Before 2005, only a small amount of people had even heard of Youtube. Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, four previous PayPal employees had come up with the idea of the website in 2004 upon Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction at the super bowl, and the tsunami in the Indian Ocean. They wanted to come up with a website able to stream news videos with content such as celebrity or world news. Google and other companies sought after Youtube throughout the next few years, seeing it's potential to become a popular site.
A certain video in 2007 was uploaded onto the site, and became the first video to go viral. This video was titled, "Charlie bit my finger - again!", and consisted two brothers being filmed on a home video camera, and one of them bites the other's finger. The reactions of the kids were funny, and the video now has almost a billion total views. After this, many videos on Youtube have gone viral.
Throughout the years, Youtube has become an updated platform of many different genres of creators. There are beauty gurus, gamers, lifestyle influencers, dancers, athletes, and many more types of videos to view on the site. Youtube has also introduced Youtube TV which provides TV shows and movies with the purchase of a subscription, much like Netflix or Hulu. Billions of people use Youtube every day, and I expect it to continue growing and being updated, gaining new generations of creators and viewers every day.
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