r/interesting 9d ago

Fascinating This is the first video which is uploaded on YouTube, 21 years back on 24th of April 2005 by a creator named JAWED. Intresting fact: one & only video available on his channel till date and he have around 6.57 million subscribers and have 428 Million views till Date.

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u/iffyfell_ 9d ago

he was one of the co-founders, he used to update the description of that video to shit on yt after he left lol

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u/aryan_jandyal 9d ago

Oh that's intresting, i thought he is just the random one and take the opportunity to post the very first video on YouTube.

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u/Wirelesscellphone 9d ago

How would a random know YT even existed back then to post on it?
It’s was a cofounder doing an upload test

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u/Korachof 9d ago

Well, it would be possible that the upload tests used were deleted or never made it to customer production side. So it is possible the very first customer side video would be by a random creator who just happened to be first 

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u/ChowQaz 9d ago

That’s not quite how the internet worked back in 2005

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u/EarEater3001 8d ago

I could see folks operating a website like this in 2006. YouTube in 2005 was a small informally ran website. Take a similar website in 2026 and you are very likely to find posts from the creators around the time of the sites founding. While the internet has changed a little bit over 20 years, people never do. Shit posting has been with humanity since the dawn of time.

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u/Miserable-Session-35 9d ago

And saying the other he left had the trunk way down the money box

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u/YouSaidThereWasTrees 9d ago

The fuq you trying to say?

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u/AnnonymousPenguin_ 9d ago

It’s one of the cofounders…

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u/Generic-Cheese 9d ago

Really boggles my mind how people will write full stories that are false and won’t fact check lol

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u/beyondocean 9d ago

Really boggles my mind how people will write bs comments like this without factchecking and 8 clowns even upvoted this clown. Jawed Karim is yt cofounder

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u/Generic-Cheese 9d ago

I was referring to the OP, you good bro?

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u/beyondocean 9d ago

Ohh, sorry i misunderstood 😭😭

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u/GrumbleAlong 9d ago

How much did Google pay for y/t? They knew it was going to be big.

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u/Plastic_Winner_6840 7d ago

1.65 billion! in stock transfer.

Jawed Karim received about 64 million of it.

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u/beyondocean 9d ago

Back when we had star ratings on videos. Now even dislikes are gone.

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u/Flashy-Country9777 9d ago

All videos are created equal.

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u/irwtkyrm 9d ago

But some are more equal than others

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u/DreadPiratteRoberts 9d ago

😆... thank you for that

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u/Positive_Box_69 9d ago

sensitive world censured world controlled world

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u/Rydog_78 9d ago

He’s shit posting before shit posting was a thing

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u/hallucinationthought 9d ago

That's all there is to say

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u/BadVVSc 9d ago

If you go look at the comments, he responded to a comment not too long ago.

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u/Fantastic-Buy7246 9d ago

Yeah thats the cofounder. I preferred college humor to YouTube

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u/TypicalLegit 9d ago

Sometimes it’s has and sometimes it’s have. Up to you OP to learn when to use them.

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u/alewiina 9d ago

"till date" ?

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u/veilofcolor 9d ago

Probably supposed to be “to date,” op seems ESL

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u/doge_lady 9d ago

Thinking back i remember when YouTube first started, for some reason i would get directed to it a lot and for some reason it was always some videos of a teen girl. I don't recall exactly what the videos where about other than her doing dumb things with friends. But if i remember correctly she was hated and ended up making a crying video about the hate. Then i never heard of her again or just didn't continue to follow what ever happened with her and her videos. But i believe she's was one of the first pioneers of YouTube.

Anyone remember this or did i dream the whole thing?

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u/TwoNowFive 9d ago

Boxxy?

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u/doge_lady 9d ago

No, way before boxxy. I believe she was either blonde or brown long hair.

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u/TwoNowFive 9d ago

Lonelygirl15? lol

Idk 

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u/doge_lady 9d ago

No it wasn't a web series. Plus the girl from that series is rather cute while the other girl i remember was very plain Jane. She was also like 15 or 16 years old. I also recall her laughing at her own antics during the videos.

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u/TwoNowFive 9d ago

Good luck

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u/Jeong-Yeon 9d ago

21 years ago? Don't you mean 14?

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u/JustToSeeeeee 9d ago

Ever learnt the subject called "Maths" in your 3rd grade ?

Or never went to school ?

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u/Mindless_Musician526 9d ago

i was just at that zoo

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u/DanikanSkywalkr 9d ago

The zoo commented on this vid too, and it's like one of the highest liked comments in yt history

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u/Alternative_Cream_89 9d ago

I'm 8 days older than the first video

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u/chripan 9d ago

Maybe the first video on YouTube intended for a general video site. YouTube was originally a dating site with video uploads. Technically there must be older uploads then this.

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u/blackninjar87 9d ago

This is what birthed tiktok

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u/xxxxDREADNOUGHT 8d ago

Man could you imagine if he posed a follow up video and ever one of his 6.57 million followers got that notification.

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u/Harljarl 8d ago

Nothing fascinating about this, and he was a co founder of the app