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.
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AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com · 147 pts · 347d
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.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 347d
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.
itsathursday@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
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.
SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
I don’t even think under 18s can post, so what’s your metric you’re even using here?
JPSound@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
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.
Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 347d
You forget that most adults are mentally children, only with more money and less time. My homelab is just a more expensive lego set.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
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.
Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
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.
So his opinion made sense at the time.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 346d
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.
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 347d
I dunno, I think all my Lego sets are a factor more expensive than my rack.
Bongles@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 347d
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.
yermaw@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 346d
Until i turned 18 my birthday was the 1st of January somewhere in the 70s or 80s
Branch_Ranch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 346d
My " birthday" is 4/20/1969. Giggity.
naught101@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Tiktok would be pulling most away
Fabian@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 347d
Is that the age users entered? Before I was legally an adult I always just added a few years
AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 347d
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.
GhostTheToast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Hey, I'm in that cohort! We are legion
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 47 pts · 347d
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
JPSound@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 347d
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.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 9 pts · 347d
Ah Razor tool now makes sense in KDEnlive editor
JPSound@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 347d
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.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 347d
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
Metostopholes@midwest.social · 29 pts · 347d
Apr 19, 2006 for me.
I miss when the most watched video was Evolution of Dance.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 347d
https://youtu.be/wTqsV3q7rRU
Found it. wow, this video looks like shit. I remember it in ultra high def.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 347d
This definitely got worse over time. Which does happen when YouTube makes changes.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 347d
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.
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 3 pts · 346d
killer bean and badger badger badger for the OGs
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 20 pts · 346d
I wonder if you'll still get prompted to prove you're over 18.
daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 346d
You are. My account is also over 18 yo. But youtube have tried to ask for ID to watch "adult content" on youtube before.
Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 347d
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one · 14 pts · 347d
Yeah, 2006 was only like a few years ago.
skoadphilmore@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 347d
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.
myaah@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 347d
Alantutorial
skoadphilmore@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 346d
Oh my gosh this is it and it's still there. Gracias.
Two9A@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 347d
Sounds like HowToBasic (or Basics?), from memory.
trk@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 345d
If it was HowToBasic, there would have been eggs getting smashed.
Echolynx@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 347d
I remember those, it was a subverted 'How to' channel. Maybe hacks in the name?
dRLY@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 346d
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
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 346d
MeThisGuy@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 346d
I am around that age and don't have either of those. and wtf happened in the last 5 yrs?
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 346d
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 347d
Can we take a moment to recognize Good Guy(TM) Rick Astley for never copyright-striking his Never Gonna Give You Up videos. He is a real hero.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 346d
Young whippersnapper!
stupe@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 346d
Says the young whippersnapper.
Allero@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 346d
People born when you've created your YouTube account are now adults. Some are planning to have children.
Think about that.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 346d
So crazy man. Im really glad I never had kids. Im 40 now and Im just now feeling like I may consider it. No offence to 20 years olds but seeing someone that age with two or three kids blows my mind. I feel like Im just barely old enough to even think about kids.
AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 346d
19 is not an adult, even if technically they are in the legal sense, thats still firmly in the kid territory. To think some are planning for kids at that age just shows how immature they are.
CXORA@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 346d
19 year old are not children. Maybe a transitional state, but for closer to being an adult than a "kid".
Perspectivist@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 347d
Mine would me much older if it wasn't for an mentally unstable ex-girlfriend deleting my original account.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 347d
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...
rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
Unregistered HyperCam 2
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 347d
Roses are red, violets are blue
Unregistered HyperCam 2
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 347d
my first one was 09,
Uri@infosec.pub · 10 pts · 346d
They are collecting your deta for this long ಠ_ಠ Surely they know you more than you
cm0002@piefed.world · 10 pts · 347d
Where did the time go?
Anyways, does anybody wanna come with me to Candy Mountain?
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 347d
We're on a bridge Charlie!
Alaknar@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 346d
This is what I got from memory. Haven't seen the video in about a decade.
maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 347d
A coworker of mine was born in 2006. I never knew hiring toddlers was legal...
JPSound@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
My sibling is way younger than I and she and their friends were asking me what it was like during 9/11 because that's entirely before their time. I felt like an old vet talking about storming the beaches on D-Day. It's so wild how actual adults were born in what feels like just a few years ago.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
I was curious so I checked mine.
Aug 24, 2006.
Jesus I’m old.
trk@aussie.zone · 11 pts · 347d
Me too, team 2006 checking in!
Crazy that it's been 10 years since I joined. Right guys? It's been 10 years? 👨🏻 👴🏻 💀
Psythik@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
Can I join the club too?
I even still have the old URL from the days when it didn't require the @:
https://youtube.com/psythik
treadful@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 347d
Apr 7, 2006. Does that make me cool?
Psythik@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 346d
Only if you post a screenshot
trk@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 345d
Hey, mine doesn't need an @ either...
https://www.youtube.com/theredkrawler
Not sure why I bothered censoring it originally tbh.
ZindaDil@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 346d
That's my Bday bro..
trk@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 346d
Acamon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Nov, 2006
renrenPDX@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
July 28, 2006 here.
Brothers!
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 347d
August 2, 1842
Amateurs!
billwashere@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Ok this made me chuckle.
billwashere@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Why is everyone 2006?
Edit: Oh yeah…. google: October 9, 2006
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 pts · 346d
I'll drop a knee-breaking one:
I was born in 2006.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 345d
Impossible.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 345d
Bro is 19. He can vote.
riskable@programming.dev · 7 pts · 347d
crank0271@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 347d
100k views adjusted for inflation? And you didn't parlay that into a "career" as an influencer? So much potential, wasted.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
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.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
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.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
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.
crank0271@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Thank you for your service. Just as in real life (in the US), no parting gift for you.
For anyone looking for the message: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2IXfnTmig
lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 347d
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 346d
Watching Kimbo Slice beat the shit out of people in random back yards was peak. Beat the hell out of needing to download the whole thing before watching it like you had to do with Red vs Blue
groet@feddit.org · 2 pts · 346d
Damn people have free will and choose to ruin their children's lives like that
realitista@lemmus.org · 6 pts · 346d
I've gotcha beat by a few months.
dRLY@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 346d
Only a few days after you for me.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
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
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
Ha! I got ya beat. Barely.
RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 347d
Got you by two months.
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
And one week before my 29th birthday.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
You beat me by 12 days
M137@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Oh, hey, that's my birthday (not year, only date)
dohpaz42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Happy belated birthday! I hope it was a good one.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 347d
Just couple of geriatrics now.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 347d
Bro, I was almost 30 when you created that account 😂
JPSound@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 347d
let's get you back inside, grandpa. Rub some liniment on those bunions and put you on one of your favorite spaghetti westerns.
kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 347d
IT'S WEED AND VIDEO GAMES GODDAMN IT IM GEN-X 😂😭
JPSound@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
I misread your post at first. I edit this to simply "Weed and video games, fuck yeah!"
reddit_sux@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 346d
ryannathans@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 347d
Link me to the subliminal message that sounds sick
JPSound@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Here is the link to one that didn't get a strike from about that time. But I've also had to attach proof, I was THE FIRST. Found it when I was in college.
https://youtu.be/GJ2IXfnTmig
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 347d
Me “oh 10,000 days, that’s a recent one, I remember that release”
Also me: becomes a pile of green dust
JPSound@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Fear Inoculum is over 6 years old already. That still feels brand new to me. Especially since we had to wait over 13 years between 10,000 Days and their "New" Fear Inoculum.
Chozo@fedia.io · 5 pts · 347d
March 4, 2006 for me. Looks like a lot of us signed up around the same time. If memory serves, wouldn't that have been about the time that YouTube first got absorbed by Google?
Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 347d
Maybe that's when they also added the ability to subscribe to channels, making it actually useful to have an account if you weren't uploading videos ?
Idk, just spitballing, my own account is from 2009, because in 2006 my parents definitely didn't have a broadband subscription, and Dailymotion was kinda superior to YouTube for a short time, so that's where I usually went for a while.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Google wasn't Google back then. Same name, different devil.
johsny@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 346d
boaratio@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 345d
I'm old enough to remember when YouTube was a separate account from your Google login.
LodeMike@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 347d
Most people who use YouTube are over 19 years old.
JPSound@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
I have just received the relevant stats and indeed, I'm not but it sure feels like it these days. It's more childlike in content than it's every been IMO. Maybe it's just me.
jaschen306@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 346d
Well shit, I think I might be one of the oldest here.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 345d
Got me beat. June of 2006 for me.
roofuskit@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 346d
I changed my Google account in 2011 so ended up with a newer account. Womp womp.
floo@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 347d
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 346d
In amongst then pack, it seems
BlueEther@no.lastname.nz · 3 pts · 347d
May 2006 here
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 3 pts · 346d
The absolute first video I saw on YouTube was the evolution of dance... which was one of the first ever viral videos ever...
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 344d
I think that one predates YouTube. I remember first watching it on a friends computer who shared his files during a LAN party
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 344d
It was first uploaded to youtube, it is possible that your friend downloaded (I am sure it was possible even back then) or simply showed it to you and you weren't aware it was YouTube. I didn't even know what YouTube was when I was first saw it in 2006.
czardestructo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
I noticed the last modified date on some of my mp3s recently and realized almost all of them are old enough to drink and some are nearly 30 years old :(
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 346d
may 05 here
Bongles@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 347d
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.
expatriado@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
my original account is slightly older, but because i changed my phone number, i cannot login, despite knowing the password
don@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 347d
October 24, ‘06.
AncientSoul@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 346d
12th of December 2006 here.
psx_crab@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 347d
You made me check mine, can't believe i'm there in 2008.
floral_toxicity@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
I'm June 2006 ... Time needs to slow down!!
fox2263@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 346d
Now show us your Steam age
hOrni@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 345d
Mine says 2011. But I've been online since 2005. 2001 if You count dial up. Guess You didn't need an account back then.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 346d
So long ago, my brain hasn't formed my first memory yet
njm1314@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Why do you think this image proves your contention exactly?
JPSound@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 347d
The only thing it proves is that I'll use any old screen shot to validate my nonsensical internal dialog.
JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 347d
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 346d
On a tangent I went to buy a secateurs (small plant chopper) off eBay - they wanted proof I was over eighteen; via a credit card. My eBay account is 16 years old. What the actual fuck?
sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 346d
My oldest account I can still access is my eBay account at roughly 20 years old. Next oldest is my Steam account at 18.
meekah@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
my account is a teen now. makes me feel old, ugh
CaptainBlinky@lemmy.myserv.one · -3 pts · 346d
Who TF is looking at YT in the shower? Bro, wash off, rub one out and dry off. You need at least like 30 seconds a day away from your screen. They didn't water protect your phone so you could doomscroll instead of washing your ass.