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The Cable News Network, initialized as CNN, is an American YouTube channel that uploads news and politics.
History[]
Company[]
The network was launched at 5:00 P.M. Eastern Time on June 1, 1980. On September 11, 2001, CNN became the first news network to report the 9/11 attacks.[1]
YouTube channel[]
The channel was created on October 2, 2005, and uploaded their first video on April 10, 2008, which is a clip of David Petraeus telling Michael Ware that there's significant gains in Iraq, but are 'fragile'.
Then, on November 15, 2006, they made another channel named CNN Business, and uploaded their first video on January 21, 2010, which is a video about a outdoor retailer store, Recreational Equipment, became #14 on Fortune's Best Companies to Work For. The channel was moved on December 10, 2020.
Content[]
The main channel mainly uploads news in the United States and sometimes the world.
CNN Business[]
CNN Business used to upload news around businesses and sometimes stories.
CNN10[]
CNN10 is a classroom-based channel that are usually about 10 minutes. And the end of their videos, they give out a shoutout to a school by commenting their school name in the comments section.
According to their about page, parents and teachers may submit requests for their schools in the comments, however, for legal reasons, they don't accept requests from anyone under the age of 13.[2]
Formerly, the host of the show was Carl Azuz, until leaving in late-2022 after being on the show for about 14 years.[3] The host for CNN10 is Coy Wire, who has been on the show since September 2022.
CNNLivestreams[]
CNNLivestreams used to upload livestreams which was used for news, which is the same thing as their TV channels, but on YouTube.
CNN Politics[]
CNN Politics was about to upload news relating to politics, but there isn't any videos relating to politics, but a livestream that isn't available from October 12, 2012.
CNNNewsEps[]
CNNNewsEps used to upload previews of news and their shows, but went inactive on May 4, 2015.
Controversy[]
Doxxing of u/HanAssholeSolo[]
In July 2017, a Redditor known as u/HanAssholeSolo made a gif meme of CNN, where he put the CNN logo on the head of someone in a wrestling match, and showed CNN being punched down by Donald J Trump. Trump himself liked and retweeted the meme.
However, it outraged CNN, and in two days, Andrew Kaczynscki found his personal Facebook, telling him to delete everything or get doxxed. u/HanAssholeSolo apologized and purged his history. CNN made a public statement about the controversy.
This incident sparked fury amongst the internet community, and Reddit, despite butting heads with 4chan, called a personal truce and began what was known as "The Great CNN Meme War", or in 4chan's terms, "Operation Autism Storm". It started with making memes dedicated to mocking and debasing CNN, so that CNN would have difficulty targeting one specific person. 4chan also contacted CNN's advertisers about the situation to cut off their funding, causing #CNNBlackmail began trending days later.[4]
They also got prominent figures such as Patricia Heaton and Donald Trump Jr. to spread rumours of u/HanAssholeSolo being a 15 year old boy, knowing that making it look like the victim was a child would make CNN look more heinous in the public eye. The only way for CNN to debunk this would be to release the personal information they already had, however this would be doxxing and would have legal consequences for them.[5]
Other efforts in the Operation Autism Storm included downloading the CNN App and giving it one star, and then deleting it. Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones also held the first "meme contest", with a reward of $20,000 to whoever created the best meme against CNN. Other news sources started to cover this.[6]
Around a week later, on July 6th, rumours started to spread that CNN had in fact doxxed the wrong guy, but this was just a smokescreen for the final scheme of Operation Autism Storm - that was, getting several anons to purchase universal remotes in order to change the channels on public television so that they could hurt the ratings of CNN.
CNN managed to suppress the negative ratings and publications such as MTV expressed their solidarity with them, claiming people who made gifs did not deserve anonymity, even announcing a spin-off of their show Catfish centering around someone doxxing people online. However the show bombed.
This controversy was the center of Internet Historian's video[7] "The CNN Skirmishes | Meme Insider Collaboration".
References[]
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/911/day/20010911#id/CNN_20010911_110000_CNN_Live_at_Daybreak/start/12:49:26UTC
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/@CNN10/about
- ↑ https://www.tiktok.com/@therealcarlazuz/video/7145226213429103914
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa8NfmcAN5o
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g3lDUGs7nA
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWhGcJhfjE8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_yCj6fXtlA