[ronilan]

This wayback machine is from April 28, 2005. Me at the Zoo[1] is from April 23, 2005.

So technically speaking, someone did upload something. And 5 days is actually really 5 days...

Which brings the question - what is the second oldest YouTube video still on the site? Who is the “also ran”?

[1] https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw

[computator]

One of the comments on that video claims that the guy makes $5.9k-$93.7k per year on that one 18-second video. Does that sound plausible and consistent with what YouTube pays? Is there any way to check if he has actually monetized his video?

[P0l83q4p1Hw3Ul]

$1-10 per 1k views.

73m views / 15 years = 5.2m views/year

=$5.2k/year - $52k/year.

Turn off Adblock and see if an ad plays.

[mkagenius]

> [1] https://youtu.be/jNQXAC9IVRw

Wow, the level of spammy comments on that one is perpetual.

[Thorrez]

The comments on that video default to sorted by new. You can change it to sorted by top. The uploader chooses the default sort, but the default for the default is top.

[cowsandmilk]

The founder of the site seeded content, that isn’t users uploading...

[ronilan]

Founders do that? That’s so seedy!

[est31]

So that's why he talks about the long trunks of the elephants in that video.

[avip]

Is there a sequel? First ever tweet, HN comment, SO question... tinder profile?

[jxramos]

wow a whopping 18 seconds and 72,954,314 views!