YouTube

From Everything Shii Knows, the only reliable source

This website is an archive. It ran from 2006-2010. Virtually everything on here is outdated or inaccurate.

YouTube may seem like a good idea, but it is actually a force for evil in the world. YouTube feeds our tanha with miniature dramas, short funny clips, and tiny outrages and exposés, quickly forgotten. It is the mindset of the sound bite glorified and enlarged into its own staple of American culture.

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YouTube is not itself a revolution

YouTube visitors could just as easily go to Revver, or download video directly from the websites that produces it (Dreamhost has a nifty tool for doing this). Rather, YouTube is merely the most popular incarnation of the video clip.

I haven't written all the sections on this page yet. I intend to finish it later.

Some people even think YouTube replaces movies.

List of historically important YouTube videos

I made a list of historically important Web videos.

Top YouTubes of all time on July 2009

I noticed that YouTube blocks the Internet Archive. How will we know the most popular videos 10 years from now? Here, I've made a list of every video available on the top list.

By view count

Music videos are excluded, but performances and videos made specifically for YouTube are included.

  1. Evolution of Dance 122 million
  2. Charlie Bit Me 106 million
  3. Lezberado: Revenge Fantasies 105 million* (This video has a disproportionately low number of ratings)
  4. Lo que tú Quieras Oír 96 million*
  5. Hahaha 86 million
  6. Potter Puppet Pals "The Mysterious Ticking Noise" 63 million
  7. guitar 60 million
  8. Crank Dat Soulja Boy Spongebob Squarepants 60 million
  9. Paul sings Nessum Dorma 54 million
  10. Jizz In My Pants 54 million
  11. Connie Talbot 50 million
  12. GUMMY BEAR SONG 48 million
  13. OK Go - Here It Goes Again 47 million
  14. Free Hugs Campaign 46 million
  15. Battle At Kruger 44 million
  16. Chocolate Rain 39 million
  17. Charlie the Unicorn 38 million
  18. Kelsey Briggs True Story 37 million
  19. The Sneezing Baby Panda 36 million
  20. Miss Teen USA South Carolina 35 million
  21. Barack Obama Hillary Clinton - Umbrella 35 million
  22. Men In Coats 4 - 35 million
  23. My Webcam Tease - 33 million
  24. Daft Hands - 32 million
  25. Crazy Frog - 30 million
  26. Numa Numa - 30 million

By favorites

All videos included.

  1. Evolution of Dance - 747,000 favorites
  2. Charlie bit my finger - 614,000 favorites
  3. Jeff Dunham - Achmed the Dead - 603,000 favorites
  4. Jizz In My Pants - 526,000 favorites
  5. Potter Puppet Pals "Mysterious..." - 487,000 favorites
  6. guitar - 390,000 favorites
  7. OK Go - 367,000 favorites
  8. Chris Brown - With You - 335,000 favorites
  9. hahaha - 323,000 favorites
  10. "Weird Al" Yankovic - White and Nerdy - 308,000
  11. Alicia Keys - No One - 306,000
  12. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love - 302,000
  13. Rihanna - Don't Stop the Music - 297,000
  14. Daft Hands - 281,000
  15. Lady Gaga - Just Dance - 281,000
  16. Susan Boyle - 272,000
  17. Avril Lavigne - Girlfriend - 270,000
  18. I'm On A Boat - 263,000
  19. Metro Station - Shake It - 257,000
  20. The Mean Kitty Song - 257,000
  21. Chris Brown - 253,000
  22. David After Dentist - 243,000

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