Our sister site WebTVHub reported last week on the new YouTube
channel completely devoted to the British royal family.
But we thought we should also share a
thought or two about the
Web-2.0-ification of Queen Elizabeth and her immediate
familial subjects relatives –
better late than never, right?
Okay, putting aside the fact that that little four-word adage
went tired and expired many, many, many years
ago, we must say we enjoy the fact that Her Highness has taken the
royal family viral with the launch of The Royal
Channel.
Or at least taken herself and her kin to a place where
things [have the option to] go viral.
A Very Cool Move
As cheesy and uncool as the move to YouTube may have
been thought by the public at large, it was, well, pretty darn cool to
do.
Sure, you’d have to be kinda ballsy to go to an
Internet
café in London, take out a big whopper of a 17”
notebook, and play aloud a clip of the crown talking her usual
talk.
But if you look at the new initiative with a generalist view,
the
project in a way validates ever more the Web as not only a very popular
medium, but an entirely mainstream one. If she’s willing to
go the distance, who the heck isn’t?
The Queen Has Online Presence
Now, it’s true that the Queen already went online some
time ago, and even went so far as to publish a number of podcasts about
various things. (Things we’ve honestly no interest
investigating whatsoever.)
But look at big mama now. She’s
working her pixels alongside the Britney backers and Britney bashers
(oh how we hate that that train wreck consistently comes to mind), the
dog skaters, the homespun bloopers, the copyright infringers, and the
attention-hungry soft pornographers.
She’s in the worldwide
mix now, lock, stock and barrel. (In hindsight, a terrible pun, we
agree. But we use anyhow.)
And we like that that transition has been made.
Conclusions
The royal family
all more or less token newsmakers at this point, sure. (This story has
already more or less been glossed over by more pertinent and more
entrancing novelties.)
Yet we still find them a welcome addition to the
Web’s largest video trove. Of course, we may not watch them.
But at least we know
they’re there.
A side note: Why’d Q & Co opt for placement
on YouTube? Wouldn’t it be more fitting for
Britain’s “finest” to take up official
residence on the video industry’s EU native, DailyMotion?
Paul Glazowski is a contributing author discussing the social networking world, his work can be found on Profy.com
