The cons and cons of YouTube

Here are links to things we referred to:VidCon, the YouTube conferenceOur guest Kyle Marshall’s YouTube channel  Kyle also owns Media Lab YYC, and has three podcasts in the Alberta Podcast Network: Assumptions, Putting It Together and Creative BlockHank Green’s vlogbrothers, Crash Course and SciShowTana Mongeau’s YouTube channel“Why I Won’t Be Attending VidCon 2018: A Rant”The only thing you see if you visit tanacon.comShane Dawson’s The Truth about TanaconTana’s apology video: Tanacon: The good, the bad, and the uglyNew York Magazine: A Mouth to Hell Opened This Weekend at Tanacon, a Fyre Festival for the YouTube SetIn case you forgot about Fyre FestivalPodCon, a much better convention that we were lucky enough to attend last year.Stick around beyond the end for more baritone goodness from Kyle.This episode was brought to you by LitFest, Canada’s original nonfiction festival, which runs in Edmonton from Oct. 11 to 21. Use the offer code APNROCKS to get $5 off your ticket purchase.This episode is also brought to you by Back to School Again, a new affiliated podcast of the Alberta Podcast Network, featuring stories of people returning to post-secondary studies in midlife.That's a Thing?! is a proud member of the Alberta Podcast Network, powered by ATB. You can subscribe to us in all the places, and most of them let you rate and review, too, which would be lovely.Questions? Comments? Email us at [email protected] or tweet us: @thatsathingyeg.Many thanks to Unit B Coworking for the recording space and to our podcast host, Transistor.Our theme music is Ragtime Dance by Scott Joplin.