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How 20 Years of YouTube Has Shaped Us

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KQED

News Commentary, News, Politics

4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

YouTube is the site for step-by-step how-to guides, unboxing and reaction videos, and children’s songs that get stuck in your head. It has also fundamentally changed how we produce and consume online content. As YouTube marks its 20th anniversary, we look at the cultural impact of the platform and how it evolved from a simple video-sharing site to the most visited website after Google’s own homepage. How do you use YouTube? Guests: Victor Xie, video creator, his YouTube channel is "Did You Eat Yet?" Mark Bergen, reporter, Bloomberg News; author of "Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube's Chaotic Rise to World Domination" Johnny Cole Dickson, video creator and host, his YouTube channel is "No Lab Coat Required" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:45.3

You. From KQBD in San Francisco, I'm I'm Ena Kim.

1:03.5

YouTube is marking 20 years, the site for step-by-step how-to guides, unboxing and reaction videos,

1:09.9

and children's songs that get stuck in your head.

1:16.6

YouTube is stronger than ever after two decades, now making its way from our computers and phones to our TV screens.

1:23.6

We'll look at how a way to share videos fundamentally change the way we consume and produce online content and shaped our culture.

1:31.3

And we hear from you. How do you use YouTube? Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Mina Kim.

1:48.4

YouTube has come a long way since it was founded in 2005 as a way to share videos.

1:53.9

Now the biggest video sharing platform in the world, YouTube is the second most visited website after Google, which owns it.

2:01.4

Billions of monthly users turn to the platform for how-to videos, crazy stunts, music and movie clips, kids entertainment, and more.

2:09.2

Well, look at the growth of YouTube in the last two decades, the controversies it's weathered, where it's headed, and how it's changed us along the way.

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