Stream YourselfYouTube is a form of online entertainment. While some viewers don't like its format, others enjoy watching and creating videos on YouTube. YouTube videos can be educational, educational, comedic or funny. Creating videos to upload to YouTube is done by people of all ages and from all over the world. According to author Alex K. Rich, “Thirty-eight percent of Americans want to distribute content online.” (Rich 1) YouTube has brought a new form of high-quality fun and entertainment to many of its viewers. YouTube “is a popular video streaming site that displays uploaded video files created or streamed by its users” (Bélanger 1) writes Craig Belanger in his overview of YouTube. It is free and user-friendly, which makes it very popular. According to Jennifer Sexton, this innovative website was founded by three former PayPal employees who had a "simple desire to capture short videos and share them with others." (Sexton 1) Although their intentions were not to make money and become a popular website, YouTube's popularity grew very quickly and it is used by many Internet users. In Alex K. Rich's view, “YouTube has lowered the bar for what is considered entertainment” (Rich 1). It is true that the majority of videos created and uploaded to YouTube are not professional quality, it is a website that allows participants of all ages and levels of creativity to make a video. For example, the Lonelygirl15 videos were "filmed with a $150 webcam and showed that anyone could make digital videos." (Hirschorn 3) YouTube’s motto is “Spread Yourself.” Michael Hirschorn wrote in his article "Thank You YouTube" that "the beginning of low-cost videos and its... middle of paper ...... have become part of Internet culture and influence things that happen in the world today. As a viewer, people feel concerned about what is accepted and what is not worth watching. In "YouTube: Critical Analysis Guide", some of the "videos that YouTube viewers watched are 1) Shortly after YouTube launched, clips from the 2006 Winter Olympics were released, 2) The pop group OK Go won a 2006 Grammy Award for a video that initially gained notoriety on YouTube and 3) clips of "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart" were regularly featured on YouTube. (YouTube: Critical Analysis Guide 2) Thus, as long as YouTube exists, even if certain videos are made by professionals wishing to promote their product, there will always be those who submitted it who will want to "broadcast" and download it , even if he uses his cell phone and Internet access.