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The YouTuber

The joy of YouTube is that the content created is content-free

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

24 February 2018

9:00 AM

None of us is above YouTube, and nothing is beneath it. We have of course all long since submitted to a universal medium whose sole purpose appears to be the promotion of the universal below-average, but this doesn’t mean that there isn’t pleasure to be had from watching content created by so-called ‘content-creators’ whose created content is often pretty much content-free.

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