YouTube

**YouTube** is a website where people can make channels in order to upload videos. Anyone can watch videos on YouTube unless they're hidden, private or banned. Users as well as comment on them (unless comments are disabled). Channels can also subscribe to other channels. Users can also make playlists that consist of multiple videos.

Currently, the most viewed video is *Baby Shark* by Pinkfong with over 10 billion views. The most subscribed channel is T-Series with over 200 million subscribers. The most liked video is *Despacito* by Luis Fonsi with over 47 million likes. The most viewed non-music video is *Masha and the Bear - Recipe for Disaster* by Get Movies. The most liked non-music video is *How Zach King Gets Away With Doing Graffiti* by dollarbill. Before the dislikes were hidden, the title of the most disliked video was held by *YouTube Rewind 2018: Everyone Controls Rewind*, with approximately 20 million dislikes.

## Milestones

**Note: The fastest records may be outdated or inaccurate (as in never actually held the record but beats the record holder as of 2019), though each time written is greater than or equal to the actual time it took for the fastest video/channel to reach the milestone.**

Something listed in italics means it's since been deleted.

### Views

The list of most views in 24 hours only keeps track of non-trailers. Trailers have a separate list that adds up all views from multiple websites, and as such, their views on YouTube alone are hard to confirm. However, as the *Avengers: Endgame* trailer (most viewed trailer in 24 hours) only has about 93 million views on YouTube as of April 14, 2019, it can be assumed that YouTube views are not a massive percentage of all trailer views.

For videos uploaded very recently (especially if popular) view counts are almost never displayed accurately. As such, videos often show higher like and comment counts than view counts.

It is likely of *Boy With Luv*'s records were broken afterwards by *How You Like That* or *Dynamite*. More research needed to confirm whether this is the case.

### Likes

It should be noted that due to *Dynamite* being a premiere, it was possible for people to like the video before its publication, and as such, the actual time it took for it to gain 1 million likes is harder to state.

It is unconfirmed which video is the fastest to reach 5 million likes, but *Boy With Luv* by BTS ft. Halsey achieved the milestone in approximately 6 hours.

*Despacito* had about 18.5 million likes after becoming the most viewed YouTube video in August 2017, and 16.01 million likes when it became the most liked video on July 25, 2017.

*Dynamite* had 14 million likes as of August 23, 2020, meaning it reached the 10 million like milestone at some point by then. *How You Like That* reached the 10 million like milestone in 2 days according to Wikitubia's YouTube Records page.

*How You Like That*, published on June 26, 2020, had reached the 15 million like milestone at some point prior to August 23, with 15.28 million likes according to Wikipedia's list of most liked videos.

Wikipedia's list of most liked videos no longer shows every video with over 10 million likes so more recent videos that hit the 10 million like milestone quickly are more likely to go unnoticed.

### Dislikes

Since late 2021, the public dislike counts on YouTube videos have been hidden, so information on new most disliked videos is no longer available on the website. However, a dislike extension has shown that two YouTube shorts uploaded in 2022 have overtaken YouTube Rewind 2018 after the public dislike counts were removed.

### Subscribers

It is hard to verify the fastest times for many of the smaller milestones. Categories such as Music are excluded. Time counted from channel creation.

Wikitubia's YouTube Records page claims Sidemen Reacts was the fastest video to reach 100,000 subscribers in 55 minutes on August 16, 2020. However, the channel creation date is shown as August 6, 2020, and there is no source showing the channel already having 100,000 subscribers prior to August 16.

## Trivia

* PSY - Gangnam Style and Justin Bieber - Baby are the only videos that got a billion views before the beginning of 2015.
	+ Gangnam Style is the first video to reach 1 billion and 2 billion views, reaching both milestones before 2015.
	+ The date on which Gangnam Style reached 1 billion views was also predicted to be the end of the world due to it being the last day in the Mayan long count calendar, leading to a fake Nostradamus prediction which connected the two events.
	+ Gangnam Style also held the 1st position for the most watched video for 1,689 days (current record) before losing it to See You Again on July 10, 2017.
		- It also held the position for the most liked video for the longest time for 1,444 days before losing it to See You Again. It later lost the record for being the most liked video for the longest time to Despacito, which has been the most liked video since July 2017.
	+ Baby held the position for most disliked for the longest time, holding the title from early 2011 (following the deletion of Friday by Rebecca Black) to late 2018 (when it was overtaken by YouTube Rewind 2018). Baby was also the most disliked for a period of time before Friday in 2010.
* 2017 was the first year during which multiple billion view milestones were reached for the first time (3 billion and 4 billion). 1 billion was reached in 2012, 2 billion in 2014, 5 billion in 2018, 6 billion in 2019 and 7 billion in 2020.
	+ 2021 was the second year with multiple billion view milestones reached for the first time (8 billion and 9 billion). These were also the first billion view milestones higher than the world population. 2022 was the third with 10 billion and 11 billion.
* YouTube Rewind 2018 was, at the time of its release, the fastest video to gain dislikes, becoming the most disliked video and reaching 10 million dislikes in just under a week.
	+ PewDiePie's version of YouTube Rewind 2018, on the other hand, gained likes quickly. It overtook all official YouTube Rewinds and became the most liked non-music video by the end of 2018. It later lost the title to a video by MrBeast despite MrBeast himself not wanting to overtake the video.
* PewDiePie and T-Series competed for the title of most subscribed from around September or October 2018 to April 2019. T-Series was originally expected to overtake PewDiePie in late October, but the overtake was delayed thanks to MrBeast. T-Series overtook PewDiePie for the first time on February 21, and in March 2019, the two channels overtook each other numerous times. On March 27, T-Series took the lead for 5 days before PewDiePie regained the lead on April 1. PewDiePie stayed ahead for 13 days until April 14, when T-Series overtook him again.
* PewDiePie holds the record for being the most subscribed channel for the longest time. The second longest time is held by T-Series.
* Most videos which broke the record for most YouTube views in 24 hours since 2013 are K-pop videos. These include *Gentleman* by PSY as well as multiple songs by BTS and Blackpink. Artists outside of South Korea who have achieved this include Taylor Swift and Ariana Grande. All YouTube videos which have broken this record since 2013 are music videos.
* January 2022 was the first time since 2012 that a power of 10 view milestone was reached for the first time, with Baby Shark reaching 10 billion views. This was also the first power of 10 milestone greater than the world population.