Chaos & Amazement #2507: YouTube’s Dating Past, AI Celeb Drama, and the Rise of WikiTok

Feb 15, 2025

20 years ago today, YouTube was founded by ex-PayPal employees as a video-sharing site—originally a dating platform. Google bought it in 2006 for $1.65B. https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/02/11/youtube-founded-20-years-ago-february-2005/
- Today, YouTube is mostly watched on TV. CEO Neal Mohan wrote U.S. viewers stream over 1 billion hours of YouTube on TVs every day. He calls YouTube "the new television" while sharing plans for 2025. https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/our-big-bets-for-2025/
A viral ad showed Zuckerberg, Drake, Seinfeld & Scarlett Johansson in "F Kanye" shirts—racking up 875K+ views on 𝕏. Set to "Hava Nagila," it slams Kanye’s antisemitism after Shopify dropped his Yeezy store. The age of weaponized deepfakes is here. More at https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2025/02/fact-check-ad-celebrities-giving-finger-kanye.html + https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/02/13/inside-the-viral-ai-video-of-celebrities-slamming-yes-hateful-remarks/
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Adobe launched the Firefly Video Model, a generative AI tool for video & audio creation that’s IP-friendly and commercially safe. Now in beta, it lets users turn images into video, translate audio, and generate clips with text prompts—all in one app. https://firefly.adobe.com/

WikiTok = Wikipedia meets TikTok. Swipe through endless random Wikipedia stubs, discover new facts, and escape algorithm addiction—no tracking, no clickbait, just pure curiosity. Built in a night, open-source, and refreshingly unpredictable. https://wikitok.vercel.app
LIVE: This month, Tom and Jerry turn 85! Celebrate all month long with classic full episodes streaming around the clock! https://youtube.com/live/XDFKfdi84Co?si=uacLXlQJ3LZ37Yj9
Quiet apocalypse - a cosmic horror short film about a world on the verge of being destroyed by unwanted visitors from another universe. No AI was used in this film.
How long do you need to add together 100 four-digit numbers? 30 seconds, if you're this guy.
@guinnessworldrecords Fastest time to mentally add 100 four-digit numbers ⏱️ 30.9 sec by Aaryan Shukla 🇮🇳 #math #mathtok #guinnessworldrecords
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“So, I ordered a space heater on TEMU ’cause my room has been cold lately, and for some reason it [freaking] talks and also responds to the name Sarah.”
@noahstoc Ignore my laundry but new bff I guess #fyp
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Orange cat with zero braincells - but over 100,000 subscribers on YouTube.