Is this a Makup Tutorial or Makeup Ad?

As a 16-year-old, it almost seems like a requirement to watch at least 20 videos in a row on Youtube, when I really only had the intention of watching one. However, that is not the point to my story. The point of this blog is for me to vent out my feelings on really how much we all get overloaded with ads, specifically on Youtube.

Youtube is like the motherland for all ads. I had recently just been on the Marc Jacobs website because I'm getting low in one of my perfumes. I was on the site for 10 minutes, maybe 15. I go to Youtube maybe like an hour later to watch a makeup tutorial, and the first thing that pops up before I start my video is a Marc Jacobs perfume ad. Slightly irritated, I go and proceed with my makeup tutorial (which you can find here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gikwcLuUli4). Andrea Russett, who is one of my favorite Youtubers, is someone I wouldn't take for intentional vagueness, yet when I start the video, I can hear it from the beginning. Throughout the entire video, she says that "Oh this product is definitely the best one out there," or "I have never seen any mascara better than this one." Throughout the clip, the vagueness is extremely prevalent. I then thought to myself, "Does every Youtuber do this?" I then clicked on some random tutorial makeup video in the sidebar to test my hypothesis, and sure enough, within the first minute she explains that she's "obsessed with [this] product." (the link to that video is here, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaVw6qwOox8)

Now when I think about it, most Youtubers do this at least once in their video, whether they reference to their furniture or their clothes and or anything else, it's actually really astounding how I never really noticed before Critical Thinking. Thanks Mr. Starace!