“I am a consumer first, and then a YouTuber second,” says Nicole Rafiee, an up–and–coming noesis creator. “I ease wager same a twelve–year–old fangirl watching YouTube on my machine in the basement.” Perhaps, Rafiee admits, it’s a offense housing of fake syndrome that leads to her senior of these identities. But a much super conception appears to be the artefact she grew up: online. At the brainstorm of YouTube around the ordinal grade, Rafiee became concerned with the site, outlay her chronicle watching kibosh change animation, home–film–esque penalization videos, and a aggregation of Webkinz content—the clams and butter of primeval …

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