Tyler Oakley Quotes

I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do. William Sledd was my first YouTube obsession. He was so unapologetically himself, and just had fun talking to his audience about things that interested him. I thought - if he could do it, why couldn't I?

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

I was very unfamiliar with YouTube; I thought it was the place for dog and cat videos.

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.

My manager and fellow YouTuber, Mike Lamond, encouraged me to start a YouTube channel as a way to practice speaking, entertaining, and being more comfortable in front of a camera. In the beginning, I used an $80 dollar flip-camera and edited every episode myself.

YouTube opened up a lot of doors.

We started recording videos around our house, like, doing dumb stuff. Going four-wheeling or whatever. Then we found out about YouTube and fell in love with it and started uploading our videos.

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

YouTube is, like, the new reality television.

YouTube is my first love.

In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.

One of the biggest things that happened for me was YouTube.

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

I still love my little home on YouTube, really.

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

I was one of the first artists to have a YouTube account, if not the first. I joined two months after the site launched.

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.

I like YouTube; it's really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.

YouTube did more for me than 'America's Got Talent.'

I think YouTube has been super instrumental in our success as well, because I think there's something really important about seeing and hearing what we're doing.

I just made random videos with my mom's camera, before YouTube even started. It was just my family and friends in a few spoofs of scary movies and mock talk shows. And then I found out about YouTube so I posted a ton of those videos on there.