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♪ (Blackalicious, "Alphabet Aerobics") ♪
(woman) Now it's time for our wrap-up.
- Ready? - I think I've seen this.
Is this the 10 Years of YouTube?
(Blackalicious) ♪ Artificial amateurs ♪
- (goat screams) - ♪ Aren't they all amazing? ♪
- ♪ Analytically, I assault ♪ - Oh god, is that Grumpy Cat?
♪ Broken barriers bounded by the bomb beat ♪
This chair's awesome, 'cause I can actually bob to the music now.
Is this, like, a video about YouTube or something?
♪ Detonate a dime of dank daily doing dough ♪
♪ Demonstrations, Don Dada on the down low ♪
♪ Eating other editors with each and every energetic ♪
- ♪ Epileptic episode ♪ - Or MTV, my era.
- ♪ Fat fabulous fantastic ♪ - (chuckles)
♪ Gift got great global goods ♪
Oh god, no. Not Psy.
- ♪ Hella height ♪ - So, like, all the classics.
♪ Hear 'em holler at your homeboy ♪
(in clip) It gets better.
Tyler Oakley!
(in clip) I'm gay. Austin is too.
Oh, "I'm gay."
(girl screaming)
I called that was fake.
- (in clip) Is this real life? - (laughs)
This is the longest intro ever.
- (in video) PewDiePie! - ♪ Long life, lyrically lessons ♪
- (in video) Leeroy Jenkins! - Leeroy Jenkins!
(explosion)
Memes, yes.
♪ Marvel and move, many mock what I've mastered ♪
- (crowd chanting) - ♪ [...] nap knowing I'm nice naturally ♪
- ♪ Operation, opposition ♪ - Hello ladies.
(crooning) Oh, he is so hot.
Come on, Old Spice.
(Laina Morris) I will be your girlfriend.
Oh, that's like the "obsessed girlfriend."
(Michael Stevens) What if every person on Earth jumped at once?
Ooh, Vsauce.
♪ We got uh, really raw raps ♪
(excitedly) Ohhhhh!
(laughs) It's us!
(gasps deeply)
(squeals) What?!
- ♪ Never gonna give you up ♪ - Oh man. I just got rickrolled.
Yeah, I got rickrolled!
The sad part is I love the song.
- (mouths along) - ♪ Desert you ♪
♪ Super scientifical sound searching sought ♪
♪ Tales ten times talented, too tough ♪
♪ Take that, challengers, get a tune up ♪
- (in video) Oh! - Oh, I love Kid President.
Them all my vloggers. I love Jenna Marbles.
- (Salad Fingers) Hello. - Ew, aah, no!
Salad Fingers. Uh, Charlie the Unicorn is in there.
♪ Yellow back, yak mouth, young ones yaws ♪
♪ Yesterday's lawn yard sell our yawn ♪
♪ Zag zig zombies, zoom in to the zenith ♪
♪ Zero in zen thoughts, overzealous rhyme zealots ♪
I know who this guy is.
This was the first YouTube video, right? Him at the zoo.
(in clip) And that's pretty much all there is to say.
That was cool.
Happy birthday.
Ten years of YouTube already? Whoa!!
Happy birthday, YouTube! Heh.
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(Finebros) So this is a montage video that YouTube itself
actually put together to celebrate its tenth anniversary.
Okay.
Wow, it's been around for ten years. That's crazy.
(Finebros) Did you know YouTube's been around now for ten years?
I knew it was quite a while.
That's crazy it's been around for ten years.
But that's still really young, if you think about.
I feel like YouTube has been around so much longer than 10 years.
I did know that YouTube's been around for ten years,
although it seems kinda crazy.
Makes me feel much younger than I ever have been before.
I didn't think it was a ten-year-old thing already.
That means I'm old. That means you're old.
We're all getting older!
(Finebros) How much YouTube do you watch in a given week?
Oh god.
Not enough to count.
Not anywhere near-- I mean, my kids, that's all they do.
Every week. Like, that's all I watch.
It's become like a nightly routine.
I don't have cable anymore. I just cut it off.
So just YouTube is my entertainment.
I'm gonna guesstimate, like, three hours a day?
I'd probably say about eight hours.
When my son gets home from school,
we watch YouTube videos while he's doing homework.
Probably 10 to 15 hours a week.
I'm always looking for stuff for my classes.
So we'll even use Crash Course, John Green.
We use that, like, all the time for history.
Seems like that's happening with everybody now,
is everyone just going to YouTube and watching YouTube.
(Finebros) With your kids, are they already getting into YouTube?
Yes.
That's all he watches.
It's a concept that escapes me.
He has no TV shows that he watches.
A 17-year-old watches a lot with me.
He'll watch a lot of fail stuff on his own.
She likes watching... Markiplier.
She loves Markiplier.
Constantly. All the time.
(Finebros) Do you know what they're even watching?
I really actually don't. Does that make me a bad parent?
- (Finebros snicker) - Whoops.
(Finebros) Do you remember what you first thought about YouTube
when you first found it, compared to how feel about YouTube now?
I didn't think much about YouTube, honestly.
I was wondering, honestly,
how they were gonna make money off of it.
As someone who's in the tech field, I was like,
"There's no way they can afford all this bandwidth."
When I first viewed it? Probably like a lot of people--
was just kinda like, "This is something the kids are into."
I didn't see it going to where it is now.
But the other teachers look at me as kinda the guy that's like,
"All he does is show movies every day." It's like, no.
This is actually a tool that can be used within the classroom
not only to grab their attention
but also to enhance what we're already teaching.
(Finebros) So YouTube's first video was uploaded April 2005.
- What were you doing in 2005? - 2005.
I was in fifth grade.
I was in fifth grade, so I was probably having a lemonade stand.
I was a sophomore in high school.
I'd just graduated college.
I was in college. (giggles)
I think I had my first internship at the job I work at now.
I was knee-deep in having little kids, so it's all a blur.
I was five years into teaching.
I was trying to pretend to be a rock star
playing in bands around town.
I was being just a boring suburban parent.
Like, nothing-- raising kids and working.
(Finebros) Could you ever have imagined ten years ago
that web content would be what it is today?
No idea.
The fact that we utilize it for everything is insane.
I didn't see the potential.
My daughter's just like, "How did you survive?"
(laughs) And you know what?
Honestly, sometimes even I can't answer that question.
(Finebros) Do you still find yourself getting entertainment
- from the same sources you did in 2005? - Oh, no.
I mean, now I'm streaming everything.
I don't even watch regular TV anymore.
I'm watching a lot more YouTube videos and Netflix
than I am regular TV.
I don't really like TV that much. I stick to YouTube.
I haven't had a TV for two years, and I've been so much happier.
I still watch TV.
There are a couple shows that we like to watch
"live," you know? Like Scandal.
But a lot of the stuff we watch is on Hulu.
We watch TV. We have a few select shows.
And then the rest of the time is spent
either on my phone or on my laptop checking out videos online.
Entertainment for me ten years ago was probably
still playing games on the PC.
We had LAN parties for playing Halo.
It's similar in that I'm still playing video games,
and you can still go online and play with friends.
But it's different in the sense that
they don't have to be in the same room with sheets hanging up.
(Finebros) So what are your thoughts overall
about YouTube and social media and how it gives people
an ability to broadcast in a whole new way
that has resulted in digital celebrities and social movements;
and here you are right now on an Internet show
that's gonna be seen by more people than a lot of cable TV shows?
I think it's awesome.
It's crazy. Isn't it so crazy?
It gives just your average person
the ability to show their creativity
and not have Hollywood have that kind of stranglehold on it
that they did have previous to this.
It gives people a voice as well.
And the fact that you can hear other people's opinions
and possibly glean something from that-- that's huge.
One little click, and you can send that message
to thousands of people
and even just have the message up on public
for literally the whole wide world to see it.
YouTube has been something that has really opened up
an opportunity to learn things
that were never available to us before.
I think that's what YouTube's about,
is just being able to go somewhere after.
And no matter what happens in your day, you can just go there,
and there's a video for everything
to make you feel every single way.
And I think that's really cool.
(Finebros) So finally, with YouTube's growth
over the last ten years,
where is YouTube and entertainment online going to be
- in another ten years? - Dude, just in my head.
Just beam it right in there.
I think it's gonna be the equivalent of television,
and cable's gonna be the rotary phone.
The TV is gonna die.
I don't think television is gonna be a thing anymore.
YouTube is gonna be the most dominant source for videos and TV.
We're no longer gonna have dumb cable boxes.
You're gonna have stuff like Apple TVs and stuff like that,
where you can interact more with what's going on TV.
It's gonna be a mix of TV and Reddit.
It's like with-- what was it? Blockbuster.
They had the monopoly on renting videos and renting movies.
And then slowly the Internet came along.
And they kept thinking like, "Oh no, we're too big to fail.
We're too big to fail. Ha ha ha!"
(imitates plummet)
And if it continues the way that it is,
I think it's actually gonna be even bigger
than, say, television, than movies.
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