The landscape of YouTube is always metamorphosing due to the nature of the internet. YouTube helps preserve the memories of school choir performances, old college dance competitions, videos of dubious storylines acted out by you and your cousin using ratty Barbie dolls, but it also shapes the person that you are. A number of iconic characters have originated from YouTube, and many users have found joy in interacting with these characters. I want to represent this idea of YouTube characters bringing joy and “giving life” to the user through the metaphor of a “museum” that a cyborg traveller from the future keeps in her robot body. As the last cyborg on earth, she has been sent on a lonely mission to find a new planet to populate, as the human race is no longer surviving. With her abundance of alone time, she finds solace in her favourite YouTube characters, and they act as a source of fuel and light for her to keep going despite her lonely circumstances.
The landscape of YouTube is always metamorphosing due to the nature of the internet. YouTube helps preserve the memories of school choir performances, old college dance competitions, videos of dubious storylines acted out by you and your cousin using ratty Barbie dolls, but it also shapes the person that you are. A number of iconic characters have originated from YouTube, and many users have found joy in interacting with these characters. I want to represent this idea of YouTube characters bringing joy and “giving life” to the user through the metaphor of a “museum” that a cyborg traveller from the future keeps in her robot body. As the last cyborg on earth, she has been sent on a lonely mission to find a new planet to populate, as the human race is no longer surviving. With her abundance of alone time, she finds solace in her favourite YouTube characters, and they act as a source of fuel and light for her to keep going despite her lonely circumstances.