Chapter 2 - Vloggers
As I mentioned previously, I watch vlogs myself. These vlogs are of Dutch vloggers, as I am more attracted to those than to English-speaking vloggers (and I need to have a limit of how many creators to follow if I want to do something useful with my days). Vlogging is a trend at the moment, and lots of (young) people spend large amounts of time on YouTube watching these vlogs. If you have no idea what a vlog is, here is an explanation. The definition of vlog is video blog, video log or video diary. It developed from the written blogs, which were then created using video as a medium. Around 2005 vlogging started to grow in popularity, right in time for the launch of platform YouTube. In short, what vloggers do is film themselves dynamically (in selfie mode) talking into the camera-lens addressing their audience. They show exciting events or activities they’d be doing in a specific moment or just talk to the camera. There is no specific age for vlogging, some of the...