Where the hell did all that time go?
Fun Fact: I was the very first person who discovered a back masked subliminal message on Tool’s “10,000 Days” album and my video got sum 100k views which was insane for that time in youtube history. Whenever Tool finally released their discography on streaming platforms, I got a copyright strike and it was taken down. fuckers.
According to a quick search the biggest cohort of YouTube users is 25 to 34, your account is not older than most people on YouTube. I’d apologize for being a pedantic asshole but I’d be lying, I thrive on it.
This makes me feel better actually. I always get the vibe that it’s all kids and teenagers. Maybe because they’ve made it too “soft” for lack of a better word that I can think of rn. I’ll stop back in another 19 years.
I don’t even think under 18s can post, so what’s your metric you’re even using here?
Vibes only. High margin of error when it comes to actual numbers but it still feels that way to me. I was only informed of the actual stats in this very thread. Can’t mark this as the first time I’m been way off the mark. Ive kinda made a habit of it which is fine with enough beer.
You forget that most adults are mentally children, only with more money and less time. My homelab is just a more expensive lego set.
I remember asking my dad why he didn’t watch cartoons anymore when I was a wee little fucker. He said that I wouldn’t like cartoons either when I become an adult. Still waiting, dad. Still waiting.
To be fair, I don’t like the cartoons that existed when he was a kid anymore. But I still like the ones that existed when I was a kid. And I very much like the ones that didn’t exist yet when I was a kid but do exist now.
Yeah I not longer enjoy the cartoons that are targeted towards kids, with a few exceptions.
Classics like Tom and Jerry survive, and “adult animation” stepped in to save us just before we had to grow up for real.
I dunno, I think all my Lego sets are a factor more expensive than my rack.
Older people consume the content because that’s the dynamic that we are used to. Few produce it, we don’t have much we “need” to share or say, we are also busy earning. Young people are also busy earning, but it just so happens that their business is the platform, and they “need” to share - not that anyone is asking them to except for the advertising machine that feeds off the engagement, click and rage bait.
I’m sure the number of actual small children that use YouTube is quite high as well, but data would be skewed since they aren’t supposed to be on there. The views of channels that cater to them are on another level.
Until i turned 18 my birthday was the 1st of January somewhere in the 70s or 80s
My " birthday" is 4/20/1969. Giggity.
Tiktok would be pulling most away
Is that the age users entered? Before I was legally an adult I always just added a few years
It was from a marketing data aggregator, so it’s presumably getting it from more than self-reported age, knowing how those scum sucking data vampires are.
Hey, I’m in that cohort! We are legion
There’s probably a better place to ask but I’m going to do it here because I’m remembering now… Anyone remember a kind of mock “how to” series but the person clearly doesn’t know what they are doing and eventually they had a video for “how to get back into your house if you get locked out” and they end up failing to get back in and eventually they had a follow up for “how to survive in the woods”. The series may have descended into madness after that point.
I assume it’s been long removed but finding that again would be really neat or at least someone who remembers it better than I did.
Alantutorial
Sounds like HowToBasic (or Basics?), from memory.
I remember those, it was a subverted ‘How to’ channel. Maybe hacks in the name?
Not the channel you where talking about, but if you like fake tutorials. Then this one has some funny ones. https://www.youtube.com/@infinitesolutions
Had a meeting with our sales guy, and he asked how long I’d been running the same engineering software since I knew it so well.
Me: about 27 years.
Him: that’s longer than I have been alive.
Oof
I do sound professionally and I originally learned to track on 2" magnetic tape. Our one digital console had something like 24 channels (which was cutting edge at the time) and every channel required a $40k card slotted into this proprietary rack costing god know how much. Now, any cheap laptop can be an audio rig that has basically unlimited channels and enough DSP to basically do anything they want. Nothing like slicing tape with a razor hoping your edit was right. Also, navigating a patch bay that looks like spilled spaghetti to pop a single channel of compression on a track.
Ah Razor tool now makes sense in KDEnlive editor
Exactly. It’s an art in itself. A cross fade was laying the diagonal cuts of two strips onto each other at the seam. Your fade time what the angle of the cut. DAWs visualize that but it used to be an actual cut. Wild times back then. Digital completely took over right after I left college and it’s a shame because there’s something special in there that makes every edit mean something. With no Ctrl-Z, every cut is a commitment.
If you look up pics of old iconic rock master reels, some of those things look like a Frankenstein monster. But once they put it on wax for sale, you’d never know the reels looked like hot garbage.
Ah cool. I had a similar conversation about when art supplies were very costly, even a single she of watercolour paper or a tube of paint, so the artist had to conjure up something worthy and commit to it, rather than digital art where you can churn out a lot of mediocrity because it costs you nothing
Mine would me much older if it wasn’t for an mentally unstable ex-girlfriend deleting my original account.
Apr 19, 2006 for me.
I miss when the most watched video was Evolution of Dance.
Found it. wow, this video looks like shit. I remember it in ultra high def.
This definitely got worse over time. Which does happen when YouTube makes changes.
Ohhhhh what a classic. I remember huddling around my girlfriend’s (at the time) family computer watching that one god know how many times in a row. Also, hat one with David Blaine but it was this other kid pretending to be him doing impossible tricks.
Young whippersnapper!
Calm down young man, 2006 is not old.
Yeah, 2006 was only like a few years ago.
Can we take a moment to recognize Good Guy™ Rick Astley for never copyright-striking his Never Gonna Give You Up videos. He is a real hero.
I was curious so I checked mine.
Aug 24, 2006.
Jesus I’m old.
Me too, team 2006 checking in!
Crazy that it’s been 10 years since I joined. Right guys? It’s been 10 years? 👨🏻 👴🏻 💀
Can I join the club too?
I even still have the old URL from the days when it didn’t require the @:
Apr 7, 2006. Does that make me cool?
Nov, 2006
July 28, 2006 here.
Brothers!
August 2, 1842
Amateurs!
Ok this made me chuckle.
Why is everyone 2006?
Edit: Oh yeah…. google: October 9, 2006
Created my account in 2008. Can’t remember because I deleted my account last year. Anyway, the earliest memory of Youtube I have was seeing Kimbo Slice punch a fridge. Speaking of Kimbo Slice, check out the names of his son and grandchildren.
I just can’t 😂 (Hint: Kimbo Legacy and Kevlar)
Yet the “ai” system one day will think that you’re underage and block your account until you send a photo of your face, your id and your ass
Reminisce with me about the pre google glory days. In the long long ago. Salad Fingers, that Joey Jordison drum solo video, Badger Badger Badger…
my first one was 09,
Unregistered HyperCam 2
Roses are red, violets are blue
Unregistered HyperCam 2
My accounts currently from 2011. I’ve used it a bit longer, that would’ve been around 18 for me and I’ve been using it since at least 14/15. I started with Google video I think.
100k views adjusted for inflation? And you didn’t parlay that into a “career” as an influencer? So much potential, wasted.
112k AkChuUhLee. (I had to look it back up) I’ve been a career Tool fan but that’s as far as I’ve ever gotten. I’m where I want to be tho. And this way, I won’t need to make a fake crying apology video.
It’s sad that your video was taken down since it looks like someone posted a video about the subliminal message three months later, in December 2008, and it’s still up. (I won’t post it in case it’s you - I don’t want to dox you.) Maybe this person posted a follow up crying apology, though.
it’s not me. I have been carrying around that resentment towards them for many years now. Front line get the spear, or so it’s said.
I’ll drop a knee-breaking one:
I was born in 2006.
Impossible.
