Reflecting on YouTube's first video

Alex Winter, director of the new documentary "The KZbin Effect," Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller reflect on "Me at the zoo," the first video ever posted to the platform. And they talk about the changes on KZbin over time and what effects those changes have had on politics, culture and media.
Watch the full conversation with Alex Winter here: • Is KZbin bad for us?

[@ultrakool]

I believe our adventure through time has taken a most serious turn

[@valcaron]

>elephants have really long trunks UMMM SWEATY, DO YOU HAVE A RELIABLE SOURCE FOR THAT?

[@jonnanderson6489]

I'd like to go back to the time when youtube didn't have 6 ads for 5 minute videos

[@ericturner2477]

And creators didn't have to beg for likes, comments, etc.

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

The first five years of KZbin (2005-2009) were wild. Then it became too sanitized and mainstream, specially from 2014 onwards when Susan took over.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Debatable. A large part of my conversion from liberal to right leaning libertarian came after 2014, and in no small part due to KZbin content, from Reason and other political channels.

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Old KZbin kicked ass compared to the censored and biased sht they are imposing now. We get libertarian content in spite of those leftists efforts.

[@VincitOmniaVeritas7]

Since 2016 AdPocalypse channels have self-censored more and more. Now even users do so to avoid their comments being hidden

[@fg009letyrds8]

Women☕

[@SirBlackReeds]

@@mirzaahmed6589 How many of those channels are still up and/or active?

[@tcorourke2007]

"Disinformation" is good. It means that, at a minimum, obvious falsehoods are not being censored.

[@macsnafu]

Absolutely. Censoring disinformation is a way to prevent people from deciding for themselves how idiotic something is. People need more practice at skepticism and evaluating truth. And of course, if information is successfully censored, how do the rest of us *know* if it's actually disinformation or not? Just because the censors told us it was?

[@lemdixon01]

KZbin is now TV 2.0 at this point. Its golden age is over already.

[@SirBlackReeds]

It's been over ever since Google acquired it.

[@WhoTube277]

A lot of this sounds like a discussion of what KZbin USED to be.

[@co11in__18]

Just saying, nobody’s talking about censoring Newgrounds like this 😂

[@moden321]

Where did you find Bizarro Michael Malice?

[@cuntohaire]

"You killed Ted, you medieval dickweed! " I like that Alex Winter is the opposite of Bill S. Preston, Esq.

[@SirBlackReeds]

I'm surprised Winter didn't mention how AMVs were all the rage in KZbin's early years, complete with clips that were most likely pirated from angelfire.

[@KrunoslavStifter]

This should be interesting. KZbin is ThemTube now.

[@SirBlackReeds]

* GloboHomo Central

[@ChrysanthsMum]

Elon bought it…it’s now X-Tube.

[@ianelliott518]

I think blue pilled Bills bogus opinions as a documentarian should be taken far less seriously than his dramatic performaces.

[@Gorrgrim]

is this the dude from bill and teds excellent adventure?

[@stargazerh112]

Is that Bill and Ted actor?

[@TickedOffPriest]

ONce it became a tool of the Conservatives, Liberals could no longer treat it as a toy.

[@emmettturner9452]

“Elephants do have long trunks” Source? You didn’t say long noses. As far as I know, elephants are the only animals with these so-called “trunks” and if there are others I would need to know if their trunks are notably shorter on average to conclude that elephant trunks are comparatively “long.”

[@TRAZ4004]

Anteater’s trunks are smaller. I’m worried about the effects on democracy if we all blindly believe elephants have ‘long’ trunks.😊

[@Jimi_Lee]

The tapir would be a good example. They've been overlooked by animal lovers because of their embarassingly tiny trunks.

[@woodchuck003]

This clip should be renamed to signified that this interview went just straight downhill from here.

[@jeffwilcox9987]

5:54 It’s funny to hear him use a term (red pilled) that became popular because of something Ted did in another movie. Funny reference….

[@Healcraft]

i was 5 min into this video before i realized thats Bill

[@stargazerh112]

You can be demonetized in an instant on KZbin as well. “Removing gatekeeping” is hyperbolic

[@SameAsAnyOtherStranger]

Alex Winter- Bill of "Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure." I looked it up.

[@epithos]

Don't care if true. I believe

[@John_Fx]

it was nice of Bill to take the phone booth back to the past to retrieve that video

[@fearthehoneybadger]

Before Jackass clone videos took over.

[@mirzaahmed6589]

Jackass clone videos go back to 2005. One of the earliest videos was of a skiing fail.

[@stargazerh112]

I hate all this talk of misinformation…🤦‍♂️

[@portostrengthunion]

Bill & Ted!

[@MilwaukeeF40C]

Whoa! Is that the guy from the Butthole Surfers vacation video?

[@andyosully]

KZbin was originally a dating site. Changes the meaning of the first video. 😂

[@johnslugger]

*Is this TED from 'TED AND BILLS EXCELLENT ADVENTURE'???*

[@threegenders201]

Bill

[@thechuckjosechannel.2702]

That video's a Classic. Just like my Videos that are inspired by Classic KZbin. The video that Started it all.

[@lemdixon01]

Okay Boomers.... oh you dont want to be redpilled and stay in the Matrix

[@jacob951245457]

Hello handsome! Woof!