YouTube Turns 10: Catching Up With Tyler Oakley

— -- If you are one of YouTube star Tyler Oakley’s nearly seven million followers on the video sharing site, then you know Oakley as a social media guru who dishes out his very personal brand of positive and carefree fun week after week.

“I think a lot of people just want to watch somebody authentically live their life and have fun and I think that’s why people have stuck around,” Oakley, 26, told “Good Morning America” special correspondent Jesse Palmer.

Oakley posted his first video -- of him hanging out in his college dorm -- eight years ago in 2007, two years after YouTube first began.

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, YouTube began in 2005 with an 18-second video titled “Me At the Zoo” uploaded by YouTube’s co-founder Jawed Karim.

Oakley remembers the first video he ever watched on YouTube, a music video that went viral.

“It was like, oh my God, ‘Shoes,’” Oakley said, recalling the title of the video, which now has over 55 million views and still counting.

Today, 300 hours of video is uploaded through YouTube every minute. Even with all that content, Oakley says it is not a specific video but a YouTube star who stands out as his favorite ever.

“I could pick a favorite YouTuber, maybe I would say GloZell,” Oakley said, referring to the YouTube personality who started the challenge fad and now has over 1,000 videos on the site.

In an example of the prowess YouTube stars like Glozell and Oakley have on social media, Palmer asked Oakley to post a photo of the two of them on Instagram.

“I’m going to stop the interview real quick,” Palmer told Oakley. “Pull out your phone. I want to see, in 10 minutes, how many people have liked the photo we just took.”

“31,000 people have liked it in 10 minutes,” Oakley responded. “Thirty-two thousand now. I just refreshed.”

The photo, posted Monday, now has over 235,000 likes.