YouTube Trends Explainer video: Coming Out on YouTube Rewritten (coming soon)
YouTube Trends Explainer: Coming Out on YouTube Rewritten (coming soon) A month ago, brothers Austin and Aaron Rhodes released one of the top trending videos since June 2012: “Twins Come Out to Dad,” a video. It's inspired many other young people who are coming out via similar YouTube videos which have followed suit. Since then the video has become the most viewed coming out video on YouTube with over 4 million views in the first 24 hours, and 17 million views total, inspiring Ellen Degeneres to invite the family onto her show shortly after. While the twins’ video wasn’t the first to gain widespread attention, it was an important milestone in YouTube’s growing function as aplatform for promotion , outreach, and community building for LGBT citizens. Coming out is essentially YouTube's bread and butter. A staggering 36,000+ videos are on the platform related to coming out, which have received more than 280m views. Last year alone we saw 9,500 vlogging posts related spec...