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The date youtube was created was a major change for the world. It allowed people to make videos for people around the world to enjoy. People were eventually able to earn money off of this.
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The First video uploaded sparked many interests. It encouraged many people to buy a camera and start making videos themselves. It was a couple months after youtube was created that people were able to make videos on youtube.
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The first youtube video to reach 1,000,000 views was made by Nike. It was an ad showing off their product. They were recently running a campaign about the video.
Link- (https://www.quora.com/What-was-the-first-video-to-hit-one-million-YouTube-views-How-long-did-it-take-for-it-to-reach-one-million-views) -
Smosh was the first youtube channel to ever reach 100,000 subscribers. Smosh is a very famous channel that is based on comedy. It was created by 2 men named Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla.
Link- (https://www.quora.com/Who-was-the-first-YouTuber-to-hit-100k-subs) -
Fred Figglehorn was officially the first person on youtube to reach 1 million subscribers. He was a 15 year-old comedian that was loved by people his age. When he was about 16 he made a movie that went extremely viral.
Link- (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/04/youtubes-fred-is-first-online-video-star-to-break-1m-subscribers.html) -
The world's longest youtube video was made by moldytoastermedia. It was 596.5 hours long. This was a big trend on youtube at one point and everyone kept trying to beat each others records.
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Gangnam style is a song that was made by a south Korean man that was called PSY. He is a very talented singer songwriter with a good personality. The video for that song was the first video on youtube to reach 1 billion views and has 2.9 billion today.
Link- (http://observer.com/2015/02/the-10-most-important-videos-in-youtube-history/) -
The first people to ever reach 10 million subscribers was also Smosh. They already accomplished many youtube achievements such as the first channel to reach 100,000 subscribers. They were also the most viewed channel at the time.
Link- (http://www.thewrap.com/first-youtube-channel-reach-10-million-subscribers-94071/) -
PewDiePie was the very first person to reach 10 billion views. He is the biggest youtuber by far and has more than 3,000 videos. He gains about half a billion views every two weeks.
Link- (http://people.com/celebrity/pewdiepie-channel-reaches-10-billion-views-makes-history/) -
PewDiePie is the first person to reach 50 million subscribers. He is also the biggest youtube channel ever made. He got an award for reaching this milestone which was a big rub sculpture with many smaller ruby figures. He also manages to get roughly 50-100 thousand subscribers every day.
Link- (https://socialblade.com/blog/pewdiepie-becomes-first-youtuber-50-million-subscribers/)
