"Me at the zoo" is a YouTube video uploaded on April 23, 2005. It is the first video to be uploaded to the platform. The 19-second video features YouTube's co-founder Jawed Karim, who was 25 years old at the time, in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo in California, noting their long trunks.

In December 2012, "Gangnam Style" became the first video to reach one billion views. By June 2015, only "Baby" had also managed to pass this threshold, but, by October 2015, a total of ten videos had done so, and the number grew further to over 400 in 2024.

Nearly 19 years ago, a guy named Jawed Karim posted the very first video to YouTube. The video, published on April 23, 2005, is titled "Me at the zoo," and features Karim, a co-founder of YouTube, at the San Diego Zoo in front of an elephant exhibit.