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Since September 1, 2020, it is the sole award to be missing from the Creator Awards FAQ. [26] However, it continued to be granted at YouTube's discretion after this date. PewDiePie gave the nickname of Ruby Creator Award to this award, as he received a ruby-colored award in the shape of his channel's logo.
Update the main picture to this more recent higher quality/resolution photo of the 100,000 subscriber award including the congratulations letter signed by the new YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, and the included congratulations card (with the SocietyAwards logo at the bottom)
In March 2007, YouTube launched the YouTube Awards, an annual competition in which users voted on the best user-generated videos of the year. [44] The awards were presented twice, in 2007 and 2008. Video contests with prizes existed as early as December 2005, possibly earlier.
YouTube logo, 2005–2011. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, three former employees of PayPal. [1] The website was activated on February 14, 2005, [2] and quickly began to grow – in the six months to July 2006, traffic to the site grew by 297 percent.
As part of its Next Up Creators contest, YouTube awarded King $35,000 as well as a trip to New York City for a four-day YouTube Creator Camp. His submission to the contest was titled Contest Entry Gone Wrong. In the video, he appeared to dodge an assault by airstrikes and ground fire as he pleaded his case to be selected for the YouTube award. [10]
By the end of 2017, Yang was awarded the YouTube Silver Creator Awards on her reaching 100,000 subscribers. [8] By 2019, Yang had over 500,000 YouTube subscribers, 540,000 Facebook followers, and 628,000 Instagram followers. [2] She also had opened a bubble tea shop, [2] which was closed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Malaysia. [9] [10]
In May 2016, a YouTube user Matt Hosseinzadeh sued the YouTube channel h3h3productions (run by Ethan and Hila Klein) citing a video that criticized his content. Fellow YouTube user Philip DeFranco started a GoFundMe fundraiser entitled "Help for H3H3". [36] The initiative raised over $130,000.
Creator Clash 2, a boxing charity event run by online influencers, was unable to raise money for the 14 charities creators had pledged to support, with one of the co-founders saying the event lost ...