This marked the first known instance in which a YouTube user, without an agent, made a direct transition to film acting.
He has also done collaborations with other YouTube users.
"This is a great explanation of net neutrality," one YouTube user wrote.
Many YouTube users made their own parodies of the incident.
As fast as a clip is taken down, he said, YouTube users "can always put up another."
All YouTube users can upload videos up to 15 minutes each in duration.
An example of corporate typosquatting is yuube.com, targeting YouTube users.
A YouTube user posted the clip of the comment online.
This screen greets new YouTube users when they log onto the site.
He was one of the first twenty to thirty YouTube users to have this status.