Recently, more and more videos have been popping up in my Youtube recommended feed that I would have never watched had it not been there, and many of these are from youtubers with over one million subscribers. As I browsed through more and more of these videos, I noticed that many of these youtubers are actually very close to my age. I started thinking, “how did kids as young as me get so famous?’ I have noticed a obvious trend to many of these videos: kids go out and do some rather interesting things in public and record it, then post it online. Somehow, this content racks up hundreds of thousands of views. Others simply document their daily lives and people love it. Now, I am not throwing any hate towards these youtubers, but I feel like fame and riches these days is a lot easier to achieve than it was maybe ten years ago.
I think that this, in some part, has to do with luck. If someone very influential or famous happened to see your videos or work and enjoyed it, then they would share it and bring tons of others to view it. This relates to “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz” because the Washingtons “stumbled on [the] great discovery” completely out of luck, and because of this luck, they are able to live an extremely luxurious life. While many people do work very hard and definitely deserve all the money and fame they receive, I cant’t help but feel that part of it all is just based on their luck, too.
Hey Eddy! I really enjoyed reading this post, and I can completely agree with your idea that fame is a lot easier to achieve these days. I see random kids doing random things on youtube all the time too, and they somehow became famous for doing things that could not have achieved them fame before. I feel like social media plays a big role in this because basically anyone can see you from social media.
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