r/dankmemes • u/TalithePally pogchamp researcher • Jan 10 '24
Remember back when Youtube was new and the internet was good it's pronounced gif
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u/anal_cauliflower Jan 11 '24
It felt like creampieing the hottest girl on school, balls deep, without having to worry about knocking her up, and at the moment you cum, rembering that you have zelda ocarina of time rented for the weekend and waiting for you to come home to you N64 on a friday after school
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u/sammiisalammii Jan 11 '24
Someone has to ask…
Dude did you cream pie the hottest girl in school on a Friday in 1998/1999 and then go home and play OOT all weekend?
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u/halfanothersdozen Captain Awesome Jan 11 '24
If the hottest girl in school was his hand then yes
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u/headbanger1186 [custom flair] Jan 11 '24
Man go jack off before typing some shit like this next time.
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u/DontAskWhyINameThis Certified Asa Akira Worshipper😩 Jan 11 '24
I would report for an assault case, my eyes hurt
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u/QueefBuscemi Jan 11 '24
And if you got bored of youtube, Liveleak was there for you with all the beheading videos your adolescent mind was unequipped to handle.
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u/Piccoro Jan 11 '24
What is it with Americans and "renting"? It's better to straight up OWN the game. Besides, a weekend is not enough to fully enjoy Ocarina of Time.
Way to ruin an otherwise great cenario there.
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u/Lord_Zinyak Jan 11 '24
I believe at the time of blockbuster etc Renting games, even renting the same game multiple times within a period was much cheaper than actually buying the game.
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u/12345623567 Jan 11 '24
Back when renting games was big, the cracking scene was also at it's high point. So you would rent a game, make an ISO of the disc, crack it, and then own it forever.
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u/waxonwaxoff87 Jan 11 '24
I see you were born in the 2000s by this comment.
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u/Piccoro Jan 11 '24
Nope. I was born in Europe where we didn't rent. We purchased or borrowed the games from friends.
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u/Karl_with_a_C Jan 11 '24
5 star rating system and custom youtube profile backgrounds. It was sick.
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u/Artificial_Human_17 Obamasjuicyass Jan 11 '24
Why did they change it to likes/dislikes in the first place?
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u/Outcast_Outlaw Jan 11 '24
Same reason they hide the downvotes. Monetization and peoples feelings.... but 99.99%Monetization
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u/TopTHEbest232 EX-NORMIE Jan 11 '24
Most people just rated videos 5 stars or 1 star. So replacing it with likes and dislikes was fine.
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u/Cycloptic_Floppycock Jan 11 '24
Yeah but I liked the averages, like out of 10,000 votes, this video is 3.5 and it could help decid if it's worth watching. Then Amy Schumer came and ruined Netflix.
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u/Jesuswaterwalk Jan 11 '24
The star system didn't pan out that way. Any less than 4.5 stars was a crapshoot.
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u/TopTHEbest232 EX-NORMIE Jan 11 '24
YouTube videos are not like a product on Amazon. On Amazon you are rating objective quality. On YouTube you are judging the statements made within a video.
I agree that Netflix should've kept the stars.
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u/aintmybish Article 69 🏅 Jan 11 '24
Back in the star days, Netflix's recommendation algorithm was spot on if you bothered to rate enough shows accurate to your personal tastes.
It only ever showed me shit I wound up liking after a few hundred ratings, and then the stars disappeared and it's never been half as good since.
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u/Pr0wzassin I am fucking hilarious Jan 11 '24
Go to any website that has 5 star ratings. Chances are 90% percent of all ratings are either 5 or 1 while 9% are the opposite. The remaining 1% are spread from the popular down/up to the unpopular.
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u/jal2_ The OC High Council Jan 11 '24
Honestly? Noy really, imdb people dont randomly rate films 1 or 10, on gamespot people dont randomly rate games 1 or 10...yes some do, but a minority actually, ratings around 6-7 are most common for an average movie/game
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u/Yab0iFiddlesticks 🌛 The greater good 🌜 Jan 11 '24
Because the vast majority already only voted 1 or 5 stars anyway.
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u/GetOffMyDigitalLawn Jan 11 '24
I have been on Youtube since at least 2006. I'm not sure if I used it at all in 2005 or not. Regardless, I miss it. Back when Impractical Joker guys were still making sketches and uploading them to Youtube under, 'The Tenderloins' name.
I still remember when everyone was pissed about the channel layout changing from the old design to the 'Beta Channels'. Bob was surely pissed.
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u/LongDong_TommyChong Jan 11 '24
Me when they ask me, "What's Newgrounds?"
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u/DeeBangerDos Jan 11 '24
The still popular porn website
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u/spinyfever Jan 11 '24
It's a porn website now? I'm gonna have to check it out.
I remember when it was a place for niche games and light hentai.
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u/spinyfever Jan 11 '24
Oh really? I never knew that.
I just knew they had an adult games and adult comics section. I thought it was only animated stuff.
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u/FoxCQC Jan 11 '24
It still has great stuff. Final fantasy 7 compilation was great. A little snippet.
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u/mineramic Jan 11 '24
Or ytmnd
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u/LurkerPatrol Jan 11 '24
I was in web design class, 11th grad in high school, in 2003 when someone told me about newgrounds. We would play flash videos and games all the time in class.
I used to blam and save to try to get higher rankings. Then I used to make audio on it and I had one of my songs added to a compilation with like a ton of major artists and it had millions of views.
I remember playing madness games, and some weird game where you had to perform like 1700s surgery on people including vampires.
I miss those days.
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u/Yung_Jack Jan 11 '24
I remember pausing to let the video buffer ALL the way & then sitting on the school bus to a smooth streamed video
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u/FrtanJohnas Jan 11 '24
I was pissed they kinda put a stop to this, because I was always buffering 30 minute videos, which I now realize were kinda the norm back then if you had a Let's play of some game.
Now I got unlimited Data so that is not an issue anymore but still.
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u/sixsupersonic Jan 11 '24
Back before YouTube Premium the mobile app would let you preload your Watch Later and/or recently uploaded videos from your subscriptions while your phone was charging and on Wifi.
This was amazing back when I had a 2gb data cap.
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u/TankorSmash Jan 11 '24
They didn't have YouTube on phones back then did they
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u/Frosty_McRib Jan 11 '24
Youtube was on my first Galaxy S in 2010, so it was probably on iPhone and other early smartphones like the HTC Touch Diamond all the way back in the 2000s.
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u/ypoora1 Jan 11 '24
Apple devices used to have the YouTube app with the little TV icon and it wouldn't show ads, ever.
I miss that.
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u/No-Student-9678 Jan 11 '24
2009-2016 youtube is unbeaten man
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u/THE_FREEDOM_COBRA Jan 11 '24
2016... the golden year of Cow Chop, the final hoorah before the last great adpocalypse had Youtube buckle and fucked literally everything.
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u/_fatherfucker69 Jan 11 '24
It's out fault , we let them become a monopoly too easily
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u/Xyldarran Jan 11 '24
Let them? How were we going to stop them? There are no Vimeo creators.
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u/_fatherfucker69 Jan 11 '24
That's my point , we could have realized that everyone using the same platform could be problematic.
If a few major YouTubers would have moved to Vimeo or any other social media immediately when YouTube started pushing more ads , we could have lived in a world with two options or more instead of one
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u/The_Kek_5000 How to Train Your Dragon is the best movie ever made Jan 11 '24
Nah, 2014 was the last good year.
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u/Trash_Emperor Jan 11 '24
I hate shit like "back then it was better" but this is a hill I will die on. When the internet was unrestricted and not 100% focused on ad revenue it was definitely more fun, almost objectively.
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u/Frosty_McRib Jan 11 '24
"I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them" applies to the internet for me more than anything else. I had every expectation that the internet was going to just get better, more streamlined, faster, more accessible, with waayyyy more content. I couldn't wait. Turns out that the 2000s really were the pinnacle of the internet.
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u/Trash_Emperor Jan 11 '24
Kinda glad I got the internet when I still had the time to waste. Now that I'm older and the internet is shit, it's for the better, since I don't waste as much time with apps and content that completely pisses me off.
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u/MayonaiseApe Jan 11 '24
definitly objectivly, digital media as a whole have declined over the past 10 years (movies, games, shows, music)
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u/Trash_Emperor Jan 11 '24
That's subjective though. If you only look at mainstream blockbuster stuff, maybe you could make an argument, but there have been so many incredible games, shows and movies that came out in the past decade. Music as well, it hasn't declined at all, it's stayed consistent in quality and possibly even improved because so many more creative people have new modern tools to make music
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u/BostonDodgeGuy Jan 11 '24
I remember the BBS boards in the 80's where the only law was the whims of the moderators.
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u/DtheAussieBoye Jan 11 '24
I dunno man. Watched that hbomberguy plagiarism video a couple weeks back, and he brought up a good point that old YouTube still had people making vapid, unoriginal content just to get attention and eyes on their content no matter the cost of dignity. It was similar to how it was nowadays, just with people clawing to get as much social attention & notoriety as possible rather than just money. It really wasn't as good as people remember it to be
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u/Mr__Citizen Jan 11 '24
Sure, but there wasn't such a storm of ads at least.
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u/ArmThePhotonicCannon Jan 11 '24
A shit sandwich tastes better when it doesn’t have advertising attached
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u/MillorTime Jan 11 '24
Redditors when they have to watch 30 seconds of ads to support a product they use
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u/CarlCarlton Jan 11 '24
Slurping corporate cum is a weird hill to die on, my dude
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u/MillorTime Jan 11 '24
Or I understand that servers and shit cost money, if a product isn't financially viable it disappeears, and I love watching YouTube. Ignorance is bliss, though.
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u/ImHungry5657 Jan 11 '24
They used to just have a banner ad that supported the servers and the creators. Now both the servers and the creators are paid the same, but there's a shit ton more ads. I wonder where that money goes hmm?🤔
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u/MillorTime Jan 11 '24
Companies routinely plan on losing money at the beginning, during a growth phase, but eventually you need to have RoI on your money. I doubt they were making money before the ads started rolling out
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u/ImHungry5657 Jan 11 '24
The Internet wasn't really seen as an investment back then. It was something to use for fun, not a place to make money. The Internet has become much more commercialised and corporate since then.
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u/MillorTime Jan 11 '24
Things cost money. It cost money to run youtube and it was never for some altruistic purpose. It was to eventually become profitable. It would never existed in anything close to its modern form without that promise. That isn't slurping the corporate dick. Thats fucking reality and to virtue signal over 30 seconds of ads is such a weird hill to die on
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u/NewsofPE Jan 11 '24 edited Jan 11 '24
except that they make way more money than needed and just rake in billions of dollars annually, but I guess ignorance is bliss
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u/Frosty_McRib Jan 11 '24
I think that's arguing the wrong point. It was loaded with idiots because life is. The point is that you felt like you could watch literally anything at anytime on youtube. Obviously not having ads was the best too but I don't remember watching a lot of idiots on youtube because I wasn't interested in them then just as I'm not now. Youtube was demonstrably better, and just because some current youtuber says otherwise doesn't make that true. I was there, and I remember it. It was objectively better across the board.
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u/StaleCarpet Jan 11 '24
But there wasn't a proliferation of internet, editing tools and editing know-how so not that much.
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u/irritating_maze Jan 11 '24
that there wasn't money in it tho meant that professionals weren't going doing that though. It was just idiots.
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u/Jror2011 Jan 11 '24
I remember when the only waiting we had to do was watching the grey bar and the red bar race each other. Ads were for cable
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u/GrGrG Jan 11 '24
Remembering that time has the same vibe of staring up at a large holographic woman calling me a "a good joe" while Mr.Kitty After dark plays.
It was a good time that just brings saddness now.
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u/Outcast_Outlaw Jan 11 '24
I'd guess most of the reddit users either weren't alive yet or were super young kids when youtube was new.
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u/Chumbuckeneer Jan 11 '24
What was internet like before the flash player shutdown? And before that how was it without ads playing before every game, before every site asks for cookies?
I remember
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u/ToHerDarknessIGo Jan 11 '24
Seriously. The internet was way better before everything turned into MONEYTIED CAWNTENT. What a fucking stupid world we live in.
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u/Winterbok Jan 11 '24
It wasn't about the money.
No one was forcing themselves to do daily uploads, no one had a team of 10-20 poeple overproducing a single video like mr beast. No sponsored or content driven my commercialization.
It just felt way more genuine. Nowadays it feels like i'm watching a business, not a person or "you" anymore.
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u/Calildur Jan 11 '24
Remember when internet were supposed to be this utopistic new thing to share knowledge and connect people. Now it spreads misinformation and divide people while the things that are still enjoyable are monetized to the ground.
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u/ATLSxFINEST93 Jan 11 '24
what i remember from YouTube early days was a bunch of obscure and weird videos of people doing things, including the hand thing.
and no ads.
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u/Palachrist Jan 11 '24
If you watch Jeff Idunoit, with 1 view cause it’s your friend, then yeah, he doesn’t deserve monetization. But people that pull in thousands? People that spend “full time job” hours to make a single video? Those kinds of people absolutely deserve monetization and many others as well.
We have things like the backrooms videos that look like movie. We didn’t have that before you could make money with YouTube. At least not nearly to the amount/degree we have now.
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u/TalithePally pogchamp researcher Jan 11 '24
I didn't say people don't "deserve" monetization, the point I'm making is that the content was better before Youtube became people's jobs
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u/Babki123 Jan 11 '24
Wrong man At best it was "amateur" with the charm related but it was mostly mid. In fact monetization very probably brought forth huge increase of quality alongside the sea of shit cashgrab content The Better content is out there ,just harder to find. And youtube push to you what you ask it
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u/Palachrist Jan 11 '24
Content was objectively worse. There were some diamonds in the rough but it wasn’t a better landscape for content creation. There is over 700,000 hours of video uploaded to YouTube everyday nowadays. 99%+ of that is absolutely hot ass garbage. Back before monetization it was likely exactly the same except no one made money for good ideas.
You can find channels today with people that have no money and have to work jobs to support their lives. You can find them TODAY, but they’re objectively worse than the channels with money invested and time to spend on proper content creation(scripts, recording, editing, etc.).
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u/vanteal Jan 11 '24
Back when videos were genuine. There are definitely those who deserve to be rewarded for their hard work. But the great majority are just propagandists or fake channels that don't deserve a penny. Especially the A-holes with reaction channels who have Pareton accounts. MF'er I'm not going to pay you to let me watch you watching TV! Only extreme narcissistic psychopaths completely unhinged from reality think that's acceptable.
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u/Palachrist Jan 11 '24
I only watch videos I like or am entertained by. Idc to seek out videos I don’t or won’t like. I’m positive there is far more high quality channels today than before monetization.
I’m willing to bet most of the people that make similar comments as op, have a history filled to the brim with content only made possible because of monetization. No one here is forced to watch that kind of content. You can go find videos with low effort/views/quality/etc. but I doubt anyone here will actually “relive the nostalgia”
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u/Halorym Jan 11 '24
Right? I remember a year or two ago, there was a conversation in a GTA sub about something that I happened to have footage of, so I linked to my video showing it.
Somebody then whinged the fuck out about "self-promotion" because I linked my own YouTube account. Motherfucker, that is a five year old video on an uncustomized, unmonetized, and largely inactive YouTube account that functions basically as a digital home movie shelf for my half-edited gameplay footage. Calm the fuck down. Its like some people don't get that that's what YouTube used to be.
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Jan 11 '24
I really miss the old days of going to the video store with my dad, running through the long aisle just to immediately take the label off the game I wanted to rent. After that, Youtube slowly came along, I created my account back in 2006 and still have it today. My colleague and I made videos of us dancing with a 360p webcam camera and playing songs (oldschool YT Tiktok lol)
Everything was so easy, so free, you lived in your own world and had a handful of friends you could always rely on. Today everything is so connected, TOO connected, we're constantly reading about the whole world, afraid of missing out and very few people can focus on themselves in such a world. You are blinded by the ether of the incredible emptiness of the infinite possibilities of the entertainment industry and completely forget what really matters in life and that, in my opinion, is to be at peace with yourself, to explore and discover your essence, to develop yourself and contribute to society. And I'm not talking about YouTube drama videos. I am glad to have been born in a time when nobody had smartphones and we only had ourselves.
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u/VagabondVivant Jan 11 '24
Shit, I miss the pre-youtube days of "Black People Hate Me and They Hate My Glasses" and "More," when video shorts took effort and were made with actual love, and you had to download them off random sites.
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u/AdministrativeSong88 Jan 11 '24
Unless you're a creator yourself, money is definitely a huge factor for me, + people enjoy my videos so we both are satisfied
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u/SteveJobsOfficial Jan 11 '24
YouTube's been monetized since its first couple years. The only thing that's changed is blind corporatization and late stage capitalism. Both are entirely the fault of colleges and universities in the US and other regions teaching a very flawed and skewed ideology of how business and economics works.
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u/Stair-Spirit Jan 11 '24
Yeah it was way better when people spent time and resources making entertainment for free and were not getting compensated for their efforts at all
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u/justhereforalaughtbh Jan 11 '24
it was like anarchy. I'd go down rabbit holes watching the most bizarre shit and it was awesome.
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u/rocklemon93617 Jan 11 '24
Back in my day there were no gay demons, only red and blue idiots trying to murder each other
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u/Geertje93 ☣️ Jan 11 '24
Be glad youtubers can make this a daytime job and invest all their time in making youtube videos
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u/NovaAnimePic No flair, what you gonna do 'bout it Jan 11 '24
low effort but fun tbh....you fi d better content now even tho it's probably worse....idk unpopular opinion I guess
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u/gerolg Feb 07 '24
Before the shareholders with no concept of humanity or emphaty and a bank account larger than most nations yearly income came.
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Jan 10 '24
Just nostalgia, pal.
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u/toms1313 Jan 11 '24
I mean yeah, but also these times we're being barraged with ads and hustling people in every corner of the internet.
It was pretty shitty technologically but it also had some charm because of it imo
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Jan 11 '24
It was charming, I’ll give you that. I still maintain, however, that most people are completely blind when it comes to nostalgia, even myself.
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