I am so proud

I am really proud of ‘Rachel and Stephs’ video posts on youtube! I think that they are realistic and tell an interesting but tragic story that can probably be related to by a number of teenagers. The videos have had quite a lot of interest, so far 1988 views. Although myself and Olivia did create the youtube members, Chillerchris007 and sexualmaniac, other members have also commented on the videos, interesting to note is the comment from ronnyfry89, a real youtube user saying, ‘sorry but i have to say it "youve got to be the dumbest girl eva."’ Also interesting is the particular interest that certain videos had as a result of the youtube search tag words used to describe them. The video titled, ‘I’m a flat chested looser’ has had an array of views and comments from people searching for ‘flat chested’ videos. Furthermore the video named, ‘smoking’ received a great deal of attention as a result of its name.
I really hope that people will see the videos and be made more aware of the dangers of the internet and think twice about who they chat to and make friends with and realise that not everyone is who they say they are. The piece has reached its target audience, users of the internet, so in that sense it has been extremely successful. It has achieved its goal of being a virtual performance in many ways, and also reflects back on the idea of virtuality as it comments on people’s use of the internet and uses the internet as a means of creating artificial characters.