geriatric1927 on YouTube.
This has been all over the place, but a 79-year-old widower in the UK started posting videos on YouTube on August 5th and the YouTube community has embraced him.
geriatric1927's channel took over Brookers' as the most subscribed of all time, with 23,647 subscriptions to date. His 17 videos, which focus on him telling his life story, have been viewed over 700,000 times and the news media has picked up on him. He's had many requests for interviews with traditional media, but has thus far refused any forms of communication other than YouTube. He cites his complete editorial control over the videos he creates and the site's sense of community as reasons to communicate only via YouTube. I've watched many of his videos so far and can see why people like him. His audience seems to be enthralled by a grandfather figure who braved this youth-dominated digital world to connect with people. His next-to-last video has a "Au Revoir" byline but I hope it's not true! He's even garnered an entry on the reluctant-to-highlight-Internet- memes Wikipedia.
posted by annie @ 1:56 PM
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