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The YouTube Effect

I think I first uploadedto YouTube in 2007

[piano music] I think I first uploaded
to YouTube in 2007

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I think I first uploaded to YouTube in 2007.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
19
Timestamp in Movie
00:21:17
Uploaded
Apr 16, 2025
Genres
documentary, mystery, thriller
Production
XRM Media,Olive Hill Media,TIME Studios,Valhalla Entertainment,Trouper,Zipper Bros Films

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Movie Summary

In this eye-opening documentary, Alex Winter presents a thoughtful, troubling look at YouTube, a site with humble origins that has gone on to change how we experience the world.
So YouTube as a website has been in my life - The YouTube Effect 00:06
So YouTube as a website has been in my life
[harp notes] - The YouTube Effect 00:23
[harp notes]
What are traps, and be they gay? - The YouTube Effect 00:06
What are traps, and be they gay?
I was using a philosophy background and making arguments, - The YouTube Effect 00:08
I was using a philosophy background and making arguments,
[crowd cheering and cameras clicking] - The YouTube Effect 00:11
[crowd cheering and cameras clicking]
[female interviewer] How do you go from working in a supermarket five years ago - The YouTube Effect 00:07
[female interviewer] How do you go from working in a superma...
Part of me is not sure. I just do something that - The YouTube Effect 00:07
Part of me is not sure. I just do something that
♪ I don't need money I don't need cars ♪ - The YouTube Effect 00:18
♪ I don't need money I don't need cars ♪
[Steve] And then you fast forward a few years, - The YouTube Effect 00:07
[Steve] And then you fast forward a few years,
[crowd screaming] - The YouTube Effect 00:10
[crowd screaming]
[Anthony] Our channel was one of the first ten channels to ever be monetized. - The YouTube Effect 00:06
[Anthony] Our channel was one of the first ten channels to e...
They said we will give you $10,000 dollars each month if you have - The YouTube Effect 00:07
They said we will give you $10,000 dollars each month if you...
Obviously, that's a shit ton of money for, - The YouTube Effect 00:07
Obviously, that's a shit ton of money for,
[crowd screaming] - The YouTube Effect 00:09
[crowd screaming]
[Natalie] That really affects the kind of content that you can make - The YouTube Effect 00:12
[Natalie] That really affects the kind of content that you c...
[reporter] For more than a month, Mona Lisa Perez said her boyfriend - The YouTube Effect 00:08
[reporter] For more than a month, Mona Lisa Perez said her b...
I may fail, but if I fail, I wanna die trying. - The YouTube Effect 00:06
I may fail, but if I fail, I wanna die trying.
I know this sounds like a prank call, but he was trying to film a YouTube video. - The YouTube Effect 00:05
I know this sounds like a prank call, but he was trying to f...
Dear fat people. Ah! Some people are already really mad at this video. - The YouTube Effect 00:05
Dear fat people. Ah! Some people are already really mad at t...
[Talia] So much of it is about generating clicks. - The YouTube Effect 00:05
[Talia] So much of it is about generating clicks.