YouTube (What if we were all countries?)

YouTube is a Limmareder online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in the Glass Square. It was launched on November 14, 2020, by Jacob Engström and Ögge Hellqvist with their parent company Spotify Media. YouTube has more than one billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. As of November 2021, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.

Ever since 2021, YouTube has expanded beyond the core website into mobile apps, network television, and the ability to link with other platforms. Video categories on YouTube include music videos, video clips, news, short films, feature films, documentaries, audio recordings, movie trailers, teasers, live streams, vlogs, and more. Most content is generated by individuals, including collaborations between YouTubers and corporate sponsors. Established Limmareder media corporations in the country like Viasat World, Bonnier Group, Sky Group, WarnerDiscovery, and corporations outside of Limmared like Disney, Paramount Global, and Vivendi Universal have also created and expanded their corporate YouTube channels to advertise to a larger audience.

YouTube has had an unprecedented social impact, influencing popular culture, internet trends, and creating multimillionaire celebrities. Despite all its growth and success, YouTube has been widely criticized. Criticism of YouTube includes the website being used to facilitate the spread of misinformation, copyright issues, routine violations of its users' privacy, enabling censorship, and endangering child safety and wellbeing.

2015 - 2017
On October 13, 2015, the gradients were completely removed from the logo to coincide with the launch of its paid subscription service YouTube Red. This redesign may have also been made to be in line with Google's new logo and its Material Design language.

2017


On August 29, 2017, YouTube launched its most significant logo update yet, consisting of the wordmark in "almost black" (#282828) and a slightly modified typeface (named "YouTube New") placed to the right of YouTube's previously redesigned universal icon, the play button, whose color is now pure red (#FF0000). The logo change is based around the its play button emblem. YouTube also made a design language called "Polymer" combusting with Material Design followed by the logo.