The incident that inspired the idea of establishing a platform for sharing videos was the appearance of an accidental nozzle of Janet Jackson, who gave a mini concert with singer Justin Timberlake in the halftime of the final of the US National American Football League in 2004.
As a result of Timberlake grabbing the upper part of Jackson's clothing towards the end of a song, Jackson's breast appeared and this event led to a huge outrage in the USA. While the Bush administration, which was in power at that time, reacted strongly to this incident, Jackson was also subjected to criticism of "immorality."
From all these discussions, the idea of YouTube was born.
Chad Hurley, 29, Steven Cehn, 28, and Jawed Karim, 25, were three friends with an interest in technology, working on PayPal. One evening together dining began to discuss what happened to Jackson while eating and "viral" video concept born yet at that time that created great controversy voiced or how difficult it is to achieve a compelling image.
Jawed Karim told the USA Today newspaper in 2006 that he talked about how "wonderful" it would be to have a website where people shared moments like this in the Super Bowl.
Founded in the garage, YouTube received its first major investment from an investment fund in November 2005 with $ 3.5 million.
Not so much, within a year, YouTube has grown into one of the fastest growing sites on the internet. In July 2006, the average number of video views per day exceeded 100 million.
This rapid growth also attracted the attention of technology giants. In the same year, it was bought by Google for 1 billion 650 million dollars.
So YouTube became one of these biggest purchases in technology history.
Time magazine came out in the same year with a cover written by "You" (You) on the YouTube interface on a computer screen in the "Person of the Year" issue.
Besides being the largest video sharing platform in the world, YouTube has turned into a structure that has changed many habits from cultural life to news consumption.
According to May 2019 data, video content uploaded to YouTube in one minute has exceeded 500 hours.
According to the quarterly ad revenue report, YouTube's annual revenue is estimated at $ 15 billion.
As YouTube's influence increases, especially among young people, there is growing debate about it.
The platform is criticized for not paying attention to copyright issues, not taking enough steps to prevent racist, homophobic and sexist content, and excluding some content for ad distribution.
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