Forget The Facebook Movie — The YouTube Movie Is The Hot Ticket

Mg Siegler

MG Siegler is a general partner at Google Ventures and a columnist for TechCrunch, where he has been writing since 2009. Previously, MG was a general partner at CrunchFund. And before TechCrunch, MG covered various technology beats for VentureBeat. Originally from Ohio, MG attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI. He’s previously lived in Los Angeles where he worked... → Learn More

Wednesday, August 4th, 2010

The consensus among people I talk to about the upcoming movie about Facebook, The Social Network, seems to be that it looks like it actually might be good. That said, most simply can’t believe that it actually will be because it’s about, well, Facebook. So is it just the trailer that is making it look decent? A few people on YouTube decided to try and find out by making their own trailer for a movie — about YouTube.

The Video Website looks very promising. The plot looks eerily similar to The Social Network – but it includes laughing babies and pandas. What more can you ask for?

It also contains lines of tense dialogue such as:

  • “I’m talking about taking the entire humiliating experience of home videos and putting it online.”
  • “We don’t have enough videos of adorable laughing babies.” “Then find more! This is my shot”
  • “The keyboard cat wants more money.”

Watch it below.

Company: YouTube
Website: youtube.com
Launch Date: February 2005
Funding: $11.5M

YouTube provides a platform for you to create, connect and discover the world’s videos. The company recently redesigned the site around its hundreds of millions of channels. Partners from major movie studios, record labels, web original creators, viral stars, and millions more all have channels on YouTube. YouTube is predominantly an ad-supported platform, but also offers rental options for a growing number of movie titles. YouTube was founded in 2005 by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who...

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Company: Facebook
Website: facebook.com
Launch Date: February 1, 2004
IPO: NASDAQ:FB

Facebook is the world’s largest social network, with over 1 billion monthly active users. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in February 2004, initially as an exclusive network for Harvard students. It was a huge hit: in 2 weeks, half of the schools in the Boston area began demanding a Facebook network. Zuckerberg immediately recruited his friends Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes, and Eduardo Saverin to help build Facebook, and within four months, Facebook added 30 more college networks. The original...

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