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YouTube milestones

Order by the year each YouTube milestone happened. You place all 30 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.

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How the YouTube history timeline works

From viral videos to business deals, each card is a moment in YouTube's history, and you order them by the year it happened. A line under the title explains what the milestone was. The game begins with one card in place and its year in view. You then slot each new milestone before, between or after the others. Correct: the year is revealed. Incorrect: the card moves to its true spot regardless and you lose one of three lives.

The deck follows the site from its very first upload to the age of record-setting creators, taking in early viral clips, ownership and leadership changes, product launches and subscriber races. Records get broken more than once, so any card about the most views or the most subscribers needs care. Viral videos often stayed popular long after they broke, which makes them easy to place too late. The business cards are the sleepers that trip people up.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 30 cards you might be dealt, with 2 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Me at the Zoo Jawed Karim in front of the elephants
  • Lazy Sunday SNL digital short spreads online
  • Evolution of Dance Judson Laipply's comedy dance medley
  • Google buys YouTube A $1.65 billion deal in stock
  • Charlie Bit My Finger English brothers and one bitten finger
  • YouTube Partner Program launches Creators get a share of ad money
  • David After Dentist Groggy boy asks if this is real life
  • Susan Boyle's audition Britain's Got Talent singer stuns the judges
  • Stars give way to likes and dislikes YouTube overhauls video ratings
  • VidCon launches Hank and John Green's online video convention
  • Rebecca Black's Friday Mocked pop song about the weekend
  • Red Bull Stratos jump Felix Baumgartner's record live stream
  • Gangnam Style hits a billion views Psy's horse-riding dance
  • PewDiePie becomes most-subscribed Swedish gamer takes the top spot
  • Gangnam Style breaks the view counter YouTube switches to 64-bit view counts
  • YouTube Red launches Ad-free subscription, later renamed Premium
  • YouTube TV launches Live cable channels over the internet
  • Despacito becomes most-viewed video Luis Fonsi and Daddy Yankee
  • Cobra Kai premieres Karate Kid series as a YouTube Original
  • YouTube Rewind becomes most-disliked video Everyone Controls Rewind
  • T-Series passes PewDiePie Indian music label wins the subscriber race
  • Team Trees MrBeast and Mark Rober's tree-planting drive
  • Baby Shark Dance becomes most-viewed video Pinkfong's children's song
  • YouTube Shorts beta Short vertical videos, starting in India
  • Squid Game in Real Life MrBeast's $456,000 survival contest
  • Dislike counts hidden Only the creator can still see them
  • Neal Mohan becomes CEO Longtime product chief takes over
  • NFL Sunday Ticket moves to YouTube Out-of-market football on YouTube TV

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