A possible concise summary is:
The text is a transcript of a YouTube video that covers some of the dark and mysterious aspects of the platform, such as:
- Creepy search bar results that lead to disturbing videos from the deep web
- Mariana Martigard Glasgorv, a video of a red man staring at the camera that was part of an old creepypasta
- 2020 Vision, a channel that claimed to predict celebrity deaths using a blinking eye
- Daniel Silly, a registered sex offender who harassed women on the streets and filmed them
- Tamesha Ridge, a YouTuber who was killed by her ex-boyfriend in her home
- YouTube website clones that rip off content and ads from other creators
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
- YouTube was created on December 15, 2005 and began as a dating hookup site.
- Typing a period or a slash into the YouTube search bar would show creepy videos that were hidden from the algorithm.
- A user on Reddit claimed that these videos were linked to the dark web and contained disturbing content.
- Mariana Martigard Glasgorv was a video of a red man staring at the camera that was part of an old creepypasta.
- The man in the video was identified as an average man from Guatemala who was used in a 2004 survey about web design.
- 2020 Vision was a channel that faked predicting celebrity deaths by editing videos that contained all possible dates from 2017 to 2021.
- The channel was part of an alternate reality game and the creator explained how he did it in a video.
- Daniel Silly was a registered sex offender who harassed women in the streets of Los Angeles and filmed them for his YouTube channel.
- He was confronted by someone who recognized him and his channel was taken down by YouTube.
- Tamesha Ridge was a YouTuber who taught others how to sew and create their own clothing on a budget.
- She was shot and killed by her ex-boyfriend in her home while she slept. Her three kids and current boyfriend were in the house when it happened.
- There are foreign YouTube clones that rip off YouTube content and replace the ads with their own. They also allow users to download videos directly from their website.
- Some examples of these clones are trvid.com from Turkey and roo clip.net from Russia.