YouTube: they post a video and pass it off as the oldest posted on the platform

A user has managed to pass off a video as the first one allegedly published on Youtubea forgery that the platform is already investigating and that it has corrected after updating the actual date of publication of this other content.

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The oldest video published on YouTube receives by title ‘Me at the zoo’ and it was one of the founders of this Google service, Jawed Karim, who uploaded it to this service on April 23, 2005 from the verified account @jawed.

In it Karim appears in front of the camera and with a group of elephants behind him and It lasts just 19 seconds.as well as a low image quality, since it is only possible to choose between a 144p and 240p configuration.

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Recently another user who goes by the name @enn has managed to fake the publication date of a video in order to pass it off as the first one uploaded to the platform. Specifically, on April 5, 2005.

This other one is titled ‘Welcome to YouTube!!!’, has a duration of 48 seconds and it only contains an image with a low-resolution graphic showing the logo of the platform and references to its founders. In addition to Karim, the last names of the other two creators of the platform, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, are also included.

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Yes ok the platform has already reset and updated the publication date of this video, The Verge has advanced what have been the details that showed that it was not the first video on the platform.

First of all, he pointed out that the video posted by @enn had the indicative ‘Live chat is disabled for this premiere’a functionality that did not yet exist in 2005, so the user would not have been able to enter it on the date he allegedly uploaded it.

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YouTube introduced live streaming capability to the platform in 2011, while rolling out the option to premiere videos in 2018, as 9to5Google recalls.

Another fact that shows that ‘Welcome to YouTube!!!’ was later uploaded to ‘Me at the zoo’ is the date of creation of the @enn account, September 4, 2005, that is, about months after allegedly uploading that pioneering video.

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For its part, YouTube has acknowledged the problem, although He has not given details about what could have happened for this user to pass any video as the first to be uploaded to the platform.

“We are aware of an issue that allowed the upload date of this video to be changed and We are working on a solution”has commented the YouTube spokeswoman, Kimberly Taylor, who has confirmed that the oldest video on the platform is the one published by Karim.

Source: Elcomercio

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