed that YouTube could be more than just someone r

Photo courtesy of NBC News One of the big reasons I chose to talk about this topic is that, for lack of a better term, I am chronically online. When I was in the 2 nd grade, I got an iPod Touch that came preinstalled with YouTube on it, and the rest was history. Don’t get me wrong, I still watched television and movies, but YouTube is what I consumed the most. I watched pretty much anything and everything, whether it was sketches from Smosh, CollegeHumor, or NigaHiga, gaming