{"id":13511,"date":"2024-11-27T17:21:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T00:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13511"},"modified":"2024-12-07T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:25:00","slug":"it-all-started-with-a-dick-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/11\/27\/it-all-started-with-a-dick-joke\/","title":{"rendered":"“It all started with a dick joke.”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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How YouTube Took Over the World<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

It all started with a dick joke. Twenty years later, the colossal video-sharing site rivals TV networks, Hollywood and TikTok \u2014 with no signs of slowing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0JESSE WILL<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some afternoon in the summer of 2010, I was standing in a dingy office building in New York\u2019s Garment District, staring at the screen of an iMac and doing what hundreds, maybe thousands of others were also doing at that same exact moment: watching a video called \u201cYosemitebear Mountain Double Rainbow 1-8-10.\u201d<\/a> Despite the shaky footage, the wind noise and the pixelated video, Paul \u201cYosemitebear\u201d Vasquez\u2019s footage of a \u201cfull-on double rainbow all the way\u201d stretching across the Sierra Nevada foothills, and his crying, cracking voice \u2014 \u201cWhat does this mean?\u201d \u2014 sucked me in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Watching it now, the video, running over three minutes and now with 51 million views, seems almost interminable by today\u2019s standards. (Back then, we had different attention spans.) In the office, we laughed at Yosemitebear, but I wanted to teleport off of that drab carpet and into the brush of a Mariposa County mountainside. The clip felt transcendent \u2014 something about the weirdness of being alive, seeing something extraordinary, yet overreacting to it \u2014 and sharing that with the world\u2026it might have been peak YouTube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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