It's OK, YouTube. We all get better as we get older.
10 years ago today, one of YouTube's creators, Jawed Karim, uploaded the site's first video. It's an 18-second clip of him talking about elephants at the zoo. I think he's trying to make a dick joke. It does not go well. I mean, it doesn't go poorly. But if he is indeed trying to make a joke, it's just not funny.
Anyway, YouTube grew up and is now middle-aged by Internet standards, and thankfully, with that wisdom comes a deluge of better elephant videos.
Like the baby elephant that falls and gets helped up by his parents.
Or the elephant that gets a lullaby to go to bed.
Or the young elephant reunited with its mother.
Or the elephant picking up trash.
Or the baby elephant that fought off 14 lions.
Happy birthday, YouTube. May you keep elephanting for years to come!