YouTube has garnered over 2.3 billion users and is worth up to $300 billion. At its center is its algorithm, something that threatens to destroy not only the platform, but the entire Internet.
Watch the official The YouTube Effect 2023 trailer in HD below.
Anthony Padilla as Self - YouTube Creator, Smosh
Ian Hecox as Self - YouTube Creator, Smosh (voice)
Susan Wojcicki as Self - Former YouTube CEO
Natalie Wynn as Self - YouTube Creator, ContraPoints
Caleb Cain as Self - YouTube Creator, Faraday Speaks
Brianna Wu as Self - Software Engineer, Video Game Developer
Carrie Goldberg as Self - Online Abuse Lawyer
Dave Lauer as Self - CEO Urvin.ai and Al Ethics Writer (voice)
Ryan Kaji as Self - YouTube Creator, Ryan's World
Shion Kaji as Self - Ryan's Father
Alex Winter as Self
LoAnn Kaji as Self - Ryan's Mother
Alex Winter Director
Gale Anne Hurd Producer
Tracy McKnight Music Supervisor
Rebecca Teitel Executive Producer
Mike Beck Executive Producer
Glen Zipper Producer
Devorah DeVries Co-Producer
Alex Winter Producer
Michael Cho Executive Producer
Alex Winter Writer
Michael Y. Chow Executive Producer
Weston Cadwell Editor
Israel 15 February 2025
United States 14 July 2023
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 2023:
01 September 2023
Samuel is surprised by a subject identical to him and begins to discover that the world around him is controlled by someone superior.
28 July 2023
Gym-freak brat Rocky falls in love with Rani, who comes from a well-educated Bengali family. Being from polar opposite worlds, the two decide to switch their families to adjust to each other's cultures and backgrounds and to know if their marriage will survive.
23 January 2023
During an evening after high-school, friends Josh and Robbie come to realise their outlooks on life are not as similar as they once were.
19 October 2023
A woman finds new meaning in her life after her housekeeper quits her job.
26 June 2023
Following up the hit documentary “UFO Conspiracies: The Hidden Truth”, a shocking expose of hidden extra-terrestrial knowledge, going beyond UFO sightings and ‘lights in the sky’ to actual alien contact; visitations, abductions, and most astonishing of all, the possibility that aliens not only walk among us but have perhaps done so since the beginning of time!
15 September 2023
Billy Shaw is haunted by Fren-Zee, one last time, in an attempt to reunite the estranged John and Pete.
27 April 2023
A young man with an ordinary life begins to be the center of attention of a third party. The day to day of the young man begins to turn sinister and strange; his life begins to be endangered in a particular way and he feels insecurity in all those that were his comfort zones.
11 October 2023
A retired detective is pulled back into the action by his former partner, they uncover a hidden underworld of sex, drugs and murder in the wealthy community controlled by kingpin Harvey Stride, and his femme fatale enforcer.
14 July 2023
After his shot at a record deal falls through, Jun transfers to sleepy Nagoya and begins busking songs by his favourite 1970s glam rock band, Exne Kedy.
20 January 2023
Trash-filled love ensues when a quirky antique shop owner searches for her missing father, and falls for a determined dog lawyer along the way.
09 December 2023
Devin Haney challenges Regis Prograis for the WBC super lightweight title in San Francisco.
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