History Trivia / YouTube

* FanNickname: "The Adpocalypse" for the mass exodus of advertisers at the beginning of 2017, followed by the remaining advertisers refusing to put their ads on any channel that wasn't deemed "family friendly". Subsequent similar situations that have many advertisers pulling their ads have been referred to by this name.

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** GeniusBruiser

** [[https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/08/09/youtubes-arbitrary-standards-stars-keep-making-money-even-after-breaking-rules/?noredirect=on According to the site's moderators]], [=YouTube=] is purposely more lenient towards it's biggest stars in terms of breaking the rules (namedropping the infamous [[Creator/LoganPaul Suicide Forest controversy]] and the Steven Crowder incident in particular) because they bring the site the most money.

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

* LyingCreator: The website is notorious for the administrative lying to make themselves look better. For example, in their officially endorsed copyright video with ''WebVideo/GloveAndBoots'', the site's legal director, Fred Lohmann, claims that people will be punished for filling false copyright claims on the site, when in fact [[KarmaHoudini they are never actively punished by the site]].

* CreatorBacklash: Jawed Karim was ''not'' pleased with Website/GooglePlus's integration into [=YouTube=], asking why he needed a Google+ account to comment and bemoaning the fact that he wouldn't be able to comment on the site anymore since he didn't want an account.

** Companies such as [=WildBrain=] and Creator/TreehouseTV have put entire shows from their libraries up for free on their channels. Though, a select few are only viewable in certain countries because of distribution rights.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ever since the site put into effect new guidelines to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), forcing "kid-friendly" videos to not allow comments, monetization, being added to the "watch later" tab, or being played in Miniplayer mode in mobile, this has become the case whenever a user encounters one of these videos in his/her recommendations. One could encounter a video like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiacORoz5sI this one]], and there would be no context to the reasons behind its existence nor any way to discuss it with other people in the comments whatsoever if they tried. It's just.... ''there.''

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ever since the site put into effect new guidelines forced onto them by the children's group COPPA, which involved no monetization, no comments section, and no "watch later" feature for "kid-friendly" videos, this has become the case whenever a user encounters one of these videos in his/her recommendations. One could encounter a video like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiacORoz5sI this one]], and there would be no context to the reasons behind its existence nor any way to discuss it with other people in the comments whatsoever if they tried. It's just.... ''there.''

** There are also dozens of bootlegs... er, [[InsistentTerminology slime tutorials]] of Broadway musicals or plays, both those still running and those long past. They usually have SuspiciouslySpecific names like "Definitely not Theatre/{{Hamilton}}" or inside jokes about the show's content [[Theatre/SomethingRotten Eggs! the musical]]. Copyright claims here appear to be less common, especially since relatively few people are able to see live Broadway performances or official proshots.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ever since the site put into effect new guidelines forced onto them by the children's group COPPA, which involved no monetization, no comments section, and "watch later" feature for "kid-friendly" videos, this has become the case whenever a user encounters one of these videos in his/her recommendations. One could encounter a video like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiacORoz5sI this one]], and there would be no context to the reasons behind its existence nor any way to discuss it with other people in the comments whatsoever if they tried. It's just.... ''there.''

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ever since the site put into effect new guidelines forced onto them by the children's group COPPA, which involved no monetization, no comments section, and "watch later" feature for "kid-friendly" videos, this has become the case whenever a user encounters one of these videos in his/her recommendations. One could click on a video like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiacORoz5sI this one]], and there would be no context to the reasons behind its existence nor any way to discuss it with other people in the comments whatsoever if they tried. It's just.... ''there.''

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ever since the site put into effect new guidelines forced onto them by the children's group COPPA, which involved no monetization, no comments section, and "watch later" feature for "kid-friendly" videos, this has become the case whenever a user encounters one of these videos in his/her recommendations. One could click on a video like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiacORoz5sI this one]], and there would be no context to the reasons behind its existence nor any way to discuss it with other people in the comments whatsoever if they tried. It's just.. ''there.''

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Ever since the site forced into effect new guidelines by the children's group COPPA, which involved no monetization, no comments section, and "watch later" feature for "kid-friendly" videos, this has become the case whenever a user encounters one of these videos in his/her recommendations. One could click on a video like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiacORoz5sI this one]], and there would be no context to the reasons behind its existence nor any way to discuss it with other people in the comments whatsoever if they tried. It's just.. ''there.''

** Indeed, it was the only other two things he posted to his account, [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant having said account lay dormant for about 8 years before rising again.]]

** Movies and TV shows that otherwise would be completely forgotten or unlikely to ever be re-released to the public will occasionally make it on the site and, barring the uploads getting removed by the rights' holders, become their unofficial new home. However, this was a lot more common in the early days, as it's now become less and less rare for rights' holders to take action unless they have no plans to re-release them on home video or streaming, in which case they're just content with the free publicity or may even be compelled to make an official re-release.

* DoubleEntendre: The very first [=YouTube=] video featured a young adult man telling the audience that elephants have "really, really long...um, trunks". The video is still intact and is constantly having its personal forum update every second.

* A smaller one, but making a video that exceeds ten minutes allows the user to place more ads on it. This sometimes results in content creators decreasing the quality of their videos by [[HoldingTheFloor waffling on about things irrelevant to the subject]] or [[OverlyLongGag dragging on a single joke repeatedly]], usually resulting in the video being ten minutes and one second long.

* DoubleEntendre: The very first YouTube video featured a young adult man telling the audience that elephants have "really, really long...um, trunks". The video is still intact and is constantly having its personal forum update every second.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://youtube.wikia.com/wiki/YouTube_Wiki Wikitubia]].
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** The official reason why the Video Replies feature was removed back in 2013 was because of "low engagement" (people weren't clicking on them). However, it's arguable that the real reason for their removal was [[https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=reply+girls the "reply girls" phenomenon]], which -- [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the name would imply]] -- consisted of almost AlwaysFemale users [[SexSells having their cleavage on display in the thumbnail]] and the actual content having next to no relation with the video they replied to.

* 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.

** Sometimes a video is only allowed to be viewed in certain countries for copyright concerns. The uploader is able to view it just fine however.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Movies and TV shows that otherwise would be completely forgotten or unlikely to ever be re-released to the public will occasionally make it on the site and, barring the uploads getting removed by the rights' holders, become their unofficial new home. However, this was a lot more common in the early days, as it's now become less and less rare for rights' holders to take action unless they have no plans to re-release them on home video or streaming, in which case they're just content with the free publicity or may even be compelled to make an official re-release.

** For channels that ''are'' partnered, [=YouTube=] made changes to their [=ContentID=] copyright identification system in late 2013, making it more difficult to monetize videos. As [=ContentID=] was already considered "judge, jury & executioner" by critics ''before'' the change, this led to some partners threatening to move to other video sharing sites.
** In addition to the Adpocalypse, [=YouTube=]'s stricter enforcement of their acceptable content policies since 2017 has made it much harder for creators to get their videos monetized on the site.