> Video making switched from animation to people filming themselves talking to the camera. Youtube was completely built around Flash, the FLV format hit a swee

> Video making switched from animation to people filming themselves talking to the camera. Youtube was completely built around Flash, the FLV format hit a sweet spot between "not looking like trash" and "not needing more bandwidth than the average user had" that else had before. I'm pretty sure we would be seeing a shit-ton of people filming themselves talking to the camera even if Flash was still a going concern - animation is a ton of work.