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Changing Your YouTube Preferences
When you first set up a YouTube account, you have a giant clean slate. But that
can change quickly if you use even just a fraction of what YouTube offers.
When you create a YouTube account, you get a channel with your username,
as shown in Figure 1-6. As you can see, a new account has a squeaky clean
channel. Think of a channel as a place for your stuff, such as favorite videos,
subscribers, uploaded videos, and so on. The channel has placeholders for
all these things (see Figure 1-6). Your mission as a virgin Tuber is to get some
stuff to fill in the blanks. You can put in the stuff that matters to you in your
channel. You can save videos in your channel, create playlists, look at com-
ments posted by other viewers, and so on.
The channel is your home base on the Tube. That’s where you and other
Tubers go to find your videos, view your playlists, and so on. You can change
the way your channel looks by changing the channel design. Your channel
features an icon, which by default is a frame from the last video you
uploaded, or you can choose an icon from your favorite video. Figure 1-7
shows a user channel that’s tricked out 27 ways to Sunday. We show you
how to customize your channel and fine-tune your YouTube experience in
Chapter 5.
Figure 1-5:
Searching
the Tube for
a way-cool
video is
easy.
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