Techdirt: Tracing YouTubes Ancestry Back To Americas Funniest Home Videos
August 25th, 2006
We like to watch. We like to share. This is the theory behind the YouTube phenomenon; that the DNA of our YouTube fascination has its roots in the rabid fans of America’s Funniest Home Videos. In this virtually enabled schadenfreude gallery, I suppose we’re all enjoying the pain of karaoke, laughing at how naive lonelygirl15 is (or wait…maybe she’s not) or maybe just wishing we had the guts to record and broadcast ourselves.













