YouTube exhibits postmodern characteristics by being accessible anywhere at any time, allowing anyone to upload a wide variety of content. Many YouTube videos parody or remix popular culture works, blurring the line between high and low art. Some videos emphasize style over substance, prioritizing entertainment value over deeper meaning.

1. How is it Postmodern?

2. Confusion Over Time and Space YouTube is accessible anytime and anywhere YouTube is available to anyone in the world and enables them to create and upload almost anything http://www. youtube .com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XMxuocCN1O0 Breaking down the distinctions between high art & popular Culture

3. Parody, Pastiche and Intertextuality Many Youtube videos that incorporate Parody and Pastiche are known as “Sweded” videos http://www. youtube .com/watch?v=3FeDpy3IUHA http://www. youtube .com/watch?v= hLmQzTPjxPE &feature=related This term developed from Michel Gondrys Film “ Be Kind Rewind”. “Swededing” has become an online craze with competitions on who can make the best re-make of a film.

4. Style over Substance Many videos on YouTube have no purpose or significance at all. People just like it http://www. youtube .com/watch?v=5_sfnQDr1-o