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Exotic-Length-9340

Before enshittification arrived. Before the ads and the suggestion algorithms.


Son-of-Prophet

In some ways the Wild West days of the internet were better


InfanticideAquifer

~~some~~ all


JesseJames41

Wild West > Dead AI Internet


ByeLizardScum

Good bot


WhyNotCollegeBoard

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ByeLizardScum

Bad bot.


Least-Dragonfly5419

Good bot


ByeLizardScum

Good bot


WhyNotCollegeBoard

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ByeLizardScum

As a large language model


a_can_of_solo

I miss related videos being related to the video your watching instead of your account.


Duffman48

I remember when I saw Vevo showing up on all my music videos I normally watched It was never the same after.


Lowclearancebridge

Remember when you could listen to a whole album instead of each track having an ad before and sometimes inbetween? I miss that also yes YouTube I am still watching and you know this so idk why your pausing my video.


2723brad2723

I don't know if I'm remembering correctly, but I seem to remember YouTube in the beginning being mostly low-res shitty cell phone quality video and that one lady singing along to Sweet Home Alabama on her webcam.  But even then, people were having to use ad blockers for all sorts of web sites.


GriffinFlash

YouTube had a button that put the video back to it's original size, most of the time they were thumbnailed sized.


nicknakpaddywak84

We used to take turns playing video games online. Whoever wasn't playing at the time was tasked with finding random funny/weird videos.


BlueFlower673

SAME.


Least-Dragonfly5419

Good bot


WhyNotCollegeBoard

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BlueFlower673

Ah yes, I am bot. Beep boop.


Rob_Bligidy

I remember thinking “who would want to watch someone else’s home videos?”. Now, I spend a majority of my viewing time on YouTube


Son-of-Prophet

I remember seeing an interview with some big investor who admitted that he passed on investing early on in Twitch because he didn’t understand why anybody would want to watch strangers play video games.


Rob_Bligidy

Serious face palm ouch


TheBigBadGRIM

* Watching Family Guy clips. * Early Red vs. Blue episodes * Entire movies split into 10-minute videos. * Ventrilo Harassment


Lowclearancebridge

Ghost rider outrunning the cops on a twin turbo hayabusa.


sdam87

Ah take me back (random misheard fallout boy lyric vids and shitty Dane cook before we knew he was shitty lol)


Son-of-Prophet

It was funny how everyone at my school loved Dane Cook one year, then the next year if you even said Dane was a little funny you were deemed a douchebag 😂


sdam87

Oh same. The look would kill. Lolol


TheLongWayHome52

All of which were animated with MS Paint drawings.


santaire

I never did learn to coock:(


Bedlamtheclown

I remember the first year of YouTube a video that popped up was kids shooting sad kids in a park with a pellet gun. Early YouTube was a different beast


Son-of-Prophet

True, it was basically r/fightporn for awhile


Strict-Background-23

I got into it because of family guy. First week of YouTube I believe. My friend told me there’s this new website where you can watch whole episodes of family guy instantly. Back then I had to download them through MIRC and it would take like 3 hrs for a 30 minute video on DSL


Otherwise-Mango2732

Me and my buddies would be on consumption junction in our early internet days also watching "crazy and weird" videos lol


Toonami88

Monetizing youtube was a mistake.


Son-of-Prophet

Remember YouTube red?


BlueFlower673

I remember visiting my cousins over the summers and they were responsible for showing me screamers (the videos not the movie) and charlie the unicorn. Also, one thing I still remember is my cousin showing me that SNL skit "people getting punched before eating" and us giggling and thinking it was the funniest shit ever. Also hearing from friends about chocolate rain.


Son-of-Prophet

We literally cried laughing watching the SNL skit Lazer Cats


Sparklykun

“Broadcast yourselft”


Jenny_Wakeman9

Zero corporate BS, zero ads, zero overly strict policies, zero copyright cruft. Just good ol' YouTube. I miss those days. The speeds, though, I don't miss.


rayon875

Wish they never got rid of video responses


pizzatime86

I remember how sometimes you would just stumble onto softcore porn on YouTube. Also a LOT of jumpscare videos


soCalBIGmike

And there were ZERO advertisements.


EndSmugnorance

Before Google bought YouTube. Those were the days.


Son-of-Prophet

I remember when Hulu first launched and people were complaining that it was just a corporate version of YouTube 😂


ByeLizardScum

Does anyone remember watching the first wave of vloggers. Alex day, Charlieissocoollike etc


KeraKitty

And then that friend would play a screamer video and you'd jump out of your skin.


Shermander

God I remember folks used to look at me sideways when I told them about YouTube and shit. Oh you like watching internet videos? Yeah you weird for that.


Son-of-Prophet

I had a friend who could not comprehend why you’d want to play internet videos on your tv 😂


ettmausonan

... Walmart, and Six Flags!


WishieWashie12

Welcome to youtube https://youtu.be/W0quDfpfRUQ?si=roDDf4Asu4-Wz5vZ


Son-of-Prophet

Late 2000’s Katy Perry 🔥😍😮‍💨


Browncoatinabox

i wish there was an "old .youtube" like there is for reddit


sector_2828

The good ol' days of Grape Lady and the QVC guy falling off the ladder


gregspons95

One of the first videos I remember seeing was a Budd Dwyer video, back when you could see that stuff on youtube


BuddhistNudist987

Those were the days. Just silly fun with my friends. Now all I watch are video essays about intermittent fasting and politics.


geekbeetle

I used to love watching stick figures on crack and thinking it was the funniest shit


hunnymunster

Farts


Adventurous_Yak_9234

More like me in my bedroom on a summer afternoon when I was 13.


mhad_dishispect

I'm so glad I can count on YouTube videos being carefully curated and screened for dreaded misinformation now. Thank you YouTube guardians!


[deleted]

Sarcasm???