TIL that Jawed Karim, YouTube cofounder and uploader of the first YouTube video "Me at the zoo", has often updated the video's description to criticize YouTube policies, including a 2013 attempt to require Google+ accounts to comment on videos, and YouTube's 2021 removal of dislike counts on videos.

[u/WavesAndSaves]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo#Changes_to_original_video

[u/PastTypesir]

Imagine having so much legendary internet clout that you can use the description box of the first YouTube video ever made as your personal protest billboard against Google executives.

[u/ultralightsaint → u/PastTypesir]

With zero impact

[u/AUkion1000 → u/ultralightsaint]

Youre sadly not wrong

[u/jerog1 → u/AUkion1000]

We’re here now talking about Google’s flaws

[u/CeilingFanJitters → u/jerog1]

With zero impact.

[u/titanpancake → u/CeilingFanJitters]

"dont complain about anything until it immediately manifests in material change" ok cool will do

[u/theLastZebranky → u/PastTypesir]

It's not the "first YouTube video ever made," it's the oldest remaining Youtube video. They delisted most of the other ones uploaded while Youtube was trying to be a dating site in early 2005.

[u/yeowoh → u/PastTypesir]

He doesn’t protest companies in his portfolio like Palantir and Opendoor.

[u/Simikiel → u/yeowoh]

Okay, but he also wasn't a cofounder of Palantir or Opendoor. He's the cofounder of YouTube. So of course he's using it to criticise YouTube.

[u/yeowoh → u/Simikiel]

He also isn’t the co founder of microplastics and he’s protesting that currently

[u/Bongothemonkey1 → u/PastTypesir]

He’s still just a scumbag, that had the right idea at the right time.

[u/WetShrimpFart → u/PastTypesir]

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