This 19 second clip features YouTube cofounder Jawed Karim talking about how cool elephant trunks are. Oh how far our little video dumping ground has come. Oddly enough, the first YouTube video barely has 2 million views. Here’s a link to the current most viewed that blow the original away by hundreds of millions of views. http://www.youtube.com/videos?lg=EN&s=mp&t=a I’m disturbed that Miley Cyrus appears three times in the top 15, followed by Lady Gaga with two appearances and this guy:
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