Was the first video on YouTube part of a series or standalone?

 as a simple test video. It features Karim standing in front of an elephant enclosure at the San Diego Zoo, talking about the elephants' long trunks.

The video was intended to showcase the platform's capabilities, as YouTube was still in its infancy. Since then, YouTube has grown into a massive video-sharing platform with billions of users and a vast array of content, including various series and long-term projects. However, the first video remains a standalone clip, a historical artifact, and a reminder of YouTube's humble beginnings.

The first video on YouTube, "Me at the zoo," is a standalone video. It was not part of a series or connected to any other videos uploaded by Jawed Karim or other users at the time. Instead, it stands alone as the inaugural upload on the YouTube platform, serving as a proof of concept for sharing user-generated video content online. While subsequent videos uploaded to YouTube may have been part of series or thematic collections, "Me at the zoo" remains a standalone video with significant historical importance as the first-ever video uploaded to the platform.