Why Does Online Video Excite Me?
I was born in 1984 in a country occupied by Soviet Union. The only type of video that we knew back then was whatever came out of our tiny black and white television set. This little screen was our window to the rest of the world and we could only see the bits that the two channels were choosing to show us. Everything I saw on TV seemed so far and unreachable. The only world I knew was the world around me. So I could not really understand the obsession my parents had—every evening at 8:30 PM they were glued to the TV-set and they would watch the news programme. That was a big deal back then. Every family was unreachable for that half an hour—they were all staring at their TV screens. But I get it now—our nation wanted the oppression to end. That’s why politics mattered. The news was the only chance to see what was happening in the world—like I said, a small window to the world. Of course, the media was controlled and censored, obviously, but that was all we got. There was no other way.
