Guardian - 22 January 2018, 14:59 (+ 2292 days 14 hours and 25 minutes) In Depth/Analysis
YouTube stars and vloggers have created a new world inhabited almost exclusively by children. We might as well get used to itSmallishBeans just uploaded a video. (No, me neither.) I know this because I have received an email with the subject line “SmallishBeans just uploaded a video”, sent to me by YouTube. I didn’t know YouTube sent emails like this but, it seems, a young person in my household has signed up to receive them.Someone has been playing with my laptop. I round up the usual suspects and a nine-year-old immediately confesses. It wasn’t really a secret. She’s been quite a whizz with the old MacBook for some time. Continue reading...