YouTube Generation

Whoever thought of YouTube created a generation. Everything is now on YouTube. From advertisements of where to buy HGH supplements, to infomercials on global warming, to music videos, to interviews of politicians, to bloopers of superstars. Charice Pempengco, who’s been guesting at Oprah and Ellen, and Arnel Pineda, who is now the lead vocalist of the international band Journey, were both “discovered” in YouTube. It has become a level playing field for those aspiring to be stars. YouTube can make one a big star.

But YouTube can also break a person—big time. Who among Filipinos do not know about Hayden Kho and Katrina Halili’s scandalous videos? I pity the women involved in the sex scandal. YouTube has “aired” the sex scandals, reaching millions of viewers, and the politicians, especially those identified of having political ambitions in the coming election, have blew it out of proportion. It felt like they were exploiting the case, if not the women. They must have forgotten about the noodle scandal, the ZTE scandal, the H1N1 virus, and the ongoing move for cha-cha (charter change). It’s time again to be popular. Who knows? I might see them in the coming months in YouTube—hopefully and expectingly to see their blunders.