Richard Hamilton Collage
This collage was aimed to depict the corruption of the youth, the content that is consumed in today’s culture, and how these famous YouTubers have influenced how young people go about their daily lives. As well as how the youth idolise the lives that these individuals live. Be it showing off their wealth with expensive brands, showing off how exciting their lives are, or creating “drama” in order to inflate their own wealth.
This drama encourages young individuals that it is all right to be horrible and to bully people if there is any way for you to gain from it. The three individuals in the collage (Danielle Bregoli, KSI and Logan Paul) have all been involved in controversy, and are all very well known in the YouTube scene for creating lots of drama. The most notable being that Logan Paul uploaded a video that was taken on a trip to japan showing him next to a dead body. Also a recent farce between KSI and Logan where KSI was challenged by Logan to a boxing match for no apparent reason. This resulted in them both making millions between them. While Danielle was made an internet celebrity through talking down to the host of a TV show, this then became a viral sensation when she was thirteen due to her crude language. This behaviour was spurred on from there by the general public. Because of this it was made possible for her to amass a net worth of three million dollars at the age of fifteen.
The current state of YouTube as a platform is also depicted in this scene. Both fortnite, and youtuber “merch” is displayed in clear view due to the heavy internet traffic they receive. Most youtubers focus solely on this game, and selling their merchandise so they can show off their multi million dollar houses to people less fortunate. This is done to make people look up to them, and try to be more like them so they can hopefully share in this lifestyle one day.