Whilst I'm now against magic exposure, I learnt almost everything I know from YouTube. When I first saw someone do a card trick I googled "how to do card tricks" and started from there. It led me to YouTube straight away. It has had two positive impacts -
1 - Seeing as any tutorials/reveals on there are piles of salmon, I have had to learn the basic method and work out any subtelties / misdirection myself. This means that I'm very good at improving magic that is given to me, whether they're my own effects or someone elses. ("elses" currently doesn't look like a word to me. Either I'm missing an apostrophe or I'm just really tired. Sorry either way...)
2 - This is the most important thing I've gained from YouTube. Seeing as I never had access to tutorials on ALL of the tricks I wanted I had to become very good at figuring out tricks. Whilst there is obvious benefit there in the fact that I rarely need to buy tricks, it also means that when I think "Oh man, x would be an AMAZING trick" I can come up with a method rather more effectively than a lot of magicians.
A negative I can think of is that YouTube magicians rarely come out of the rabbit hole. They tend to stay in their room all day and never perform to real people and basically become move monkeys and trick junkies, I'm one of the few lucky enough to emerge unscathed.
In short I think that whilst YouTube has it's negatives my magic has grown up on it and made me a better magician in the long run, which is why I'd vote on it being an "Angel".
1 - Seeing as any tutorials/reveals on there are piles of salmon, I have had to learn the basic method and work out any subtelties / misdirection myself. This means that I'm very good at improving magic that is given to me, whether they're my own effects or someone elses. ("elses" currently doesn't look like a word to me. Either I'm missing an apostrophe or I'm just really tired. Sorry either way...)
2 - This is the most important thing I've gained from YouTube. Seeing as I never had access to tutorials on ALL of the tricks I wanted I had to become very good at figuring out tricks. Whilst there is obvious benefit there in the fact that I rarely need to buy tricks, it also means that when I think "Oh man, x would be an AMAZING trick" I can come up with a method rather more effectively than a lot of magicians.
A negative I can think of is that YouTube magicians rarely come out of the rabbit hole. They tend to stay in their room all day and never perform to real people and basically become move monkeys and trick junkies, I'm one of the few lucky enough to emerge unscathed.
In short I think that whilst YouTube has it's negatives my magic has grown up on it and made me a better magician in the long run, which is why I'd vote on it being an "Angel".
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