To tell the truth, the reason I'm here on the site at the moment is because TotalBiscuit was at the Expo, so I knew he would be in some of the panel videos.
I actually haven't been on The Escapist on a regular everyday basis in I believe two or three months. This week I came back when TB said he would be at the Expo so I checked in regularly to see those videos.
Last year, summer of 2012 I was introduced to some of the really good and professional YouTube personalities, and from that point on I more and more started using YouTube as my main source of entertainment.
So I guess that relates on how YouTube has grown enough in presence and "weight" in gaming industry and the entertainment industry in general, because before that summer, if somebody had told me that I would be going to YouTube everyday and regularly watching over a dozen different video makers for more than an hour a day and occasionally buying t-shirts that they have commissioned to sell to fans, I would have told you that you were crazy because nothing of real worth is produced on YouTube other than cute cat and animal videos and other mindless entertainment.
I might come back now and again for some forum talk, cause obviously YouTube, while good and great stuff is produced there now, the quality of conversations is lacking, and it is hard to track comments in the first place.