Technology is helping to change the world we live in, bringing us all that much closer together. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, social media tools have helped human beings to maintain a sense of normalcy .
Social media has also allowed high-ranking members of the Royal Family to become more in touch with their subjects. But in the wake of Kate Middleton and Prince William starting a Youtube channel — the internet appears divided.
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Over the past year, COVID-19 has made the world a much smaller place to live.
With limitations on international travel, as well as lockdowns happening around the world, interacting with other human beings has become increasingly more difficult.
In order to help lessen the divide, many people have turned to social media for a sense of community. This trend appears to not only be catching fire with regular everyday people but with certain members of the Royal Family as well.
Earlier today, Prince William and Duchess Catherine made the announcement that they were officially starting a YouTube channel.
The inaugural post is a 25-second-long clip of William and Kate attending various functions and charitable events over the years. It’s also injected with some light brevity and a heartwarming back-and-forth between the Prince and Duchess.
In only a matter of hours, the montage clip has already received more than 140,000 views (and counting), and the channel has more than 83K unique subscribers.
The overwhelming response to the news has been mostly positive.
Most people in the Twitterverse couldn’t be more excited and appear to be echoing the sentiments held by @LianaCambridge . Numbers don’t lie and for anyone to achieve over 80K subscribers in less than 24 hours is an impressive feat — Royal or not.
Another Twitter user who goes by @LabourPatriot called the video “Brilliant,” and continued by stating “We can’t get enough of these inspirational heirs. Will be great content.”
Then there are those who don’t seem so sure…
@Travis_Kellyy is certainly of the minority opinion, but there are still those who seem less than enthused about the Royal Heads of State starting a YouTube Channel.
One Twitter user @th00m4s even went so far as to accuse the Prince and Duchess of running a social media campaign for image purposes: “they are quite literally only doing this because of the horrendous PR they have experienced recently you know that right?”
But mostly, Twitter can’t seem to decide just what it is that Kate is saying to William at the end of the video.
Those viewers born outside of the UK may have a difficult time discerning the dialect that Kate is using. And since the video isn’t subtitled, there’s no real way of knowing 100%.
That being said, the overwhelming consensus appears to be that Kate was trying to tell William not to roll his “Rs” while he was on camera.
In the midst of the confusion, the Twitterverse has kindly asked Kate and William to subtitle their videos moving forward.
@Frogstar6 makes a good point: considerations for the deaf should be made moving forward. And not just the auto-generated closed captions — we want the real thing!
Another Twitter user who goes by @Ded_Engelbrecht also pointed out “Yeah closed captions are available but it’s unfortunately not reliable and in many instances inaccurate.” Therefore, William and Kate should embed the captions at the bottom of their videos.
That way, they’ll be no chance of viewers mistaking or questioning the exchanges between William and Kate moving forward.
This shouldn’t be too difficult to accomplish, considering that William and Kate already have incredibly active social media followings on Instagram and Twitter. Embedding captions should be a breeze for these two.
Where do you stand on Prince William and Duchess Catherine’s decision to start a YouTube channel? What kind of content would you be interested in seeing the Royal Family put forward? Make sure to leave a comment below and let us know!
