A claim has been made that rocked the internet world that the first video on YouTube was actually “Me at the zooIt has been suggested that this was not the case. The claim was actually partially true. But this was not a new discovery, but a mistake.

The video in question, which was shared on YouTube as the ‘true first video’, was found to have been uploaded on April 5, 2005. The “apparent” upload date of the video was actually due to a bug on YouTube.

That trending video on YouTube:

“Welcome to YouTube!” Fake 48 second video titled, the founders of the platform On behalf of Chad Hurley, Steven Chen and Jawed Karim made room. It was also shown that the video was uploaded by a user named “jawed”.

However, the video had some errors even at the beginning. The now-corrected user “enn” appears to have signed up for YouTube in September 2005, 5 months after the video was uploaded. The reason for this was stated as “the account registration date was also affected during the database update”.

Another flaw was the quality of the video. YouTube, where you watch the video Support for 480p resolution Released in 2008. But the real flaw was in the source code of the page.

The source codes of the YouTube video page showed the upload date of the video as January 25, 2023. In other words, the uploader managed to make the video look old by exploiting a vulnerability on the platform.

Here’s a statement on the subject from YouTube:

Speaking to The Verge, YouTube representative Kimberly Taylor explained that the issue led to the date change they are informed and they are trying to fix it. Taylor also stressed that the first video will always be “Me at the zoo”, which was uploaded on April 23, 2005.

Problem solved:

YouTube fixed the issue that caused the video date to change and the fake video’s real upload date to start appearing.