'Grime Daily' as you can see by the name is all about grime music which is targetted at young people (teenagers). It is based on a youtube channel similar to sbtv and they specifically focuss on the UK music scene where they upload the latest grime music blogs and videos. 'Grime Daily' was built from the heart of the UK grime music scene and has definantly helped certain underground artist to get signed by major record labels because they produced a video on 'Grime Daily'.
A recent debate and issue that has nas occured about 'Grime Daily' is the fact that it had been shut down for 'violating community guidlines'. An artist called Scorcher's music video apparently sparked the censorship because somebody was holding a knife in it. Therefore it was said that 'Grime Daily' is promoting knife crime for young teenagers. Although this wearn't the first video on 'Grime Daily' that has involved a knife, however with the crime rate increasing by a high percentage it was seen as if it was making matters worse and promoting knife crime to teenagers even though that wasn't the intension (Says Dan Edwatds on a 'Grime Daily' blog) Therefore this issue relates with my CI very much since my CI is about how grime music has an affect and influences teenagers, & this issue about 'Grime Daily' shutting down says totally the oppisite and is able to give me more to add for my CI because i can now focuss on both sides of the argument.
Furthermore there are several arguments/debates about 'Grime Daily shutting down from random people and fans. For example there is a blog somebody made called 'MidofGrime' and they basically talked about how 'Grime Daily' may be doing things such as helping grime artist and showing there is a way out of struggle by doing music however "The facts are their title suggest one thing and their actions another" Meaning that the title 'Grime Daily' says they only do grime music, but on the other hand they still make videos which includes knifes etc which kind of does promote knife crime.
(Link to this blog is below)
http://mindofgrime.com/2011/06/17/grime-daily-gone/
Also continuing on this debate about grime ('Grime Daily') having a negative affect on teenagers, there are some people who think otherwise and say that they exaggerated the knife crime influence on 'Grime Daily'. "The subject matter of the videos becomes irrelevant when you consider the amount of commercial rappers that Youtube still proudly hosts and profits from through targeted advertising. People celebrating violence, pimping, gun crime and drug dealing is certainly nothing new to Youtube, it only seems to have become a problem if you’re not able to give them money at the same time. Perhaps even worse, Youtube plays host to a range of videos from IDF bombs being dropped over Gaza, to fascists’ attacks on immigrants, and non-coherent theories which celebrate violence and murder of minority and oppressed groups. None of these videos seem to be a problem for the watchful eyes of the Youtube admin" This paragraph is from a website that focusses on breaking news that will attract teens, and the quote above is a really good counter argument to the reason why 'Grime Daily' got shut down because they are saying how people are acting as if 'Grime Daily' was the first company to put something to do with a knife, then they go on to comparing this with bobmings in gaza. So as you can see this is a really hot debate which links in very well with my critical investigation because it involves looking into the positive and negative things about UK grime.
(Link to website below of the quote above)
http://www.socialistrevolution.org/2898/grimedaily-shut-down/
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