Interesting Facts About YouTube

Welcome to my top YouTube secrets, from the strange way it started to the unexpected things people search for to the cool tricks you didn't know you could do on it. So the site is actually called YouTube because it allows you to upload your own videos and two because back when everyone was using those old CRT televisions based on cathode ray tube technology, tube was what people used to call their TV and it was actually meant to be a dating site. It's crazy to think about now, but the entire concept of YouTube back in 2005 was for people to upload videos of themselves talking about the partner of their dreams in the hope of finding them, but no one did, which led the founders, who were basically a set of three ex-paypal employees, to even start offering random women twenty dollars to upload and get the ball rolling, but none of them said yes, which is when they made the best decision of their lives by opening YouTube up to all kinds of videos, not just dating requests, and then starting things off with the very first one, which was no joke just 19 seconds of one of these founders standing around at the zoo can you imagine telling this guy back then that this video would ever get to tens of millions of comments and hundreds of millions of views.

The first video to ever hit a million views was a Nike ad featuring Ronaldinho, which is still pretty mind-blowing today, the first to 100 million was Avril Lavigne's girlfriend song, though people suspect she used paid advertisements to boost those numbers, and the first to 1 billion was size Gangnam Style, which became such a movement that it happened people across the entire world dancing away like budget cowboys.

One of the most useful things you didn't know about the platform is that there are two hidden menus when you're watching on a computer when you right click once on a video you can Loop it or instantly copy the URL and then if you right click twice in a row you unlock the option to use picture in picture mode which lets you drag this mini window around on your desktop while you work on something else.

Over the years, YouTube has gone through a number of different rating systems. It started with stars, where you could give any YouTube video you watched a rating from one to five and the overall result would be displayed in search results before you clicked on it. This was then dropped for a like and dislike bar, which has now been dropped to just a like counter. YouTube also, has a secret page at youtube.com new where they enable YouTube premium users check out new experimental features they're working on and even pay individuals for completing feedback surveys. Speaking of Secrets, we're now in the top twenty.

So it's time to discuss some of YouTube's Greatest surprises. YouTube is prohibited in China. To limit Western cultural influence on those people, the current lent limit for a YouTube video is 12 hours. When YouTube originally began, a company called Universal tube and roll form equipment sued them for infringement on their website youtube.com. Thankfully, our YouTube won, but if it hadn't, we might be watching videos right now on I don't know we tube, actually probably not YouTube, so you might have heard about this thing on the internet called brick rolling, which is the idea of tricking someone into clicking a link that actually takes them to another website. The trailer for Grand Theft Auto IV. It received so many views that the entire website crashed, forcing people to rely on other people's links to watch re-uploaded copies of it, and this is when one user decided to take advantage of the opportunity to instead send people to this masterpiece, which the clickers found both annoying and hilarious, and thus the Rickroll began. Ashley will never give you a YouTube video, but I recently discovered how this 15-year-old internet tradition began, so in 2007, the entire world experienced the first ever. You may already be aware that YouTube was founded as an independent company in 2005 and was acquired by Google, who still owns it today. What you may not be aware of is that when Google bought it, YouTube only had 65 total employees and was valued at 1.65 billion dollars, which is difficult to comprehend when you consider that they now have 3 000 people at a valuation approaching 200 billion. 30 000 employees working every hour of every day just to keep up with the current rate, and the even more astounding statistic that this translates to is that if you wanted to sit on the sofa one day and watch every single YouTube video that has been uploaded so far, you would be there for 200 000 years.

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