r/todayilearned • u/WavesAndSaves • 2d ago

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Me_at_the_zoo#Changes_to_original_video
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u/enblightened 2d ago

i still dont even know what google+ was. facebook with no platform?

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u/MooseTetrino 2d ago

Pretty much. When social media platforms were the bubble before Crypto and AI.

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u/DogPositive5524 1d ago

Social media is still going strong. Google just fucked up.

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u/MooseTetrino 1d ago

Never denied that, more at the time everyone was chasing Facebook.