Yes, YouTube was originally designed as a video-based dating website. The site was founded on February 14, 2005, and the slogan was “Tune in, Hook up”. The idea was that users would upload videos of themselves talking about what they were looking for in a partner.
The founders were unsure which direction they wanted to go, but since they registered the domain name on Valentine's Day, they gave the website the tagline of “Tune In Hook Up”.
YouTube failed as a dating site. A year later, the platform was receiving 25 million views and seeing 20,000 uploads every day. Within a month, the site was welcoming over 30,000 viewers a day.
Today, YouTube is the second-largest search engine.
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