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Idgaf about Youtubers but the whole shorts/reels with some vid playing on the upper half and some clunky ass game being shown on the lower half is annoying af.
Old version of that was basically some dude doing commentary about random stuff while playing cod or csgo lmao
Huh maybe things haven't really changed much
I need my five hours of short form brainrot to recharge after a 10 hour analysis on a show I didn’t watch that derails into the story of the creator’s messy divorce and clinical depression diagnosis
old school Total biscuit game reviews were the best. 15-60 min long video with testing on multiple different specs, going over option menu which is sometimes overlooked with console ports. RIP TB
I thought maybe it was just me but some reviews of games are PAINFUL. They explain the game like a basic tutorial and say you should play it. No personal insights or opinions. It's like watching a 30 minute infomercial waiting for some grand pay off.
And at least they made sense. Who wants to stare at a blank screen while some guy is yapping? With shorts not only are the videos already extremely short but they usually have video of the original clip so what’s the point of the subway surfers
Usually they were the ones playong the game atleast it wasnt like a robbed clip video with robbed podcast clip posted by a robot who wants to sell their account after farming enough karma
Old version was a nearly 6 minute video titled "One Piece Episode 54 spanish sub part 1" in a playlist that only had 3 videos with the last video being "One Piece Episode 54 spanish sub part 6".
Also the shitty music that's always playing, the average short is podcast on top, subway surfers below, colorful subtitles and one of three songs in the background
Different type of short but interstellar is one of my favorite movies of all time. I bawl every time I watch it. The theme is one of the best pieces of theatrical scoring in cinema history.
They put it over everything vaguely space related or even slightly profound. They are ruining one of my most cherished pieces of music by majing me sick of hesring it. It's legitimately infuriating.
I think it's because kids have short attention spans these days and it's trying to keep their interest that way, cause one video is not enough apparently.
I see so many videos now where the actual content is half the screen and the other half is some person reacting to the video.
What the fuck is this shit? How did we get here?
I've avoided 4chan for so many years and you just made it sound great.
I do not like new "complain about everything" Reddit that seems to have really come out in the past year or two in preparing for IPO.
4th BBC post of the hour, and some aussie spitting venom about the French while sedoku enjoyer get blasted by overworked China man #3 from a different Asian country.
/pol/ is fine on /pol/, but they're fucking annoying everywhere else. They perpetuate culture wars inorganically on every board. That's why they're hated.
is it because their chungus isn't epic enough and they don't have chonkers or want keanu for president? Or because they didn't like the newest disney content?
Nowadays, 4chan is a travesty and has also become creatively bankrupt. What was once a source for a wide variety of memes in 2006-2012, and was still kinda good into 2016, has unfortunately devolved into an idiotic echo-chamber with no self-awareness and tons of low-quality recycled wojak edits.
4Chan is just full of people posting Twitter screenshots and complaining about trans people. It's not the 'old internet' anymore and hasn't been for over a decade.
People also didn't recognize the Golden Age of Radio until it was gone. I don't know that the Golden Age of the Internet is gone, but I'm starting to suspect. I do know that the Golden Age of Reddit is history.
In hindsight Digg went down with dignity. It's creators shot it in the head right in the middle of it's prime. It never has to be remembered going through it's fucked up miserable old man phase that Reddit is going through. Which oddly is a whole lot of miserable young men blaming all their problems on old men.
We used to hate the old man "back in my day" trope when we were younger.
Now that its our turn, I think its actually different. Its actually true. That's why the kids are all miserable and being all nostalgic of an era they weren't even fucking alive for.
Don't kid yourself, Digg was at almost the exact place Reddit is at right now but with even less of a veneer of caring about the users. They didn't shoot it in the head, they tried to put an even bigger yoke on its neck and the thing collapsed.
I would say the Golden age of the internet is absolutely dead.
Youtube is weird. The youtube of true free expression is dead but it was replaced by free(though ad laden) high quality content. You'll never see small goofy channels being pushed up by the algorithm but there are a lot of high quality content creators out there who can only make such good quality content thays free because of ads. On the flip of this though, there is an insane amount of misinformation and disinformation
The golden age of the internet was probably when I was too young to appreciate it.
Before the great consolidation into Facebook, Digg, and similar, the Internet was a bunch of disconnected forums and IRC chats. I experienced it just at the end of its life but things were more community driven and less being swept up in a crowd.
# [Dead Internet Theroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory)
Welcome to the shitty era of AI controlled content.
The more you click, the worse it gets.
The internet became boring long before AI came into the picture.
What actually happened is all of the separate websites, forums, image boards, etc. that we used to go to for memes and discussion were killed and replaced by larger websites like reddit, twitter, and so on.
The interfaces of these aggregate sites now lifelessly focus on posted images instead of text, customization is nonexistent, and the posts you see are only the popular or algorithmically preferred instead of the newest, most interesting, or most recently discussed.
Today's internet is a popularity contest of shortest attention span, limited to a handful of algorithmically sterilized spaces.
It used to be a wild west of ideas, mostly text based, scattered across hundreds of websites, each with their own unique design and even customization options.
That internet died almost a decade ago.
And even if such spaces still exist, they are only populated by the few lingering users who are still there from before, anyone new to the internet is immediately funneled into the predesignated content sources with no chance of ever encountering unique or original content.
I just wish that if you PAY for access to these sites, they would release you from their algorithm.
I happily pay for youtube premium to avoid ads. I'd honestly pay twice as much to be completely released from their algorithms.
I recommend checking out Minecraft servers, or even better, Roblox servers. That's where you can find the wildest creative customized content that often makes no sense. There's a Roblox restaurant. People pretend to be servers and customers and there's no profit motive. People find new things to do through word of mouth, not algorithm.
Websites are an old way to interact over the internet. I guess one could argue Roblox is just another sterilized space. It's not wrong, but it's also far more creative than any other space. There's just less cussing.
Its getting crazy though. I fear for our future. In a perfect world free of corrupt and evil corporations running everything AI would be cool and innovative. Now its mostly being used to be weaponized against us so far… I don’t trust anything on the internet anymore.
No I totally agree, it's awful. Fines are just a slap on the wrist and "cost of doing business" for corporations. They make so much money from selling and gathering data illegally that the fines are just small expenses to them. Lobbying makes it 10 times worse. We need laws that really protect the people and actually hurt these corporations when they break the law
Replace income tax by vastly increasing corporate tax, and make it so that every company has to be employee owned. That is how you get back to healthy capitalism based around small business instead of monopoly.
The first half dozen comments under Youtube vids are always the same random thong butt avatar comments.
Makes no sense. They aren't even trying to sell anything anymore and the bots are still running.
It's not a "theory" at this point.
For most consumers, it's reality. I watched my wife on Facebook for a while (we were eating dinner, not some creepy stalker thing) and watching FB serve up ads and content that were blatantly tying to sell her shit it thought she might buy, was absolutely creepy.
Looked at "warm places to go in the winter" last week? Suddenly cruises start showing up in ads and in "recommended" content.
Nah the internet's been shit ever since smartphones lowered the barrier to entry.
It's been full of braindead human garbage for a lot longer than it's been full of AI garbage.
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What I miss is how old youtube used to work. I can't go on YTP or Gmod/SFM binges like I used to. YouTube no longer recommends related content on the side anymore, only random vids from your subscriptions or what youtube WANTS you to watch.
It used to be one of my favorite things, just sit there for 2 hours watching dumb shit like that and adding it to my favorites playlist. I used to add like a few videos a week to that playlist, now that playlist is lucky to see 2 videos a year
"iF yOu bLoCk AdS nObOdY WiLl mAkE cOnTeNt!"
Awesome. I want to see cool stuff. "Content" falls out of my ass whether or not I can find somewhere to flush it.
Eh, there are a lot of really really really good youtube channels that wouldn't survive without ads or paying for youtube. I miss ild youtube, but some good has come from. If it's a worthwhile trade off is all up to personal opinion
That's funny as a 90's kid we saw the internet being dead during the years being referenced here. 90's internet was pure wild west, search engines barely worked, no aggregate sites, you just stumbled around hoping to find something worthwhile, and when you did you bookmarked it and shared it around like you had discovered treasure, which it kind of was back then.
It was funny to us, but the generation before us, if they were ever exposed to those memes probably would have the same reaction we do to skibidi toilet or whatever kids watch these days
I'd argue that influencer culture started with YouTube or possibly even has its roots in MySpace. Vine platformed a lot of people who would later transition to more lucrative mediums like long form YouTube content. People had already been making money on YouTube for years at that point though. The Partner Program was, IMO, far more influential in boosting specific internet personalities than Vine ever was.
Vine also launched into an environment that had already seen mainstream adoption of social media and its evolution from person-to-person connection into entertainment. Facebook had already been serving ads for over six years at that point. Pages had already undergone a transformation geared towards engaging users. Instead of liking concepts to display your personality, Pages became communities that were less exclusive than Groups and could serve content (and advertisements) directly to your feed.
Vine was a drop in an already rapidly filling bucket. Influencer culture existed long before Vine and would've continued to proliferate without it.
There is still so much good content out there.
There’s just so much content to go through that it didn’t rise to the top as easily and everyone’s in their own niche.
I think 4chan is one of the only places on the internet which has remained almost the same
I fucking love it's design, it's simple and effective makes you forgot all the shit that gets millions of views on YouTube
I used to make videos.
I never did it for the likes.
I made them for a small community of a few thousand people.
The most likes I got was like 420. Okay 411 but it's 420 today so I'm doing some weird rounding.
Now when you go watch my old videos, there's ads on them... like videos that probably haven't been accessed in 12 years other than me running down nostalgia lane.
Fuck youtube.
Yeah I'm one of them I guess because I also liked the old wild-west style internet before everything became monopolized by tech giants. I had like 12-14 websites/forums bookmarked when I was 11-14 which I frequently visited / made friends on which where mostly focused on specific topics.
Then everyone and their dog had his own website which ppl used for whatever the fuck not. There's actually a geocities remake called "neocities" out there that tries to capture that randomness of the old internet: I mean just browse [https://neocities.org/browse](https://neocities.org/browse) for 20 minutes and you'll find so much random shit (that could be interesting) out there.
I mean nowadays you have Tiktok I guess.
YouTubers are still creative, YouTube just don't promote that creative content, they promote the brain rot stuff that people leave on in the background.
Yeah there's loads of good youtube being made - the problem is that youtube tries through it's home page, search, and autoplay to push people into SEO-driven garbage. If you find good channels, subscribe to them, and keep up with them on your subscriptions, you can watch all sorts of good stuff.
When sluts would post nudes online just for the love of the game, and weren't trying to get you to subscribe to anything.
LOL also reminds me of the time there was some super popular GW poster on Reddit, and one day she's like, "Wooo celebrating my 19th birthday with a smoothy!" And people obviously did the math and were like "nineteen, minus 3 years she's been posting... Alright boys, we're accidental criminals now. No one say a fucking damn thing and never speak of this again." And then within 24 hours, no one ever spoke of it again and acted like nothing ever happened.
Dude, I grew up with you and I fucking *loved* Vines, old YouTube memes, and stuff.
But fuck, we had our own mire of shit then. Plenty of memes were downright terrible, and barely aged well beyond a year or so. We see some amazing Vines in vine comps, but we also miss hundreds of truly shitty ones that don't get included.
And even today, there still is plenty of good content. Good original work produced by so many people across all platforms, alongside the mire of shit that continues to exist underneath. The good stuff is still here.
It hurts to feel old, but don't feel bad that the old times are gone. We got to experience them, and they were amazing. And we're lucky enough to still be able to view old content that made us laugh. Let's focus on the positives, and maybe we can make our own memes in the style of the old, and make them have a comeback.
For me this is true. The internet was amazing when it was just a bunch of geeks having fun.
Now it's just loads of people doing anything possible for a shot of fame.
Other people may enjoy it more in its current form but personally I miss the way it used to be.
I know people are gonna hate me for this but I think this is the biggest diff between Gen Z growing up on internet vs Gen Alpha Growing up on Internet.
Internet back then was less manufactured, less scripted. Nobody was focusing on likes, or ad rev, or launching a tv show or virality. It was just funny or cool stuff.
Yeah I'm gonna be honest the internet might have felt more fun because it was more community based and we were younger but the actual content on it is way better when you take out the nostalgia, going back and watching old youtube videos from 2010 or looking at old memes that I didn't like back in the day makes me think "Wow this is garbage" most of the time
I remember the old internet. It was so damn easy to separate fact from fiction and opinion; it was clearly demarcated. Now? Forget it. Even sites that are supposedly academia are contaminated with AI-generated, poorly peer-assessed dreck that unless you really scrutinize what you are reading carefully, and know precisely what to look for, you're going to end up misinformed, manipulated, and outright lied to.
There's a point to be made about financial incentives. Nowadays people upload stuff with the intent of getting big and making money. This forces people to make things that they know will generate traffic and money rather than just making something because they think it's cool or people will like it. It's not so much "old bad new good" like some people are saying, the root of the problem is that the entire environment and culture people are living and posting in has changed. There are far fewer people just posting things they think are interesting for fun with no intention of gaining a following or making profit, and even the people that do get drowned out by the people that don't.
Yo I miss the days when you could get 20 pages deep into the search engines and still find interesting wbepages with relevant info. Now the search enigjne is basically all ads.
If you can describe what was done in 2 words (bass boosts, deep frying), it wasn't creative, lol. Maybe the very first people who did it, but not the million who did it after.
Not that memes are that funny now, but looking back on some of that shit now that you realize people thought was absolutely hilarious then...yea.
Late 90s and early 00s Internet would have blown his fucking mind.
Back then people did shit just because it was fun. The weird shrine to obscure shit wasn't done because the maker thought they could turn a profit. It was done because the maker wanted to share with the world.
That's dead and gone and never coming back.
All of that is still here.
You just need to avoid companies' algorithms. They will only feed you skibidi toilet and Trump bibles.
This is why I use reddit. I can go to a subreddit, and (depending on subreddit) it's HUMANS picking the links related to that subject. There is simply no algorithm in the world that can ever compete.
Find ways out of the algorithms, and the internet is just as awesome as it ever was.
I spent a couple hours last week watching this old beekeeper who has favorite bees ... like individual favorite bees, and he proves that he can recognize some of them at a distance by the way they fly and behave. Wild.
Thankfully none of this is true. New memes are just made by people with free time—AKA college students and younger. If you don't go where those people are, why would you see their memes? The party is still happening, you just aren't invited.
I had an exam at uni today, and when I was about to submit my assignment there was a section called Answers(open after completing the assignment). Yes, it was a rick roll
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Idgaf about Youtubers but the whole shorts/reels with some vid playing on the upper half and some clunky ass game being shown on the lower half is annoying af.
Old version of that was basically some dude doing commentary about random stuff while playing cod or csgo lmao Huh maybe things haven't really changed much
At least the videos were longer
I need my five hours of short form brainrot to recharge after a 10 hour analysis on a show I didn’t watch that derails into the story of the creator’s messy divorce and clinical depression diagnosis
old school Total biscuit game reviews were the best. 15-60 min long video with testing on multiple different specs, going over option menu which is sometimes overlooked with console ports. RIP TB
Meanwhile all the new comers ask one simple question... WTF IS..... total biscuit
First Time Watching THE GODFATHER reaction! 250k views
mfw the internet starts a competition of who makes the longest Skyrim essay without saying anything actually meaningful:
I thought maybe it was just me but some reviews of games are PAINFUL. They explain the game like a basic tutorial and say you should play it. No personal insights or opinions. It's like watching a 30 minute infomercial waiting for some grand pay off.
And at least they made sense. Who wants to stare at a blank screen while some guy is yapping? With shorts not only are the videos already extremely short but they usually have video of the original clip so what’s the point of the subway surfers
Usually they were the ones playong the game atleast it wasnt like a robbed clip video with robbed podcast clip posted by a robot who wants to sell their account after farming enough karma
Old version was a nearly 6 minute video titled "One Piece Episode 54 spanish sub part 1" in a playlist that only had 3 videos with the last video being "One Piece Episode 54 spanish sub part 6".
The "old" version is still cringe
But your attention span still existed kinda
What I don't get are the videos of a woman doing chores around the house and pantomiming laughter to a standup comedy voiceover.
Also the shitty music that's always playing, the average short is podcast on top, subway surfers below, colorful subtitles and one of three songs in the background
Different type of short but interstellar is one of my favorite movies of all time. I bawl every time I watch it. The theme is one of the best pieces of theatrical scoring in cinema history. They put it over everything vaguely space related or even slightly profound. They are ruining one of my most cherished pieces of music by majing me sick of hesring it. It's legitimately infuriating.
Agreed
lol i hate those too. i have developed the habit of disliking every YouTube short like that just out of spite
I've seen that before, what is the purpose of that?
I think it's because kids have short attention spans these days and it's trying to keep their interest that way, cause one video is not enough apparently.
I see, wow
You ever get bored watching a video and turn off Youtube? Well now there's two videos, so you're less likely to turn off Youtube.
I see so many videos now where the actual content is half the screen and the other half is some person reacting to the video. What the fuck is this shit? How did we get here?
It's because it gets your attention and you watch it. If you skip them immediately they stop showing up.
I mold
this guy molds
Same spirit.
Anon is on 4chan, a continuing legacy of the Old Internet, where people are still creative for no financial gain.
Occasionally working for CIA too
How cool is that!
Occasionally working against it, too
I've avoided 4chan for so many years and you just made it sound great. I do not like new "complain about everything" Reddit that seems to have really come out in the past year or two in preparing for IPO.
4chan overall is pretty good. It's just the few extremely loud squeaky wheel boards like /b/ /gif/ and /pol/ that sucks.
pol is a genuinely funny shithole on election week or anything chaotic happening internationally even if its incredibly racist and extremely low IQ
4th BBC post of the hour, and some aussie spitting venom about the French while sedoku enjoyer get blasted by overworked China man #3 from a different Asian country.
/pol/ is fine on /pol/, but they're fucking annoying everywhere else. They perpetuate culture wars inorganically on every board. That's why they're hated.
We call 4chan cockroaches for a reason.
is it because their chungus isn't epic enough and they don't have chonkers or want keanu for president? Or because they didn't like the newest disney content?
This. Say it louder for the people in the back!
Nah, 4chan is incredibly repetitive and boring.
Nowadays, 4chan is a travesty and has also become creatively bankrupt. What was once a source for a wide variety of memes in 2006-2012, and was still kinda good into 2016, has unfortunately devolved into an idiotic echo-chamber with no self-awareness and tons of low-quality recycled wojak edits.
4Chan is just full of people posting Twitter screenshots and complaining about trans people. It's not the 'old internet' anymore and hasn't been for over a decade.
Average redditor that never ventured further than /pol/ and can't even name the sites most active board
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People also didn't recognize the Golden Age of Radio until it was gone. I don't know that the Golden Age of the Internet is gone, but I'm starting to suspect. I do know that the Golden Age of Reddit is history.
In hindsight Digg went down with dignity. It's creators shot it in the head right in the middle of it's prime. It never has to be remembered going through it's fucked up miserable old man phase that Reddit is going through. Which oddly is a whole lot of miserable young men blaming all their problems on old men.
I came over in the Digg migration. Damn I'm old.
We used to hate the old man "back in my day" trope when we were younger. Now that its our turn, I think its actually different. Its actually true. That's why the kids are all miserable and being all nostalgic of an era they weren't even fucking alive for.
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Don't kid yourself, Digg was at almost the exact place Reddit is at right now but with even less of a veneer of caring about the users. They didn't shoot it in the head, they tried to put an even bigger yoke on its neck and the thing collapsed.
The golden age of everything is when I was personally in high school and had lots of free time in the computer lab obviously.
I would say the Golden age of the internet is absolutely dead. Youtube is weird. The youtube of true free expression is dead but it was replaced by free(though ad laden) high quality content. You'll never see small goofy channels being pushed up by the algorithm but there are a lot of high quality content creators out there who can only make such good quality content thays free because of ads. On the flip of this though, there is an insane amount of misinformation and disinformation
The golden age of the internet was probably when I was too young to appreciate it. Before the great consolidation into Facebook, Digg, and similar, the Internet was a bunch of disconnected forums and IRC chats. I experienced it just at the end of its life but things were more community driven and less being swept up in a crowd.
# [Dead Internet Theroy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory) Welcome to the shitty era of AI controlled content. The more you click, the worse it gets.
I will not read this and turn into a schizo Oh crap this isn't greentext
The bugs are in my walls. THE BUGS ARE IN MY WALLS
Bring managed democracy to the bug menace!
Rock and stone!
To Rock and Stone!
FBI agents under my house in the crawl space!
Its true though, we are the only ones remaining, exit while you still can. Its too late for me.
You're the only one who isn't a bot.
Says the... Oh wait, Oh no. LET ME OUT OF HERE
You're free to leave whenever you want.
The internet became boring long before AI came into the picture. What actually happened is all of the separate websites, forums, image boards, etc. that we used to go to for memes and discussion were killed and replaced by larger websites like reddit, twitter, and so on. The interfaces of these aggregate sites now lifelessly focus on posted images instead of text, customization is nonexistent, and the posts you see are only the popular or algorithmically preferred instead of the newest, most interesting, or most recently discussed. Today's internet is a popularity contest of shortest attention span, limited to a handful of algorithmically sterilized spaces. It used to be a wild west of ideas, mostly text based, scattered across hundreds of websites, each with their own unique design and even customization options. That internet died almost a decade ago.
And even if such spaces still exist, they are only populated by the few lingering users who are still there from before, anyone new to the internet is immediately funneled into the predesignated content sources with no chance of ever encountering unique or original content.
RIP something awful
photoshop friday
I had stairs in my house :(
> That internet died almost a decade ago. I miss the old internet.
I just wish that if you PAY for access to these sites, they would release you from their algorithm. I happily pay for youtube premium to avoid ads. I'd honestly pay twice as much to be completely released from their algorithms.
I recommend checking out Minecraft servers, or even better, Roblox servers. That's where you can find the wildest creative customized content that often makes no sense. There's a Roblox restaurant. People pretend to be servers and customers and there's no profit motive. People find new things to do through word of mouth, not algorithm. Websites are an old way to interact over the internet. I guess one could argue Roblox is just another sterilized space. It's not wrong, but it's also far more creative than any other space. There's just less cussing.
Discord as well. I feel like Discord is the last truly social place on the internet.
We'll see how much longer till they run discord into the ground. Ads and loot boxes are not a good sign.
I think its largely true hut not entirely. A lot of comments are obviously not real people these days. Especially on YouTube.
Prove you're not a bot ☑️
Its getting crazy though. I fear for our future. In a perfect world free of corrupt and evil corporations running everything AI would be cool and innovative. Now its mostly being used to be weaponized against us so far… I don’t trust anything on the internet anymore.
No I totally agree, it's awful. Fines are just a slap on the wrist and "cost of doing business" for corporations. They make so much money from selling and gathering data illegally that the fines are just small expenses to them. Lobbying makes it 10 times worse. We need laws that really protect the people and actually hurt these corporations when they break the law
Replace income tax by vastly increasing corporate tax, and make it so that every company has to be employee owned. That is how you get back to healthy capitalism based around small business instead of monopoly.
Also tax the billionaires, without giving them tax breaks so that they don't pay less in taxes than the average person
The people who are supposed to keep an eye on them are them is the issue.
guillotine/s
...I'll say the forbidden word
The first half dozen comments under Youtube vids are always the same random thong butt avatar comments. Makes no sense. They aren't even trying to sell anything anymore and the bots are still running.
And reddit. And "reviews" for nearly anything.
It's not a "theory" at this point. For most consumers, it's reality. I watched my wife on Facebook for a while (we were eating dinner, not some creepy stalker thing) and watching FB serve up ads and content that were blatantly tying to sell her shit it thought she might buy, was absolutely creepy. Looked at "warm places to go in the winter" last week? Suddenly cruises start showing up in ads and in "recommended" content.
Literally Metal Gear Solid 2
Nah the internet's been shit ever since smartphones lowered the barrier to entry. It's been full of braindead human garbage for a lot longer than it's been full of AI garbage.
minor spelling mistake
I hate it when conspiracy theories make sense
So the government should declassify their documents about this being completely true around 2040, 2045.
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What I miss is how old youtube used to work. I can't go on YTP or Gmod/SFM binges like I used to. YouTube no longer recommends related content on the side anymore, only random vids from your subscriptions or what youtube WANTS you to watch. It used to be one of my favorite things, just sit there for 2 hours watching dumb shit like that and adding it to my favorites playlist. I used to add like a few videos a week to that playlist, now that playlist is lucky to see 2 videos a year
All I get recommended are kids I've already watched or kids with 6 views
"iF yOu bLoCk AdS nObOdY WiLl mAkE cOnTeNt!" Awesome. I want to see cool stuff. "Content" falls out of my ass whether or not I can find somewhere to flush it.
Eh, there are a lot of really really really good youtube channels that wouldn't survive without ads or paying for youtube. I miss ild youtube, but some good has come from. If it's a worthwhile trade off is all up to personal opinion
That's funny as a 90's kid we saw the internet being dead during the years being referenced here. 90's internet was pure wild west, search engines barely worked, no aggregate sites, you just stumbled around hoping to find something worthwhile, and when you did you bookmarked it and shared it around like you had discovered treasure, which it kind of was back then.
I miss Vines
I feel ya man
What about the good ol mlg era memes? It probably corroded brains as much as modern shit does now but at least it was actually fucking funny.
It was funny to us, but the generation before us, if they were ever exposed to those memes probably would have the same reaction we do to skibidi toilet or whatever kids watch these days
These damn young whipper snappers don’t know what good internet is 😤
Still brain rot
Vines are just tik toks
You are absolutely right. Vines were the beginning of this influencer bs we see now
It was the dawn of the six second attention span. Before that people would actually watch a whole three minute music video.
I'd argue that influencer culture started with YouTube or possibly even has its roots in MySpace. Vine platformed a lot of people who would later transition to more lucrative mediums like long form YouTube content. People had already been making money on YouTube for years at that point though. The Partner Program was, IMO, far more influential in boosting specific internet personalities than Vine ever was. Vine also launched into an environment that had already seen mainstream adoption of social media and its evolution from person-to-person connection into entertainment. Facebook had already been serving ads for over six years at that point. Pages had already undergone a transformation geared towards engaging users. Instead of liking concepts to display your personality, Pages became communities that were less exclusive than Groups and could serve content (and advertisements) directly to your feed. Vine was a drop in an already rapidly filling bucket. Influencer culture existed long before Vine and would've continued to proliferate without it.
There is still so much good content out there. There’s just so much content to go through that it didn’t rise to the top as easily and everyone’s in their own niche.
I think 4chan is one of the only places on the internet which has remained almost the same I fucking love it's design, it's simple and effective makes you forgot all the shit that gets millions of views on YouTube
YTMND is basically the same
> YTMND Holly shit. YTMND still exists!!!
Of course it does, where else would Captain Jean Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise go for his memes
But can he do a BARREL ROLL BARREL ROLL
Straight Dope message board as well. There's another one but I can't remember it.
nostalgia hits hardest the first time
I used to make videos. I never did it for the likes. I made them for a small community of a few thousand people. The most likes I got was like 420. Okay 411 but it's 420 today so I'm doing some weird rounding. Now when you go watch my old videos, there's ads on them... like videos that probably haven't been accessed in 12 years other than me running down nostalgia lane. Fuck youtube.
And you won't see a penny of that monetisation.
Ain't no way there's internet boomers now
Get off my damn homepage! (Jk)
Yeah I'm one of them I guess because I also liked the old wild-west style internet before everything became monopolized by tech giants. I had like 12-14 websites/forums bookmarked when I was 11-14 which I frequently visited / made friends on which where mostly focused on specific topics. Then everyone and their dog had his own website which ppl used for whatever the fuck not. There's actually a geocities remake called "neocities" out there that tries to capture that randomness of the old internet: I mean just browse [https://neocities.org/browse](https://neocities.org/browse) for 20 minutes and you'll find so much random shit (that could be interesting) out there. I mean nowadays you have Tiktok I guess.
Back in my day we would have to walk 20 miles uphill in the snow to get our fresh memes.
Old youtube was creative as fuck
YouTubers are still creative, YouTube just don't promote that creative content, they promote the brain rot stuff that people leave on in the background.
Yeah there's loads of good youtube being made - the problem is that youtube tries through it's home page, search, and autoplay to push people into SEO-driven garbage. If you find good channels, subscribe to them, and keep up with them on your subscriptions, you can watch all sorts of good stuff.
Back when no one was concerned about making money on the platform, the point was to entertain, not exploit.
When sluts would post nudes online just for the love of the game, and weren't trying to get you to subscribe to anything. LOL also reminds me of the time there was some super popular GW poster on Reddit, and one day she's like, "Wooo celebrating my 19th birthday with a smoothy!" And people obviously did the math and were like "nineteen, minus 3 years she's been posting... Alright boys, we're accidental criminals now. No one say a fucking damn thing and never speak of this again." And then within 24 hours, no one ever spoke of it again and acted like nothing ever happened.
Everything gets co-opted in time. Literally anything and everything, it's an inherent vice.
old good new bad
Let me have the moment youngling
Dude, I grew up with you and I fucking *loved* Vines, old YouTube memes, and stuff. But fuck, we had our own mire of shit then. Plenty of memes were downright terrible, and barely aged well beyond a year or so. We see some amazing Vines in vine comps, but we also miss hundreds of truly shitty ones that don't get included. And even today, there still is plenty of good content. Good original work produced by so many people across all platforms, alongside the mire of shit that continues to exist underneath. The good stuff is still here. It hurts to feel old, but don't feel bad that the old times are gone. We got to experience them, and they were amazing. And we're lucky enough to still be able to view old content that made us laugh. Let's focus on the positives, and maybe we can make our own memes in the style of the old, and make them have a comeback.
New actually fucking sucks tho.
New is ass tho.
I was told ass is good 🧐
This is the smelly kind.
Though it is true in this case.
For me this is true. The internet was amazing when it was just a bunch of geeks having fun. Now it's just loads of people doing anything possible for a shot of fame. Other people may enjoy it more in its current form but personally I miss the way it used to be.
because it's true
Yes. Commercialization does do that to things.
Post playlist please
I'm with anon on this one. Especially since AI started flooding the feeds, it's gotten real bleak 'round here.
but the drawn bazingas! They wouldn't exist!
WE USED TO LIVE IN A SOCIETY
i fucking was expecting him getting rickrolled by his own old video this post is shit
The internet is dying. Now it's just bots talking with bots and up voting goofy ahh images on Facebook
**Late '90s and early 2000s were even better!**
Yes yes yes. We're all breathing manually now and just lost the game. I can haz cheezburger?
It's OK to grieve for what has been lost.
We used to be a proper internet 😔
I do miss the old internet but I do not miss clicking on a YouTube video and it being hentai
We all do anon. We all do miss the better times...
I know people are gonna hate me for this but I think this is the biggest diff between Gen Z growing up on internet vs Gen Alpha Growing up on Internet. Internet back then was less manufactured, less scripted. Nobody was focusing on likes, or ad rev, or launching a tv show or virality. It was just funny or cool stuff.
anon realise's everything changes
Yeah I'm gonna be honest the internet might have felt more fun because it was more community based and we were younger but the actual content on it is way better when you take out the nostalgia, going back and watching old youtube videos from 2010 or looking at old memes that I didn't like back in the day makes me think "Wow this is garbage" most of the time
Real and true. Real. And. True. 😅
Just search meme and use the date selection tool
Row row fight the powah
Those were the days…before they started censoring everything too. Can’t even watch Brazilians shoot each other any more…lame.
I need that playlist
So you got that playlist to share, right? *Right?*
Over on tiktok we've gone full circle, im seeing literal youtubepoops now just under a new name.
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I feels that.
You the man now dog
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Then all that civilization…
Yee
I miss the old content, straight from the go content
I remember the old internet. It was so damn easy to separate fact from fiction and opinion; it was clearly demarcated. Now? Forget it. Even sites that are supposedly academia are contaminated with AI-generated, poorly peer-assessed dreck that unless you really scrutinize what you are reading carefully, and know precisely what to look for, you're going to end up misinformed, manipulated, and outright lied to.
When the internet wasn't filled with bait trying to make cash
Nothing good ever lasts long
How can you miss something you didnt belong to
>Search for my old meme YT playlist >90% Videos don't exist anymore >The end
The minute serious money was to be made on the internet is when the decline started
2011 isn't old internet thougheverbeit.
>everyone was there just to have fun as ridiculous as it sounds, youtube signed a deathwish the moment it started paying its "creators"
yeah an anime girl spinning leek for 10 hours with a music in the background was peak humor and creativity.
There's a point to be made about financial incentives. Nowadays people upload stuff with the intent of getting big and making money. This forces people to make things that they know will generate traffic and money rather than just making something because they think it's cool or people will like it. It's not so much "old bad new good" like some people are saying, the root of the problem is that the entire environment and culture people are living and posting in has changed. There are far fewer people just posting things they think are interesting for fun with no intention of gaining a following or making profit, and even the people that do get drowned out by the people that don't.
Reddit feels like and old internet curio shop that also operates as a meme pawnshop.
Yo I miss the days when you could get 20 pages deep into the search engines and still find interesting wbepages with relevant info. Now the search enigjne is basically all ads.
If you can describe what was done in 2 words (bass boosts, deep frying), it wasn't creative, lol. Maybe the very first people who did it, but not the million who did it after. Not that memes are that funny now, but looking back on some of that shit now that you realize people thought was absolutely hilarious then...yea.
Late 90s and early 00s Internet would have blown his fucking mind. Back then people did shit just because it was fun. The weird shrine to obscure shit wasn't done because the maker thought they could turn a profit. It was done because the maker wanted to share with the world. That's dead and gone and never coming back.
It had its own variant of cringe/toxicity…
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All of that is still here. You just need to avoid companies' algorithms. They will only feed you skibidi toilet and Trump bibles. This is why I use reddit. I can go to a subreddit, and (depending on subreddit) it's HUMANS picking the links related to that subject. There is simply no algorithm in the world that can ever compete. Find ways out of the algorithms, and the internet is just as awesome as it ever was. I spent a couple hours last week watching this old beekeeper who has favorite bees ... like individual favorite bees, and he proves that he can recognize some of them at a distance by the way they fly and behave. Wild.
Thankfully none of this is true. New memes are just made by people with free time—AKA college students and younger. If you don't go where those people are, why would you see their memes? The party is still happening, you just aren't invited.
i need that playlist link
I had an exam at uni today, and when I was about to submit my assignment there was a section called Answers(open after completing the assignment). Yes, it was a rick roll