Yea, this is nonsense. YouTube was founded in 2005 and acquired by Google in 2006. It was bought because the brand was better than "Google Video" at the time and that's pretty much it. Just about everything else about its success and state today is completely attributable to Google.
> even competitors like vine showed some success and innovation
what? Vine was shutdown precisely because it wasn't successful...
> even competitors like vine showed some success and innovation
what? Vine was shutdown precisely because it wasn't successful...