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YouTube 16 Years Later [VIDEO]
Did you know that 16 years ago today, April 23, 2005 that the first video was loaded to YouTube?
YouTube sure has come along way! I never spent much time on YouTube until I took over the WDEA webpage, and now, I'm on there constantly! Any idea what the video with the most views in YouTube history is? Go ahead and guess!
Ok scroll down
And the video with the most views... by a landslide is.....
It's been seen an amazing 8,394,897,470 times as of 8 a.m. on April 23rd. That's over 8 billion since it was published on June 17, 2016
The 2nd most video is Luis Fonsi - Despacito featuring Daddy Yankee with 7,311,318,900 views as of 8 a.m. on April 23rd since it was published on January 13, 2017
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