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  • excelent video

    i love the idea of a video republic with freedom of speech and everybodys opinion being heard

    p.d. the blonde graduate is hot!

  • Blackbeccy90, you fail.

  • YouTube: The Video 'Democracy'

  • Wow! You are truly an artist! i love that MOLE IT SO SEXY O YEA I LIKE IT LOL

  • OMG IM IN THIS! lol

    HOW WHEN WHY DIDNT I KNOW!!!

  • AHHHHH benjy <3

  • awesome!!!

  • good video

  • I wouldn't call it an 'expressive democracy' but an 'expressive free market'.

    Because the majority does not rule - nothing rules but each individual over their own choice.

  • cool

  • cool vdo

  • your mum . is a mulf.. shawing. I would totally bang her against your bedroom wall.. what do you think yea?

  • you suck my balls p diddy

  • great

  • Really liked this. Great concept and nice aesthetic.

  • YouTube, Google, Facebook,,,,these are the new mainstream now.

    Its the same old manipulation but cleverly packaged and aimed at impressionable young ppl.

    eg the old guy in the frame with Gordon Brown, is an Israeli youtube propagandist, check out his videos, while keeping your brain in gear.

    The same state (Florida) that gave us 'Dubya' in 2001, will now give us president Obama!!!!?

    wake up

  • RON PAUL..that's it!

  • >_> I don't give a damn about what you guys think of Lebanon.

    Though it's always bombed, and terorred, it's still my mother country.

    I'm Lebanese, and proud of it.

    You might think we're terrorists, but fuck we ain't.

  • My parents have Lebanese friends, I certainly don't think they're terrorists. I also used to live in the basement apartment of an Iranian family, and I don't think they're terrorists, either. Whoever thinks that all people from certain countries are terrorists are just paranoid people full of shit, just like in the time of WWII, when people didn't trust those of German or Japanese origin. Just ignore them, they're looking to make you upset.

  • :) what a great video!

  • If this video made its text easy to read instead of trying to be all "edgy" with it, it might actually express something of online video's communicative potential. What I caught seems more pretentious fluff than inspiring or helpful information.

  • What is this 'video republic' other than a more marketed ad of youtube? A lot of the vids that come with it lack the weight of their arguments and research. Their truth is questioned and is learning really all about staring at a screen at someone express their own facts. Why listen to those without experince or understanding? Mainstream organaztion may be biased but it is a lot more informative than those clips. I'll stick to reading the daily Times (UK) they conect with young quite well.

  • Vgetful, I agree with you in that those clips you refer to as "lacking the weight of their arguments" are indeed that, but I don't understand your comparison between watching those and reading The Daily Times; they're two completely different media formats - one aimed at a specific demographic with research and editorial clout behind it being completely superior to the other format produced by a 16 year old British guy in his bedroom, OF COURSE THEY DIFFER...

  • I agree, its one of the problems of democracy, every person, no matter how uniformed or twisted gets to have a vote, its the curse of democracy.

  • Very nice, technically saying we all have our own opinions.

  • Cool

  • DENIS LEARY SAYS "yer autist kids are stupid morons!"

    watch?v=3Fp_qbyj25E

  • I like this video! We are all one...really. We all feel...unique....we all have something to say, and want someone to hear us....We all need to make/feel connections....I totally approve this message. Free speech, YES! Politicians=NO! Knowledge is power!

  • I am whatever I say I am ...

    I am a mushroom which can fire lasers bwhahahah

  • Of course, the majority of those people in this so called, 'Video Republic', have nothing worthwhile to say; no penetrating observations or particularly well-informed comments. I can't hear all of them, and I don't particularly want to. Innumerable young people droning on about what they think isn't necessarily a good thing. Sure it's good to have a voice, but the ability to rant and then post it on the internet isn't a brilliant new cornerstone of democracy.

  • You're right. When I saw this I thought it was like some sort of propaganda. No one seems to have the knowledge anymore, they don't know the names of the plants in the garden, the birds in the air, or how to use their words to express themselves properly. Even I'll admit that I'm from the dumbed down generation. If the best they can do is make videos then what?

    "Telling Stories= Power"...If that were true, then I'd like to know just where all my power is? We really are quite helpless.

  • "Of course, the majority of those people in this so called, 'Video Republic', have nothing worthwhile to say; no penetrating observations or particularly well-informed comments. I can't hear all of them, and I don't particularly want to. Innumerable young people droning on about what they think isn't necessarily a good thing. Sure it's good to have a voice, but the ability to rant and then post it on the internet isn't a brilliant new cornerstone of democracy."

    -Quoting the truth

  • there's too many spin doctors on the net,you never know whom R U talkin' 2

  • a nicely edited video. but a complete waste of time.

  • WE, the workers, are th eNEW WORLD ORDER !!

    We are educated, intelligent, capable, and strong. WE the workers, are the new POWEr !

  • "young people". lol.

  • that why we love youtube ! ..nice

  • You should listen to this song about gordon brown!!! by a singer called " DAN BOWSKILL "

    CHECK IT OUT ON AMAZON OR I-TUNES!!

    Just type in his name...the song is called" president brown "..bloody good song

  • I honestly have no idea what their message is. o_o?????

  • I don't know

  • being honest, most of young people ARE the mainstream. This is a load of idealistic bullshit

  • YouTube IS mainstream!

    People post videos because they want EVERYONE to se them!

    This video does not make sense!

  • i dunno, u make a good point, but i tihnk by mainstream they mean like main media, so for example lets say 911 was the americans (thought example here) the americans would say nope not us was someone else, but a person who saw the amercians doing it (somehow) could on youtube in a vlog say hang on one moment...you know things like that, about anything, getting your own voice heard...but i take your point, complaining that everything is to mainstream on a mainstream media source is a little gay

  • mainstreme media is propaganda

  • This generation is self obsessed.

    Thats why there is so many videos on you tube.

    Everyone wants everyone to focus on them.

    It's stupid. Start thinking about pther people! 1:35-2:50

  • submit to oompaloompajesus

  • this is just an ideaology... in a capitalist society theres no way to implement this >mainstream? Soon we wont even own the internet if Virgin has its way and destroys net neutrality, goatsru1, you realise how hypocritical your comment about "people who think they know whats going on" is? This isn't a new concept.. Ipower? If this replaces mainstream its not mainstream is it WhoFlungPoop2.. the power is still with the people, and FacelessOnlooker the idea is that we become the bigger power

  • Google own's youtube, and what right have we got to take it away from them. Public space or no public space it is always owned by a bigger power.

  • /watch?v=0Pi701cbyUU

  • The fuchure is alll about the young people,,,, and video helps us

  • if we keep this video republic thing away from mainstream, it will be alot better

  • fuck mainstream

    its nothing but crap

    the real voices come from people who voice there opinions just to get it out there so that other people like them can hear it

    if real talk becomes mainstream then the select few with good voices wont be recognized for their voice.

    Instead people who think they know whats going on start saying stupid shit that doesnt make sense and since there are so many more people like that, mainstream is just going to be alot worse than it is now.

  • Wrong man, by connecting this with the mainstream, you become the very thing you were different from.

    This ability to share ideas like never before, is only here because the fact we don't have to align ourselves with mainstream thinking. Ideas such as political correctness, any of the 'isms or the numerous religions.

    Great video.

  • I didn't realize they want to keep on via Mainstream!? I totally agree with you....Love YT the way it is...

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  • come too the uk then lol

  • The way I see it is, the attitudes of this generation are the same as previous ones but the technology is giving you a new voice. Great video! Another other outlet used to be music, but the control and manipulation by the Simon Cowells of mainstream music industry is so vast and dominant that this generation has had its voice, via that route, smothered. Take control

  • Yes so exciting!!!! It's great to be part of it; even just collecting favourites! I will make some good videos one day soon ;]

  • Fantastic !!!!

  • i was just about to give up on making films. after watching this, not anymore. I am a 13 year old director from Hawaii. Don't give up!

  • wow..... i loved it.

  • hehe

  • A powerful alternative message that might make a difference? if it says what's in your heart and might discourage voters do help it become a hit so it reaches the concervative mind before voting day!

    by Musicians4Obama

  • that's nice.

  • this is really true and i like it alot you show alot bout how people of this generation handle things and deal with life and get thimgs from there point of view... good job

  • This is brilliantly made

  • Hurensohn du kleiner!!!

  • GREAT VIDEO, FIVE STARS

  • please will somebody click on my very cool vid. it has fantastic backflip

  • I hate all this artistic crap that keeps getting featured, bottom line this is a crap video stating obvious and being called genious and amazing etc. Am I the only one feeling this?

  • Nope, I feel the same way. I went to film school and left feeling the same about arty nonsence as I did when I went in. If this film doen't stimulate you, or present new information or just simply doesn't connect with you then it has failed at being a film/video whatever.

    peacex

  • No, you're not. Trust me.

  • Please check my vids out and leave comments =) thanks

  • the kid in 2:46. Annoying

  • Dude, that's charlieissocoollike, the third most subscribed YouTuber in the UK. Please, feel free to have your own opinion.

  • so?

  • Hm. Good point. I'm not defending him, just pointing it out.

  • why are you pointing it out? Are you gay?

  • That was random.

  • very MTV

  • this is so bad only rated it two for the music

  • We need to stand up to keep the government and the corporations from telling us what we can and can't put on the internet. We have the right to this service and demand that they not impose their unethical beliefs on us. Do not let them think they can control our voice when it is them that must answer to us, because what is important to them($) is not as important as being free from oppression. ONE

  • i love the style of this video.

    very, erm, artistic. i dunno

    love it tho. x

  • great vid

  • what is the stlye of this video called? With the skipped frames and the animated drawing. i'm interested in doing it myself. does anyone know what its called or could point me in the direction that knows how to make this animated writing/drawing.

  • One problem, young people....

    You're going to be old people someday soon...

    Like me.

    Shoved aside by the next generation.

    Watch how quickly the ideas you think are so hip become irrelevant, ridiculed.

    It's a cycle which never ends.

  • Half Agreed,

    Not all ideas become irrelevant,

    maybe the fasion stuff.

    But good ideas like this,

    Wont.

    Democration did/will never became/become irrelevant

  • nice vid, all true information n facts. i especially like the petitions and democracy comment. personally i think they dont. if in a democracy "we the people" rule, what are they dong here. defending rights or finding cracks in the system to corrupt n steelin money from tax payers.... i guess we'll never know unless we demand answers or do as they do...... so chose a side, the right way or the way around the right way

  • When I grow up I wanna be a Movie director.

  • Me too... you liked this video? i did!

  • In the near future, more than likely there will be an "i-911" event, wherein the Pentagon (who most likely will have been the culprit) will quickly create (which more than likely has already been written up, and only waiting to implemented) what is referred to as an "i-patriot act" to gain TOTAL control over the Internet.

    The Internet, and net neutrality will no longer exist...

  • you take the internet you take nations down!!! ALL (or most)information is passed through the internet. or stored in internet data bases. you control it all, and like scar face said "the world is yous"

  • Except no one watches video responses and blogs.

  • at least light yourselves on fire intelligently, eh?

  • i think i love you

  • you are right

  • Hello? YouTube IS mainstream.

  • It's a sad misfortune that for every insightful and salient opinion expressed in this particular media, there are several hundred drunken teens puking and setting themselves on fire.

    If you want to be heard by gazillions of people, this is a good place to be. But if you want to be taken seriously, you're better off somewhere else.

  • awesome video, Have the peoples voice be heard from a computer screen!

  • Charlie! Nerimon!  And others I dont recognize! Cool!

  • Nice work.

  • i am who i say i am .. rubbish!!

    Yay .. a new virtual community . with no responsibility... little knowledge ... and virtually no power ..thats going to be a fine community !

  • Great Video 5/5 stars fo sho!

  • oh their scared we must be doing our job get real fools watch tv and be in the minority proven by their own polls search the real facts

    on the internet and be smart

    in other words think for yourself internet or have some one think for yous tv media

  • I have to point out something..

    Correct me if I'm wrong but most of those people are no more than teenagers reporting what they've heard on the news to us as if it's their own personal opinion.. They know no more than the mainstream tells them so why are we dissing the mainstream? I'm all for sharing opinions, but these people aren't experts. Why would I trust news that's been watered down with opinions of people who know nothing about the unbiased situation.... Just sayin...

  • I think you've got a pretty sharp point, although it is not possible to generalise.

  • 3:14

    "The Energy in the the Video Republic"

    Double 'The' ?

  • nice video

  • Connect young people? Bullshit. People, simply.

  • Agree with

    macskafogo007

  • I Gotta repeat that...

    WELL DONE!

  • Awesomely done! I got a reply, Check it out!

    On Youtube - People Made of Sound!

  • Yes. I have similar thoughts. well done. I hope my work can look that polished next time.

  • It was well done and I liked it because it is true.

    Thanks.

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  • you are what you`re fighting for

  • Ahh This is cool video !

    THANKS

  • so what are you trying to proove?

  • Isn't it great. We are anonymous and aren't discriminated against by any physical features. I could be some hot blond chick for all you know.

  • hoorah! the internet as a person who listens. and that person is.......THE WORLD!

  • learn to spell

  • Is that seriously the only problem you have with that post?

  • boring

  • Hello, This is Brian from "Brians Basement." I was wondering

    if you wouldn't mind checking out a few of my videos. It's a

    community based show and we are building towards something

    that is much different from what we usually watch here on You

    Tube. If you like it please subscribe and be apart of our community.

    Thanks for reading and take care. Your friend, Brian

  • interesting...

  • i seen sxephill

  • cool vid

  • A tad dull

  • If anyone can watch this entire video without skipping or pausing anything once I congratulate them.

  • Wonderful....just think what us old hippies could have done to the world if we had had cellphones with cameras.

  • PLEASE HELP spread DECIDE 08 from natbeal1. SIMPLE true story of candidates' character and intentions.

  • absolutely beautiful man. unfortunately this video revolution is never going to be enough to stop what is coming.

  • and what is coming?expand my consciousness

  • LOL. You're featured on a video about video sharing and you don't share. How much does that suck?

  • omfg i keep hitting post comment instead of audio preview

  • failure, failure, failure

  • boppity boopy boopity bobiboobibada

  • This video is beautiful... In response to the comment below me; socialism and capitalism in theory arent bad, and in fact are great government idealogies. The problem is politicians upholding them since corruption ruins any and all forms of government...

  • Great video it really achieves the goal of making the viewer think.

  • HELP HERE Please!

    Real change is here if we StandUP together so

    Check out my quick Obama vid. it's 1 minute,

    but it took 12 hours to paint........and no-one seems to care on YT..

    Email it too others.

    #s are real low here and the date is quickly approaching.

    My faith is dwindling.....

  • GREAT!

  • Excellent

  • A well done film however a bit too much about "young people" like their hubris is something "new" from previous generations. My advanced reporting instructor once told me (journalism school many years ago) that everyone has a great novel in them and it is a blessing that almost none of them get written. Obviously everyone has a video in them and this time they are getting made. That may or may not be a good thing. I agree with vainprop below -- much of it is just attention whores.

  • So your basically saying that people shouldn't be allowed to their opinions because it may be "dangerous" for everyone to voice their opinions, to write their novels, and to make their videos.

    This is what is wrong with the mainstream media - they are elitists believing that only they have the power to portray the news. They want you to hear the news the way they think that it should go. Not the way it really is.

  • also, when people decide to connect their opinions to a mainstream media, then their own perceptions of what's going on around them can be warped, causing independent thought and the reasons that these videos exists to go right out the window. i couldn't agree with you more sammoab

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  • Hello, This is Brian from "Brians Basement." I was wondering

    if you wouldn't mind checking out a few of my videos. It's a

    community based show and we are building towards something

    that is much different from what we usually watch here on You

    Tube. If you like it please subscribe and be apart of our community.

    Thanks for reading and take care. Your friend, Brian

  • everyone's just an attention whore, there's not much more to it

  • Hello Squeege i know everything about you i am wondering if you are single

  • we can turn the tide on big brother by turning our cameras on them!!!!!!

  • all hail the crinsom king

  • nerimon & jazza!

  • Sorry, but its kind of hard to say that the internet video phenomena goes beyond class, since many people can't afford the money or time to take part in this "cultural revolution". Thus, they're restricted from this "movement" by their class.

  • get your muthafuckin block took.and ya top cooked.ill have you comin back home with the shock look

  • This is all very true. I am relieved to see that other people with similar ages to mine are also trying to be heard and think. I also think that gender should be added to the list of things which we are trying to break free of as definitions.

  • woooooooo tru dat man! we are the future!

  • xkcd is awesome

  • I don't get it.

    What is this video trying to tell me? That this is a new reality that we have here (virtual) and that this is negative?

    What exactly isn't mainstream about this new "republic"?

    This isn't a revolution, it's the natural evolution of humans around technology... the same way it's happened since the first caveman found that pointy rocks hurt more than blunt ones.

  • yeah youre right it is an evolution used to our advantage which is what tends to stick to our traditions and customs, but its not necessarily saying its a bad thing , its just saying the reality of it, not really trying to spread a message except the obvious which is what everyone does by posting their youtube videos. its easier to spread your ideas and opinions as opposed to back in the day. so lets use it to our advantage to be heard especially if we feel strong about a certain idea or topic.

  • Inspiring

  • yay

    loved it

  • charlieissocoollike.

    :)

  • Dont you just love creative people? :)

    this video is actually quite a good cross from art and peoples opinions

    Check out my stop motion animation please

  • Shes from Brazilll!!