The first video on YouTube was uploaded 10 years ago today - it's really mundane

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7. Or this classic with 20,448,901 views so far:

Otters holding hands

Uploaded on Mar 19, 2007

Vancouver Aquarium: two sea otters float around, napping, holding hands. SO CUTE!

I watched all the presidential debates and campaign stops, etc. for a few years there. It was its heyday, possibly a few years before that video. There were many lovely videos made and posted, very educational and I made some good contacts. A lot of advocacy and anti-war groups assembled and they uploaded demonstrations but the MSM would not cover these events, even if they had many thousands. We really learned the difference, as these things were large and in major east coast cities, yet had no coverage. The same year as the Otter video, this came out:

By 2008 youtube changed. It had a lot of liberal voices, went into a lot of very interesting stuff, then got trolled by conservatives and racists and even Nazis and white supremacists. Now it's a cesspool. And they've changed it over the years so that a lot creativity is gone and it's all commercial. That was because they sold it.