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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 "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw Me at the zoo]" by [https://www.youtube.com/@jawed 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. | 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 "[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw Me at the zoo]" by [https://www.youtube.com/@jawed 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 == | == 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. | |||
=== Prank videos === | === Prank videos === | ||
=== SMOSH === | === SMOSH === | ||
=== 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 | |||
=== Screamers === | === Screamers === | ||
=== 301 | === 301 views phenomenon === | ||
There was a phenomenon covered by [https://www.youtube.com/numberphile 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 [[Viewbotting|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.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI</ref> | |||
=== This is Bob === | === This is Bob === | ||
[[File:Bob comments 3.png|thumb|235x235px|An example of a comment section filled with This is Bob spam.]] | |||
'''This is Bob''' was/is a [[Copypastas|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 == | == Elsagate == | ||
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'''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. | '''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 == | == Clickbait == | ||
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== Content Farms == | == Content Farms == | ||
[[ | ''The main page on Content Farms can be found [[Content Farms|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 [[Generation Alpha|Gen Alpha]]. | 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 [[Generation Alpha|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 | |||
=== | === YTP Tennis === | ||
=== | === 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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdb16zQkHWY&list=PLzm-q1sIYI2ifrwuzuUsXWWN0X3haTZqe here]. | |||
=== | === Morshu === | ||
== YouTube horror content == | == YouTube horror content == | ||
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=== SSSniperWolf vs. Jacksfilms === | === 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<ref>Parodying the "SSS" in SSSniperWolf</ref> - 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 == | == Documentary Channels == | ||
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=== Ordinary Things === | === Ordinary Things === | ||
=== | === Warfronts === | ||
== Experiments done by YouTube == | == Experiments done by YouTube == | ||
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=== Webdriver Torso === | === Webdriver Torso === | ||
== Lawsuits == | |||
=== Viacom === | |||
=== Utube === | |||
=== 2026 Children's Health lawsuits === | |||