Whilst the students are happily chatting multiplayer platform compatibility, I am stealthily googling acronyms.įar from the bedroom-dwelling pastime of the shy and socially reclusive, as it has been previously painted, gaming is a sprawling community activity on social media platforms.
Within the influencer landscape, gaming is a microcosm complete with its own language and lore, each new game franchise spawning an expansive universe of characters, weaponry, codes, and customs. Twenty minutes into our induction, I realise I am already out of my depth: I have accidentally landed in a class of aspiring YouTube gamers. Once logged on, we meet our course coach Nathan, an upbeat, relentlessly patient Scottish instructor with a homegrown YouTube channel of his own, on which he reviews electronic synthesisers and (he reveals privately to me) vlogs whisky-tasting. A pandemic-proofed schedule means we are learning remotely, in my case prostrated on my parents’ sofa.
YOUTUBE HEADS WILL ROLL PLUS
All rights reserved.īeginning the course bright and early on a Monday morning in August stirs memories from classrooms past, as the students - myself, plus a small group of animated pre-teen boys hailing from across the UK - go around and make our introductions: an interesting fact about ourselves, our favourite foods, two truths and a lie. Excerpted from Break the Internet: In Pursuit of Influence by Olivia Yallop.
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