YouTuber's are a Strange Breed

So last night I was bored, but didn't feel like doing anything constructive so I started to play the guitar. As I was looking for a new song to learn on the computer, I realized that I have this camera on my macbook (iSight) and some very easy to use video editing software. I then proceeded to conduct an experiment. I made a video of me playing a song and uploaded it onto YouTube. (I have an account there so that I can put videos on this webpage). Either way, I finally got around to uploading the video right before I went to bed. So I said that I was conducting an experiment, well I wanted to see how little of an effort it would take for people to find you on YouTube, that is of course, assuming you had some sort of talent (which I don't). But there is a story of a guy named Andy Mckee who put some videos of himself playing guitar on YouTube and now has become fairly well known and has benefited quite a lot from it.

Alright, back to my experiment... When I woke up in the morning, the video had been "live" on YouTube for approximately 10 hours, and I already had 17 views and 1 comment! I was extremely shocked for a number of reasons: (i) it was on there during the night, (ii) I only gave it a few tags (used for searching for videos), and (iii) I'm not very good at guitar!

In my scientific opinion - it would be very easy to get recognized on YouTube because apparently people are on there in the middle of night browsing for material. All it would take is for a few people to like it, pass it on to their friends, to their friends, etc and you might be the next Andy Mckee.

Well that's all I have for now (and yes I realize that I didn't run proper controls in my experiment, but it was at least good preliminary data). If you want to check out the video you can click here.