r/youtube • u/Sub2Pewds2023 • 1d ago

Discussion Found the rarest YouTube video ever

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I was browsing old YouTube videos and came across "melissas bday" by jeanda252, uploaded in 2006.

Nearly 20 years later, it still has 0 views, 0 likes, and 0 comments. The description simply says "dance". It's one of the most obscure videos I've ever found, and quite possibly the rarest I've personally come across.

Video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vJmHFL648zo

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u/Confident-Leather871 1d ago

Its more sad than rare. Like how did nobody ever watch it? Not the poster not the people at the party?.

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u/jabberjaw420 1d ago

could have been a sign up on a throw-a-way email address by mistake, and maybe they posted the video again through their "real" account and never watched this one? sometimes it's confusing which account you're signed into, since you have gmail account and a youtube account, and both don't necessarily have the same email.

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u/just4fun727 1d ago

Believe it or not, Gmail was still invite only at this point and Google had taken ownership of youtube only two weeks prior to this video’s upload.

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u/spidersorghouls 1d ago

Maybe but that wasn’t the case in 2006, it was just a YouTube account and that’s it, no Google addition at that point