The author is dead, and YouTube has killed him
52Someone asked the question, "When you're engaging in art, do you read about the creator first before engaging the work, or after engaging the work?" and this struck me as so odd, because in most cases, I'm not learning about the creator.
Historically, literary criticism assumed that the best way the understand and analyze a work was to understand the author, their biography and life. That would help reveal insights as to authorial intent and choices.
This mode of thinking was rejected with Roland Barthes' "The Death of the Author," wherein for Barthes, the meaning lies in the language of the work itself and the impressions the work has on audience.
And it got me thinking...YouTube takes this to the extreme. No matter what a YouTuber intends, the audience is the final arbiter of a video's meaning and quality.
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