On Sunday 27th July was Kayley's YouTube gathering. www.youtube.com/owlssayhooot.
She came over from America and we all met up for a day and it was seriously brilliant. I got to see people that I met at Nerifest in April and I also made lots of new friends. Not much else to say other than I had another incredible YouTube related day, but I think we all know that one paragraph is impossible for me to constrict myself to. So here's my train of thought round about now.
www.youtube.com/missxrojas.
The first vlog I ever watched on YouTube was Rosi's vlog about how she hated the fact that Emma Watson had been digitally enhanced in some promo posters. This video, along with her others that I went on to watch affected me a lot. They totally inspired me to start making vlogs, Harry Potter related ones to be precise. Without my Deathly Hallows vlog, I would never have got featured and most likely not have carried on making videos and gaining subscribers. So I have always known that Rosi is the person I owe for how much YouTube has changed my life. I've wanted to meet her ever since I first saw her videos over a year ago, and on Sunday, I got to. All I can say is that she is so lovely and I remember thinking when I first found her channel "I bet me and her would get on really well". I think I was right. I wish I had told her how much she changed my life but it didn't occur to me at the time to, just because we were all chatting about normal, teenagerish stuff, not about YouTube. In a sense, the whole gathering was AROUND YouTube but not about it. Yeah, lots of people had their cameras out, but we were there as friends, not internet buddies.
Despite the fact that this was my fourth YouTube-related meet up, I still find it really hard to process in my head that I am meeting up with people from the internet. This is because a year ago, my confidence would never have allowed me to do this. But now, I can't imagine life any other way. I'm sure you're all fed up of hearing me go on about how much YouTube has changed me as a person, but it just becomes more and more prominent as the weeks go on.
For me, the word COMMUNITY is defined by YouTube. People, who sometimes have no more than one thing in common, making friends for life. We're brought together by the fact that we love people and videos. Obviously there's subcommunities, like Harry Potter, but primarily, it is video blogging.
And I do love it so very, very much.
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