Comments on: Vlog Brothers Are Good But They Still Aren’t Ze http://gigaom.com/video/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/ Fri, 25 May 2012 22:52:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: VidCon 2010 Promises a Celebration of Online Video | iPhone, iPad Weblog http://gigaom.com/video/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465846 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:06:26 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2008/12/10/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465846 [...] by Hank Green, the younger Vlogbrothers brother and thus a longtime YouTuber, VidCon is meant as a celebration of the online video world. [...]

]]> By: VidCon 2010 Promises a Celebration of Online Video http://gigaom.com/video/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465845 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 21:01:45 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2008/12/10/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465845 [...] by Hank Green, the younger Vlogbrothers brother and thus a longtime YouTuber, VidCon is meant as a celebration of the online video world. [...]

]]> By: Ray William Johnson http://gigaom.com/video/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465844 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:57:00 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2008/12/10/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465844 Yup. I’ve borrowed from both Ze and the Vlog Bros myself. I think the norm is to start out borrowing and then later try to stretch the genre as one becomes more comfortable with the format.

imo

]]> By: Thee Stranger http://gigaom.com/video/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465843 Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:36:47 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2008/12/10/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465843 Vlog Brothers ripped off ZeFrank.
Ask A Ninja ripped off Strongbad Emails.
Lonelygirl15 ripped off EmoKid21Ohio.

If you want to make it big on YouTube, rip off material from someone already popular.

]]> By: ZeGreen http://gigaom.com/video/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465842 Thu, 11 Dec 2008 17:29:36 +0000 http://newteevee.com/2008/12/10/vlog-brothers-are-good-but-they-still-arent-ze/#comment-465842 I was a big fan of Ze’s and it’s apparent that the Green bros have borrowed heavily from Ze’s original format. At the same time, their evident earnestness is what makes the Greens more than mere recyclers.

While Ze seemed drawn towards absurdity, the Greens have a more grounded approach that seems to have energized their young followers in a disarmingly do-gooder fashion. They make sincerity fun on a consistent basis, which is a hard trick to pull off.

And while it’s true to say that Ze built things from scratch, I don’t see the Greens’ use of existing platforms as a minus — witness the thriving Green-fan ‘Five Awesomes’ channels on YouTube that they inspired, and the build-in connectivity and discoverability that those platforms have baked-in. Points off for not reinventing the wheel? That’s arguable.

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