The Internet Killed Television

Reality Television. What is reality television? According to dictionary.com, reality television is a kind of television show where cameras follow real people in real life. My favorite definition has got to be from Urban Dictionary, which states that reality television was a form of documentary type show that has spiraled out of control. It also states that today’s reality television is only about sex, alcohol, parties and drama. That’s why I love Urban Dictionary, because I know I will get the real meaning of something not just the pg definition you get elsewhere. I totally agree with Urban Dictionary reality television has gone down the drain and it is degrading Americans more and more. Although Surreal Life and The Real Life had some form of realness to them. I think that Reality Television is another reason as to why Europeans hate Americans. Reality television is not what real people go through. Real people have good days where they get to go to Disneyland and the following day they are stuck doing merchandise for an online store.

Now, the true form of Reality Television is online particularly YouTube. Let us talk about YouTube for a few sentences. YouTube is much more complex than everybody thinks. On YouTube you can fulfill you dream job, and anything your heart desires. You can also get a job working ON YouTube. For example let us say you are a singer and you want your talent be known to the world. You can do it the traditional way, or you can do it the new way. By posting videos of your talent on the site you get random viewers. IF you are smart you will ask the viewers to subscribe to your YouTube ‘Channel’ and thus each video will get you closer to a magic number. When you real about 2,000 subscribers you can apply to be a YouTube Partner which in simple terms means you will get money from your videos. Each time a viewer clicks on an advertisement placed by Google you will get a percentage of the money from it. Overtime you will get more and more subscribers and you will get more money on payday.

Now let us get back to reality Television on YouTube. Some people are smart and set this to be their career, like Charles Trippy and Alli Speed from the real form of Reality Television, vlogging. Vlogging is filming yourself saying whatever you want to say, and doing what ever you want to do. Vlogging is video logging to those who did not notice that was a compound word. With vlogging you are the producer, director, editor and talent. Daily Vlogs are the hardest jobs anyone will have because you have to edit sometimes hours into just about 15 minutes every single day. Days you will fall behind, like Kate from youtube.com/katersoneseven, and your subscribers will be infuriated. Reality Television should be renamed to Online Reality. Overtime I believe that the internet will overtake the television in all forms of entertainment. After all, like Charles Trippy says ‘The Internet Killed Television’.