0:00Today, YouTube is something people
0:03around the world use every day. But did
0:06you know it started as a dating app? In
0:102005, three former PayPal employees
0:13created a site for people to upload
0:16video profiles and meet. That's why they
0:18called it YouTube. Show yourself. But no
0:22one uploaded dating videos. Instead,
0:25videos of cats, parties, and funny memes
0:29started to appear. That's when they
0:31realized people didn't want to date.
0:34They wanted to share their stories. One
0:37year later, YouTube was bought by Google
0:42billion. Now, over 5 billion videos are
0:46watched every single day. It started
0:49rough, but people shaped what YouTube