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Me at the zoo
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first video uploaded to YouTube
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Key facts
- Produced by
- Jawed Karim
- Starring
- Jawed Karim
- Cinematography
- Yakov Lapitsky
- Release dates
- April 23, 2005 ( 2005-04-23 ) , 8:27 UTC–7
- Running time
- 19 seconds
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- audiovisual work
- Country of origin
- United States
- Creator
- Jawed Karim
- Cast member
- Jawed Karim
- Producer
- Jawed Karim
- Narrative location
- San Diego Zoo
- Filming location
- San Diego Zoo
- Duration
- 19
- Official website
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNQXAC9IVRw
- Image
- Me at the zoo (screenshot).png
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- different from
- A Day at the Zoo
- publication date
- 2005-04-23
- title
- Me at the zoo
- Commons category
- Me at the zoo
- language of work or name
- English language
- set in period
- April 23, 2005
- number of comments
- 11149996
- facet of
- history of YouTube
- described at URL
- www.youtube.com/shorts/9eq7Rdi6Slo
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Encyclopedic overview
"Me at the zoo" is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005, recognized as the first video uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features Jawed Karim, one of the co-founders of YouTube, being recorded by his high school friend, Yakov Lapitsky. In the video, Karim is seen standing in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo in California, where he briefly comments on the length of their trunks. Multiple journalists have opined that the video represented YouTube as a whole and stated it was a milestone of the platform's history. Karim has later updated the video's description several times. As of May 2026, the video has received more than 392 million views.
Background
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Me at the zoo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.