All this time we’ve focused on the story of the first human on Youtube. But now 20 years later, we finally hear the story of the first animal on Youtube. ‘Us still at the zoo’ captures the story of Sumithi, one of the elephants in the original video’s background, drawing a powerful contrast between twenty years of global progress and the unchanged, confined lives of captive elephants. Released in April 2025.
20 years ago on April 23rd 2005, Jawed Karim, one of the founders of Youtube, posted ‘Me at the zoo’, the very first video on the platform.