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Just a Few People Crowned Some of YouTube’s Earliest Hits
In the early days of the internet, one of the first search engines, Yahoo!, hired “surfers,” people with particularly niche interests, to record and catalog new websites by hand. In those days, each site was crafted by hand by a person. Each site had a face you could see, and if desired, email.
Spencer Chang • Taking an Internet Walk
When MrBeast, in his teens, wanted to figure out how to make viral videos, he did it by consuming every video that went viral on YouTube.
Henrik Karlsson • How MrBeast Learns
Old-timers felt YouTube had lost some of its original character and charm. “We kind of became the Walmart of video,” recalled Chris Zacharias, a developer who left in 2010.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
After starting his account in 2009, Johnson quickly surmised two simple truths of the website: people came to see viral videos, particularly from regular people; and people liked to laugh, particularly at regular people.
Mark Bergen • Like, Comment, Subscribe
YouTubers were not just amassing niche fandoms. They were building and fostering communities, ones with powerful bonds.