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THE OPENING ACT
APRIL 13�20, 2022
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What we’re into
GEO HISTORY ON
YOUTUBE
M
uch as I’d like to liberate
myself from the clutches
of the Evil Googlian Empire, I’m
still entangled in its tentacles. I
watch videos on YouTube. The
most popular YT channels have
more than 100 million subscrib-
ers, so I’m not alone.
I’ve always liked maps. Geo
History, a YT channel featuring
animated map videos, recently
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caught my attention. With only
692,000 subscribers for its 42
videos in English, it’s not setting
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Some timely videos have at-
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‘BLUE IN THE SKY,’
DUSTIN LYNCH
Sarah Smith
Calendar Coordinator
RAISING THE CURTAIN
ON THIS WEEK’S ISSUE
fter having been off the
road because of the pan-
demic, country singer Dustin
Lynch was nervous going into
his “Party Mode 2022” tour.
“We hadn’t done this in
awhile,” he says. “This tour
is after a long break, so the
adrenaline is running in overload
and we’re having the most fun
possible on stage.”
The nerves are gone now,
though.
“Come to the show and leave
with a smile on your face. You’ll
be glad you came.”
Lynch debuted with a self-
titled 2012 album. The new tour
follows his “Blue in the Sky”
album, which features recent
hits “Party Mode” and “Thinking
‘Bout You.”
“I didn’t really have a goal
when I started writing for ‘Blue
in the Sky,’” he says. “I was just
A
doing my best to write songs
while I was at home with family
and friends and parties on the
boat. Lots of fun started shining
through with what I wanted to
write about.”
The relationship he had been
in didn’t outlast the pandemic.
“You live and you learn, and
I came out on the other side of
that,” he says. “This album em-
braces where I am in life.”
He says “Party Mode” came
after the breakup when he
needed it most.
“That was a punch to the
chest,” Lynch says. “But then
John Tillman
been watched 2.8 million times.
One-year-old, 24 minute “World
War II — Summary on a Map”
has 4.2 million views. Most
are shorter.
The fi ve videos in its “His-
tory of the American Continent”
the sense of a new chapter
came over me. I thought about
the fun I was about to have with
my friends, I thought about who
series run from about 13-20
minutes. Their creator seems
to labor under the misappre-
hension that North and South
America are one continent. Its
fi nal video, “The United States
of America,” from two years
ago, has garnered 4.3 mil-
lion views.
The animation is not of the
highest quality, but adequate to
illustrate the stories. The chan-
nel’s creator is probably not
a native English speaker, but I
enjoy it anyway.
— JOHN TILLMAN, REPORTER,
EAST OREGONIAN
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