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YouTube is\\xa0one of the biggest media companies\\xa0in the world.\\xa0In 2020, we uploaded 500 hours\\xa0of footage to the site every minute. And\\xa0on average\\xa0we\\xa0watched over 5 billion videos every day. It\\u2019s a broadcasting machine so complex, it would make Marshall McLuhan\\u2019s head explode.\\xa0OTM Correspondent\\xa0Micah Loewinger\\xa0has been obsessed with YouTube since he was 13.\\xa0Last fall\\xa0he sat down with journalist\\xa0Mark Bergen\\xa0to discuss his new book,\\xa0Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube\\u2019s Chaotic Rise to World Domination. According to Bergen, the founders of the site originally envisioned something more akin to Tinder than homemade TV.
\\nThis is a segment from our September 30, 2022 program,\\xa0Still Loading\\u2026.
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