The internet had reached a point where some niches are just exhausted, and video platforms will never be able to grow as far as YouTube keeps rising. Probably if the founder knew that their Platform 16 years later would produce $8.6 billion per annual quarter, they would have never sold their platform. Google was attracted by a video that had exploded on the platform and showed the monetary potential of the platform. This is where Google (as the leader of the internet) had seen the potential within the platform and proposed founders Jawed Karim, Steve Chen, and Chad Hurley to sell YouTube for a whopping $1.65 billion. In 2006 YouTube had blown as millions of people started uploading random videos and trying to understand this side of the internet. Studies that apparently contradict the common sense of every YouTuber.” (Quote by Jawed Karim) Instead, there will be references to various studies. Why would YouTube make this universally disliked change? There is a reason, but it’s not a good one, and not one that will be publicly disclosed. We know this because there exists not a single YouTube Creator who thinks removing dislikes is a good idea - for YouTube or for Creators. Calling the removal of dislikes a good thing for creators cannot be done without conflict by someone holding the title of “YouTube’s Creator Liaison”.
I have never seen a less enthusiastic, more reluctant announcement of something that is supposed to be great. The video reminded me of an interview Admiral Jeremiah Denton gave in 1966. “Watching Matt Koval’s announcement about the removal of dislikes, I thought something was off. What is interesting is that the uploader (Karim) keeps updating the description on the video and this can be observed by his comments on the policy change of YouTube regarding removing the display of dislikes in November of 2021.
The power of actually being the first on a platform, but actually it’s about the virality of a video behind its importance, in this case, is the first video on one of the biggest websites on the internet. To be honest, I didn’t even know when I first saw the video that this was one of the founders, well it is a much younger version of him. Jawed Karim may not be the first blogger, but he is definitely the first viral vlogger and this was before anyone actually knew that within the video was one of the founders of YouTube. The first comment on the video had also accumulated over the years 2.3 million likes, making it the most liked comment on youtube. Funny enough, most of the views had actually been accumulated in the last two years with 130 million views under the belt. On the channel, it is the only video ever uploaded and since then, the video had accumulated over 220 million views and the channel over 2.7 million subscribers. However, if we were to really dig deep we would find that the first platform on the internet for sharing videos was actually which was started in 1997. Before YouTube, we had Vimeo which was released in late 2004 which was and it had quite a lot of success until YouTube became popular.
The type of video he uploaded would be categorized as a vlog, 18 seconds of himself at the zoo presenting the elephants behind him, which was uploaded on April 24th, 2005.
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