Video essays 5 years ago: 10 minute preview and analysis of an interesting indie film you may not have heard of
Video essays now: Listen to me summarize every episode of this awful 2000s children's sitcom for 5 hours
Why star wars has gotten worse: it’s the blacks. [3hrs 28 mins]
Guy looks like this: :wojak-nooo:
If it's from hbomberguy I'll gladly watch a 2-hour video about the Roblox "oof"
Most of those vids on the left are like '03-06. Fucking kids don't even know their history these days. Get off my virtual lawn!
I remember being in email chains that sent videos around, and waiting an hour and a half for the most compressed to shit video file ever to download so I could watch it and reply all to the chain with "lol".
good times.
Badger was pre YouTube. New grounds or something I think. Numa numa was also pre YouTube.
Same guy who did the "we like the moon" spongemonkeys that Quiznos inexplicably used in an ad. I thought it was awesome, to this day I'm convinced that it's the reason Quiznos died (they scared the
hoesnormies)
The Badger song was originally hosted on another site, mr-weeblstuff.com
Could be. This is some ancient history we're talking about.
weeblstuff is the artist's website
albinoblacksheep was an aggregator for flash animations
Image macros was around 2008, they were a direct descendent of demotivational posters.
Good content plus also puts subtitles on all his videos at launch, great guy.
Yeah, from his videos on closed captioning and elevator dings, I kind of figured that accessibility is really important to him.
There are so, so many excellent content creators these days. Old YouTube sucked.
Yeah I would sacrifice my knowledge of everything on the left just to keep a single creator like Jacob Geller
Someone doesn't remember the tens of thousands of response videos on every popular video
I remember that, I remember the weekly recaps from that dude with the spiky hair. Nigahiga's short videos. Etc.
Girl with suggestve clothing showing booba ... :an-tifa:
Half of these are memes scraped from other websites.
YTMND, Albino Blacksheep, and (in its brighter moments) 4chan produced all the iconic internet culture of the '00s.
YouTube, at its best, was a Music Video Streaming Service. At its worst, its just advertisements stacked six layers deep.
I remember GI Joe PSA spoofs being on a pre-YT video site. PORK CHOP SANDWICHES! Thems was the good days.
lol I member when yt was the place to watch high-bandwidth rips of flash videos.
It was for watching people hurt themselves in stupid ways and make difficult shots with a basketball
Most of that left half were first posted as Flash animations.
Star Wars Kid was an actual video, but it was first shared via Kazaa and shit.
Pretty sure Chocolate Rain is the only actual YouTube video on there.
I can't believe the "whats up guys this is critical" guy showed his face and became one of those youtubers. I also can't believe that that apparently happened like 8 years ago.
If I had the opportunity to make low effort social commentary videos with a bunch of sponsored content and be a millionaire, I'd take it
You didn't appreciate it when you had it. We all want most what we cannot have.
I mean there'still lots of great content on yt, but the ui is going to absolute shit
Could be better could be worse tbh. I like the new lightbleed effect they added.
I want ytmnd back and also the 2006 touhou community, it's just not the same anymore. And it will never be the same because we're different people now. What I truly want is innocence.
Back when Bill Cosby would just make us think of random "Pokeyman!" nonsense and not of a sexual predator.
I remember what it was like when my internet references weren't 15 years old and I couldn't fathom becoming desperately out of touch
I will say for the quality of gaming videos, specifically let's plays, modern youtube is better. People used to upload just pure slop back in the day.
Remember when a let's play was done through screenshots and it was considered a big deal when slowbeef started doing videos?
better, even :meow-melt: i remember more from written ones than i ever have from a video
People actually had to put in effort to craft a story. Now they just upload their mediocre gameplay for the world to see smh
my favorite part is reading LPs by people who are super prolific, watching them grow from early SA edgeboys into lil goofy dads and stuff and seeing how they soften is strangely heartwarming
I do! Research Indicates and his Jurassic Park Trespasser woke people up to what a "good" LP was.
counterpoint they used to have to edit down boring stuff to make them uploadable
technology connections had a great video about dishwashers, i will not accept this propaganda :wojak-nooo:
The best part of early youtube is that you could watch it on an old pentium 3 computer.
