> the amount of things you can learn today for free is quite amazing It really is - including practical, creative, technical, and academic topics. My favorite

> the amount of things you can learn today for free is quite amazing It really is - including practical, creative, technical, and academic topics. My favorite thing about youtube is that you don't have to be a "youtuber" to upload videos. There is also no requirement for minimum audience size. The long tail of niche channels (at least the ones made by humans) seems a bit like the old web that people are nostalgic for, even if is within Google's ad-fueled kingdom. It's also an amazing repository of popular (and unpopular) music. My least favorite thing about youtube is how advertisements seem to have greatly increased over time.