History Trivia / YouTube

* NewbieBoom: The shutdown of Website/{{Vine}} in 2017 brought many former Viners like the [[Creator/JakePaul Paul]] [[Creator/LoganPaul Brothers]] to the platform, along with their fanbases.

** The site itself has been banned temporarily by various countries for various reasons. This includes Brazil, Turkey, Germany, Libya, Thailand, Turkmenistan, and Pakistan among others.

** China, Iran, Turkmenistan, Eritrea and North Korea have all blocked the site permanently since 2009, 2012 and 2016 respectively.

** China, Iran and North Korea have all blocked the site permanently since 2009, 2012 and 2016 respectively.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/YouTube_Wiki Wikitubia: The YouTube Wiki]].

** If you've ever wondered why copyright trolls and false copyright claims are so rampant, look no further than [[https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/12/umg-we-have-the-right-to-block-or-remove-youtube-videos/ this]] behind-closed-doors and still-undisclosed deal [=YouTube=] struck with Universal Media Group back in 2009. The letter quoted in the article even states that UMG (and judging by the above copyright troll epidemic, presumably every other content creator on the site) has the power to take down a video for reasons other than copyright infringement. Here’s an excerpt from it:
---> "As you know, UMG's rights in this regard are not limited to copyright infringement, as set forth more completely in the March 31, 2009 Video License Agreement for UGC Video Service Providers, including without limitation Paragraphs 1(b) and 1(g) thereof."
** In the early years of TheNewTens, Google made it mandatory for all [=YouTubers=] to get an account with their Google+ social network in an effort to integrate the two services together - a move that many people understandably called "forced". Eventually, Google got the point from all the complaining, removed the Google+ requirement, and even started the process of shutting down the service for good. Unfortunately, around October 2018, that latter point caused a number of services to simply break on [=YouTube=], including a number of important content creator tools. LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} [[https://youtu.be/InlipHDrle8?t=184 shows this problem here]], where many of the pages simply lead to a 404 Not Found after LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading. On the subscriber side, video notifications were simply broken - they'd either come too late, not at all, or get notifications from decade-old videos and/or people they weren't even subscribed to. He and many other big content creators speculate that because Google+ was so deeply integrated into [=YouTube=], it's now problematic to simply erase it from the site, since a number of [=YouTube=] features were dependent on it.

* FollowTheLeader: After the success of Netflix's Film/BlackMirrorBandersnatch, the site announced in Early 2019 that it was making a move into interactive programming as well.

** When coming across something you like, it's generally a good idea to download a permanent copy of it. Deletion of videos is a common occurrence mainly fueled by copyright holders and [=YouTube=] has probably the most rabid copyright enforcement on the Internet, to the aggravation of users. Indeed, following some links on Wiki/ThisVeryWiki may result in seeing a message that the video (or the poster's account) has been deleted for infringing copyright. This has been exploited by "Content ID trolls": people who falsely report a user's video(s) to get them pulled and their accounts banned.

* NewbieBoom: The shutdown of WebOriginal/{{Vine}} in 2017 brought many former Viners like the [[Creator/JakePaul Paul]] [[Creator/LoganPaul Brothers]] to the platform, along with their fanbases.