How Much Does Youtube Weigh?

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Ah, YouTube. The largest video site ever created, (currently owned by Google). YouTube has more than 300 million unique viewers and more than 120 billion videos, at least if you trust Google. This means that about 4 percent of the world has a YouTube account. There are all sorts of random statistics on YouTube, but none of them describes how much YouTube weighs.

(I mean, we have to find out to feed our curiosity.)

YouTube is a collection of videos that is so large (see above) that any other part barely matters. Assume that we are watching on 1080p. 1 hour of video is about 1.3 GB of data. The average YouTube video is about 223 seconds, multiplying this by 120 billion videos gets us about 7.433 billion hours of YouTube videos. That's 848,554 years of YouTube videos, so don't try watching every single one. (plus, much more than 1 second of YouTube video is uploaded every second).

Now for the fun part!

Multiplying the 1.3 GB by almost 7.5 billion YouTube hours gets us about 9.66 billion GB or 9.66 exabytes. For comparison, that's nothing, the internet has 1.2 zettabytes of data. (This means that YouTube takes up about 8% of the internet's output.)

The How Much Does The Internet Weigh Approach:

 The internet weighs about 50 grams, so YouTube weighs slightly more than 4 grams. Alternatively, we could use science, but that's annoyingly slow. I'll just leave you with Energy = Mass times Light squared, or E = mc^2. You can find out the energy of 9.66 exabytes yourself, so get working!

And wait a minute, you can argue that YouTube weighs less than 0 grams. It takes energy to watch YouTube. They have certainly burned more than 4 grams of weight from watching YouTube, so YouTube has caused weight loss. Therefore, YouTube could be made out of Anti-matter.

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