The amount of reach and power that YouTube has worldwide is hard to believe. So here are some impressive stats to make your jaw drop. There are over 2.1 billion YouTube users on planet Earth, and a whopping 694k hours of content are streamed on the site. Every. Single. Minute! YouTube is the second most visited site in the world with 34.6 billion monthly visitors, second only to its parent company’s site, Google (which dabs on YT with 92.5 billion monthly visitors).
That means that content creators are up against some stiff competition if they want to go viral. What’s more, creators constantly have to innovate and adapt to YouTube’s changing algorithms. However, one way to definitely get noticed on the video-sharing platform is to grab everyone’s attention with a witty or weird comment.
That’s where the ‘Absolutely Insane YouTube Comments’ Twitter page comes in. The social media project documents the most memorable comments on the website, from the simply strange to the downright hilarious. Bored Panda's featuring some of their best posts, as well as ridiculously strange YouTube comments that we found on the site ourselves. Enjoy, upvote the ones you loved the most, and share your thoughts about YouTube in the comments.
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The ‘Absolutely Insane YouTube Comments’ page has had a (very poetically) insane stretch of popularity. It was created just a few months ago, in February of 2022. However, in this short stretch of time, the Twitter account has already grown to have over 271k followers.
There’s hardly a doubt in our minds that the page will continue to grow. The content’s great, and it’s given us quite a few laughs. We even feel a tad guilty for laughing at some of these! Whatever the case might be, one thing’s for sure, some YouTubers have a razor-sharp wit.
The most viewed video on YouTube is the ‘Baby Shark Dance’ with a stunning 10.6 _billion_ views. Meanwhile, in second place is Luis Fonsi’s ‘Despacito’ (try getting that tune out of your head now) with 7.83 billion views.
‘Johny Johny Yes Papa’ lies in third place with 6.33 billion views, while Ed Sheeran’s ‘Shape of You’ is in fourth with 5.7 billion. The fifth place belongs to Wiz Khalifa whose song ‘See You Again’ has amassed 5.49 billion views. These numbers are all mind-blowing. And it might make you reevaluate what you think might be popular globally.
At the time of writing, the fastest video to reach 100 million YouTube streams was BTS’ ‘Butter.’ However, Adele’s ‘Hello’ holds the record for the fastest viral video to reach 1 billion YouTube streams.
YouTube generates roughly 28.84 billion US dollars worth of ad revenue worldwide. That’s a whopping 11.2 percent of Google’s entire revenue.
The video-sharing platform has around 37 million channels and over 800 million videos. That’s probably more than we could ever watch by ourselves. Around 1 billion videos are watched per day on YouTube, and people spend roughly 19 minutes watching things each day.
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