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Does YouTube feel different lately? Are you getting recommended content you’re not interested in? Maybe even this video? Are you finding YouTube Search to be a complete mess? Are you irritated and perhaps even frustrated with YouTube’s “algorithm?” Well, you are not alone, and Zackary Smigel has the answer and explanation to all of these concerns and questions.
Does YouTube feel different lately? Are you getting recommended content you’re not interested in? Maybe even this video? Are you finding YouTube Search to be a complete mess? Are you irritated and perhaps even frustrated with YouTube’s “algorithm?” Well, you are not alone, and I have the answer and explanation to all of these concerns and questions. I’m dead serious. There’s an explainable answer to all these issues.
We begin this report at the very beginning… what happened so far? First there was nothing, then there was something. Space. Time. Things. Objects. Places. Life. Movement. Or to put in another way:
And then, there was YouTube. YouTube is today an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is the second most visited website, right after Google itself. YouTube has more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of May 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute. This was the first video on YouTube:
In October 2006, YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 billion. Google’s ownership of YouTube has also changed its business model; it no longer generates revenue from advertisements alone, YouTube now offers paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by YouTube. It also offers a paid subscription option for watching content without ads, YouTube Premium. YouTube and approved creators participate in Google’s AdSense program, which seeks to generate more revenue for both parties. YouTube’s reported revenue for 2020 was $19.8 billion.
Since its purchase by Google, YouTube has expanded beyond the core website into mobile apps, network television, and the ability to link with other platforms. Video categories on YouTube include music videos, video clips, news, short films, feature films, documentaries, audio recordings, movie trailers, teasers, live streams, vlogs, and more. Most content is generated by individuals. This includes collaborations between YouTubers and corporate sponsors. Established media corporations such as Disney, Paramount, and WarnerMedia have also created and expanded their corporate YouTube channels to advertise to a larger audience.
On YouTube and its competitors a new culture of film making grew. And this is where the next chapter of the story begins.
The Angry Video Game Nerd (abbreviated as AVGN) is an American retrogaming review comedy web series created by and starring James Rolfe. The series centers on Rolfe’s titular skit character, often simply shortened to “the Nerd”, a short-tempered and foul-mouthed gamer who delivers commentary on retro games of poor quality. While the series began with Rolfe simply playing games while delivering a running commentary, the show would eventually grow in scope to encompass sketches featuring guest characters, reviews of gaming consoles and peripherals, and short lectures about video game history and culture. This is his story:
The existence of YouTube created a new environment for people becoming succesful:
If something is succesful, then there are knockoffs. So it happened with the AVGN and others:
Also following the AVGN was some Guy with Glasses, from where some great talents came from. But the story didn’t go so well…
And there was a moment in time, when things were falling down:
The Aftermath:
Logan Paul was a guy who went way too far in his videos. After his demise the so-called “Quality Programme” of YouTube, which restricted most YouTuber’s ad revenue.
And then there was a new low point…
With this beginning, let’s go on…
If you only have one dimension available, things can get tiresome quickly. But maybe this coin has two sides. The creativity must not be limited. And that was exactly the idea when a couple of friends had something to discuss: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
The inspiration for a new kind of video website obviously first came from Janet Jackson’s role in 2004 Super Bowl incident when her breast was exposed during her performance, and later from the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Karim could not easily find video clips of either event online, which led to the idea of a video sharing site. Hurley and Chen said that the original idea was a video version of an online dating service, and had been influenced by the website Hot or Not. They created posts on Craigslist asking attractive women to upload videos of themselves to YouTube in exchange for a $100 reward. Difficulty in finding enough dating videos led to a change of plans, with the site’s founders deciding to accept uploads of any type of video.
Hurley and Chen developed the idea during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen’s apartment in San Francisco.
The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months. The first YouTube video, titled Me at the zoo, shows co-founder Jawed Karim at the San Diego Zoo. The video was uploaded on April 23, 2005.
You never know where things are going. But maybe it is worth adding a new location to this story. So there is a new department of the ASTROCOHORS CLUB:
starting with a simple visit at the zoo. Because the elephants, you know…
But…
What will you do, when they get you?
What will you do, when they break you?
If you continue, what will you… become?
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