People just moved short-form shitposty videos to Vine, then TikTok. YouTube incentivizes long form videos.
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Explain the long form 20 second videos i get in my recommendations then
Those are mostly three month old tiktok videos 😅
This isnt tiktok
Hm, idk. You have any thoughts? I always heard that YouTube videos are incentivized to be 10+ min for ads.
I 100% expected him to have Rickrolled himself by the end, ngl
deep frying
Like, vocal fries? The Aguilara 'ehhhh-hhhhh-hhh' or how Britney began every line of every song?
It's when they crank up the saturation and lossy compression for... irony or something? Idk I'm old
I’m surprised I’ve only seen one mention of the good ol’ Stumbleupon.com, I used to spend hours alone and with friends just hopping from one random thing to another. Found some pretty cool stuff too.
LOVED stumbleupon. I even met some cool people IRL through it.
These days kagi.com/smallweb is the closest thing I've seen. It's a lot of fun to stumble around, but of course the larger internet has changed. You didn't have all of these content streaming behemoths vying for your engagement back then.
So much for dealing with my depression today
Hey we're making a pretty cool little part of the internet for ourselves right here on the fediverse at least :)
It's nothing without ponies.
The 4chan community from back in the day sure was obsessed with them.
Tfw I used 4chan for years before bronies were a thing. Those were truly the golden years.
Couldn't agree more.
Man I thought that was a joke when I first started seeing it. Nope.
Though many of us remember the early internet pre-ponies; pre 4chan, even
Those were fun times.
I've always said the same thing myself: I miss the Internet just there for fun. Now they try to make a living out of it; either in good faith or scamming you.
I remember being excited when people on the television or "irl" would mention anything to do with computers or even the internet.
Like wow mainstream culture is talking about the niche nerd thing that I love!
Now the internet is the mainstream culture.
BackInMyDay.jpg we used the net for looking stuff up. Mozilla 1.0 was faster than gopher and something something altavista web crawler grey hair getOffMyLawn.gif
But it was a special time, back at the uni in 92 and using the 56k link (!!) to play muds/moos on a server in f'n Bosnia. Or read the MTG mailing list. Uh, I mean, do class work. No commercial things even on there really. Before Amazon, Google, Myspace, etc.
~Life~ Internet was so simple back then. None with all these fancy gadgets and instantaneous loading of ~~porn~~ images and videos! Just living in the moment, being patient to wait for your favourite Internet material to load for 2 hours!
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