[Verse 1: Cox + Combes] Let me lay it on the line, he had two on the vine I mean two sets of testicles, so divine On a horse made of crystal, he patrolled the land With his mason ring and schnauzer in his perfect hands Here comes George, in control Women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll Ate opponents’ brains, and invented cocaine

nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 244d

Definitely check out Wizard People, Dear Reader and his biography of Ulysses S Grant if you liked Washington.

Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 244d (2 replies)

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ripcord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Wow, A) I 100% forgot these existed, and B) holy shit they did 94 of them??

ripcord@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

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orbitz@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 244d

At a first thought, I'm not even sure it was YouTube but probably, Charlie the Unicorn. I've been online too long to remember old YouTube favourites specifically heh. Hell if papa Smurf lick my ass is on YouTube that could beat it unsure of exact years I watched them first well Charlie was 07-08ish if that's where it was from.

Memory unlocked for Foamy the squirrel but that wasn't YouTube specifically hah Neuroticaly Yours was the series name, it rocked. Probably shouldn't re-watch but it fit well mid / latish 2000s.

Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 244d

September 10th, 2006. The day a legend was born.

https://youtu.be/X6oUz1v17Uo

CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 244d

I think it's a toss up between The Evolution of Dance and The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny

lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 244d

Hyperactive

19 years old

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia paid homage to it

Drusas@fedia.io · 6 pts · 244d

Cat. I'm a kitty cat. And I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance.

njm1314@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Good lord, I checked my saved videos list to see what the answer is and I realized something. The average age of my saved videos is like 17 or 18 years old. And that's only really that young because of a couple relatively recent ones. Fuck...

early_riser@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d

Same here. A lot of YTPs from 2009/2010.

thatradomguy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 244d

Surprise Chipmunk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfhBM_Yay6w

Landless2029@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d

MondoMedia videos were classic Youtube for me. They made the Here come Dr. Tran videos.

Also illWillPress videos staring Foamy the Squirrel Like so

mirisgaiss@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d

https://youtu.be/AYWN8-RQR-E

can't understand a word of it, not like you need to. comedy gold to me.

pruwybn@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 244d

some classic Jake and Amir

lemmyng@piefed.ca · 5 pts · 244d

Aaron Earned an Iron Urn

mongooseofrevenge@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI

I randomly remembered the Will it Blend? videos the other day. Such a simple premise. Also "Don't breathe this."

fiendishplan@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 244d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu0qtEwb9gE

Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 244d

Oh long Johnson https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kkwiQmGWK4c

Sergio@piefed.social · 5 pts · 244d

Also see: !youtubeclassics@sh.itjust.works

Emi@ani.social · 5 pts · 244d

First one that comes to mind is Why engineers shouldn't defend. Love it so much. Glad people still make similar videos after years.

NaibofTabr@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 244d

Lab 1138

also, there's a community for more: https://sh.itjust.works/c/youtubeclassics

Kolanaki@pawb.social · 4 pts · 244d

I have a hard time with remembering when things happened so I bet most of the videos I could think of didn't originate from YouTube 😮‍💨

Like the site only started in 2003 but I could swear I started seeing it in high school (I graduated in 2003).

ace_garp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

Whipsnake Backpack

(Just realised that the second voiceover sounds like the guy from King Missile)

tuckerm@feddit.online · 4 pts · 244d

YouTube is my life, a song from 2007: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p21nZmtq56M

Still gets stuck in my head sometimes. Also, some of the lyrics show just how different Youtube (and internet videos in general) were back then.

sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 244d

It was a more chill time

devolution@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

Harlem Shake

otacon239@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Annoying by FND Films is such a classic: https://youtu.be/iXp2ruZoxK8

Hazmatastic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d

Came here to post this. It's been 84 years, but some of those quotes live rent-free in my head to this day.

"Hey Aaron, do you think pigeons have feelings?"

"Baritone! (deep) I'll spread my wings and-"
"SHUT! UP!"
" ... fly away."

Reasonable_Guy@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

Jones BBQ & Foot Massage

https://youtu.be/WPkMUU9tUqk

thesohoriots@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

TV SCORPION

iks@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d

Bagher 288 ! https://youtu.be/azEvfD4C6ow

yakko@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 244d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_C3D0rcFXrY

Back when technology promised a better future... 😭

boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 243d (1 reply)

There are so many!

No Asians

While we're in Australia, I'll just be waiting for a mate

Moving to a neighboring country, New Zealand Decking Advert. Easily one of the funniest ads ever, one of the few I'll watch voluntarily.

This is a music video, but very much in the spirit of old YouTube: Horse Outside

Who's the tank

From the same guys: RickRoll'd The Movie

Banana Phone Gmod music video

Schlangemann, du bist so... (I don't think this is the original though, despite being 10 years old)

Much of the Important Videos playlist

Excl's Runescape videos

I'll stop now, this is already too much lol

GaryGhost@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d

God I haven't seen or thought of the gmod banana phone in a very long time

glitchdx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d

A tophat is more e sports than you.

Rest in peace TB.

https://youtu.be/8yBajL2AAAQ

early_riser@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d

Any number of classic YouTube Poops.

Over 9000 Toasters

And here's a more recent one that I thought was well put together

Thomas Catches Coronavirus

Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 244d

Short Message (Royco Cup-A-Soup)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8eq2-WH7WoE

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/short-message-royco-cup-a-soup

neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 244d

Captain Kirk is climbing a mountain

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 244d (2 replies)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pie6izHuaMU

This one (nicht rijder), but you have to be Dutch to understand it.

mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 244d (1 reply)

I don't understand Dutch. But I love this song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUGFn7wQSlM

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 244d

Nice, I almost forgot that song. Very good protest song for this era. Haven't heard much from her since.

presoak@lazysoci.al · 3 pts · 244d

Ween : Object

https://youtu.be/fCSGM5mBrWY

Zathras@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 243d (1 reply)

Some of the first autotune vids

Hide yo kids, hide yo wife

Ain't nobody got time for that

And this one about Diablo Immortal announcement at Blizzcon a few years back

madkins@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d

Autotune the news was great

CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 pts · 244d

Although I wasn't around for that period of YouTube, shoe-bop. (Which I'm not linking because apparently the audio is now forbidden)

Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org · 3 pts · 244d

The channel called "tim hunkin".

They make youtube videos from really old TV shows where this even older guy, a true genius, explains techonology in such a simple but awesome way.

unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d

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flabbergast@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d

Hey Johnny Depp!

GaryGhost@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d

Pancakes in the morning by gir. I could only find a reupload I wonder what happened to the original channel

https://youtu.be/tANu__XfBec

Monster96@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d (1 reply)

Angry gamers it always reminds me of a easier time in my life

Landless2029@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d

This just gives me PTSD and reminds me of why I quit playing games on Xbox live...

Last game I enjoyed playing back then was Gears games with a premade squad on private chat.

OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 244d

I don't know why but I will never fail to laugh at Arnold's pizza shop

webkitten@piefed.social · 3 pts · 244d

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Nasan@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 244d

I don't know why you're looking up at me bitch! Play's on stage!

TheV2@programming.dev · 3 pts · 244d

The greatest Superman of all time - https://youtu.be/h0-sl315b5Y

syaochan@feddit.it · 2 pts · 243d

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7GSihnl1rQ

bunkyprewster@startrek.website · 2 pts · 244d

https://youtu.be/N2rZxCrb7iU

First YouTube I saw

xylogx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d

Seasonally appropriate, though this one sort of predates Youtube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olMsAy8HTUo

Ngroe@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

Tidy Monster

"The wall is on my side.." 18yrs ago, 2008

Classic trippy short that we used to trip out watching.

Wahots@pawb.social · 2 pts · 244d

Circa 2010

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9zHKu7eG-uU&pp=ygURYmlnIG1hbiBxdWFhbHVkZXM%3D

Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

Shoes

rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 244d

Draw With Me by Mike Inel - not super old

https://youtu.be/DRkgH7Uu-hA

Older and funnier one, this love Hina amv of weird Al's horoscope song has always had me laughing

https://youtu.be/ooZ8vqo55y8

waggz@programming.dev · 2 pts · 244d

https://youtu.be/ji5_MqicxSo

Randy Pausch - Last Lecture

Nemo@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 244d

"Kittens" inspired by "Kittens" remains comedy gold

miguel@fedia.io · 2 pts · 244d

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Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 244d

Lips 2 da floor

ace_garp@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

One or two guys dancing in wobbly, blowup, latex, sumo-suits.

Kicking their legs up. Full body shot, inside a house/room.

Can't find it.

chunes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d

Laddergoat

Batmancer@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 243d

Guy on a Buffalo

AlexCory21@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d

Off the top of my head, the McDonalds Big Mac rap

https://youtu.be/Q03Ki4GhONs

Crispy ;-)

Wasabi@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 243d

Unforgivable

Still quite all the videos daily.

AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 244d

BEHOLD IT'S A POTATO!

It's tied with another real dumb video that I cannot find right now. Another Ed Edd n' Eddy video called something like "don't touch my mama Luigi". It's dumb humor, but it could always be worse.