YouTube

The current YouTube logo

YouTube is a video sharing platform and the place your child may be actively getting introduced to porn from. They are also known to intentionally make their website worse just so that people can have something to complain about. It also spies on your web history and everything you do.

REMOVE THE "?si=1248972456" IN THE VIDEO URL BEFORE SHARING IT.

Deep Humor's recent videos list (As of the 21st of August, 2026). All of these were posted within the span of 2-3 months

YouTube was created in 2004 as a dating website before later being changed to a video sharing platform after its founders started using their brains. The oldest YouTube video is "Me at the zoo" by jawed, one of YouTube's founders. The platform was later bought out by Google for $1.65b in November 2006. YouTube's popularity would spike around this time, with some of the first YouTubers starting their channels around this time.

Early days of YouTube

YouTube 4chan porn raid

4chan users posted porn under names of teenage celebrities, it was done because YouTube deleted some music. The attack would spawn a meme called "I'm 12 years old and what is this?" which was in response to a comment on one such video. 4chan would attack again with porn after a YouTube channel called lukeywes1234 had been suspended for being under 13. The second attack was because lukeywes1234's videos were popular with 4chan, which were angered when he was terminated.

Google+ integration

When YouTube added Google+ integration, it was heavily criticized because YouTube would require you to have a Google+ account to make comments. TBD

301 views phenomenon

There was a phenomenon covered by Numberphile where when first uploading a video, your video would freeze at 301 views while its being checked for any material that violates the YouTube Community Guidelines and also to see if its being viewbotted. Once that is finished, your video would get more views as normal. As an Easter egg and honorable mention to that phenomenon, YouTube freezed the view count on Numberphile's video to 301.

This is Bob

An example of a comment section filled with This is Bob spam.

This is Bob was/is a copypasta that was spread around YouTube comments around 2010 and 2013. Originally spreading as a comment people would spam just for the fun of it, This is Bob was widely considered annoying by the YouTube community. People would often create edits of the This is Bob copypasta, usually in protest of the spam. Although this would backfire as the protests were in of themselves spam. The copypasta would thistle out over 2011-2012 but would later see a return in popularity in 2013, this time used to protest the integration of Google+ into YouTube. Google's response to this mass protesting was sadly not to backtrack and remove Google+ from YouTube, but to instead improve their ASCII art detection algorithms.

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Elsagate

Find the main article on Elsagate here

Elsagate is a type of content posted on YouTube that is both marketed as kid friendly and made to look kid friendly while including NSFW themes.

YouTube Rewind / The removal of Dislikes

YouTube Rewind is a tradition YouTube kept from 2010 to 2019 where they would invite a bunch of YouTubers to perform trends that happened during the year. This tradition was originally seen with support from the YouTube audience, but that started changing around 2016 as YouTube Rewinds only started to feel more and more disconnected from the YouTube community. This all culminated in YouTube Rewind 2018, which ended up bombing so hard it became the most disliked video on all of YouTube. YouTube Rewind 2019 does not exist.

It is widely considered that the action to remove the amount of dislikes visible on a video was directly caused by YouTube having the most disliked video on their platform.

YouTube Shorts

Find the page on Short-Form content here

YouTube Shorts is YouTube's answer to Short-Form content, with it having become one of the most widely-used forms of social media of all time (~90 billion views per day). YouTube has since intentionally made the Long-Form content scene more difficult and annoying to use in an attempt to get YouTubers to move to Shorts.

Clickbait

An example of Clickbait. Notice the saturated colors, bolded numbers, etc. The video can be found here.

Clickbait is the act of altering a video thumbnail/title to make it more appealing via exaggerated truths and lies. Many YouTubers use Clickbait to get the attention of children, who are by far the primary audience for Clickbait. Another common practice of Clickbaiters is to saturate the thumbnails to make it more appealing for children, along with bolding text to make it easier to read, having the respective YouTuber's face on the thumbnail of the video, and more.

Another type of Clickbait involves having simple thumbnails with large text and an image/drawing of something representing the topic of the video. The trend of having large - usually colored - text on thumbnails was originally popularized by Game Theory who has been doing it for many years. Yet the domino that set everything in motion would be MorePegasus - a drama channel - when he covered the MrBeast drama of 2024. MorePegasus' style of clickbait would spread as more and more YouTubers began copying it.

MorePegasus' first video covering the MrBeast drama of 2024. The video can be found here.

An example of how a "Explained in ___ Minutes" thumbnail usually looks like.

Explained in ___ Minutes

Find a list of Explained in ___ Minutes videos here

The "Explained in ___ Minutes" video format is a format of video where different subjects are covered in a simplistic manner. This format is popular amongst many YouTubers for being easy to create and not being risky to post. The format was originally created by Redeemed Zoomer, and further popularized by The Paint Explainer. Videos like this are usually created with AI and may contain inaccuracies

Discord DM Thumbnails

There was a trend in YouTube thumbnail making to have the entire thumbnail be a zoomed-in picture of a Discord chat, usually having one person challenge another person to something (usually whatever the video is about). This trend was popular amongst gaming channels around 2021-2022 and has since mostly died out.

Content Farms

The main page on Content Farms can be found here

A Content Farm is a type of YouTube channel that focuses on pumping out as many videos as possible - usually targeted towards kids - to make as much money as they can. These types of channels usually focus on trendy topics and video games popular with Gen Alpha.

YTP/YTPMV

YTP videos are usually made by adding in effects and sentence mixing, for humorous effects or to confuse the viewer. TBD

The F25 Key

The F25 Key is a collection of extremely long videos (usually 223 hours, 36 minutes, and 40 seconds long) all filled with complete nonsense and memes. A list of these videos can be found here.

YouTube horror content

Find the main article on YouTube horror content, ARGs and Analog Horror here

Horror content on YouTube can vary vastly, going from well put horror series to clickbait 3AM videos.

The rise of Reaction Channels

A Reaction Channel is a YouTube channel which steals other people's content, react to it, and repost it on their channel. This type of content is one of the most popular types with cheap money-driven personalities given its easy premise and the rules of "fair use". TBD

SSSniperWolf vs. Jacksfilms

The SSSniperWolf vs. Jacksfilms drama regards a feud between the Internet personalities SSSniperWolf and Jacksfilms. It started with Jacksfilms calling out SSSniperWolf for stealing other people's content in her reaction videos. SSSniperWolf would not take kindly to this, and would start flaming Jacksfilms on Twitter, trying to win over the public opinion. Jacksfilms would then create another YouTube channel - JJJacksfilms - where he would make really obnoxious reaction parodies, reacting to different things like his own videos in an intentionally annoying manner. He would later switch to making videos reacting to SSSniperWolf's videos but with a twist. He would Livestream his reactions on Twitch and play Bingo with his Twitch Chat, the Bingo squares being about what happens in the SSSniperWolf video. He would also encourage the original makers of the videos that SSSniperWolf reacted to to go out and explain their side of the story, explain how her reactions harmed them, and also to send copyright takedowns on her videos. It would all end after a few months when SSSniperWolf doxxed Jacksfilms by driving to his house, taking pictures and recordings of her standing outside of it, and uploading said images and recordings to Instagram. The resulting drama would spread to Twitter where all hell would break loose, and ending in the YouTube Staff Twitter account having to make a number of posts explaining things and who is in the wrong. The YouTube Staff would claim that both SSSniperWolf and Jacksfilms were guilty, saying that SSSniperWolf breached Jacksfilms' privacy and that Jacksfilms had harassed SSSniperWolf through his videos. SSSniperwolf had her monetary rights suspended on her main YouTube account for 2 weeks, which would only affect existing videos on her channel.

Documentary Channels

There is a small bubble of YouTubers who are dedicated to documenting and spreading the word about the misdeeds of governments and corporations, and corruption. Unlike with other social media, YouTube has not put in much effort to remove these people from its platform.