On Valentine's Day in 2005, the world’s newest top online video-sharing platform would be created. YouTube, created by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, was officially launched and is known around the whole world today. Hurley, Chen, and Karim founded YouTube while they originally worked for PayPal. The first idea of the company was for a way for non-computer people to be able to use a simple website that allows a user to publish, upload, view videos, ultimately creating an easy to use video streaming platform that wouldn’t be too stressful for the newer internet users of the 2000s. The first video uploaded on the site was titled “Me at the zoo”, and it currently has around 240 million views. The creation of YouTube ultimately has created a brand new platform for people to post what they want to post in video format.
YouTube provided a place for people to be themselves and share themselves online in a video format. It also provided another way for people to become internet famous. YouTubers all over the world have been labeled influencers and some have millions of fans all over the globe. This has also completely changed how things can go viral, like the famous “Charlie bit my finger” video. Or for people to see what has recently happened, whether it be checking out the local news stations channel, finding clips from their favorite shows, or for people trying to see the latest viral video. It also added a new way for people to communicate with a wide range of people. There are many channels out there that are dedicated to teaching life skills and there are some that like to do movie, television, and book reviews. It can get people all interested in movies or books with trailers that a company can post for their upcoming project.
Sadly with all the positives that YouTube has there are some negative effects as well. With a new social media site, it also provides a way for people to harass other people. For example, there was a period in 2018 where a trend popped up on YouTube about diss tracks. Which are essentially just a music video but they are trashing on another person or channel. This doesn’t even go into the comments that people can leave on videos for everyone to see. This can hurt creators feelings and can lead them to feel bad about themselves. There also used to be an issue with dislikes on videos where people could click a button that says they disliked the video, but YouTube removed this feature in 2021, ironically, YouTube themselves have two of the most disliked videos, which is actually kind of funny. (The 2018 YouTube Rewind & The 2019 YouTube Rewind)
Overall I think that YouTube’s positives out way it’s negatives. It has provided a new way for people to express themselves and a creative and inventive way for people to watch and create videos. I know many people who have learned some vital skills from watching a video on YouTube, and hopefully you can learn a brand new one too.
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