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[violence]

I'll watch Hannah Minx to celebrate.

 

[Dacvak]

And it only went down from there.

 

[AJUMP23]

Nobody cares about that dudes trip to the zoo.

 

[Fbh]

Nobody cares about that dudes trip to the zoo.

Well technically the 300+ million views it has and the 5+ million subscribers he has on his channel with only that one 19 seconds videos would disagree lol

 

[AJUMP23]

Well technically the 300+ million views it has and the 5+ million subscribers he has on his channel with only that one 19 seconds videos would disagree lol

I'm 100million of those views.

 

[Wandering Leopard]

I'm disappointed there's no real rival for the platform.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I'm disappointed there's no real rival for the platform.

Took YouTube a long time to get where it is. I'm sure others are trying.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I'm 100million of those views.

Wait, were you the guy at the zoo?!

 

[AJUMP23]

Wait, were you the guy at the zoo?!

The Elephant behind him.

 

[Trogdor1123]

Is it monitized? Guy must have gotten something?

 

[The Lunch Legend]

I feel like kicking his ass.

 

[MMaRsu]

Mine is 19 years old, but its Oblivion

 

[ShirAhava]

I was a google video guy at the time thought youtube wouldn't last because GV was so much better

 

[Aesius]

I still remember telling my brother about this new site "YouTube." We used it almost exclusively for watching Family Guy clips for about six months after it launched.

 

[Hookshot]

I wasn't using it much for most of that time.

Now I find myself watching this often depressing channel.

All.About.Nature

Welcome to All About Nature. On my channel I try to bring nature-related content that's both educational and entertaining. My goal is promote conservation and a passion for nature by telling the stories of the species that have called and that still call our planet "home."

www.youtube.com

 

[Audiophile]

I have faint memories of YouTube around '06 but it's kinda one of those things that just feels like it always existed. I can't quite pinpoint when it appeared in my memory.

If you wanna see how it evolved: https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/gallery/youtube-2005

Honestly felt like the whole thing was on point function-wise in the late 2010s and they just needed to tidy the visual style a bit. But it all went off the deep end around 2020.

All that said, 99% of my YouTubing since 2018 is on the LG TV app. I especially avoid the Android app.

 

[Ozzy Onya A2Z]

Sorry but my online nostalgia memories are taken up by modem beeps and screeches while my one noody Elle Macpherson JPG loaded horizontal pixel line by line by line by line by line for 5mins. You lot with your 19 second videos don't know what you missed out on.

 

[Dirk Benedict]

It's heavily censored, now.
They censor fucking fights, full on blur. Blood, even offensive terms are blurred if in textural form.
Good on this guy, though. He got in when it was cool. Now, it's just an adsense farm of a shitshow mess that toes the CCP line and removes monetary compensation from people that don't align with it's perception of the world.

 

[MMaRsu]

It's heavily censored, now.
They censor fucking fights, full on blur. Blood, even offensive terms are blurred if in textural form.
Good on this guy, though. He got in when it was cool. Now, it's just an adsense farm of a shitshow mess that toes the CCP line and removes monetary compensation from people that don't align with it's perception of the world.

What kind content do you watch thats censored

 

[Trunx81]

What kind content do you watch thats censored

Everything with wordings that could hurt the sensitive american soul is demonitized.

 

[MMaRsu]

Everything with wordings that could hurt the sensitive american soul is demonitized.

Yeah that is lame indeed, but if your stuff isnt monetized it doesnt matter

 

[ClanOfNone]

I wish I had been sober back then so I could've gotten in on the ground floor. I would love to do a channel that does deep dives and retrospectives on games, but the platform is saturated with them now.

 

[Unknown?]

I'm disappointed there's no real rival for the platform.

Rumble is getting pretty big. If you want that YouTube 2007 feel, try Odyssee. It promotes user content and not corporate like YouTube.

 

[EverydayBeast]

YouTube gaming era with Trey 4 life, the console wars etc. were special



Each console had their warriors (Xbox with general mld, Sony with elpresador, and Nintendo Wii had shokio) taking shots at one another.

One user got heat for buying MW2 on Xbox over PlayStation.

 

[newtypepilot]

I'll watch Hannah Minx to celebrate.

wondered what happened to her

 

[MrCunningham]

Can we post our own videos? My oldest youtube video is technically from 18 years ago.... and it is this one...

A video of Duke Nukem 3D for the Sega Saturn.


My most successful video is a music-video-clip sync up to Weird Al Yankoviks Polka Yer Eyes Out.

I made this video out of clips that I found off of various P2P networks, and torrent sites and edited all on a single core AMD Athlon XP 1800+ , a Geforce 4MX, and 1GB RAM; using Windows Movie Maker on Windows XP. It shows, look at how bad the video quality is! But I was proud of my edit.



This video was copyright striked by non-other than... you guess it, Billy Idol's people. I also made a 'HQ' remake in 2014, using better video assets.

Spoiler: updated version - may be partially blocked due to Billy Idol...

I actually lost this account in 2016, due to a harddrive crash that made me lose my passwords. I could not recover it, because the email address that was linked to said account was no longer active, it was linked to to my old ISP. My old ISP killed my email address when I stopped paying for their service. But I managed to recover this account in 2024...with no help from Youtubes customer service at all.

I was using an alt youtube account during all that time I lost access to my original one. Which I use on a daily basis.

 

[Major Insano]

I'm disappointed there's no real rival for the platform.

I can remember some people saying that World Star HH would rival Youtube.

 

[MrCunningham]

I can remember some people saying that World Star HH would rival Youtube.

Stage6 was looking like a lethal competitor... and Stage6 had HD video at a time when Youtube was stuck at 320p. Also, early Youtube relied heavily on flash... remember that? I do.

Google Video was another early competitor... but Google Video ended after well... Google purchased Youtube.

 

[MrCunningham]

One of the oldest music videos uploaded to youtube: Darude Sandstorm. Really hard to find an 'official' music video older than this.



One of the first videos that I ever Favorited on Youtube from 18 years ago...:

 

[RagnarokIV]

 

[MrCunningham]

Uploaded on the same day as the Zoo Video


19 years ago...

 

[MrCunningham]

Youtube algorithm is having a mid-life crisis... it is recommending me things from 15-20 years ago. Which GAF member made this video?

 

[San Dan Glokta]

I'm disappointed there's no real rival for the platform.

There is Rumble and Kick.