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"What happens in D.C. stays on YouTube!"
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is The Internet's most popular video-sharing platform, that has achieved worldwide popularity since it launched in 2005. While the official purpose of the site is to host amateur videos and promotional clips, it is unofficially the place where you can watch copyrighted materials from all types of mediums, search for random/odd clips and/or check out the latest blog entries and videos from notable users. It was founded by programming students Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim; the idea came to Karim when he had trouble finding clips of two major events in 2004: The Boxing Day Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami and later Janet Jackson's Wardrobe Malfunction at that year's Super Bowl halftime show.

Prior to Google's purchase of the company in November 2006, YouTube was a much smaller place. It hosted communication between individuals, who used it visually in otherwise the same manner as they had previously used Usenet or IRC. YouTube was also once the host of a number of people who had alternative news and media shows, but the opinions of such people were often extreme, or otherwise politically incorrect, and most of them have now been banned. Since 2014 there has been an ad-free subscription option, YouTube Premium.

Users can upload their videos on whatever subject they want (unless it violates the "Community Guidelines" or someone files a copyright claim). The quality often ranges from below Ed Wood-type works to studio-quality materials, depending on what it is. Surprisingly, a lot of the personal videos of individuals often do have something to say that are actually worth watching and listening to. Some of the material is actually supplied by studios, including music videos that were uploaded by authorized agents of the record company. It should be noted that YouTube is also a place to watch movies and shows that have never been officially released, or are unavailable anywhere else.

Content creators can mark one comment (theirs or made by one of their viewers) as a sticky post on each video. Regardless of what you pick, said comment will always show up on top. Since other people can respond to it, it becomes a Shout Box of sorts for that particular video.

After ContentID, their mechanism in which rights holders can block videos practically at will (to much consternation from the userbase), was introduced in 2007, the platform became the host for various official content from the motion picture industry that they're willing to give away for free (mostly promo material, but also programming which couldn't be sold to any other outlet, such as the complete series of Joey) as well as outright rights acquisitions by YT management, including older films (the first two seasons of Cobra Kai premiered here under the abandoned Red/Originals initiative [but are currently unavailable after the show moved to Netflix], and the first free-to-stream global National Football League game aired here as well in 2025). After the demise of Google Play Music in 2020, it was decided that YT would be Google's music platform in both video and audio only formats, including a separate music-only website and subscription tier. This has the beneficiary side effect that various fan uploads of official videos and concerts (as well as fan remixes and alterations) now run on the site without ContentID issues, though all rights holders involved (especially if the video material has separate owners) retain the rights to strike videos at anytime. The site is also the natural hub for the various subscription streaming services that have agreed to be available on Google servers, as YouTube-only subscriptions are also available. Rentals and purchases of films and TV series can be done on the platform as well, akin to iTunes or Prime Video. The YouTube name has been borrowed by Google for YouTube TV, the linear cable-style subscription bundle with its own website (Since 2022, YTTV and the main site share the U.S. rights to NFL Sunday Ticket, the out-of market live game service).

A list of YouTubers with pages on this site can be found here.

Works produced by YouTube itself include YouTube Rewind and Webdriver Torso.


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Weeb Parents

YouTuber Billy Han fails at the try not to laugh challenge when fast rap from Eminem's Rap God is said in the TikTok video, "When weeb parents name their kids".

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YouTuber Billy Han fails at the try not to laugh challenge when fast rap from Eminem's Rap God is said in the TikTok video, "When weeb parents name their kids".

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5 (12 votes)

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