So about a month ago I tweeted this
Pls pls pls RT if you’ve ever watched a @Youtube video specifically to learn something. I’m trying to prove to my supervisor that YouTube is super useful for learning things. Feel free to comment below and tell me what you learned too, I’d love to know!
— Sir Sayraphim #AoIR2019 (@Sayraphim) September 4, 2019
For a month now, replies, RTs and likes have swamped my mentions. I regularly miss when people tag me in other things because of the swamping. I dunno what the numbers need to be to name it officially a viral tweet, but I reckon this has probably made it. At this time, it has 18,300 likes, 17,532 retweets and 6,629 replies.
A large number of those RTs are RTs with comments, so people are sharing what they have learned on YouTube while sharing the tweet too. What blows my mind about this is that it’s all happened without a single hashtag in the tweet. People are finding and RTing this organically.
Youtube themselves even RT’ed it (to be fair, I tagged them in it, so that’s how they knew about it)
Ironed a shirt, played a banjo, learned Japanese. What else you got? https://t.co/3SgoMbrStq
— YouTube (@YouTube) September 5, 2019
And I’m currently trying to capture all the responses.
However a couple of them that I’ve noticed (to be very honest, I haven’t read them all, or even a large percentage of them) have been really good and I thought I’d capture em here.
I have learned so much on it I can’t even begin. It’s my occasional Yoda. Also Sherlock used YouTube to learn to fold wedding napkins. pic.twitter.com/xVJIdZUiWV
— UnDeadly Knitshade (@deadlyknitshade) September 5, 2019
Even fictional characters learn stuff from youtube!
My husband and I are on the elder front of baby boomers & use YT to repair, build, choose all manner of things, indoors & out. Arts/crafts. Apparel design & illustration. Gardening, native plants. Decorating. Spirituality. EVeryThang!
— Rosalie DeGregory (@5dlovingu) September 24, 2019
I love that older folks are ALSO using youtube to learn things. It’s not just the youth(tm).
My father has been a mechanic for 35+ years. When I was home this week he pulled up YouTube to see how to fix something on a vehicle that he hadn’t done before.
— John Murphy (@jturphymtg) September 5, 2019
And that professionals use it for PD (professional development)
This is the second year in a row that I have set my class a challenge of learning something new from YouTube clips. I have kids knitting, doing front flips, playing recorder, planting a garden, painting, riding a unicycle, making balloon animals… it’s epic!
— Wurd Nurd (@ProckyHorror) September 4, 2019
and that teachers set their students to learn things on youtube
Significant digits make me bang my head against a wall. Crash Course Chemistry had a great description that helped a lot.
Also, I hear Crash Course Astronomy is good, too. 🙂
— Phil Plait (@BadAstronomer) September 6, 2019
and that youtube educators themselves got in on the act
Whose photoshop YouTube videos do you recommend?
— elfonamouse (@elfonamouse) September 5, 2019
and that people took the opportunity to ask for suggestions from others about things they were interested in
I live in a large and vibrant community of people who sing and play traditional music. YouTube has videos of so many of the old songs and tunes! We learn the music and share those videos, and we add our own music to be shared as well.
— Malefica_V (@Malefica_V) September 8, 2019
and that people use it to learn and continue culture and traditions
Are you kidding me? I’ve learned both useless and very useful.shit in there
— bicarbonato de ódio (@biscamilareal) September 6, 2019
and that people learn a wide range of things
Tell your supervisor to try to come up with something that he/she *cant* find a YouTube how-to video for. https://t.co/R2ri0ukxLr
— Beast of Birdin’ (@GREGNEISE) September 18, 2019
And i think that sums it up. What CANT you learn on youtube?
Street art by an unknown artist found down a Melbourne alley about 6 weeks ago.
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