„Young, Savage, and Handsome“ (German: Jung, Brutal, und Gutaussehend) assembles 122 YouTube amateur videos in response to the outbreak of the „Arab Spring“, a series of protests, uprisings and revolutions in the Arab world. The collection portrays recent (self)representations of men, politically motivated riots as well as their suppression, and the enforcement of state power.

The YouTube clips were originally posted as a kind of diary on Facebook (similar series, posted according to the same principle are „Sweet Sixteen“ and „Pigsty“). Billions of videos and postings meet with hundreds of millions of possible users and onlookers – lending YouTube and Facebook extraordinary power of definition.
YouTube was the obvious choice as a reservoir of public expression and representations – a space of „Community“, where the videos produced for the Community exist beyond but simultaneously with the

„offical“ stream of videos, the „mainstream“.