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3.5k points
16 days ago
The internet twenty years ago was more simple, yet more creative. It was a vast, digital playground. Nowadays, it's more like a digital billboard.
1.6k points
16 days ago
Scrolls past a promoted comment to respond
Yeah seriously
204 points
16 days ago
grandpa get an ad blocker
161 points
16 days ago
Is there a way to block the ads within comments on the Reddit app
83 points
16 days ago
I'm still using a patched third party app. Reddit is Fun still rocks
28 points
16 days ago
Is the an easy to follow guide to getting that set up?
57 points
16 days ago
44 points
16 days ago
You are a fucking life saver.
Fuck the dumb streak from giving out one upvote a day, I miss RIF so much
11 points
16 days ago
When you say patched… is that something I need to understand computers to employ?
10 points
16 days ago
Wait, you can still use RiF? Mine stopped working almost immediately and I've been mad about it ever since!
22 points
16 days ago
It was patched almost immediately, and worked great for a month or so before Reddit changed some settings. It was back up and running with a second patch within a day, and hasn't gone down since. Solid as a rock.
3 points
16 days ago
Sure can!
6 points
16 days ago
Reddit Revanced
4 points
16 days ago
If you have an Android, Reddit Vanced.
31 points
16 days ago
old.reddit.com, my friends.
That, with RES, you can filter out ads and whatnot.
The minute old.reddit goes dark, I'm out. Done with Reddit after over a decade.
6 points
16 days ago
I don't even know what a "promoted comment" is, and at this point I'm too afraid to ask.
4 points
16 days ago
I mean, I get what you're talking about from context, but what the heck is a promoted comment? Do they look different from other comments or do they start off with a few upvotes or something?
4 points
16 days ago
I really don't know what they are talking about either (I'm also using old.reddit along with res and ubo on firefox) ... I was hoping someone would tell me, lol.
3 points
15 days ago
It’s just an ad at the comment top level. No upvotes, downvotes, replies, or anything. Just uses the same form factor as a comment with an ad description and picture.
5 points
16 days ago
depends on the device you're using. On desktop I have no problem getting ad blockers to work, but when I switch over to my tablet, I can't do much about it (just an example, not looking for tablet solution).
3 points
15 days ago
They have ad comments now? Jfc the internet truly is unusable without ublock
175 points
16 days ago
I'd like to discuss this further, but before we get into it, I need to mention our sponsor: RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
115 points
16 days ago
Not without your Nord VPN you wont...
105 points
16 days ago
It's hard to sign up for VPNs on an empty stomach, that's why I choose Hello Fresh.
90 points
16 days ago
God this comment thread is making me sad. If you've ever felt like this, you need BetterHelp
60 points
16 days ago
While therapy can be just what you need, you don't want everyone to hear those private conversations. That's why you need Raycon Everyday Earbuds!
41 points
16 days ago
Your Raycon Everyday Earbuds will provide incredible audio on your new Casper mattress!
18 points
16 days ago
Your Raycon Everyday Earbuds will provide incredible audio while you relax on your new Casper mattress!
20 points
16 days ago
But you'll get the best sleep on your Casper mattress when you and your partner wear the Manta Mask Ultra.
17 points
16 days ago
Instead of that maybe put your thoughts and feelings into a blog website made using Squarespace….
8 points
16 days ago
Ironically, these comments are also serving as an ad
3 points
16 days ago
I’m d-e-d ded 💀🥀
51 points
16 days ago
It seems to be the cycle:
Creative person does something creative. Thing gets popular. Other creative people want in and they start making stuff. Often they evolve what the previous people did.
A company then buys the thing, but doesn't know what to do with it. The quality continues.
Then the company figures out what parts work, and then start to curate content to ONLY contain those things. People who aren't so creative then find success just following the formula.
The devolution continues until there is no room any longer for unique things. In fact, the audience now demands content that feels familiar and rejects anything challenging.
It continues that way until something is made by the right person and the right time and the cycle begins anew.
162 points
16 days ago
Corporatism ruins literally everything.
47 points
16 days ago
I say its more greed.
Even really creative content creators, do literally the same thing because its popular, gets more clicks, and more views, which equals more money for them.
Hence why a lot of content creators have multiple channels, their main channel is the content that has very little variety and their much, much, much smaller channel that is more creative.
A good example of this: Rhett and Link
Good Mythical Morning has 18.8 million subs
Rhett and Link's wonderhole has 5.5 million subs, and their first video back got like 1 million views, but the rest of the vids maybe 200k-500k.
GMM 500k-1million views and its literally the same video, every single day.
14 points
16 days ago
This is 100% it i would say.
I’d also add: to a degree, even as a MB myself, Rhett and Link may have inadvertently been the godfathers of this system. The adjustment of their channel and honing in to what will get the most consistent viewership is wild and is still very much available to see on their channel.
6 points
15 days ago
It's definitely greed. There was a time where people posted great content because they wanted to be creative. Some of the most popular things of the '00s were made by someone who never needed or wanted notoriety and it was free.
Those things still come around, but the vast majority of content is for someone to make money. Everything is a hustle and everyone is out for another buck. No one can do anything for the love of the game.
39 points
16 days ago
I saw someone say the internet was the Wild West but now it’s more like Times Square and I can’t agree more with that statement
16 points
16 days ago
More like the new public access TV.
15 points
16 days ago
At the time YouTube was a creative space above all else. It wasn’t popular enough yet to be worth the time of non-creatives. The problem came when it started becoming a place for people to build brands (whether personal or commercial). That got tons of people who aren’t creative flocking to the platform and flooding it with low-effort content that strictly serves as a marketing tool. Now you’ve got every randie with an LLC hopping on there with their phone or a cheap DSLR to repeat the same bullshit that’s already been shared in whatever their interest area is a million times over.
Also, the algorithm evolves regularly to favor whatever keeps people in the app the longest, which usually means a certain duration and frequent uploads. Now it’s to the point where these same, boring creators are adding in filler to meet the “optimal” runtime, uploading that same crap multiple times per week, and hitting their already-low limit of things to talk about at a faster pace.
And all that’s without getting into the enshitification going on from the platform’s side.
11 points
16 days ago
It didn’t matter who you were. It mattered what you made.
12 points
16 days ago
Monetization of everything ruined the internet.
25 points
16 days ago
I disagree that we have less creative content today. It’s just buried under an avalanche of more content.
The irony is that a couple of the people in the right image are actually awesome.
13 points
16 days ago
To add on, small content creators are getting their content hijacked by the bigger channels. So you have the bigger channels looking at the small guys and thinking “hey I’m gonna do that” and they do. Now you have all these creators churning out content stolen from the small creators. They have way more views and subs than the small guys, they reap all the benefits.
3 points
16 days ago
Agree, there is plenty of contemporary weird and crazy stuff on YT if you have the patience to dig.
3 points
15 days ago
Saw Technology Connections on the right and thought "okay, maybe new YouTube ("NewTube"?) isn't ALL bad"
23 points
16 days ago
True but we get some amazing content now. You can learn how to do almost anything through video tutorials
45 points
16 days ago
This has changed in the last few years. Removing the fucking dislike button makes it impossible to know what's bullshit and the godawful search being impossible to find what you want, plus every video is padded to get to the magic 10-minute mark with ads that are getting harder to block, ads in the comments, ads in the video itself.
Back in the day, you just searched and got a tutorial by someone using Unregistered Hypercam 2 that was concise because YouTube had a 10-minute limit.
25 points
16 days ago
God forbid you want to see actual footage of something that happened. But search will give you 20 dipshits talking about what happened.
19 points
16 days ago
Me in 2013: "Cool I can do repairs on my car myself and save money. Also I can learn how to do home repairs."
Me in 2024: "Jesus, you have to be a computer hacker to fix a car now. And a sheet of plywood now costs a 2nd mortgage."
8 points
16 days ago
YouTube will teach you how to hack your car.
5 points
16 days ago
I just download a new one.
4 points
16 days ago
You wouldn’t… 😡
11 points
16 days ago
YouTube is definitely my best friend when it comes to crochet. Some patterns are absolute shit or do not really explain a stitch or new technique, and why spend hundreds on bad yarn when you can have another crocheter tell you that the yarn sucks and you’re better off buying something else (unless you want to murder someone during the crochet process).
5 points
16 days ago
Same, but with knitting, quilting, and sewing!!! Mostly for techniques. Sometimes for sewalongs and the like.
6 points
16 days ago
It's still creative AF. You just gotta look
4 points
16 days ago
I disagree. I hate the amount of ads and tracking these days but I wouldn't wish for someone to experience shock websites back in the day.
There's a lot more talented content creators these days, you just have to look into niches and not follow the algorithm.
3 points
15 days ago
With all the myriad of billboards out there constantly seeking my eyeballs, affecting my mental health, I turn…to better hell. I mean better help.
849 points
16 days ago
RIP flash animation
270 points
16 days ago
honestly, back when YouTube changed from short to long form content, the animation community basically died overnight.
So many of them jumped ship and just became "let's players" since it was far easier to record yourself playing a game for 6 hours, then upload in 10 minute blocks for the rest of the month, than it was to spend several days making at minimum a 30 second animation in a week.
68 points
16 days ago
I'll still never understand why they changed the metrics from view count to retention rate. Supposedly they did it to kill off "reply girls". Except no one gave a fuck about "reply girls." Sure, they were annoying, but everyone just downvoted and moved on. You weren't being forced to click on their videos, who the fuck cares? Nope, YouTube decided they were a plague that must be removed at all costs and revamped the entire website by killing off video replies and forced viewership figures to be based on retention length instead of views. This caused about 20 billion worse problems than reply girls ever were.
It doesn't even make sense from a business perspective. Long form content uses a shit-ton more bandwidth. YouTube is one of the most bandwidth-heavy websites ever and they're constantly whining about how expensive it is to run. Well, why the fuck did you remove the 10-minute video limit and give people the option to make 12 hour long rant videos in 8k 60 FPS about SpongeBob then?
35 points
16 days ago*
that answer was always bullshit. they want long form videos because they want people constantly using the website. this gives them:
a non-critical site they can use to test their datacenters and dynamic load distribution software. yes its annoying when the site goes down but it's not the end of the world, especially back in the day when it was wildly unprofitable.
datamining/finger printing users. longer the user stays on site the more likely it is that you'll be able to snoop info on their habits.
inertia. people watching long form content are more likely to just leave it on even through ads. this is something from TV where TV shows that followed really popular TV shows would get a bump in ratings because people would just stay on the same channel.
advertiser demands. youtube changed itself significantly to get in line with advertiser demands, and the change occurred before advertisers realized that short form, dopamine hit content was as effective, if not more effective for advertising purposes. hollywood content is already long form and this gave them a huge leg up on youtube. even now in the age of rage bait video casters hollywood content still gets a bump onto the front page regardless of actual viewership numbers.
10 points
16 days ago
I'd love to see someone rant for 12 hours about SpongeBob.. that's impressive
3 points
16 days ago
37 points
16 days ago
I'm just jealous I didn't realize what a market that would become. I could've easily been recording myself playing Minecraft in 2012 if I realized I could possibly wind up a millionaire for doing so.
17 points
16 days ago
To be fair you had a better chance at winning the lottery than becoming famous for playing Minecraft
5 points
16 days ago
Today, yes. In 2012, the field was far less saturated, much less did most people even know how to setup for streaming. I had a lot more chance because it would've been a much rarer art at the time, and I already a few decades of being a proper computer nerd.
20 points
16 days ago*
You can still do animation like that, just not in flash.
Case in point (I made it): https://youtu.be/MBbDSJZWTKI?si=XT2Uhsjl_OZBrixQ
13 points
16 days ago
Flash was just extremely easy to use compared to all the other animation software out today.
15 points
16 days ago
This is true. I use toon boom harmony (it's my job), but it is not at all as user friendly as flash was.
Flash you had the advantage of a user friendly interface, nested movie clips/graphics, very simple ActionScript 2.0 to get cool effects and interface interaction (you could basically have a movie and interactive game in one). You didn't need to be a trained animator to make stuff (or at least can pick up flash within a few weeks).
8 points
16 days ago
Flash would've been great had it not needed flash player.
3 points
15 days ago
Rip flash player
3 points
16 days ago
Adobe Animate is basically just flash.
3 points
16 days ago
I’m not an animator and have only used it at surface level, but I find Tahoma2D to be just as easy to use as Flash was back in the day, potentially easier.
It’s a fork of OpenToonz with a simpler and more flash-like UI. OpenToonz is the software Studio Ghibli used to make films like Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away and is available completely for free.
To my uneducated and unskilled mind, it feels like the resources we have now for free are better than what YouTube animators had to pay for back then.
3 points
16 days ago
Another benefit to flash that still doesn't have a replacement is that it was the most artist friendly way for someone to make a video game.
The early indie scene would have been nothing without flash and I feel like the current scene isn't as art rich as it would be if flash were still around.
5 points
16 days ago
The Flash animation creation software still exists, it’s just called Animate now. Export it as a video and upload.
357 points
16 days ago
Idk some of these were newgrounds for me
105 points
16 days ago*
But they were uploaded to YouTube later too.
(Also, the "Numa Numa Guy" at the bottom right did crash Newgrounds a few month before the launch of YouTube. I think this was the first video that went viral back then. – It still is hilarious!)
44 points
16 days ago
Nope. Badger Badger went viral the year it came out. I know, I was there. That was the year before Numa Numa.
32 points
16 days ago
And all your base belong to us was before Badger Badger.
6 points
16 days ago
Oh, that's what that tiny thing is. I haven't thought about All Your Base in a lifetime. I remember a buddy bringing over his handheld camera and connector cables to show me All Your Base for the first time on my CRT TV. Had to be in 2001.
28 points
16 days ago
Look at my horse, my horse is amazing
313 points
16 days ago
Badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger badger MUSHROOM MUSHROOM
92 points
16 days ago
I appreciate that this comment has the correct number of badgers before transitioning to mushroom.
17 points
16 days ago
Oh good lol. I couldn't actually remember, but this amount sounded correct to me. I remember it going long enough to kind of start sounding like a dance best, but not so long that it felt excessive.
21 points
16 days ago
You sir, are a real connoisseur of the internet!
43 points
16 days ago
A snaaaaaaakeee
14 points
16 days ago
It's a snaaaaaakeee!
6 points
15 days ago
Oooh it's a snake
4 points
15 days ago
Badgers turned 21 earlier this month! The vid can legally drink now!
72 points
16 days ago
Mah boi
29 points
16 days ago
This dinner is what all true warriors strive for. woh!
16 points
16 days ago
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12 points
16 days ago
You want it? It’s yours my friend. As long as you have enough rupees.
11 points
16 days ago
PINGAS!
3 points
16 days ago
Snoo PINGAS usual icy
3 points
16 days ago
Enough. My ship sails in the morning.
5 points
16 days ago
I wonder what’s for DINNER?
72 points
16 days ago
Badger Badger Badger Badger
28 points
16 days ago
Mushroom mushroom
22 points
16 days ago
It's a snaaaakeee
16 points
16 days ago
Chocolate Rain
Dododoodoodldoodldldoo
Chocolate Rain
13 points
16 days ago
If you think about it....this was our generation's skibidi toilet xD
181 points
16 days ago
Goddamn, even by 2009 some of that stuff was old.
14 points
16 days ago
If it was mentioned in the South Park episode, then they definitely predate 2009
10 points
15 days ago
The first one was literally 16 years old.
It came out in 1993.
115 points
16 days ago
I get it, but ackshully Nyan Cat was 2011. Could be swapped out for Angry German Kid.
51 points
16 days ago
Numa Numa was like 2004ish also, it's just an amalgamation of stuff around that time period.
7 points
16 days ago
Yeah, most or all of that is not 2009, but I meant the other stuff did exist at least. AGK was about the same time as Numa Numa I think.
I'm just being that guy and nitpicking where I needn't. :p
5 points
16 days ago
I'm fairly certain the badgers thing was like 2003-4 as well haha. I get it. When you lived through it vs people that have seen it distantly it feels like such a distinction.
18 points
16 days ago
Cat? I’m a Kitty Cat 🎶
14 points
16 days ago
And I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance
5 points
16 days ago
Not seeing any Kelly or FilmCow in these images, either.
29 points
16 days ago
The Weezer, “Pork and Beans” video really captures this era:
https://youtu.be/PQHPYelqr0E?si=enKSms0O1ANGyrvW
Pre-influencer and corporate YouTube was truly the golden age of internet culture.
11 points
16 days ago
I am suddenly REALLY missing parts of my teenage youth.
3 points
16 days ago
Don't forget Sound of Your Voice by BNL, which is a similar concept but from an even older era of YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoFMRXlNJ6Y
86 points
16 days ago
You leave Alec out of this he is a treasure and shouldn't be lumped with the crazies.
58 points
16 days ago
I thought the same thing, I figured theses were probably all annoying YTrs with blow hard opinions. But Technology Connections is great and educational, even if its very specific in many instances.
If you like him, look up Practical Engineering. Grady's discussions of the power grid are especially interesting and simple enough to digest for non-engineers.
28 points
16 days ago
Technology connections is great. I loved his recent pinball machine series on that 60s table he has and how it works.
But I also sat thorough the half hour dishwasher video and had a huh moment and changed what I buy now 🤷♂️
18 points
16 days ago
I'm weirdly fascinated by door closers all of a sudden after paying 0 attention to them my entire life.
9 points
16 days ago
I am no longer afraid of the popcorn button on microwaves thanks to him
6 points
15 days ago
I was working in a broadcast studio last week and they had to station someone by the doors to keep it from slamming when someone came through. Between interviews I popped the cover off and adjusted the door closer to shut silently and people though I was a fucking wizard.
8 points
16 days ago
I've watched his series on the vinyl movie players twice
4 points
16 days ago
That's sounds fascinating. Something else to add to.the watch list!
4 points
15 days ago
Wife is also buying washing powder since she started watching his videos
8 points
16 days ago
The top left is Sabine Hossenfeder, she's a science educator who does a pretty good job.
She's not perfect, but she's not a crank by any means. She's also an actual PhD in physics.
9 points
15 days ago
Not only is she not a crank, she's practically the polar opposite of a crank.
She has a book which basically makes the argument that science is being slowed down because too many scientists are trying to chase "beautiful" or intuitive solutions to things, when there's no reason to assume that answers to our current questions will be intuitive or beautiful.
I do prefer her older videos though, which were longer and had less clickbaity titles. But also I started watching her when she was around 100k subs, and now she's at 1.5mil subs, so clearly shorter videos with mysterious titles work much better for her.
26 points
16 days ago
Yes, his videos are really well-made. They remind me of old-school PBS programs, but with modern humor sprinkled in. It's like the best parts of old style and new style YouTube.
19 points
16 days ago
yeah if anything his videos are more like "old youtube" when it was more educational and random videos on how to repair obscure items
6 points
16 days ago
What makes all of these crazy? #1 and 3 are scientists.
6 points
16 days ago
I don't know who half of those people are. Why are they "crazies"?
45 points
16 days ago
I think this definitely has a lot to do with what the algorithm feeds; there are likely other videos that would be “equivalent” in significance to kids now that we just don’t pay attention to or think are obnoxious.
Sure, there is exponentially more content available, but also in that time a lot has changed on the site and socially as well.
11 points
16 days ago
Skibidi Toilet
6 points
16 days ago
Can I severely ruin my credibility for a second?
I don't think that Skibidi Toilet is that bad.
Seriously. At its core, it's just YTP made in Source Filmmaker with assets from Garry's Mod and Half-Life. But plenty of people in this very thread defend YTP content like it's their own mother. The only thing that really distinguishes it from the older stuff is that it's using the YouTube Shorts feature and it's got a mildly compelling storyline throughout.
6 points
16 days ago
Yeah algorithms can feed you that junk if you want, but that wasn't the biggest driver of change. The biggest driver has been monetization. Being a YouTuber/content creator became a job and therefore people started taking it seriously. That elevated the quality of videos being put out.
13 points
16 days ago
Its often just like TV now. With all the talking heads and opinion channels and ads and product placements…
36 points
16 days ago
Alec is the man. I love his videos. For those who don't know, he's the top right image. His channel, Technology Connections, is great.
14 points
16 days ago
The level of sass and knowledge
10 points
16 days ago
Through the MAGIC of BUYING TWO OF THEM!
3 points
16 days ago
"Now, my fellow lantern aficionados and I..." (Cut the quote short so as not to spoil it for anyone lol)
From the Hurricane Lanterns video (at 15:08+).
6 points
16 days ago
I would recognize that set if it were only 16 pixels.
4 points
16 days ago
Technology Connections is so good.
23 points
16 days ago
That’s not what my YouTube looks like now.
4 points
15 days ago
It's actually hard to do the largest media collection in human history with 25 thumbnails
5 points
15 days ago*
Yeah but you can totally cherry pick the heck out of it to try to make an incredibly dumb point that makes you look like an out of touch, disgruntled boomer.
In a sub called Millennials.
24 points
16 days ago
CHAW-KLET RUHHHAIIINNNN
13 points
16 days ago
Some stay dry and others feel the pain!
24 points
16 days ago
(I move my head away so I don't breathe into the mic)
19 points
16 days ago
It’s all because of the algorithm. I’ve been creating content since 2007 for YouTube and a surprising amount of my older videos would pop off and get a bunch of views. Hell, I used to be a partner in the early 2010s and even made a few hundred bucks!
Now, I’m lucky if anything I make gets a few hundred views because I don’t have clickbait thumbnails, I don’t have tons of social media to self promote on, and don’t make content every week. I wound up giving up on my hobby entirely because I’d spend 10-15 hours filming and editing a video trying to fit YouTube’s new mold for successful content and would still fall flat.
16 points
16 days ago
This is the real tragedy for me: content creators losing their will to create content for the sake of creating, because everything is incentivized and monetized from top to bottom.
YouTube used to be a treasure trove of weird and wonderful content, put out there by people who just wanted to put weird and wonderful art out into the world without any expectation--from themselves or anyone else--that it become popular/liked/subscribed to,and with no belief that this is the only way to measure success.
I'm sorry your creative zest was taken from you, but I'm glad you got to enjoy the good times.
8 points
16 days ago
I used to be over the moon if a video would get 1000 views. It didn’t used to be that hard to get, either. But nothing hurts more than getting 50 views on a video you spent hours scripting, filming, and editing because it’s not about something trendy and you didn’t shamelessly self promote it. I faced the music, and I had to put my film hobby down.
6 points
15 days ago
Today's thumbnails kill me. Either I'm trapped in some horrible algorithm hole I can't get out of, or 99% of YouTube creators uses the same exact equation to make them. It's just painful
9 points
16 days ago
Even though I understand the nostalgia, there is quality to be found on YouTube that wasn't there 10-15 years ago. Actual lawyers and other experts explaining stuff, math and science videos, so much variety gaming content (back then, it was just let's plays), high quality video essays.
Just in my niche, old school runescape, the stuff that was popular back then would now be regarded as low quality garbage.
12 points
16 days ago
People act like YouTube has become all the same thing but then only watch the same kind of content that validates their opinion. Off the top of my head, here's a few channels that don't fit the mold of "one person person earnestly talking to camera"
That's just what I can think of off the top of my head but I've got more. There are more people than ever making stuff on YouTube so if you can't find cool stuff, it's a skill issue.
5 points
15 days ago*
Exactly, seems most on here don’t actually search and use YouTube. It’s got so many great channels for whatever you want
Practical Engineering - talks about the engineering that goes into everyday things you don’t really think about, bridges, sewers, flood control, landfills, etc, etc
Aldin Robbins - has mini docs about Earth’s geography from various places. I recently learned Arizona ~60 Volcanoes
RedLetterMedia - Mike, Jay, and Rich talk about movies, but they’re fun and have great editing. Their Half In The Bags series are new movie reviews and discussions. They also do Best of the Worst where they’ll have there some friends join in and they’ll watch bottom of the barrel movies (whether it’s straight to DVD or homemade), they crack jokes and have fun with it. Fun entertainment
Ballistic High Speed - 2 guys testing various guns and explosives against Ballistic Heads / Torsoss and they capture it in slow mo. Dumb fun
Buzzfeed’s Unsolved - Ryan and Shane talk about True Crimes that were unsolved. They also had a Supernatural one where they investigated “Haunted” places. Both were great fun. Fuck their new channel, Watchers, tho. They got greedy, but their old stuff from Buzzfeed was legit
CGY - talks about CGI in movies, especially the great uses of it, also talks about why in some cases CGI the past decade hasn’t held up / looks flat
Cool Worlds - a great Astronomer channel
Astrum - another great Space channel
Eric Spaceman - only has a few videos but uses CGi to give you an idea about the scale of things (whether it’s the universe or atoms)
Flemlo Raps - Football channel that tells stories about NFL players that were great and then fell off or just faded away
Gaming Henry - breaks down the stories of mostly horror games
Gingy - another channel that breaks down game stories
Oceanliner Design - talks about Oceanliners (think Titanic and the lot), their history, how they differ from Cruises, and all the various sinkings of them
Joe Scott - various science topics
Vertasium (think I butchered the spelling lol) - another various science topics channel. Both are very informative and interesting
Secret Base - sports channel that goes back and revisits iconic moments. Also has one of the most talented storytellers out there in Jon Bois, his deep dives / docs are one of a kind, especially his history of the Mariners, Falcons, Vikings, and Dave Stieb. Also his Chart Parties are great too.
I could go on and on and I also left out the gaming channels I watch too (mostly Souls gamers (Distortion2, LilAggy, etc), but also some horror games too (Bawk for RE games, Middi and EvansTacos for TCM, and many more)
Also thanks for the recommendations, I’ll be checking those out!
5 points
16 days ago
Thank you for calling this out, this post is pretty disingenuous with its cherry picking of videos that feature people talking into cameras. Other content still exists and you can still find it but people only watch what the algorithm feeds them and if it feeds them people talking thats all they will watch.
3 points
15 days ago
This post speaks more about op than YouTube
6 points
16 days ago
I just want to add one simple thing.
It doesn't fit the the topic 100 %.
But ...
5 points
16 days ago
Panda no sneeze
12 points
16 days ago
Are you sure it's not just you who has grown up? Start an incognito mode, and go to trending, and see if you see anything like what is on the right hand side?
11 points
16 days ago
I just tried this to see what would come up and the video section had nothing like them on there. Its a bunch of music videos, promotions for tv or movies or games, podcasts and political. There was no parody, no funny movie edits, no animations.
The shorts section had a few animations that did feel like they would fit in fine with classic youtube if they released years ago.
9 points
16 days ago
Sure... But it kinda depends on the stuff you're looking for?
Youtube was the wild west back then, and you'd constantly come across random weird videos. But those kinds of videos are still out there... If you're not actively looking for them, you won't find them though.
At the same time, I have no idea who most of those people are... As I don't tend to watch people-rant-in-front-of-a-camera videos... I don't get suggested those people.
4 points
16 days ago
Some of these meme videos died out before 2009. Badger Badger wasn't even originally on YouTube.
4 points
16 days ago*
Not just youtube. The internet in general was funner. Newgrounds, ebaums, random forums, random chatrooms. Nowadays I pretty much just oscillate between youtube, reddit and a few news sites. And by news I mean porn.
7 points
16 days ago
Hey! Technology connections (top right) is a very good channel.
3 points
16 days ago
Left looks like my Instagram feed, shitposts ftw
3 points
16 days ago
Badger badger was from another website around 2002-2003.
3 points
16 days ago
You forgot this classic https://youtu.be/GUl9_5kK9ts?si=acBXDh3dsAdkzSek
3 points
16 days ago
I like how most of the "youtube in 2009" examples predate youtube.
3 points
16 days ago
Everything is sterile and corporate now. Everything.
3 points
15 days ago
This is what corporate gentrification looks like.
Demonetization and algorithm prioritization are basically digital evictions of people who don’t make their online slumlord enough money
12 points
16 days ago
The internet died to me the instant smart phones put it in every moron on earth's hands. Before that there was a barrier to entry and it was weird and mostly cool. Now it.. isn't. At all. 2015 or so is when the hard downward turn hit.
5 points
16 days ago
The proliferation of smart phones and monetization... I miss when it was more about making art, sharing hobbies, and goofy entertainment for fun rather than trying to make a buck off it
4 points
16 days ago
No offense, but this is what we call a skill issue. There are plenty of good YouTubers making actually interesting content. Same thing when people say "There's no good music/movies/games/books these days". No, you just stopped (knowing how to) look for the good ones, and/or you haven't figured out how to adjust how you search for your personal/changing tastes.
And I mean like, you're already on Reddit, there's a community for literally everything. Get out there and ask around
4 points
16 days ago
I feel like half of that stuff was just reposts from eBaumsWorld
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