Youtube and natural Hair

There is a natural community that dominates Youtube. This community helps support many black women who transition to natural, myself being one of them. The community continues to grow and the more I explore Youtube's natural hair community the more I begin to view women who go natural as a subculture. The subculture of natural hair is interesting, there are blogs and videos that instruct black women how to take care of their hair, with everything from concoting your own hair materials to advice on the best hair care products. Their are videos of women explaining their natural hair journey, with the downfalls and the lessons learn and the obstacles they had to endure from peers. This phenomenon is fascinating to me. I am not aware of any other groups who have formed a community around the care of their hair. It will be informative and enlightening to explore this phenomenon among women of the African-American community more. I have also realized that the natural hair subculture has even developed their own language with terms such as TWA (teeny weeny afro) to BC( big chop) and even the term transitioning. I am interesting in understanding how black women formulate their ideas of beauty, but it I have become most intrigued about the role of hair in the black community. I have to get a better grasp of why natural hair instructional videos are popular among women of the african-american community.