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, 1996, 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 2019, videos were being uploaded at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute.

Ever since the 21st century, 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.

2011 - 2013
This modification of the YouTube logo was introduced in July 2011 as a part of the Cosmic Panda experiment, and it officially became the new logo a few months later. It has the red square in a darker color this time. This logo first appeared on the website as of November 30, 2011 when YouTube launched a new version of the site interface, with the video channels displayed in a central column on the home page, similar to the news feeds of social networking sites. This logo was still used on the "Add video to playlist" screen until 2020.

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.

2017 - present


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.