YouTube Muting Copyrighted Content, No More Selfmade Teenage Music Videos

One of the beautiful things about the information age is the ease with which we can express ourselves. Teenage angst? Take some photos of leafless trees and post them on Flickr. Heartbreak after an ugly breakup? Write poems about love lost and throw ‘em on Live Journal. A need for vengeance? Cast nasty rumors to the winds of Facebook. For every human emotion, there is pretty much a website depository for expressing it.

Oh, and my personal favorite form of post-millennial self expression: the user created music video. It’s basically a technofied mixtape for the anxious youth of the 2000s—user created music videos are earnest, na