Get your views up!!!…Reaching out to more young people with an innovative and un-rehearsed interview series, YouTube Stars Are Headed to the White House for #YouTubeAsksObama that will be happening two days after his State of the Union address next Tuesday. So who made the cut? For starters…the “Cinnamon Challenge” chick got in!!!
Obama put out the invitation and YouTube Stars Are Headed to the White House for #YouTubeAsksObama, an interview series of select five to ten minute installments. The Commander in Chief will be fired at with questions allegedly NOT vetted before hand, via numerous social media outlets and the hashtag #YoutubeAsksObama.
Though not the first time Obama’s used the video platform to extend his reach, YouTube Stars Are Headed to the White House and *Flex voice* it’s all official over here!!! …ahem, for one thing, each YouTube star is getting their own set built in the White House by Google. (Started from the bottom indeed…) Questions will surround education, unemployment, racial profiling, net neutrality and creation in the digital age. Though the never shy comment-sections of YouTube are already piling in the questions we ‘really’ want to know like:
“Ask him what smartphone he carries.”
So YouTube Stars Are Headed to the White House for #YouTubeAsksObama and who made the cut??? Beauty guru and ‘Dancing With the Stars’ cast-off Bethany Mota, GloZell–the green lipstick comedian of the “Cinnamon Challenge” (which has 42 million views), and vetted vlogger Hank Green. Check the vid! Did they nail the lineup or nah??? What YouTube stars would you have picked…or better yet, what question do you want answered?