YouTube
| The Internet's most popular video sharing site; owned by Google. Aggressively removing information about Covid-19 while promoting Covid vaccines. |
https://www.YouTube.com 
Started: 15 February 2005
Founders: Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim
Owner: Alphabet Inc.
Constitutes: Website, Social media
Contents
Sub-Page
| Page Name | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| YouTube/Censorship | 16,372 | YouTube Censorship gained pace during the late 2010s, especially around 2016 and in 2020 during the COVID-19/Panic. Videos which had millions of views were removed, pushing a lot of people to alternative platforms such as AltCensored or Bitchute. |
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows "content creators" to earn money with their uploads.[1] In 2021, it was attempting to promote acceptance of the COVID-19 jab by young people [2] and heavily censoring alternative views.[3]
History
Three former PayPal employees — Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim — started YouTube in February 2005. Google bought it in November 2006 for $1.65 billion.
In November 2021, YouTube removed "dislike" buttons from their site, after corporate media had been heavily disliked during COVID-19.[4] Jawed Karim, co-founder of YouTube, predicted the decline of the site following this decision.[5]
Profitability
Google has build a network of the highest performance for the service since the acquisition; it remained free of charge for around 10 years and by 2022 can still be accessed in full without a paid subscriber account. At the end of 2017, Warren Shaeffer, in a blog post on the closing of the video platform vid.me, suggested, based on a remark of Susan Wojcicki in 2016,[6] that Youtube "to this day is still likely operating at a loss".[7] Based on initial growth rates, in 2015 it's database was estimated to be 660 Petabyte;[8][9] other estimates put it at 500 Petabyte at the time. In 2020 YouTube's revenue was reported to be above 15 billion USD.[10]
Content removal
- Full article: YouTube/Censorship
- Full article: YouTube/Censorship
In 2016, YouTube announced that making "negative comments" about someone else and hurting their feelings might be considered sufficient grounds for the to censor content.[11] In 2017, YouTube was reportedly faster as censoring content than Facebook or Twitter, taking down 90% of all content flagged within 24 hours.[12]
Gradual redesign
As well as censoring content, YouTube is gradually adjusting to a more menu based system,[13] together with other changes that use big data to suggest content to users rather than responding to their input.[14]
Elsagate
- Full article: Elsagate
- Full article: Elsagate
Beginning in 2014, reaching a peak in 2017/2018, Youtube hosted videos geared towards very young children that depicted disturbing scenes and which became known as Elsagate. Youtube was forced to remove the content since there was common agreement that it is harmful. However, due to the massive distribution and monetization, Youtube must have been aware that their platform is used for this.
Incentives for small content creators
It has been reported that Youtube tries to incentivize small channels to make videos on one of four topics:
The video would have to take a positive stand towards the matter and if selected after review, the creator would be eligible for up to 2400 Dollar of studio equipment and possibly a seminar for content creators.[15]
Alternatives
- Full article: Alt_Tech
- Full article: Alt_Tech
YouTube on Wikispooks
Currently, Template:YouTubeVideo is available for embedding videos on this site. This may be replaced in time, but remains an easy way to add video content to the site. It is not yet deprecated and is still available for use.
YouTube Pages
Examples
| Page name | Description |
|---|---|
| 'Destiny' | Started as video streamer, now is known for debating people. |
| Nima Alkhorshid | Interviewing Dmitry Orlov on 6 Nov. 2024<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> |
| Kevork Almassian | Syrian journalist and geopolitical analyst |
| John Campbell | UK YouTuber who in 2020/2021 was promoting fear of Covid and strict adherence to COVID policies, including COVID injections. |
| Dave Cullen | Irish Youtuber and political dissident. |
| Daniel Davis | US Army Colonel who wrote assessment in 2012 that the Afghan war has been a disaster and the military’s top brass has not leveled with the American public about just how badly it’s been going. |
| David Freiheit | Canadian lawyer and Youtuber |
| Krishnan Guru-Murthy | |
| Gary Stevenson | "Tax the wealthy to rebalance the economy towards poor and middle income families" |
| The Jimmy Dore Show | American political analysis comedy show. |
| The Kim Iversen Show | Independent analysis of today's politics. Foreign Policy, Pandemic, Elections and More. |
| C. J. Werleman | On YouTube, CJ Werleman has predicted the "End of Zionism: 2 Million Jews Leave Israel, Forever!"<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> |
Related Quotation
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| PewDiePie ADL controversy | “Reinstalled Twitter to talk about PewDiePie's betrayal by donating 50k to the ADL. The company working with places like Twitter to get rid of anything "Offensive" @pewdiepie
You just supported a group that even ruined even YOUR deal to Disney. Wtf? PewDiePie literally paid $50,000 to not be called racist anymore. And in turn- he just got so many people in the future censored off of places like Twitter and YouTube. Anytime someone gets banned for now on, I'll be sure to say "Thanks Pewdiepie"” | Brittany Venti | 11 September 2019 |
Documents sourced from YouTube
| Title | Type | Subject(s) | Publication date | Author(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document:Battleground Ukraine | lecture transcript | The Great Game 2014 Ukraine coup | 14 April 2014 | Andrei Fursov | A wide ranging analysis of the 2013-2014 situation in Ukraine, its antecedents and consequences from the perspective of a senior Russian academic |
| Document:Craig Murray - Political Prisoner of the British State | Speech | Craig Murray Wikileaks Clive Ponting European Court of Human Rights Daniel Everette Hale Jigsaw Identification | 30 July 2021 | Craig Murray | "This is selective prosecution. This is political persecution. And I have no doubt whatsoever that I go to jail as a political prisoner" (extract from Craig Murray's speech two days before going to Edinburgh's Saughton Jail). |
| Document:The 20-year war on Afghanistan was a mistake | Speech | "War on Terror" "Democracy" Afghanistan Stop the War Coalition Taliban War of aggression Afghanistan/2001 Invasion Neocon Afghanistan/2021 Withdrawal | 18 August 2021 | Zarah Sultana | Speaking outside Parliament on 18 August 2021, prior to the Afghanistan emergency debate, Zarah Sultana joined colleagues including Jeremy Corbyn to say: "The war on Afghanistan shows – once and for all – that the West cannot deliver liberal democracy at the barrel of a gun. This war – the first 'War on Terror' – must be Britain's last war of aggression." |
| Document:Twenty Years On, We’ve Learned Nothing From 9/11 | Speech | 9-11 Middle East Patriotism Peace The Establishment Saddam Hussein George W. Bush "Humanitarian intervention" Military-industrial-congressional complex Joe Biden Islamic State Madeleine Albright Non-interventionism US/Foreign policy TSA 9-11/20th Anniversary Joe Biden/Presidency Afghanistan/2021 Withdrawal | 17 September 2021 | Ron Paul | 20 years on from 9/11, Ron Paul says that The Establishment in the United States has learned nothing since the attacks. |
| Document:US is militarizing Ukraine to invade Russia | discussion | Globalisation Russia Eurasia 2014 Ukraine coup | 20 June 2014 | Sergei Glazyev | Vladimir Putin's economic adviser outlines the massive militarisation of Ukraine and the Anglo-US agenda that is behind it. |
| Document:Usaia to attack Russia in 2015 | interview transcript | Globalisation Russia Colour revolution | 31 May 2014 | Evgeny Fedorov | A coup d´état under the guise of an ‘Colour Revolution’ is being prepared in Russia. The big picture and the details are given by Evgeny Fedorov, a deputy in the Russian parliament, and coordinator of the People’s Liberation Movement. |
| Document:What If the US Does Attack Iran? | interview | Iran/Nuclear weapons John Mearsheimer Donald Trump US/Air Force 2025 Israeli attacks on Iran | 20 June 2025 | Andrew Napolitano | "I hope Trump has the good sense not to take the United States into this war. And I hope that the fact that he's not been talking so hawkishly the past two days means that he's beginning to see the light and then I hope he goes to great lengths to get the Israelis and the Iranians to do something to bring this to an end. Am I hopeful that will happen? No but that's sort of the best case I can make at this point in time." (John Mearsheimer on 20 June 2025) |
References
- ↑ https://influencermarketinghub.com/how-much-do-youtubers-make/
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-57122216
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-56372184
- ↑ https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/
- ↑ https://www.theverge.com/2021/11/17/22787080/youtube-dislikes-criticism-cofounder-jawed-karim-first-video-description-zoo
- ↑ https://fortune.com/2016/10/18/youtube-profits-ceo-susan-wojcicki/
- ↑ https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20061110205633/http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2006/09/01/youtube-data-storage-stats-revealed/
- ↑ http://archive.today/2021.10.03-154239/https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube
- ↑ https://www.tubics.com/blog/youtube-revenue/
- ↑ http://www.blacklistednews.com/YouTube_Says_Making_%22Negative_Comments%22_About_Someone_Reason_to_Shut_Channel_Down/52177/0/38/38/Y/M.html
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/14/technology/germany-hate-speech-facebook-tech.html
- ↑ https://mashable.com/article/youtube-rolls-out-updated-homepage/?europe=true saved at Archive.org and Archive.is
- ↑ https://www.siliconrepublic.com/companies/youtube-recommendations-engine-changes-borderline-content saved at Archive.org and Archive.is
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yURJ82BNTaA - archived
