Okay, here we are in front of the elephants. The cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks, and that’s cool. And that is mostly all that can be said, he said Jawed Karim 19 years ago in the first video published on Youtube. He titled it “Me at the Zoo,” and the low-resolution footage, only 18 seconds long, shows the young YouTube co-founder standing in front of the elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo in California. To date, that recording has exceeded over 317 million views and almost 11 million comments.
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After 19 years of existence, YouTube has 2.7 billion monthly active users worldwide. Back then, probably no one could even predict the popularity this platform would gain. These 317 million views still seem small compared to some of the viral videos that number in the billions today and have become part of history, bridging borders, cultures and languages.
The most viewed video on YouTube has 14 billion views, and the word is about a popular song loved by children all over the world. Clearly, the wordč is about Baby Shark and the catchy lyrics ‘Baby Shark, doo-doo, doo-doo, doo-doo”. Then follows the music video for the song “Despacito” by Puerto Rican singer Luis Fonsi, which has more than eight billion views. Međ the most viewed videos on this platform are mainly songs for children, but also numerous music videos.
The first video that achieved a billion views and thus broke the Guinness record was “Gangnam style” by the South Korean singer Psy, and it only took him five months to reach that figure. Today, it ranks fifth among the most viewed music videos on YouTube, with a total of over five billion views.
In front of him are Ed Sheeran with the song “Shape of You”, and Wiz Khalifa with the song “See you Again”, which was popularized by the movie “Fast and Furious” and the untimely death of one of the main actors, Paul Walker. Also on the list are Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars with the song “Uptown Funk”, El Chombo “Dame tu Cosita”, Maroon 5 with the song “Sugar”, OneRepublic “Counting Stars”, Katy Perry with the song “Roar” and in tenth place Sharika with the song “Waka Waka”.