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Youtube was founded back on February 14th, 005. It was founded by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim, who all worked for Paypal. The idea behind youtube was to create a place where ordinary people can share their home videos. It really was a great idea because when they had an official launch on December 15, 2005, they had about 2 million video views each day. People seemed to love it because just over a year later there were about 100 million videos available on the site. Youtube changed the video business forever. Today people go on the site to watch funny videos, their favorite content creators, scary videos, music videos, cooking videos, educational videos etc. Nowadays if you have a phone or a computer, you have been on youtube or know what it is. All throughout my life I have seen youtube grow. I remember watching the early days of youtube as a kid. I remember watching Fred, the Charlie bit my finger video, Key and Peele skits. I also remember watching youtube in school for educational videos. Youtube does not even have its own TV system. Many people have started to get rid of cable in order to get YouTube TV. Youtube changed the way people listen to music. Music artists have some of the most viewed videos ever on youtube. Despacito by Luis Fonsi has 7.5 billion views. Youtube started many trends such as the cinnamon challenge, ghost pepper challenge, last to leave and don’t laugh. On top of all of that it has aloud for many influencers to grow their brand and make a ton of money 

People like Logan and Jake Paul are great examples of people who have utilized youtube perfectly. They recently have run youtube these past few years, both Logan and Jake have over 20 million subscribers. They started off from youtube, but they do not even make most of their money from youtube. They started to create their own merchandise when they started to blow up on youtube. For Logan it was the maverick brand which was named after his pet parrot and for Jake it was team 10 where he got a group of other creators and they made content together in a house. From this they started to not post as much and have matured a bit. Logan continues to make money, has a successful podcast and has made millions of dollars boxing people such as Floyd Mayweather. Jake Paul seems to be more serious about boxing and has an undefeated boxing record. He has made millions just like Logan and is fighting Tommy Fury in an upcoming fight. A final person would be PewDewPie who has over 110 million subscribers. He is a web comedian and a famous streamer. Youtube has changed the way the internet is run and has changed so many people’s lives. I do not see them slowing down any time soon as they are here to stay.