History Trivia / YouTube

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The site has occasionally been an unofficial home for this; movies and TV shows that otherwise would be completely forgotten or unlikely to ever be re-released to the public will occasionally make it here and, barring the uploads getting removed by the rights' holders, become their unofficial new home. However, this was a lot more common at one point, as it's now become less and less rare for rights' holders to take action.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The phrase ''This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by *insert company name*. Sorry about that.'' is a well know message when a certain video gets taken down due to Copyright Infringement. Often times, The user who would post that certain video would get a full copyright strike and is being forced to watch ''[[WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends Youtube's Copyright Lawsuit School]]'' and take trivia questions about the law of copyright. Three copyright strikes will result in the account termination. And the videos the user uploaded will all be removed. And if the infringements you "committed" are egregious enough, you may find yourself getting a visit from the police and being taken to court (though depending on whether it was actual malicious piracy or was for satire or criticism, you might just actually win).

** YouTube has long been blocked in Syria, along with other Friending Networks.

* CreatorBacklash: The uploader of the first video on Youtube, jawed, didn't seem happy with Google Plus' integration into Youtube, with comments such as "why the [[PrecisionFStrike fuck]] do i need a google+ account to comment on a video?" and "I can't comment here anymore, since I don't want a google+ account.".

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: The founders [[WordOfGod reportedly said]] in several interviews that they sold the website off because of hordes of teenagers[[note]]the aforementioned users[[/note]] uploading copyrighted material on it (instead of making their own videos) and ignoring its rules, thus destroying their dream for a ''you''tube.
** This came to bite them in the ass all those years later, when Google+ became mandatory and they asked why the hell they were being forced into this.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/YouTube_Wiki The YouTube Wiki]].

** YouTube has long been blocked in Syria, along with other FriendingNetworks.

** This came to bite them in the ass all those years later, when Google+ became mandatory and they asked why the hell they were being forced into this.

* FanCommunityNicknames: People with an account are often called "[=YouTubers=]".

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The phrase ''This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by *insert company name*. Sorry about that.'' is a well know message when a certain video gets taken down due to Copyright Infringement. Often times, The user who would post that certain video would get a full copyright strike and is being forced to watch ''[[WesternAnimation/HappyTreeFriends Youtube's Copyright Lawsuit School]]'' and take trivia questions about the law of copyright. Three copyright strikes will result in the account termination. And the videos the user uploaded will all be removed. And if the infringements you "committed" are egregious enough, you may find yourself getting a visit from the police and being taken to court (though depending on whether it was actual malicious piracy or was for satire or criticism, you might just actually win).

* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed By [=YouTube=]]]:

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The site was originally a video version of a website called [[http://hotornot.com Hot or Not]], where users upload picures of themselves and other users would decide whether or not the user is hot or not. However, the creators found this too limited, and later made it a general video site.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: The phrase ''This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by *insert company name*. Sorry about that.'' is a well know message when a certain video gets taken down due to Copyright Infringement. Often times, The user who would post that certain video would get a full copyright strike and is being forced to watch ''[[WesternAnimation/HappyTreeFriends Youtube's Copyright Lawsuit School]]'' and take trivia questions about the law of copyright. Three copyright strikes will result in the account termination. And the videos the user uploaded will all be removed.

* FandomNod: 2012's AprilFoolsDay joke, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_UmWdcTrrc The YouTube Collection]] is full of these. This includes "first" comments, a majority of videos being VideoGame/MineCraft related, and telling the viewers to not forget to leave a [[PleaseSubscribeToOurChannel green thumbs up or a red thumbs down]].

** This came to bite them in the ass all those years later, when Google+ became mandatory and they asked why the hell they were being forced into this.
* Due to the markup of TV Tropes detecting 2 words capitalized and scrunched together as a WikiWord (see Administrivia/TextFormattingRules), all references to YouTube link to our article.

** This came to bite them in the ass all those years later, when Google+ became mandatory and they asked why the hell they were being forced into this.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In this case, Screwed By [=YouTube=].

*** On various occasions, the site has been banned in Bangladesh for political and religious reasons, with the longest ban active for months.
**** It used to be denied in Russia, as the website was used for hosting extremist videos and writings by Adolf Hitler. However, it has now been allowed again.
***** YouTube has long been blocked in Syria, along with other FriendingNetworks.
****** It was banned in Turkey until 2010, due to a lot of videos insulting Ataturk. It was later lifted.

*** For reviewers of media (such as games and movies), the changes are even worse, as [=YouTube=] never seemed to like the idea of fair use.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: In this case, Screwed By YouTube. Over the years, YouTube has shown more and more favoritism and preference to partner channels, or channels that have a significant amount of subscribers or viewer activity. For example: are you just an average joe posting videos of things you find interesting or amusing? Well, good luck generating traffic on your videos, because they won't even show up in the search results, regardless of what tags/keywords you put on them. Want to access certain relatively new features, like checking out "audience" or unlocking custom thumbnails? You'll need a ''ton'' of subscribers and a ''lot'' of people watching your videos ''all the time'', otherwise, those features will be locked to you. In other words, if you're not a partner channel or a regular channel that generates a lot of activity, good luck trying to get any kind of notice, because YouTube has pretty much swept you under the rug.

* FanNickname: Let's just say you'll find a lot of people associating YouTube with its parent company, {{Google}}.

* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings: The founders [[WordOfGod reportedly said]] in several interviews that they sold the website off because of hordes of teenagers[[note]]the aforementioned users[[/note]] uploading copyrighted material on it (instead of making their own videos) and ignoring its rules, thus destroying their dream for a ''you''tube.

* MoneyDearBoy: The reason for the site's much-maligned integration with Website/GooglePlus is so Google can deliver more targeted ads to its users.