An example of when someone recognizes ‘these are the good old days.’
An example of when someone recognizes ‘these are the good old days.’
1) he is real life Michael Scott 2) 100% accurately described what the internet has become
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With a small mix of Will Ferrel
I'd say mid to end 2000's (2004-2010) were truly the golden age of internet.
The internet was finally fast enough to surf & download and stream stuff but it was still early enough to have no regulations, monetization and paywalls.
It was the wild west where everything was possible. From making bucks by selling stuff on Ebay, to downloading whatever movie or game you want from limewire.
Now half of the stuff is either forbidden, behind a paywall or was destroyed by ads optimization and thus dumbed down to appeal to as much viewers as possible
It really was, regulations for copyright were barely existing. It was wild.
Everything feels like Walmart content anymore, lowest common denominator for the ad bucks, nothing too offensive (unless it makes a ton of money), anything copyrighted is only available on one specific outlet and people that infringe basically get their platform removed, and it's basically the same shit everywhere in slightly different presentations. Anything off the beaten trail is either pushed out of sight by algorithms or clearly some kind of data mining bait and switch that will 404 in less than a year. Few exceptions
Hell, even Maddox has completely bottomed out and is by far one of the blandest, most generic content "creators" out there today
He was so on the mark except for the income method. Although Patreon isn't too far off the mark.
youtube has a paid supporter function now, i think it's called 'join'
Super chats are big for live youtubers
Arguably, it was already the beginning of the end.
Yup, I remember the good days of YouTube 2006-2013-14,
Just bad edited videos Low quality cameras YouTubers did YouTube videos for fun and not just for money or clicks
I miss those days those few years of peace
The passion this guy had/has is electric. Truly was the golden age. It can't be replicated. Us millennials were fucking luckier than hell. We got to know what it was like before the wild wide web and be molded by its golden age.
This is how I imagine the guy who founded eHow was like in the 90s
Fucking spit it out already
Where's my $4
He's about 72 now, which is crazy.
not false
Can some poor soul who’s watched the full thing summarise this please? Life is very short and judging by the intro where he repeats himself and leaves tonnes of dead-air, this video will rob me of a substantial amount of that life.
Basically he talks about how YouTube is the future of information, how we can use the site to change someone's life in a way that couldn't have happened otherwise. He also says that they'll find some way to monetize the site and it would likely be through the viewers giving donations to the creator. He mentions we all have something we can share and YouTube is the way we can do that, whether or not we'll get as big a fanbase as the biggest creators we'll still benefit someone through this site.
his old videos are waaay ahead of its time tbh
idk, even back then people knew it was pretty much a slam dunk kind of game changing site. I joined late 2005 and already felt like it was going to be the next newgrounds, although I was surprised when people started making money on it
Thanks! you hero.
And hey, he was pretty much spot-on. I remember seeing a Ukrainian volunteer (at the start of the war) watching a YT video on how to service and use a weapon he was unfamiliar with and it blew my mind.
I stopped after he aimlessly repeated the word ‘privileged’ like 3 times at the start but he’s absolutely right, we are.
Imagine tryna service a weapon and unskippable ads, a word from our sponsors and yt intros come on
Enemy is approaching your city, meanwhile the YT ads are like:-
“Introducing the new Google Pixel with face unblur”
Come on!—COME ON!
He was kinda right tho
Much better that you spend that time commenting on reddit every hour of every day lmao
Never been criticised on my Reddit usage before. But that’s simply not true anyway, I stop to fap and play vidya.
Im not criticizing i use too much of this site as well
Hell yeah.
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