Meet the YouTubers Trying to Make Sense of YouTube

Internet culture scholarship sprouts out the unlikeliest of places.

Sarah Z, Kat Blaque and Tiffany Ferguson pictures all courtesy of their Twitter accounts.

There’s been a recent explosion in empirical and cultural analysis done with the purpose of better understanding YouTube, but by virtue of it originating mostly from non-YouTubers — those being academics and journalists — it tends to gloss over their lived realities…