{"id":839962,"date":"2025-04-08T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/the-indo-daily-logan-paul-pewdiepie-and-nipplegate-20-years-of-youtube-controversy\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:14:19","slug":"the-indo-daily-logan-paul-pewdiepie-and-nipplegate-20-years-of-youtube-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/the-indo-daily-logan-paul-pewdiepie-and-nipplegate-20-years-of-youtube-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Indo Daily: Logan Paul, PewDiePie and Nipplegate: 20 Years of YouTube controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"utWeKXs9p\" data-fragment-name=\"articleDetail\">\n<header data-testid=\"article-header\"><\/header>\n<p>What were you doing before February 14, 2005? One thing we can guarantee you weren\u2019t doing was watching YouTube.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"article-body\">\n<p>That likely changed not too long after that fateful Valentine\u2019s Day, as the DIY streaming platform grew from an ultra-modern dating site to a Google-acquired juggernaut that now hosts just about every genre of video-based content imaginable (within reason, of course).<\/p>\n<p>These days, YouTube is a global-spanning \u2013 and let\u2019s be honest, time-wasting \u2013 phenomenon. However, it is one that boasts a hell of a lot more staying power than many a fallen social media rival.<\/p>\n<p>Success hasn\u2019t come without controversy \u2013 indeed, the very origins of YouTube reportedly stem from a shocking televised moment that pop culture will never forget \u2013 and we even have YouTube to thank for the endless wave of influencers that have bothered your phone screens for the last decade or so.<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of The Indo Daily, host Fionn\u00e1n Sheahan is joined by Mark Bergen, tech journalist at Bloomberg News, and author of Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube\u2019s Chaotic Rise to World Domination, to chart the journey of the red-tinted video-sharing behemoth.<\/p>\n<div>\n<h3>The Indo Daily: Logan Paul, PewDiePie and Nipplegate: 20 Years of YouTube controversy<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/in-focus-podcast\/id1568934774\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen on Apple \nPodcasts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/editorial\/images\/listenonapple.svg\"> <\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/22ASAFSMgEyQE5liUVft4F\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Listen on \nSpotify\" src=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/editorial\/images\/spotify330x80.png\"> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.ie\/podcasts\/the-indo-daily\/the-indo-daily-logan-paul-pewdiepie-and-nipplegate-20-years-of-youtube-controversy\/a2004372855.html\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What were you doing before February 14, 2005? One thing we can guarantee you weren\u2019t doing was watching YouTube. That likely changed not too long after that fateful Valentine\u2019s Day, as the DIY streaming platform grew from an ultra-modern dating site to a Google-acquired juggernaut that now hosts just about every genre of video-based content [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839963,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2230,1722,104640],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-839962","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-daily","8":"category-logan","9":"category-youtube-videos"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}