UPDATE: Im aware this was briefly on front page of reddit and r/videos (which is amazing)! And it was later removed, some people thought it was shadowbanning or something suspicious, but truth is I have been banned from that sub since 2017 (a few friends used to post my vids, without my asking), so its a legitimate post removal if anyone was curious. Either way I do appreciate the support and Im glad people resonated with this video, thats all I could ask for. You can check out my social media links in the video description if interested.
it reminds me of that boomer meme which goes like: 1996: boutta take a break from reality (goes on the internet) 2016: boutta take a break from reality (goes outside) sound bad but kinda has a point.
Nerds, Gamers, Bloggers, Content Creators. Long ago, the four corners of the internet lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Corporations attacked.
@@warasphalt3032 You must unlock the 7th chromosome. Without it, you cannot attain full understanding of the omniverse, and the Fire Lord will defeat you. Pink guy, set aside all worldly attachments.
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It all went down hill when RUclips was no-longer “Broadcast Yourself”.
For me the internet died after 2015 everything just went downhill, especially when politicians, corporations, and news outlets started using it for commercialization.
Yeah, everything is more political now... Even the trends... Treating minorities like fashion even started to catch on then... People will eventually move on to the next minority that is trending and do activism on that one, then they eventually lose interest in being vocal about X minority and move on to the next one... That's questionable, really... I don't mean any harm at all but why are we treating stuff like that as a trend? Why are things political? Why can't we just have fun?
@@auravisionsdeluxe2885 Dude yes it’s like with the Alt community like what happened to worrying about band tour dates or band breakups or looking forward to new albums nope it’s all about politics, sexuality, and bs activism.
@@tiruliru1189 sorry to disagree but why 2010? Seems way too late, I think RUclips was a better place before RUclipsrs started click baiting, having super corny over edited thumbnails etc things of that nature.
@@mckali9999 I might be wrong but I assume it happened right around when Google took over. Maybe 1-2 years after that. Edit: Nah I was dumb. Google took over in 2006. Pretty sure the slogan was still around in 2010ish.
@@thesolarrepublic9268 ok. Done. But now they are trying to escape the internet, so I guess they will have to make the internet a place they don't want to escape from..
I miss the days when people would make content and post just to make content and post. Nowadays people make content FOR the algorithm and FOR advertisers.
That's why I rarely go to the mainstream channels on RUclips. Some of them I'll watch but for the most part I go for random stuff on here and a lot of times those channels that host those videos don't have millions of subscribers.
What killed the golden age of the Internet was really the smart phone. Before to interact with the digital world you had to boot up your pc, wait for your dial up to come on and then log into whatever site you wanted to access, but now the Internet is quite literally in your pocket & can be accessed within seconds. You're connected to it at all times. It doesn't feel like a retreat but rather something that consumes your whole world every fucking second of the day. I miss the early-mid 2000's.
There us plenty of internet left out there. Places like mastodon and what not. The internet isn't just youtube face bag and google. You just won't have the size and quick out reach those sites have.
I remember when you were an idiot for putting your personal information online but today 15 years later you're encouraged to do it. Why did we allow this to happen?
Corporations steered us towards this because they knew it'd be a money printing machine and a way to control us all in one. Throughout history the powers that be have always had a knack for tricking us into signing away our rights of our own free will. And I guarantee if we do try to break out of it, maybe even reignite an age of free communication and independent sites, they'd just find a way to reign us back in. Either through the power of the market or the power of the state. The information age has given them a taste of absolute power, and they won't let go.
@@unregisteredassaultbutterk1185 What a defeatist outlook. Even if we win we lose? Yeah, no. Just because a mountain is high doesn't mean its insurmountable.
@@HeyImLucious I'm not defeatist. When I say they'd just find a way to reign us back in, I'm implying that simply bringing the internet back to an age of freedom is not enough. If we want a genuine return to anonymity and privacy on the internet, it'll mean breaking up the corporate powers that rule us. Anything less than total elimination and they'll just rise up to shackle us again.
@@unregisteredassaultbutterk1185 I'll happily get behind that, then. My apologies for rushing to conclusions, I see far too many people who have genuinely resigned hope that its made me pretty upset. So I tend to jump the gun at trying to bring them back into reality.
Don't worry, they're overselling how good it was. I think the reason most of us look back on it more fondly is precisely because we WEREN'T using it most of the time. It existed and was a powerful new tool, but that was it. Real life still existed.
As someone who was also born in the middle, I find it helps to try and use the internet in such a way that the pros are accentuated and the cons are more downplayed. There’s so much great about the internet even now, I think it’s just about making sure you’re using it like a tool like you come away feeling good like you’ve added to your life somehow. By doing this I don’t really feel the negative affects as much I go on to learn stuff see cool things then leave. It can be hard to do as those cons feel like they’re always there but it’s well worth it.
@@UnchainedEruption yeah no. Not overselling. As someone who was there and of enough age, I wondered back then why the whole world wasn't using it so I could hear and discuss their thoughts and projects. It never ocurred to me that other people's thoughts were.... what we have now. As someone else said, the only thing that is better now is that if you need to do something and don't know how, you can probably find several different step-by-step guides on it in both text and video formats.
@@DonutKop I left another comment just after saying this: "I think you've overlooked what's made the internet what it is today - advertising. As soon as this companies realised they could sell data or ad-space it became about revenue. If people used VPNs, ad block etc. It reduces the profitability from selling adverts. I remember back in the 90s when I first started using the internet, adverts were seldom seen because the market was still small and in turn the big corps. we see today didn't have such a stranglehold."
@@DonutKop mobile and some of us are now trying to use capitalist on means against them by using the ads to go to good causes. I mean it's not much but it a start.
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster yes and no. More traditional jobs usually have legal systems behind them that provide protection to both the worker and the company.
I think Club Penguin is legit a great example of what used to make the internet so special. It was a world you could go to and chat with others, play some silly games, decorate your igloo/penguin, and just escape from the real world for a bit. But Club Penguin wasn’t designed to keep you on for hours and hours at a time, more so for a quick few minutes every now and then. Even the art style of club penguin perfectly captures that of the vintage internet.
Same as habbo. I went on there not long ago to revisit and it's still a chill but sadly it's not close to what it was because all the things that made it fun and quirky are gone. The personality of the internet is long gone, the life of it will be next
"Club Penguin wasn’t designed to keep you on for hours and hours" That's not true, Club Penguin had addictive minigames like Cart Surfer where you could play for coins, and Card Jitsu where you could play against other players for belts.
I'm a 2001 kid, when the internet was in it's hayday I was still in the kindergarten lol. I haven't come online until 2014, when CS:GO was a hot thing, but I still associate myself closer with 90's kids rather than with younger zoomers
Everything and Nothing yeah me too, i started in 2015, and from the stories told of old youtube, i d love to be there. At least I got to experience filthy frank for a short time.
Yeah man 2011-2015, were the peak golden years of RUclips and many other social media outlets. 2016-2017 were almost the last good years somewhat, then income 2018 - 2019 something shifted either for worst or for good. 2020 - present I guess it shifted for the worst. I even reminisce on those good ole days almost feels far away at times
@@MADSCIENTISTGONESANE6166 are you saying 2015 was good, or are you saying it was the end of the golden age? I remember it as the year that you could begin to feel the stagnation and repetition of internet creativity, as well as the time the real world and corporations began to sink their hooks in and stopped treating the internet as a goofy side quest
I got a taste of the golden age when I was so young, but I will never forget it. ytps and shitposts were the best things ever, not anymore though. recently I've been growing away from the internet and going back a lot more to the real world
Remember that meme bout the grandpa telling his grandson "a story", thats us inna a decade telling our "designer baby gender neutral helicopters" bout the politically incorrect good old days.
Welp, so long as everyone remains asleep, your fear will unfortunately come true.. Amazon is breaking into law enforcement and "defense"... 1984 is literally playing out right in front of us and no one cares. 😑
My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
Even more so than my privacy, I value my peace of mind not knowing what the hell everyone in the world is doing all the time. That's the biggest tragedy out of social media, in my opinion. I think we're burned out and feel like we have less time for life because information overload.. people will need to begin to choose to either live real life or internet life.. there's beginning to be less of an option to do both
You are totally correct. I have been using the internet anonymously since the beginning, there's nothing better than being invisible. People fuck up revealing everything about themselves in a vain attempt to be admired, liked.
I'm an artist and DeviantArt provided me that customization I fell in love with spoken of here, but a few years back they made an upgrade and the entire website is so bland and boring now. I want the old years back :((
I can remember DeviantArt before jark was ousted from the top management...Angelo Sotira (spyed) was the instigator. He & his assistant run DA now & they've turned it into their own corporate cash cow.
It`s scary how fast it evolved. I remember it like yesterday, finally getting that sweet dial up connection, downloading a song from Kazaa took an hour. People were generally friendly because it was all new to us. First Cs 1.0 matches... that was 20 years ago. 20 years are fucking nothing. But i still think that smartphones are way worse, surveillance wise. If i see how much fucking permissions certain apps want, why the fuck does my phone need location services... etc. Call me paranoid but i still do most of my important calls over landline, own a second pc that isnt connected to the internet and i use linux.
Ork Trukk Drivah Yeah, true. Maybe one day, a good enough replacement will come, but nothing is as versatile and feature rich as RUclips, as sad as that sounds. One day, there may come something that can truly replace this platform. One can only dream...
My grandparents watched the downfall of radio and television happen slowly over the course of many decades. I watched the internet's downfall over the course of my short life. This isn't how things are supposed to be.
That is because the downfall of the Internet was artificial. It wasn't in response to shifting market trends or consumer demand, it was the result of platforms like Twitter/Insta getting big and then paying smaller sites to "integrate" them before buying them out completely and shutting them down centralizing the entire Internet around Twitter eventually. It's quite literally what happens when these companies are allowed to explode and monopolize unchecked, and monopoly laws IRL have a harder time being applied to the Internet.
The internet is becoming so degenerade and soulless everything is a competition everything is for social status there is no fun anymore the only good thing left is that you download things
I dont know about that if you search for as little as 5 minutes in any platform you can find someone thats in it for pasion is not as bad as they make it seem.
I got my first email in 1998 when I was 19.... I went online at my school library and looked up all the weirdest things I could think of. Everything was great from then until Facebook got popular and suddenly every grandma and kid got online. Before then even the dodgy stuff and bullying wasn't even as evil as now. The internet is now so full of degeneracy Australia has basically been forced to censor it because it's literally full of kiddy fiddlers and rapey bastards now. I miss when we were all nerds with dark humour playing together. I loved that era. I'm sad it's gone.
one of the things that make me sad is the lack of personalization. i remember when we're able to change lot's of things on Twitter, now we can't barely change the colors of the links and when we click to change it, we can only pick the 5 colors they choose for us and this color is used in all pages, even other ppls pages. i loved to check my friends pages and see what colors and wallpapers they choose. now everything is the same. that's why i love neocities, they keep the best of internet alive
Sometimes i feel like it's the downfall of humanity as well, greed, corrupted, sucked into negativity, consumed by media, sad everything is going downhill
When did you think this all of this started in? It's all just subjective opinions after all and humanity could've been always like this since the beginning. It's only now that you just woken up to realize all the issues that we're currently facing right now. So when do you think this all might've happened? Was it since the 19th century, the 20th, the 21st, maybe even the 16th century or the century when the modern era might've started in which could've been around which was the 15th century? When did you start noticing a downward incline in that area? Maybe you could even say that this is the best time in history right now with all the living great and long lives and stuff. I mean at the end of the day it's all just subjective after all right?
@@siddycosmos607, Um this is actually the best time in history we're living in right now if you talking about how much humanity is relative with itself. The only reason why we know of all this negativity around us is because of how social media is the one that spreads all of it the most. So it's most of social media's fault they keeps spreading negativity everywhere and for even poisoning some forms of entertainment. But even still I hope this changes to in the future to the point where we don't even need social media anymore and that we can keep some forms of negativity to ourselves.
@@seanvasquez523 honestly, I have to correct myself. Humanity IS in the best possible era (not the best possible year for obvious reasons) but for the internet, it's a chaotic, universal dark age. Everything got capitalised and cultified.
@@siddycosmos607, I mean you have a great point on that. The internet nowadays is a mess and we would rather look at the real world instead of looking at pointless arguments and negativity on a random website we just found. But I think most of this was because of the rise of social media which was the reason why the internet has even became capitalistic for a while now. But since people are starting to not give a crap about their social media accounts anymore and starting to delete them and that these sites are becoming so toxic that they're in decline right now and people are abandoning them, the big three toxic social media sites in my opinion that being Twitter, Facebook, And TikTok will hopefully be gone in the next 10 to 15 years. Once they are gone the internet will hopefully be in a renaissance where sites like RUclips are going to be in their glory days once again and that the internet will be like what it was during the golden age (2000-2007) and even a bit of the silver age (2008-2013) which is one of the eras that I define the history of the internet.
funny because its some of the governments that are questioning what these social media corporations are doing to people's information ... I wouldn't blame all govt but yes to all corporations looking for a quick and easy profit
@@BlockedUser420 these large corporations have formed through loopholes and crony capitalism. They pair with he government and cut off all competition.
RUclips has always been terrible. However one way it was and continues to be good is "How to..." videos that are specifically teaching some objective skill. But anything else is a complete waste of time. Like this video!
No. There are good content that wouldnt've been made if creators werent earning a buck from it. Simply ignore the bad one. It isn't hard, in fact the algorithm helps me greatly with that. But monopoly is bad indeed.
I loved how the Internet was in the 2000s. It was not glued to my life and it was not a place to keep 24/7 checking on other people's lives and posting pictures of your most recent trip that nobody cares. It was a magical place where ANYTHING could happen. You'd go after school/work to disconnect about life and just chill and have fun, like an alternate world where freedom of speech reigned. I used to be very anxious to get home and boot up my computer where I could browse the Internet and finally be able to talk and to check the stuff that I really liked and just be myself, whereas I couldn't with most of my real friends. I was a Sonic fan at that time and the community was strong. We had animations, fanfics, forums, millions of fan websites (geocities), board discussions, arts, cool videos, contests, reviews, tips, radios, etc. You had endless content of your favorite stuff, and made on the sole purpose of being fun and good content, not on making money (at least most of the times). Nowadays you are just restricted to Reddit and its horrible mods or some forum that is just a ghost town. Online gaming was at its peak also. Staying up until late playing CS 1.6, Quake 3, Unreal, WoW was the shit. No censoring, no SJWs, no simping, no cash grabs, just the boys having fun. It was also very common to make friends with someone within some game and later the friendship would go on to outside the game via MSN. No one does that anymore. Everyone just lost their authenticity.
I was an autistic kid growing up and I was a computer geek. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, internet usage was largely restricted to computer geeks and nerds who shared a passion. I was one of those kids who was a geek, and I was one of those who jumped on Counterstrike when it was popular. If you ask me, when Mark Zuckerberg decided to expand Facebook sometime in 2006 - 2009 to where everybody was convinced to join, that was the beginning of the end of the old internet. This decision, along with the first iPhone that Steve Jobs proudly displayed back in 2007, ushered in an era where people became more self centered and arrogant, all the while being unaware of their surroundings. I was a Sonic the Hedgehog fan too, and we had communities with a diverse group of people. We dug deep into fandom, discussing the latest video games, the comic books, whatever tickled our fancy. We had actual conversations that provoked critical thinking. The difference between back then and now, among many other things was we were able to use critical thinking much more effectively. Reddit sadly is basically a hivemind. It's essentially the opposite of critical thinking, you're supposed to cater to one's whims and follow them. Otherwise, you will get 'canceled' by the moderators. Online gaming was more fun back then too. World of Warcraft in recent times is just sad. One of the worst online communities that I've encountered. Full of people trying to cancel others. Full of SJWs to point out that your view of things is wrong. American politics is discussed almost as much as the game itself. It happened a lot when I was doing PVP matches and even when I was just clearing out some dungeons. The old community of WoW wasn't like that. We all hanged out and some of us made a relationship outside the game. Try doing that today with any MMO or popular online game. Meanwhile, everyone is bitching about Aaron Rodgers while others are complaining about Lebron James being a bitch on Twitter. Who the fuck cares? Why should we concern ourselves with soulless celebrities? It's a fucked up world now.
@Im Caj Yes. When Facebook and smartphones became extremely popular and everybody started using the internet massively, even those who didn't see much appeal in it before, I was one who was like "wait? why is everyone posting all the time about meaningless stuff of their lives, tweeting about celebrities, why do the posts disappear so quickly? Why do people are seeking attention so much? What is even the point? Where are the fun and engaging discussions? The sense of community?". From then on, that was gone and the internet became shallow, streamlined, robotic, and censored. Reddit was supposed to be the "follow-up" of the old internet, but as it grew in popularity, they just transformed it into a corporatized, political, and censored mess as everything that becomes popular.
@@dottigames Reddit was good back in the mid - late 2000s. Then it became like a lot of other big websites. Corporate. Political. Censored. It's no different from watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC or some talking head on CNN and Fox News.
Right on! Back then it was more common for the kids around the neighborhood to gather, especially in the weekends and in the big summer break, holy shit what a blast, the room would be filled with monitors and computers, anyone remember those small compact TVs with the integrated VCR? You would have someone gaming on that along with their PS2 or Xbox, before the whole PC versus console war really took off, it was just one cohort of humans having fun staying up until early morning playing games and watching movies, it was a different universe.
Well they would've only had around 7 years to realize this in the time-frame that I say was when the golden age of the internet was happening which for me (I was born in 2005 so I could only go by "evidence" that I see from other people and events in the tech industry) I say it was from around 2000 to 2007. 2008 to 2013 I say was the silver age of the internet and when social media was becoming bigger than it can ever be, and I say from 2014 onwards is currently the dark age of the internet or the whole stealing data from people thing.
I often wish I was born earlier to live in a world WITHOUT the internet. There's plenty of good it does us, and there are things I love from the 2000s, even early 2010s, but it sucks that I missed the 80s and 90s. Even the 70s oil crisis/inflation was not as bad as the Great Recession, let alone a pandemic.
I was born in 1996 so got a *little* bit of the golden age. By the time I was old enough to really appreciate it, it was already getting past the golden age. I was never on Myspace or anything, but I remember the extremely fun, exciting early days of RUclips where we'd just type random shit into the search bar and be laughing our heads off
I miss how personalised the old RUclips layout was. Remember when RUclips meant 'Broadcast Yourself'? Now it's just a corporate echo chamber of soulless content.
The yellow subscribe button, descriptions at the side of videos, the star rating system, video responses, actually being able to thumb... Though, I do prefer the green/red like to dislike ratio they implemented after the star system better. Funny; they made the dislikes clear and removed negative thumbs, so people's feelings would be less hurt. Though thumbing down still works, it just moves other comments further down in priority.
kuntexterminator I miss old RUclips period .... they had a sense of looking out for viewer by being the only media source without a lot of commercials, and now they have more commercials than any TV channel....................................................................................................
Back in the day on forums, everyone seemed to have a paranoia about being tracked and hacked, so you NEVER used your real name, NEVER used a real picture of yourself! And that anonymity brought an honesty that's missing today.
@thanos asparagus monkey condom gaming Everyone wants to "matter" and "leave a legacy", so online profiling is the easiest and fastest way to do that, as far as they think.
That early internet paranoia has stuck with me all this time. I still find myself using fake names, phone numbers, addresses, dobs, etc, though perhaps now this mentality is needed more than ever.
@@bambsy9665 Same fam. Kinda blows me away how kids that grew up just a few years younger than me just took to the internet and electronic media with such blind trust.
I never liked the 'internet front persona' since the 00's, I found it disingenuous lol Always used my name, but never ventured beyond early fb & got away from that shortly after. Never understood why they called it "social media" when it's still just someone looking at a screen watching or listening to somebody else, doesn't quantify as "social" in my book. 🤷
Bullshit. Even back in 2000's were people putting politics into internet, you seen have many god damn flash games where it make fun of W. Bush or kill Osama bin Laden?
Hey, do y'all remember Zwinky? I never had a MySpace, but had a Zwinky, which was similar in terms of customization and coding. You even had a choice of which friends you wanted to be on your page like on MySpace lol
@WatchTheHourGlass what is this? I'm intrigued because I've often wondered if someone couldn't just emulate what MySpace was like, I mean they did it to Tumblr?
I've been thinking about this a lot recently. The internet was definitely better between the 2000s-2012 time period. I LOVED how the internet back then was more like the wild west with anonymity. The internet isn't a "web" anymore. I remember starting at one site and clicking a link in the site that brought me to another site which then brought me to another site until I forgot how i got there. There's no more surfing on the internet. Everyone uses the same 10 sites which are all the corporate social media sites. This goes against the internet's founders philosophy. It isn't a web when you only go to the same 10 websites. Google forces you to read mainstream media sources and isolates peoples blogs where people wrote their perspective. Now we only get mainstream news which is biased on both sides. We're literally in the ARPANET now when there was only a dozen servers/sites. Corporations definitely ruined the internet. I hope these companies get broken up to give other website providers a chance.
Dude, the internet was the true wild west before the 2000s, look up the "Eternal September" or "September that never ended". It's never was the same even by 2000.
@@MarquosXoloVanda I agree to a point. The 2000s mixed user friendliness and "wild West anonimity" in just the right proportions. Anyone could go online and be someone, be something.
@@jackieAZ the point is the general population is stuck to the handful of websites. i have noticed a lot of people seem to not even know how to look something up on google haha
old websites felt really comfy. they felt secure, welcoming. it's a feeling i won't find nowadays, because everything here is trying to steal your personal info. it's a feeling i won't find nowadays because everyone is in a rush to control and silence those that dare oppose them.
Buckle up, cus it’s only gonna get worse. Digital ID, universal digital currency, it’s going to control every facet of our life, and it won’t be optional, you won’t be able to opt out. We’re already seeing the beginnings of it, and so many people are ignorantly cheering it on
@@garyclarkiii730 If you're implying a cashless society, I don't really see that happening. And I may be uninformed, but this reeks of conspiracy theories a la 666 patent Bill Gates brain chip bogus. Would you mind elaborating?
This is such an important video. I have had these thoughts about internet culture for quite a few years now, but I could never think of the right words to fully comprehend how disappointed I was with the state of social media. You've well encapsulated what life on the internet used to be, and when people didn't take as seriously as they do now. Thank you so much for this video, it gives me solace to know that I'm not alone in my sentiments and hope that one day things will get better.
I'm practically with you. There was a far more friendly environment with the old RUclips and MySpace. Today it's mostly Group Think, pushing out a political agenda, and radicalizing everything. It makes me absolutely sick, to the point where I'm now thinking of ditching social media for good.
The Cyberpunk aesthetic is coming and actually has a practical application, Google 'CV Dazzle', I would just post the link but then this comment will probably get nuked.
"Cause is what we wanted, we Seekd this, we wanted order, not peace and democracy, But they didn't do it in the right way, and look at the world now, is our own fault
I think in that amount of time a new invention may be created that new corporations will flock to, meaning the internet’s anonymity may be restored. I’d be hopeful.
Yeah, like early Smosh. So many popular white RUclipsrs start out as hyper, suburban emo-kids doing weird, random things on camera... And then they usually grow a beard, 'rebrand' themselves for a wider audience and remove their early content.
I was 7 years old when I started watching RUclips on my own in 2009. I made my first channel (this one) in 2011... My childhood is rolling in its grave...
I'm not against social media in theory, but in practice many of them took a degenerate turn because of lack of privacy, ultracapitalism without control, politicization and oversocialization.
I’ve realized that too much internet is bad I used to ask my mom for a whole day on the computer but I realize that want and need will never be fulfilled either I’ll be bored on my computer or I’ll be constantly trying to get on it
It is disgusting what has happened over the years to the internet. I started my internet journey back in the early 90s. It was the 'wild, wild west'. We could say what we wanted, do what we wanted, and no one had public melt downs, no calls for fans or followers to attack, no storm of Karens doxxing people for not going along with some witch trial group think, no one was censored, canceled, shut down, etc. Everyone just handled it. And BECAUSE of that, the large majority of people were a hell of a lot friendlier and far, FAR more creative than today. We could even make videos without copyright strikes. RUclips came along in 2005 - long after the start of the internet, but even back then, RUclips was FUN! It was all about us, not corporations and celebrities, news, movie trailers, etc. It was the every day person - that was the whole damn point of RUclips. Now, the internet feels like you're being treated like a child....and everyone around you is also a child - an EXTREMELY sensitive child, who runs to the teacher to cry about their feelings. It's very sad, because the more you monitor, the more you restrict, the more you shut conversation down, the worse people get, not better.
Dude this is spot on! The part you said about Karens doxxing for not going along with some witch trial group think made my head spin! And the part you said about the internet being full of extremely sensitive children who run to the teacher to taddle for every little thing.
Yeah they really tightened the screws once Trump took them by surprise. They were successful at controlling the narrative for years and couldn't conceive a bunch of trolls, memes, listening to podcast and speeches that normally only a few hundred people would view now explode to millions, dethroning them. I find it hilarious how dying mainstream media fact checks parody memes as if trying to desperately cling on that we are fucking stupid and we need them to be our saviors to separate fact from fiction.
The internet was created in 1968 for research purposes. The internet was initially used to relay data between Universities and...the government. It wasn't until the latter half of the 1990s, when personal computers became affordable and "" made the web easy to use, that the internet became viable to us common folk. To think the government and these companies wouldn't cut deals is very naive.
yup. this is what happens when your standards are based on the majority instead of a rigid line. Like the bible or the constiution. Once the bible was truly abandoned in '65, arguably it has been abandoned since about 400 AD, because the catholics dont follow squat of what it teaches, and the "protestants" are no better. The only one that is even close is the Seventh Day Adventists.
Yes let's pretend that making a "new RUclips" won't lead to the same problems. If we somehow all leave RUclips to some new platform, then all the advertisers and people who started this mess will go there as well.
@@caelanferguson9452 All the infrastructure is already available. The reason it took so long was because all the huge tech companies weren't as big back then as they are now. It would take maybe 6 months at most. If everybody leaves YT to some other platform won't be long till Google just gobbles it for lunch.
Back then, my parents were restrictive of me using the computer constantly. Now, i am having to restrict my parents of using their smartphones constantly..
@@aronhighgrove4100, Yeah I really hope that this changes in around 10 to 15 years. But you never know maybe we might be all addicted to holograms instead lol.
The scary part is smartphone addiction is an even bigger and more widespread problem than computer addiction. You couldn't simply take your PC around everywhere you go, meanwhile smartphones can be taken to where even laptops cant and content on smartphones is often deliberately designed to be addictive.
This phenomenon really effected meme culture as well. There are multiple “memes” nowadays that started as publicity for movies, and are honestly very unfunny. Besides, they only last for 2 days. I feel like I’m holding onto something that doesn’t exist anymore, but there are still some enjoyable environments on the internet, specially on youtube.
Most memes nowadays aren't posted to get people to laugh, they're posted to get more people pissed off. The old meme culture had class, tact, and a sense of humor. The SJWs, "woke" people and assholes just took the memes and plastered them just so they could gain attention.
@@KratostheThird The big bad SJW's and woke people didn't steal your memes 😂 I'm really thinking you never experienced "the old meme culture" if you think it had any sort of class or tact. Sense of humor certainly but class & tact definitely not
Dude, this was an eye-opener. I literally almost forgot how the internet used to be when I was in college. I'm gonna log off, take a bath, and read a goddamn book.
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard someone say in response to Narcissistic threats to the usefulness of the internet. If you chose to not use the tools you were given then you are therefore giving in to learned helplessness of the Narcissistic abuse enforced by the Narcissistic value of the American culture and many other nations of the world. Don't read a book that's killing trees douche bag just meditate and use the gifts(technology) your given don't take them for granted! >.
@@Sensei_Sean Your comment is dumb. You and "save a few trees" is pathetic. Not reading a book isn't going to save a few trees. He probably was also being a little facetious.
Rant time. As someone on the autism spectrum RUclips was one of the greatest discoveries of my childhood. When I was in school the teachers and students gave off this impression that they saw me has “different” or “didn’t belong” even if I didn’t know at the time I was on the autism spectrum. My cousin was the one who showed me RUclips and ever since then I have loved this website. RUclips is more engaging them TV ever could be. On TV you have a few channels you can watch various shows but on RUclips you specifically subscribed to a certain channel making it much easier to watch what you wanna watch. Finding content on RUclips is more interesting as well, on TV you just flip through random channels until you land on a show that you are willing to watch. On RUclips you can search for specific things and find stuff that you may not have kept watching on TV that you enjoyed on RUclips. There was just so many great things about RUclips watching contact that appeals to you, branching out to new types of content, allowed creativity to thrive and RUclips allows anyone who wants to make videos basically “Broadcast Themselves”. On RUclips it felt like everybody was on the same level (equal) everyone’s videos were treated equally no matter how different the content was on each channel. RUclips allowed a variety of content to thrive, so the RUclipsrs and viewers felt that they were in a community of just regular people. with no filter on almost everything that was posted. There were so many great animations on RUclips that I can talk about for ages but we’d be here all day. Cyraik and David Firth made funny, weird, dream like and disturbing animations that would never air on TV and if they did they would be heavily modified, not what the artist intended. they’re were great parity animations (sometimes as a music video) for stuff like Minecraft and My Little Pony etc. The original animated series were amazing they were usually written and animated by one person and they had to choose the voice actors for the series. Feral Pride, Wolf Song, Twelve, The missing Light, Cow of the Wild, Painted flower etc. Were all able to come into fruition by RUclipss platform. although some of them may not hold up as well as they did in the past that’s kind of the charm most of them are not super well animated and the riding for some may not be all that great but this meant a lot to me when I was younger. There are so many other great animated stuff on RUclips you just got a find it. RUclips has also helped my critical thinking looking how commentary channels and review channels gave their opinions and explained why they believed on a movie or situation etc. it help me to agree to disagree with people and be humble. I love that edgy and weird/stupid Comedy channels or implementing that style into their videos. If you didn’t like that since of humor there were thousands of other channels you can go to. I don’t remember anyone really getting offended by this kind of stuff it seemed they went and found comedy that they liked Wow wHat a coNCepT. When I went to my private school the science and history teacher showed us RUclips videos covering the topics we were or not even covering her topic sometimes would be a completely different part of history or science and that was great. I am subscribed to many science and history channel now. Science I already loved but history I didn’t find much interest in that until I found historical videos on RUclips and it just clicked for some reason. Again as someone on the autism spectrum RUclips was just so inviting to me no one was really ostracized and being “different” or “not belonging” was not something to be ashamed of. For example how to basic is such a fascinating channel. It’s a very specific concept of just taking “how to videos” then making them cursed and we all love it. Sr. Pelo just screams, acts like he’s on drugs and drawls he’s characters faces with grotesque facial expressions and is beautiful. Then google, Susan and the RUclips executives have to come try to ruin everything. There is still great stuff made on RUclips but it seems like it’s buried under mountains of BS like companies, pointless dumb drama, bland repetitive channels, Content farms, fake perfect people etc. there are so many design choices in modern RUclips that makes it almost impossible to upload certain types of content or gain traction on RUclips. It’s not that I hate nice friendly wholesome content I just like variety and I don’t like companies being on the front page of RUclips. that’s not what RUclips is about!!! Stop censoring everything do you really think all the advertisers and viewers are going to leave RUclips because of a slightly offensive video? Do you guys really thank it’s necessary to demonetize or give a channel a strike for saying the word retarded? This is coming from someone on the autism spectrum and I think it’s so dumb. Old RUclips taught me to be tough skinned and not let words bother me. I hate the idea that people with high functioning autism need to be coddled. NO I just wanna be equals in society and that’s how I felt on older RUclips. Now RUclips acts so authoritarian they want to control everything. Instead of people not liking edgy channels that say words like “retarded” they can go find other channels on their own but now RUclips, forces people to watch what RUclips, wants them to watch. It’s not about YOU! viewer or YOU! the content creator anymore. I am passionate in a lot of things art, animation, science, Biology, character design, video games, comedy and music. I’ve always wanted to make RUclips videos but I just don’t feel that motivated to make any because of all this restrictions and the Internet community as a whole. Not to make money or get “famous” just to make them for fun. It’s just sad honestly...
jack bran I was just 9 at the time but I remember scrolling RUclips in 2008 and the unstoppable freedom and creativity online at that time was exhilarating. Being on the Internet in the 00s was like exploring an untouched fantasy land
Remember back in 2008-2009 when youtube was not connected to google and you could customize your profile page with wallpapers, gifs anf pics? Yeah good times
UPDATE: Im aware this was briefly on front page of reddit and r/videos (which is amazing)! And it was later removed, some people thought it was shadowbanning or something suspicious, but truth is I have been banned from that sub since 2017 (a few friends used to post my vids, without my asking), so its a legitimate post removal if anyone was curious. Either way I do appreciate the support and Im glad people resonated with this video, thats all I could ask for. You can check out my social media links in the video description if interested.
why were you banned to begin with?
Glink He’s lying
reddit mods drooling all over their keyboard
I knew it! I was going crazy searching this all over reddit, I was wondering why it just disappeared. Awesome Vid still man.
Peets friends used their accounts to promote my vids years ago, was considered self promotion
The internet was great when it was a retreat from the world. Now it -is- the world.
There's a meme that says this, going out is a retreat from the internet
volving and revolving as the cycle goes
it reminds me of that boomer meme which goes like:
1996: boutta take a break from reality (goes on the internet)
2016: boutta take a break from reality (goes outside)
sound bad but kinda has a point.
Very 14. Very deep.
@@TheFlyingTurtleArchive 14? Like 14 turtles? What the f is 14 turtles mean!
Nerds, Gamers, Bloggers, Content Creators. Long ago, the four corners of the internet lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Corporations attacked.
Only the geek, master of all four elements could stop them, but when the world needed them most, they cancelled their accounts with no goodbye
A hundred months passed and my online friend and I discovered the new Geek, an intenetbender named aang2004.
nah man, the REAL internet bender is filthy frank
@@arch4ngel so 2029
@@warasphalt3032
You must unlock the 7th chromosome. Without it, you cannot attain full understanding of the omniverse, and the Fire Lord will defeat you. Pink guy, set aside all worldly attachments.
It all went down hill when RUclips was no-longer “Broadcast Yourself”.
these sites abandoned the user-focused ethos and we're all worse off for it.
Now it's "Broadcast Your Acceptable Self"
The Camcorder "Self"?
Now it's "broadcast degenerate propaganda"
Went downhill long before that...
For me the internet died after 2015 everything just went downhill, especially when politicians, corporations, and news outlets started using it for commercialization.
Yeah, everything is more political now... Even the trends... Treating minorities like fashion even started to catch on then...
People will eventually move on to the next minority that is trending and do activism on that one, then they eventually lose interest in being vocal about X minority and move on to the next one... That's questionable, really... I don't mean any harm at all but why are we treating stuff like that as a trend? Why are things political? Why can't we just have fun?
@@auravisionsdeluxe2885 Dude yes it’s like with the Alt community like what happened to worrying about band tour dates or band breakups or looking forward to new albums nope it’s all about politics, sexuality, and bs activism.
@@carsarenice Yeah...
@@carsarenice For me the golden age started in 2010 but died in 2015.
2016 was the beginning of the downfall imo
@@tiruliru1189 sorry to disagree but why 2010? Seems way too late, I think RUclips was a better place before RUclipsrs started click baiting, having super corny over edited thumbnails etc things of that nature.
the internet was ruined when companies realized they could monetize people’s communication
Yep. Before that the Internet was basically the Wild West.
@Rwaggy Rwuper Rwinstincts because it is. or was
Screw corporations making money off our information, lets sell it ourselves
It was planned for that from the beginning
Spøøky Jim that’s capitalism baby
Just remember RUclips once had the slogan “broadcast yourself”
Holy shit, when did that stop?
@@mckali9999 I might be wrong but I assume it happened right around when Google took over. Maybe 1-2 years after that.
Edit: Nah I was dumb. Google took over in 2006. Pretty sure the slogan was still around in 2010ish.
Bitchute
"Advertise Yourself"
@@mckali9999 They got rid of it around 2013/14ish
The internet used to be a cool place to escape from real life.
Now I return to real life to escape the internet...
Yes, this is true.
Needs more likes wtf people
OK BOOMER
Here's a thought. Why not focus on making your real-life a life you don't have to escape from?
@@thesolarrepublic9268 ok. Done. But now they are trying to escape the internet, so I guess they will have to make the internet a place they don't want to escape from..
It’s funny how the the golden age of most types of media ended when corporations became part of the equation.
Corporatism is the death of creativity
Teddy Roosevelt must be doing barrel rolls in his grave at the current state of things.
@@FredDurst1 damn straight Fred Durst.
We could have plenty of gold ages related to media and tech. The only thing in the way is corporate greed
As soon as money became available, the big boys arrived.
Glink: "RUclips sucks now"
RUclips: *this video is recommended for you*
Ok boomer
Indeed
Best thing about YT is that it's run by robots that we're training and YT have lost control off
I think this describes the situation best
Wow youtube algorithm want golden age
"Lets face it, the internet has become corp-"
*AD*
get RUclips Vanced
Like in this videos, but hey... We need to eat.
EXACTLY
Yes it has
Same here wtf the irony
I miss the days when people would make content and post just to make content and post.
Nowadays people make content FOR the algorithm and FOR advertisers.
anthpo yep
I mean, if it allows it then it's easy money. Only fool would let such an occasion slip away
Everyone is fake.
That's dead
That's why I rarely go to the mainstream channels on RUclips. Some of them I'll watch but for the most part I go for random stuff on here and a lot of times those channels that host those videos don't have millions of subscribers.
What killed the golden age of the Internet was really the smart phone. Before to interact with the digital world you had to boot up your pc, wait for your dial up to come on and then log into whatever site you wanted to access, but now the Internet is quite literally in your pocket & can be accessed within seconds. You're connected to it at all times. It doesn't feel like a retreat but rather something that consumes your whole world every fucking second of the day. I miss the early-mid 2000's.
You're completly right, it was a lot healthier because you couldn't be connected at all times
@@Kenji_Endo It definitely was. Now we have Zoomers with mental health problems getting worse because they are connected 24/7.
@@KratostheThird I mean you know it's not their fault right?
@@Kenji_Endo I work with Zoomers at my job, so yes I know this.
@@KratostheThird I'm sorry for ruining the internet and myself.
Historians will find 2010s hillarious.
And 2020s terrifying.
@@sk3ptik0s49 don't be so negative!
@@DisturbedVette Wait and see 😬
hopefully Internet Historian
Hopefully Hentai Heaven will be up again, don't be so pessimistic.
"The internet has become corporate- *ad*"
Great video, you've found yourself a new sub
If you mean ad as russian for Hell, then it gets funnier and worse at the same time
There us plenty of internet left out there. Places like mastodon and what not. The internet isn't just youtube face bag and google. You just won't have the size and quick out reach those sites have.
This happened
I remember when you were an idiot for putting your personal information online but today 15 years later you're encouraged to do it.
Why did we allow this to happen?
Honestly though. We have to start trying to reverse this horrible change
Corporations steered us towards this because they knew it'd be a money printing machine and a way to control us all in one. Throughout history the powers that be have always had a knack for tricking us into signing away our rights of our own free will.
And I guarantee if we do try to break out of it, maybe even reignite an age of free communication and independent sites, they'd just find a way to reign us back in. Either through the power of the market or the power of the state. The information age has given them a taste of absolute power, and they won't let go.
@@unregisteredassaultbutterk1185 What a defeatist outlook. Even if we win we lose? Yeah, no. Just because a mountain is high doesn't mean its insurmountable.
@@HeyImLucious I'm not defeatist. When I say they'd just find a way to reign us back in, I'm implying that simply bringing the internet back to an age of freedom is not enough.
If we want a genuine return to anonymity and privacy on the internet, it'll mean breaking up the corporate powers that rule us. Anything less than total elimination and they'll just rise up to shackle us again.
@@unregisteredassaultbutterk1185 I'll happily get behind that, then. My apologies for rushing to conclusions, I see far too many people who have genuinely resigned hope that its made me pretty upset. So I tend to jump the gun at trying to bring them back into reality.
Internet is a place to get ourself get off reality, but when internet is reality, everything boring
It's just like watching bad reality TV shows.
As soon as he said “the internet has become corporate” I got an ad lol
ROFL
adblockers my guy
He can choose when in the video he would like ads to be played to people so this was probably strategic, but still cool nonetheless!
Me too!
I got two in a row.
I was born in the middle of the golden age. It feels unfair that I didnt get to experience it
Don't worry, they're overselling how good it was. I think the reason most of us look back on it more fondly is precisely because we WEREN'T using it most of the time. It existed and was a powerful new tool, but that was it. Real life still existed.
Me too
As someone who was also born in the middle, I find it helps to try and use the internet in such a way that the pros are accentuated and the cons are more downplayed. There’s so much great about the internet even now, I think it’s just about making sure you’re using it like a tool like you come away feeling good like you’ve added to your life somehow. By doing this I don’t really feel the negative affects as much I go on to learn stuff see cool things then leave. It can be hard to do as those cons feel like they’re always there but it’s well worth it.
Yep, same here
@@UnchainedEruption yeah no. Not overselling. As someone who was there and of enough age, I wondered back then why the whole world wasn't using it so I could hear and discuss their thoughts and projects. It never ocurred to me that other people's thoughts were.... what we have now.
As someone else said, the only thing that is better now is that if you need to do something and don't know how, you can probably find several different step-by-step guides on it in both text and video formats.
Just as he said "the internet has become corporate" I had a mid-roll advert.
How ironic.
fucking. use. adblock!
USE ADBLOCK! I swear why aren't more people using ad block on youtube
Its like he can put the ads where he wants
@@DonutKop I left another comment just after saying this:
"I think you've overlooked what's made the internet what it is today - advertising. As soon as this companies realised they could sell data or ad-space it became about revenue.
If people used VPNs, ad block etc. It reduces the profitability from selling adverts.
I remember back in the 90s when I first started using the internet, adverts were seldom seen because the market was still small and in turn the big corps. we see today didn't have such a stranglehold."
@@DonutKop mobile and some of us are now trying to use capitalist on means against them by using the ads to go to good causes. I mean it's not much but it a start.
Lol he puts the ads on there
I miss when people didn’t take the internet so seriously and it was all just for fun.
Things started going down from 2019 and now it's just a mess
2008: Post something on RUclips for fun
2020: Post something on RUclips for money
mario9078
2008: quality > quantity
2020: quantity > quality
@@moofreestyle3412 quality is a subjective thing
2036: Post the wrong thing and killer drones are sent after you for having the wrong opinion.
Yuji Silva lowkey people are sensitive these days bruh I remember a time where niggas wasn’t even like that
@@fuqupal "RUclips is a private company. They can kill you for wrongthink if they want."
It really is a hugely demotivating feeling to have your livelihood swiped away in an instant. Insanity.
Didn't expect you here lol
I no like our midi ):
Yes indeed
Hey SMB!
@@MeatCatCheesyBlaster yes and no. More traditional jobs usually have legal systems behind them that provide protection to both the worker and the company.
"The Internet has become corporate" - immediately get a Tik Tok ad
Nice profile pic
Sorry mate can't feel that, youtube premium
@@KangJangkrik sorry to hear that...
@@KangJangkrik sorry mate, using adblock, savefromnet, pirated movies, and reupload youtube premium videos, without paying any single cash
@@KangJangkrik paying for YT premium is supporting the corporations.............. just get uBloc Origin
I think Club Penguin is legit a great example of what used to make the internet so special. It was a world you could go to and chat with others, play some silly games, decorate your igloo/penguin, and just escape from the real world for a bit. But Club Penguin wasn’t designed to keep you on for hours and hours at a time, more so for a quick few minutes every now and then. Even the art style of club penguin perfectly captures that of the vintage internet.
Same as habbo. I went on there not long ago to revisit and it's still a chill but sadly it's not close to what it was because all the things that made it fun and quirky are gone. The personality of the internet is long gone, the life of it will be next
"Club Penguin wasn’t designed to keep you on for hours and hours" That's not true, Club Penguin had addictive minigames like Cart Surfer where you could play for coins, and Card Jitsu where you could play against other players for belts.
"Let's face it, the Internet has become corporate"
That sentence barely finished and I was hit with an ad, HAHAHAHAHAHAH, oh the irony
That is funny!
Hilarious!!!!
He decides where the ads go in his video. That was intentional.
Lmfaoo rip to the internet. Go outside to nature👽👽
This video was made in 2019. In 2020, all of this that was wrong happened ten times more. The internet got even worse in 2020.
Thanks for the heart.🙂
@@ethanhenrichs5677 Maybe likely due to the tumultuous events of that year?
@@moonflower6607
True, but I mean big tech and their ridiculous censorship. And the Twitter cancel culture
The internet got “worse” because more peoples started using it and sharing their opinions.
@@sportsgamer8524 so the social networks are to blame?
we'll never see a pre-corporation internet again, I feel so sorry for everyone who missed it, it was like a nonstop party at your fingertips
Remember "welcome to the internet, i will be your guide" Meme? Yeah.. It's not relevant anymore..
😔 sadly I never got to experience it fully, hence I moved to the states in '15
and had little to no exposure to the internet prior to that
I'm a 2001 kid, when the internet was in it's hayday I was still in the kindergarten lol. I haven't come online until 2014, when CS:GO was a hot thing, but I still associate myself closer with 90's kids rather than with younger zoomers
Everything and Nothing yeah me too, i started in 2015, and from the stories told of old youtube, i d love to be there. At least I got to experience filthy frank for a short time.
My first experience of corporate internet was when club penguin was bought out by Disney. I was a devastated 7 yr old
I'm so sad that the golden age of internet only lasted for this short period. It came and went away before I even noticed
Yeah man 2011-2015, were the peak golden years of RUclips and many other social media outlets. 2016-2017 were almost the last good years somewhat, then income 2018 - 2019 something shifted either for worst or for good. 2020 - present I guess it shifted for the worst. I even reminisce on those good ole days almost feels far away at times
@@MADSCIENTISTGONESANE6166 are you saying 2015 was good, or are you saying it was the end of the golden age?
I remember it as the year that you could begin to feel the stagnation and repetition of internet creativity, as well as the time the real world and corporations began to sink their hooks in and stopped treating the internet as a goofy side quest
The images of old RUclips gave me such nostalgia
The old RUclips ruled... no ads
We're all just actors in the world's longest Black Mirror episode.
Pastaguy man
Yesss Black Mirror 🖤
Bruh
I believe were about to enter a Black Mirror episode worthy period of time.
@@wlan-kabel2749 Absolutely. And there are plenty who have no idea what's going on.
The Wild West days of the Internet were sure something I'm glad I experienced.
Yes.
Doctor_Darling ruclips.net/video/mll5c9-IeRA/видео.html
When was the wild west’s of the internet
Doctor_Darling word everything that’s news now we already know. the internet dead.
True Renegade just when I was born😞
I got a taste of the golden age when I was so young, but I will never forget it. ytps and shitposts were the best things ever, not anymore though. recently I've been growing away from the internet and going back a lot more to the real world
😭
I actually fear that 10 years from now I could look back to today and miss the current state of affairs if we follow the current trajectory.
There is always a breaking point to these things, so if we continue down this path there are definitely going to be new platforms emerging
Remember that meme bout the grandpa telling his grandson "a story", thats us inna a decade telling our "designer baby gender neutral helicopters" bout the politically incorrect good old days.
Welp, so long as everyone remains asleep, your fear will unfortunately come true.. Amazon is breaking into law enforcement and "defense"... 1984 is literally playing out right in front of us and no one cares. 😑
@@infiddle_8810 this is exactly why gun control is a terrible idea
@@bleh8789 someone who gets it 😏✌️
I'm personally waiting for the internet 2
There's actually people working on decentralized networks to replace the internet. So hopefully not too much more waiting.
@@0dayrepairs woo Piedpiper
Old School internet
This is internet 2 or what come of it lol
@@0dayrepairs There are already a few. Problem is people don't know about them or don't care enough to use them. Like Freenet.
My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.
Even more so than my privacy, I value my peace of mind not knowing what the hell everyone in the world is doing all the time. That's the biggest tragedy out of social media, in my opinion. I think we're burned out and feel like we have less time for life because information overload.. people will need to begin to choose to either live real life or internet life.. there's beginning to be less of an option to do both
You are totally correct. I have been using the internet anonymously since the beginning, there's nothing better than being invisible. People fuck up revealing everything about themselves in a vain attempt to be admired, liked.
The end of introverts
What about time
I'm an artist and DeviantArt provided me that customization I fell in love with spoken of here, but a few years back they made an upgrade and the entire website is so bland and boring now. I want the old years back :((
I can remember DeviantArt before jark was ousted from the top management...Angelo Sotira (spyed) was the instigator. He & his assistant run DA now & they've turned it into their own corporate cash cow.
goddamn downgrade, even hid the newest art page so people can't even see your stuff now
Even worse, the website is now flooded with AI “art”. So it’s basically dead.
Old DA was Soo much fun.
Nowadays I don't even use it anymore.
Time is flying when even the internet has a "good old days."
a c c e l e r a t i o n
@Weston Meyer true
@Weston Meyer ok boomer
It`s scary how fast it evolved. I remember it like yesterday, finally getting that sweet dial up connection, downloading a song from Kazaa took an hour. People were generally friendly because it was all new to us. First Cs 1.0 matches... that was 20 years ago. 20 years are fucking nothing. But i still think that smartphones are way worse, surveillance wise. If i see how much fucking permissions certain apps want, why the fuck does my phone need location services... etc. Call me paranoid but i still do most of my important calls over landline, own a second pc that isnt connected to the internet and i use linux.
Weston Meyer Sure, boomer.
There cannot be a renaissance without a dark age.
Blunderful Red true but the real question is when is renaissance coming
@@davadreviewer5509 I hope soon
God, please.
hope we don’t hit a dystopian age before that
DaVadReviewer 30 years from now give or take. It’ll get way worse before that I assure.
It’s unfortunate but dear god, how far this site has fallen...
Ork Trukk Drivah Yeah, true. Maybe one day, a good enough replacement will come, but nothing is as versatile and feature rich as RUclips, as sad as that sounds. One day, there may come something that can truly replace this platform. One can only dream...
RUclips has been on a downward spiral
Ah corporatism, ruins pretty much any industry it touches
@@mariosion please don't say that, Im still trying to build my channel on here, not hope for a replacement!
@@mariosion its like all The good things are like bottle of clean water. It only needs one drop of (strong enough) poison to contamine it forever.
My grandparents watched the downfall of radio and television happen slowly over the course of many decades. I watched the internet's downfall over the course of my short life.
This isn't how things are supposed to be.
That is because the downfall of the Internet was artificial. It wasn't in response to shifting market trends or consumer demand, it was the result of platforms like Twitter/Insta getting big and then paying smaller sites to "integrate" them before buying them out completely and shutting them down centralizing the entire Internet around Twitter eventually. It's quite literally what happens when these companies are allowed to explode and monopolize unchecked, and monopoly laws IRL have a harder time being applied to the Internet.
The internet is becoming so degenerade and soulless everything is a competition everything is for social status there is no fun anymore
the only good thing left is that you download things
lmao shut up
@@rtx6439 why?
Carnage as your pfp😍
Not for long cloud gaming will destroy mods and ownership
I dont know about that if you search for as little as 5 minutes in any platform you can find someone thats in it for pasion is not as bad as they make it seem.
The money changed everything. It turned making memes/internet culture from a passion to a profession, and thats what killed it.
Politics killed it. They allowed monopoly in exchange of information and control.
Gravetwist Remember when media didn’t give a fuck about memes. Now saying ok boomer is a problem
Gravetwist I saw a job listing for social media content creator that had ‘brand-friendly meme creation’ as a key responsibility of the position. 🤦🏻♀️
@@kbs1212 Like this:
>When somebody mentions the new #mega_lit Iphone 11S+Max Ultra™©®
*(willy wonka staring in the background)*
_... And they say corporations are not up with the times heh..._
Gravetwist ive been thinking about money a lot. I think money is legitimately responsible for the corruption of society.
I'm 45. I joined online gaming and other internet stuff in 1997 when I was 22. It was the glory age. The internet now is laughable compared.
Damn an OG, respect bro
@@bjack8315 Thanks. Right back atcha.
Nice
I got my first email in 1998 when I was 19.... I went online at my school library and looked up all the weirdest things I could think of. Everything was great from then until Facebook got popular and suddenly every grandma and kid got online. Before then even the dodgy stuff and bullying wasn't even as evil as now. The internet is now so full of degeneracy Australia has basically been forced to censor it because it's literally full of kiddy fiddlers and rapey bastards now. I miss when we were all nerds with dark humour playing together. I loved that era. I'm sad it's gone.
@@mistressofstones did you go on aol at the time?
one of the things that make me sad is the lack of personalization. i remember when we're able to change lot's of things on Twitter, now we can't barely change the colors of the links and when we click to change it, we can only pick the 5 colors they choose for us and this color is used in all pages, even other ppls pages. i loved to check my friends pages and see what colors and wallpapers they choose. now everything is the same. that's why i love neocities, they keep the best of internet alive
The problem is: People rely on the Internet, for a sense of belonging.
Nowadays, it's just a reboot of High School drama.
Pretty much this especially Twitter
it's worse, i don't know what highschool you went to but i've never seen someone get cancelled in my school.
But worse
cough *art community dramas* cough
@@anonymousvossylu9342 their basically the 2000s high school everyones been talking about
Sometimes i feel like it's the downfall of humanity as well, greed, corrupted, sucked into negativity, consumed by media, sad everything is going downhill
When did you think this all of this started in? It's all just subjective opinions after all and humanity could've been always like this since the beginning. It's only now that you just woken up to realize all the issues that we're currently facing right now. So when do you think this all might've happened? Was it since the 19th century, the 20th, the 21st, maybe even the 16th century or the century when the modern era might've started in which could've been around which was the 15th century? When did you start noticing a downward incline in that area? Maybe you could even say that this is the best time in history right now with all the living great and long lives and stuff. I mean at the end of the day it's all just subjective after all right?
Tbh this sounds like a universal dark age for humanity.
@@siddycosmos607, Um this is actually the best time in history we're living in right now if you talking about how much humanity is relative with itself. The only reason why we know of all this negativity around us is because of how social media is the one that spreads all of it the most. So it's most of social media's fault they keeps spreading negativity everywhere and for even poisoning some forms of entertainment. But even still I hope this changes to in the future to the point where we don't even need social media anymore and that we can keep some forms of negativity to ourselves.
@@seanvasquez523 honestly, I have to correct myself. Humanity IS in the best possible era (not the best possible year for obvious reasons) but for the internet, it's a chaotic, universal dark age. Everything got capitalised and cultified.
@@siddycosmos607, I mean you have a great point on that. The internet nowadays is a mess and we would rather look at the real world instead of looking at pointless arguments and negativity on a random website we just found. But I think most of this was because of the rise of social media which was the reason why the internet has even became capitalistic for a while now.
But since people are starting to not give a crap about their social media accounts anymore and starting to delete them and that these sites are becoming so toxic that they're in decline right now and people are abandoning them, the big three toxic social media sites in my opinion that being Twitter, Facebook, And TikTok will hopefully be gone in the next 10 to 15 years. Once they are gone the internet will hopefully be in a renaissance where sites like RUclips are going to be in their glory days once again and that the internet will be like what it was during the golden age (2000-2007) and even a bit of the silver age (2008-2013) which is one of the eras that I define the history of the internet.
Normies and big tech ruined everything. It's so bad that I tried to comment a brief history of blockbuster and Netflix and RUclips wouldn't allow it.
What killed the internet? Money, lawyers, and governments.
That existed during the Golden Age of the Internet.
Twitter killed it. Idiotic opinions started spreading like wildfire there. Censorship, pc culture bullshit, politics everywhere, etc.
@@BlockedUser420 everyone ruined it lol
funny because its some of the governments that are questioning what these social media corporations are doing to people's information ... I wouldn't blame all govt but yes to all corporations looking for a quick and easy profit
@@BlockedUser420 these large corporations have formed through loopholes and crony capitalism. They pair with he government and cut off all competition.
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@MiNDBoX While I agree with your sentiment, I can't help but laugh
009 not 007
trinity again
RUclips died when people began earning money from views. The focus went from hobbies and passion projects to trying to make money.
RUclips has always been terrible. However one way it was and continues to be good is "How to..." videos that are specifically teaching some objective skill. But anything else is a complete waste of time. Like this video!
Money corrupts everything. Websites should be less like Facebook, and more like Wikipedia.
No. There are good content that wouldnt've been made if creators werent earning a buck from it. Simply ignore the bad one. It isn't hard, in fact the algorithm helps me greatly with that. But monopoly is bad indeed.
@@ombelle5284 Which gets a bad reputation thanks to teachers
@@UnchainedEruption Then why are you here?
I loved how the Internet was in the 2000s. It was not glued to my life and it was not a place to keep 24/7 checking on other people's lives and posting pictures of your most recent trip that nobody cares.
It was a magical place where ANYTHING could happen. You'd go after school/work to disconnect about life and just chill and have fun, like an alternate world where freedom of speech reigned. I used to be very anxious to get home and boot up my computer where I could browse the Internet and finally be able to talk and to check the stuff that I really liked and just be myself, whereas I couldn't with most of my real friends.
I was a Sonic fan at that time and the community was strong. We had animations, fanfics, forums, millions of fan websites (geocities), board discussions, arts, cool videos, contests, reviews, tips, radios, etc. You had endless content of your favorite stuff, and made on the sole purpose of being fun and good content, not on making money (at least most of the times). Nowadays you are just restricted to Reddit and its horrible mods or some forum that is just a ghost town.
Online gaming was at its peak also. Staying up until late playing CS 1.6, Quake 3, Unreal, WoW was the shit. No censoring, no SJWs, no simping, no cash grabs, just the boys having fun. It was also very common to make friends with someone within some game and later the friendship would go on to outside the game via MSN. No one does that anymore. Everyone just lost their authenticity.
I was an autistic kid growing up and I was a computer geek. Back in the 1990s and early 2000s, internet usage was largely restricted to computer geeks and nerds who shared a passion. I was one of those kids who was a geek, and I was one of those who jumped on Counterstrike when it was popular.
If you ask me, when Mark Zuckerberg decided to expand Facebook sometime in 2006 - 2009 to where everybody was convinced to join, that was the beginning of the end of the old internet.
This decision, along with the first iPhone that Steve Jobs proudly displayed back in 2007, ushered in an era where people became more self centered and arrogant, all the while being unaware of their surroundings.
I was a Sonic the Hedgehog fan too, and we had communities with a diverse group of people. We dug deep into fandom, discussing the latest video games, the comic books, whatever tickled our fancy. We had actual conversations that provoked critical thinking.
The difference between back then and now, among many other things was we were able to use critical thinking much more effectively. Reddit sadly is basically a hivemind. It's essentially the opposite of critical thinking, you're supposed to cater to one's whims and follow them. Otherwise, you will get 'canceled' by the moderators.
Online gaming was more fun back then too. World of Warcraft in recent times is just sad. One of the worst online communities that I've encountered. Full of people trying to cancel others. Full of SJWs to point out that your view of things is wrong. American politics is discussed almost as much as the game itself. It happened a lot when I was doing PVP matches and even when I was just clearing out some dungeons.
The old community of WoW wasn't like that. We all hanged out and some of us made a relationship outside the game. Try doing that today with any MMO or popular online game.
Meanwhile, everyone is bitching about Aaron Rodgers while others are complaining about Lebron James being a bitch on Twitter. Who the fuck cares? Why should we concern ourselves with soulless celebrities?
It's a fucked up world now.
@Im Caj Yes. When Facebook and smartphones became extremely popular and everybody started using the internet massively, even those who didn't see much appeal in it before, I was one who was like "wait? why is everyone posting all the time about meaningless stuff of their lives, tweeting about celebrities, why do the posts disappear so quickly? Why do people are seeking attention so much? What is even the point? Where are the fun and engaging discussions? The sense of community?".
From then on, that was gone and the internet became shallow, streamlined, robotic, and censored. Reddit was supposed to be the "follow-up" of the old internet, but as it grew in popularity, they just transformed it into a corporatized, political, and censored mess as everything that becomes popular.
@@dottigames Reddit was good back in the mid - late 2000s. Then it became like a lot of other big websites.
Corporate. Political. Censored.
It's no different from watching Rachel Maddow on MSNBC or some talking head on CNN and Fox News.
Right on! Back then it was more common for the kids around the neighborhood to gather, especially in the weekends and in the big summer break, holy shit what a blast, the room would be filled with monitors and computers, anyone remember those small compact TVs with the integrated VCR? You would have someone gaming on that along with their PS2 or Xbox, before the whole PC versus console war really took off, it was just one cohort of humans having fun staying up until early morning playing games and watching movies, it was a different universe.
I feel this so hard. I miss these times.
I wonder how many people wished they were born earlier to see what the internet was before all of this.
Well they would've only had around 7 years to realize this in the time-frame that I say was when the golden age of the internet was happening which for me (I was born in 2005 so I could only go by "evidence" that I see from other people and events in the tech industry) I say it was from around 2000 to 2007. 2008 to 2013 I say was the silver age of the internet and when social media was becoming bigger than it can ever be, and I say from 2014 onwards is currently the dark age of the internet or the whole stealing data from people thing.
I often wish I was born earlier to live in a world WITHOUT the internet. There's plenty of good it does us, and there are things I love from the 2000s, even early 2010s, but it sucks that I missed the 80s and 90s. Even the 70s oil crisis/inflation was not as bad as the Great Recession, let alone a pandemic.
I did
I was born in 1996 so got a *little* bit of the golden age. By the time I was old enough to really appreciate it, it was already getting past the golden age. I was never on Myspace or anything, but I remember the extremely fun, exciting early days of RUclips where we'd just type random shit into the search bar and be laughing our heads off
im one of them, i kinda wish i was born in like, 2004-2006 and not in 2009
“i wish there was a way to know you’re in the good old days before you’ve actually left them”
Andyyy 😭
Runescape before GE or EOC lol
I miss how personalised the old RUclips layout was. Remember when RUclips meant 'Broadcast Yourself'? Now it's just a corporate echo chamber of soulless content.
It was pretty cool how the background and literally everything was customizable
The yellow subscribe button, descriptions at the side of videos, the star rating system, video responses, actually being able to thumb... Though, I do prefer the green/red like to dislike ratio they implemented after the star system better. Funny; they made the dislikes clear and removed negative thumbs, so people's feelings would be less hurt. Though thumbing down still works, it just moves other comments further down in priority.
kuntexterminator I miss old RUclips period .... they had a sense of looking out for viewer by being the only media source without a lot of commercials, and now they have more commercials than any TV channel....................................................................................................
Damn I totally forgot how the customizable old RUclips was.... where have we gone.
Broadcast Yourself? What's this? 2009?
Back in the day on forums, everyone seemed to have a paranoia about being tracked and hacked, so you NEVER used your real name, NEVER used a real picture of yourself! And that anonymity brought an honesty that's missing today.
@thanos asparagus monkey condom gaming Everyone wants to "matter" and "leave a legacy", so online profiling is the easiest and fastest way to do that, as far as they think.
And now you know damn well someone's watching you 24/7
That early internet paranoia has stuck with me all this time. I still find myself using fake names, phone numbers, addresses, dobs, etc, though perhaps now this mentality is needed more than ever.
@@bambsy9665 Same fam. Kinda blows me away how kids that grew up just a few years younger than me just took to the internet and electronic media with such blind trust.
I never liked the 'internet front persona' since the 00's, I found it disingenuous lol
Always used my name, but never ventured beyond early fb & got away from that shortly after. Never understood why they called it "social media" when it's still just someone looking at a screen watching or listening to somebody else, doesn't quantify as "social" in my book. 🤷
"Let's face it, the internet has become corpo-- " *forced ad* "... corporate."
I agree.
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Laughs in youtube premium
And here I am laughing at your ass for paying the corporations to leave you alone! Adblock bitchhhhh
@@CryptoNWO laughs in ad blocker ;)
@@matwalker8698 cries in mobile ¡_¡
*Remember when the every website had its own unique look and personality?*
I miss RUclips's customizing of channels! 😭 That's the only thing I wish they brought back!
Everything is trying to become tiktok these days lmao
at least on newground you can stil modifie the color and layout of your page
@@atti3102 fnf fucked the site up
@@Gamerappa why? Fnf isn't that bad and the fan base is not a big problem
And it didn't just die. It was MURDERED
*cue lofi beats
Like Epstein who didn't kill himself!
"Eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth, blood for blood, life for life!"
Lol cue typewriter sound
But that's just a theory, a GAME THEORY
I really hate modern internet and social media.
Things were so much simpler back then.
I miss when the internet was a place to escape the real world. Now I can’t go anywhere without seeing politics or things from the real world.
Same. Both the right and the left are guilty of this
I can't enjoy youtube comments without a "feminism is cancer" or " all men are trash".... Ugh
To be fair, you can hop on discord and escape into games for a bit with your friends if you really want to.
Bullshit. Even back in 2000's were people putting politics into internet, you seen have many god damn flash games where it make fun of W. Bush or kill Osama bin Laden?
Go to Reddit and avoid all political subreddit
In the Myspace days people didn't know it but when they were creating their pages they were doing a small amount of coding.
So fuckin true. I was a teenager learning how to tweak html just so I could customize my hot ass div layout
xanga def taught me html, my layouts were poppin
Haha, very true lol.
Hey, do y'all remember Zwinky? I never had a MySpace, but had a Zwinky, which was similar in terms of customization and coding. You even had a choice of which friends you wanted to be on your page like on MySpace lol
@WatchTheHourGlass what is this? I'm intrigued because I've often wondered if someone couldn't just emulate what MySpace was like, I mean they did it to Tumblr?
I've been thinking about this a lot recently. The internet was definitely better between the 2000s-2012 time period. I LOVED how the internet back then was more like the wild west with anonymity. The internet isn't a "web" anymore. I remember starting at one site and clicking a link in the site that brought me to another site which then brought me to another site until I forgot how i got there. There's no more surfing on the internet. Everyone uses the same 10 sites which are all the corporate social media sites. This goes against the internet's founders philosophy. It isn't a web when you only go to the same 10 websites. Google forces you to read mainstream media sources and isolates peoples blogs where people wrote their perspective. Now we only get mainstream news which is biased on both sides. We're literally in the ARPANET now when there was only a dozen servers/sites. Corporations definitely ruined the internet. I hope these companies get broken up to give other website providers a chance.
Dude, the internet was the true wild west before the 2000s, look up the "Eternal September" or "September that never ended". It's never was the same even by 2000.
@@MarquosXoloVanda I agree to a point. The 2000s mixed user friendliness and "wild West anonimity" in just the right proportions. Anyone could go online and be someone, be something.
I mean small websites still exist if you want to surf then just go do it. Just because it’s not popular doesn’t mean it’s barren and gone.
2012 was similar to now. 1998-2008 was the golden age.
@@jackieAZ the point is the general population is stuck to the handful of websites. i have noticed a lot of people seem to not even know how to look something up on google haha
The old internet feels so nostalgic even though I only have experienced the "new" internet
"They took down Hentai Heaven"
I felt that
Dud I cant even find rule 34 anymore everything's fucked :(
Wait rule 34s down
Lmao same
Yeah i know, that hit hard
@@subashira hanime dot tv for hentai, Sankaku Black for images and NHBooks for doujinshi my dude
old websites felt really comfy. they felt secure, welcoming. it's a feeling i won't find nowadays, because everything here is trying to steal your personal info. it's a feeling i won't find nowadays because everyone is in a rush to control and silence those that dare oppose them.
I had thst feeling when I checked out the website called welcome to the old internet again
Duck duck go thanks
Buckle up, cus it’s only gonna get worse. Digital ID, universal digital currency, it’s going to control every facet of our life, and it won’t be optional, you won’t be able to opt out. We’re already seeing the beginnings of it, and so many people are ignorantly cheering it on
@@garyclarkiii730 what if we ignore it?
@@garyclarkiii730 If you're implying a cashless society, I don't really see that happening. And I may be uninformed, but this reeks of conspiracy theories a la 666 patent Bill Gates brain chip bogus. Would you mind elaborating?
This was before COVID and everything has gotten MUCH WORSE ever since
And before COPPA.
and before they remove dislikes too
This is such an important video. I have had these thoughts about internet culture for quite a few years now, but I could never think of the right words to fully comprehend how disappointed I was with the state of social media. You've well encapsulated what life on the internet used to be, and when people didn't take as seriously as they do now. Thank you so much for this video, it gives me solace to know that I'm not alone in my sentiments and hope that one day things will get better.
I'm practically with you.
There was a far more friendly environment with the old RUclips and MySpace.
Today it's mostly Group Think, pushing out a political agenda, and radicalizing everything.
It makes me absolutely sick, to the point where I'm now thinking of ditching social media for good.
We are in a Cyberpunk dystopia without the cool aesthetic.
That's exactly what I've been thinking
A very boring dystopia
Its like Mad Max. An endless ocean of sand.
Yeah not enough newspapers you know..on paper and noodles...
The Cyberpunk aesthetic is coming and actually has a practical application, Google 'CV Dazzle', I would just post the link but then this comment will probably get nuked.
The Internet was like the jungle, freedom... now is like the city
This is really explain what I thought 😞 The internet is crowed and full of mortal basic earthlings. I want my magic jungle back.
Y'all ever heard of a concrete jungle?
Have you been to 4chan?
We will tell our kids and grandkids what the internet was like back in 2005-2010
More like the wild west
IT lasted less than a decade. What killed it was the smart phone.
Hint: The old net is still there. You just need to look. Ignore the major players. And feel free again. It's not as hard as you think.
irc is still around
also a replacement for geocities called neocities exist
so much fun
We still shouldn't have to be forced off of the major sites just because we can't say anything without being censored
^Nobody's really forcing you off anything. It's your choice what you do on the internet.
I like gab. Download fab dissenter then you can comment about any website
Yes! Niches forums and small sites are still a thing!
I miss the times when the internet was more goofy (ytps and lol internet stuff) instead of the sterile corporate internet we have today
You do realize that YTPs are still a thing. Right?
@@SuperMario9078 yet they have died out. the good ones are still around to watch, just, now people who made them quit ages ago.
@@bobbies81 the people who quit were replaced by new ones
"Cause is what we wanted, we Seekd this, we wanted order, not peace and democracy, But they didn't do it in the right way, and look at the world now, is our own fault
bobbies81 I’m a YTPer that started making YTPs a year ago and my YTPs are pretty decent in my opinion
This video is ahead of its time. In 10-20 years, the internet won't even be recognizable anymore
I think in that amount of time a new invention may be created that new corporations will flock to, meaning the internet’s anonymity may be restored. I’d be hopeful.
We are going to have far bigger problems than this
@@nuclearpugg What can be worse than social media?
@@zedmelor8842 new world order
@@georgesracingcar7701 bruh what could replace the internet? It's literally necessary for the world to function
I miss the early 2000's where RUclips had just hilarious, minute-long videos filmed by crappy home cameras. They were absolute gold.
RUclips didn't exist in the early 2000s.
You mean the mid-late years?
Second half of 2000s and early 2010s
@@nucleartaco04 Yea the second half which was 2006-2010
Yeah, like early Smosh. So many popular white RUclipsrs start out as hyper, suburban emo-kids doing weird, random things on camera... And then they usually grow a beard, 'rebrand' themselves for a wider audience and remove their early content.
Anyone else tearing up over that clip of the old RUclips? Just me? *emotional nostalgia*
I really miss OG RUclips (customizing channel layout, video responses, 5 star rating, RUclips groups!)
I was 7 years old when I started watching RUclips on my own in 2009. I made my first channel (this one) in 2011... My childhood is rolling in its grave...
@@ADJL1331 man I started at 2012 probs that's when I was at 5 it was amazing
I was too young to remember it well, I just watched Cinemasaccre Godzillathon videos a ton back then
Old SMOSH...
I always hated social media
Started using it after corona and became miserable
But thank god i got cured again
The story of 2020 is falling back into our old vices and realizing nothing good lasts forever.
Your profile picture matches your comment.
Our brains need exercise
Constructive thinking
Talent
Wisdom
Theory
Solving Problems
Fun!!!
I'm not against social media in theory, but in practice many of them took a degenerate turn because of lack of privacy, ultracapitalism without control, politicization and oversocialization.
I’ve realized that too much internet is bad I used to ask my mom for a whole day on the computer but I realize that want and need will never be fulfilled either I’ll be bored on my computer or I’ll be constantly trying to get on it
As a AI from a video game once said:
“What we propose to do is not control content, but to create context.”
la li lu le lo.
MGS2 predicted our present.
Oh man, how worse it's gotten. You should revisit this.
Give it another 10 years and we'll have a renaissance period
ruclips.net/video/R1ccwyP6fjc/видео.html
that is exactly what i think of
I can’t afford to wait that long I’ll be boomers age by that time
@@ogi1337 you will reborn in the 50's??
"Hey, lets give up all of our control so people can do what they want again." Sounds realistic.
Remember when filling in a social media profile was fun?
Now Facebook is ruined by sponsored ads... ugh
Yeah i spend hours and sometimes redone it after 10-20 minutes, now i just put random words when registering game or filling profile
It still is. Just skip some of the more invading boxes.
It was never fun to me...
I miss people sexually identifying as an Attack Hellicopter!
There’s people in these comments right now who are too young to remember when you could customize your channel background on RUclips
You can't do that?
Quickstrike209 not the banner it was like MySpace where when you clicked on that persons channel they personalized the entire screen
I remember.
I spent a day creating a background for my account, and then they announced the removal of the feature 1 month after
You still can on some platforms uwu
It is disgusting what has happened over the years to the internet. I started my internet journey back in the early 90s. It was the 'wild, wild west'. We could say what we wanted, do what we wanted, and no one had public melt downs, no calls for fans or followers to attack, no storm of Karens doxxing people for not going along with some witch trial group think, no one was censored, canceled, shut down, etc. Everyone just handled it. And BECAUSE of that, the large majority of people were a hell of a lot friendlier and far, FAR more creative than today. We could even make videos without copyright strikes.
RUclips came along in 2005 - long after the start of the internet, but even back then, RUclips was FUN! It was all about us, not corporations and celebrities, news, movie trailers, etc. It was the every day person - that was the whole damn point of RUclips. Now, the internet feels like you're being treated like a child....and everyone around you is also a child - an EXTREMELY sensitive child, who runs to the teacher to cry about their feelings. It's very sad, because the more you monitor, the more you restrict, the more you shut conversation down, the worse people get, not better.
some people had to be canceled though.
Dude this is spot on! The part you said about Karens doxxing for not going along with some witch trial group think made my head spin! And the part you said about the internet being full of extremely sensitive children who run to the teacher
to taddle for every little thing.
It crushes me when i realize that those times are not coming back
gj on the 69 likes
sadly i didnt feel those times😔
It crushes me I didn't buy all,Google. Stocks or Bitcoin when I knew better :/
@@captainmoonrise1730 this x 1,000,000...
right?
"they took down HentaiHaven"
I felt that
good
great
awesome
@@JohnFortniteKennedy_ coom
If you don't know yet it's back
Younger zucc looks way more human. guess his soul left his body over time
He sold his soul
he doesn't look too good in his recent pictures
zucc is just matrix agent, facebook is lifelog, deepstate pentagon project , get a reality check
He slowly hat his Parts replaced with cybernetics
Now there's reels making everthing 10 times worse 😭
After big government found out that social media can over throw governments...that was the end of the internet.
Yeah they really tightened the screws once Trump took them by surprise. They were successful at controlling the narrative for years and couldn't conceive a bunch of trolls, memes, listening to podcast and speeches that normally only a few hundred people would view now explode to millions, dethroning them. I find it hilarious how dying mainstream media fact checks parody memes as if trying to desperately cling on that we are fucking stupid and we need them to be our saviors to separate fact from fiction.
The internet was created in 1968 for research purposes. The internet was initially used to relay data between Universities and...the government. It wasn't until the latter half of the 1990s, when personal computers became affordable and "" made the web easy to use, that the internet became viable to us common folk. To think the government and these companies wouldn't cut deals is very naive.
@Rapid nerd
I wonder... Do you realise how accurate you are?
4chan needs to overthrow the government, it's time they focus their weaponized autism at the bigger threat
the early 2000's was truly a golden age...
Now everything is being oppressed or policed, escapism and free thought is frowned upon.
yup. this is what happens when your standards are based on the majority instead of a rigid line. Like the bible or the constiution. Once the bible was truly abandoned in '65, arguably it has been abandoned since about 400 AD, because the catholics dont follow squat of what it teaches, and the "protestants" are no better. The only one that is even close is the Seventh Day Adventists.
I preferred the late 90s, but early 2000s was pretty cool due to better connections.
@@jklbubbublkj7939 religion is for the dumb and easily manipulated
But seriously... did You not see this coming?
* *insert Tolkien, Orwell, and Huxley quotes* *
“They took down hentai heaven nooooo.” What a chad
Halo 55223 simps :/
😂
Kid didnt even know its haven not heaven
Hentaihaven is garbage nowadays. I prefer hanime.tv.
To be fair, it began when the got rid of loli.
"But wait... it wasn't always like this"
Fuck man... Remember when the internet was actually fun? When it was magical?
8:37 This. Oh God, this.
Remember when using someone's real name on the Internet was the worst possible thing you could do to them?
Yee
Reddit, tumblr, and the entire dark web still keep this tradition.
We can't save RUclips. We just need to make a new one.
Yes let's pretend that making a "new RUclips" won't lead to the same problems. If we somehow all leave RUclips to some new platform, then all the advertisers and people who started this mess will go there as well.
@@therealjezzyc6209 Well it took many years for RUclips to become what it is now. It would most likely take a while for that to happen.
Floatplane!
@@caelanferguson9452 All the infrastructure is already available. The reason it took so long was because all the huge tech companies weren't as big back then as they are now. It would take maybe 6 months at most. If everybody leaves YT to some other platform won't be long till Google just gobbles it for lunch.
@@therealjezzyc6209 yeah i guess you have a point. I don't know how we will ever save RUclips
Back then, my parents were restrictive of me using the computer constantly.
Now, i am having to restrict my parents of using their smartphones constantly..
How so, more precisely ?
The irony, and it's so true.
@@nicholasleclerc1583 People are addicted to their smartphones, no matter what age. Unless you are a tech guy.
@@aronhighgrove4100, Yeah I really hope that this changes in around 10 to 15 years. But you never know maybe we might be all addicted to holograms instead lol.
The scary part is smartphone addiction is an even bigger and more widespread problem than computer addiction. You couldn't simply take your PC around everywhere you go, meanwhile smartphones can be taken to where even laptops cant and content on smartphones is often deliberately designed to be addictive.
This phenomenon really effected meme culture as well. There are multiple “memes” nowadays that started as publicity for movies, and are honestly very unfunny. Besides, they only last for 2 days. I feel like I’m holding onto something that doesn’t exist anymore,
but there are still some enjoyable environments on the internet, specially on youtube.
Most memes nowadays aren't posted to get people to laugh, they're posted to get more people pissed off. The old meme culture had class, tact, and a sense of humor. The SJWs, "woke" people and assholes just took the memes and plastered them just so they could gain attention.
True af...🗿🗿
@@KratostheThird one example: cringe compilations
@@KratostheThird The big bad SJW's and woke people didn't steal your memes 😂 I'm really thinking you never experienced "the old meme culture" if you think it had any sort of class or tact. Sense of humor certainly but class & tact definitely not
Swolo ren was when I gave up on memes
Dude, this was an eye-opener. I literally almost forgot how the internet used to be when I was in college. I'm gonna log off, take a bath, and read a goddamn book.
Read "The Myth Of Male Power"
It freed me from being a slave for the govt
@@MikeTheMGTOWMonk it may have made you more aware, but you're technically still a "slave.
How was the book dude?
That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard someone say in response to Narcissistic threats to the usefulness of the internet. If you chose to not use the tools you were given then you are therefore giving in to learned helplessness of the Narcissistic abuse enforced by the Narcissistic value of the American culture and many other nations of the world. Don't read a book that's killing trees douche bag just meditate and use the gifts(technology) your given don't take them for granted! >.
@@Sensei_Sean Your comment is dumb. You and "save a few trees" is pathetic. Not reading a book isn't going to save a few trees. He probably was also being a little facetious.
Rant time. As someone on the autism spectrum RUclips was one of the greatest discoveries of my childhood. When I was in school the teachers and students gave off this impression that they saw me has “different” or “didn’t belong” even if I didn’t know at the time I was on the autism spectrum. My cousin was the one who showed me RUclips and ever since then I have loved this website. RUclips is more engaging them TV ever could be. On TV you have a few channels you can watch various shows but on RUclips you specifically subscribed to a certain channel making it much easier to watch what you wanna watch. Finding content on RUclips is more interesting as well, on TV you just flip through random channels until you land on a show that you are willing to watch. On RUclips you can search for specific things and find stuff that you may not have kept watching on TV that you enjoyed on RUclips. There was just so many great things about RUclips watching contact that appeals to you, branching out to new types of content, allowed creativity to thrive and RUclips allows anyone who wants to make videos basically “Broadcast Themselves”. On RUclips it felt like everybody was on the same level (equal) everyone’s videos were treated equally no matter how different the content was on each channel. RUclips allowed a variety of content to thrive, so the RUclipsrs and viewers felt that they were in a community of just regular people. with no filter on almost everything that was posted. There were so many great animations on RUclips that I can talk about for ages but we’d be here all day. Cyraik and David Firth made funny, weird, dream like and disturbing animations that would never air on TV and if they did they would be heavily modified, not what the artist intended. they’re were great parity animations (sometimes as a music video) for stuff like Minecraft and My Little Pony etc. The original animated series were amazing they were usually written and animated by one person and they had to choose the voice actors for the series. Feral Pride, Wolf Song, Twelve, The missing Light, Cow of the Wild, Painted flower etc. Were all able to come into fruition by RUclipss platform. although some of them may not hold up as well as they did in the past that’s kind of the charm most of them are not super well animated and the riding for some may not be all that great but this meant a lot to me when I was younger. There are so many other great animated stuff on RUclips you just got a find it. RUclips has also helped my critical thinking looking how commentary channels and review channels gave their opinions and explained why they believed on a movie or situation etc. it help me to agree to disagree with people and be humble. I love that edgy and weird/stupid Comedy channels or implementing that style into their videos. If you didn’t like that since of humor there were thousands of other channels you can go to. I don’t remember anyone really getting offended by this kind of stuff it seemed they went and found comedy that they liked Wow wHat a coNCepT. When I went to my private school the science and history teacher showed us RUclips videos covering the topics we were or not even covering her topic sometimes would be a completely different part of history or science and that was great. I am subscribed to many science and history channel now. Science I already loved but history I didn’t find much interest in that until I found historical videos on RUclips and it just clicked for some reason. Again as someone on the autism spectrum RUclips was just so inviting to me no one was really ostracized and being “different” or “not belonging” was not something to be ashamed of. For example how to basic is such a fascinating channel. It’s a very specific concept of just taking “how to videos” then making them cursed and we all love it. Sr. Pelo just screams, acts like he’s on drugs and drawls he’s characters faces with grotesque facial expressions and is beautiful. Then google, Susan and the RUclips executives have to come try to ruin everything. There is still great stuff made on RUclips but it seems like it’s buried under mountains of BS like companies, pointless dumb drama, bland repetitive channels, Content farms, fake perfect people etc. there are so many design choices in modern RUclips that makes it almost impossible to upload certain types of content or gain traction on RUclips. It’s not that I hate nice friendly wholesome content I just like variety and I don’t like companies being on the front page of RUclips. that’s not what RUclips is about!!! Stop censoring everything do you really think all the advertisers and viewers are going to leave RUclips because of a slightly offensive video? Do you guys really thank it’s necessary to demonetize or give a channel a strike for saying the word retarded? This is coming from someone on the autism spectrum and I think it’s so dumb. Old RUclips taught me to be tough skinned and not let words bother me. I hate the idea that people with high functioning autism need to be coddled. NO I just wanna be equals in society and that’s how I felt on older RUclips. Now RUclips acts so authoritarian they want to control everything. Instead of people not liking edgy channels that say words like “retarded” they can go find other channels on their own but now RUclips, forces people to watch what RUclips, wants them to watch. It’s not about YOU! viewer or YOU! the content creator anymore. I am passionate in a lot of things art, animation, science, Biology, character design, video games, comedy and music. I’ve always wanted to make RUclips videos but I just don’t feel that motivated to make any because of all this restrictions and the Internet community as a whole. Not to make money or get “famous” just to make them for fun. It’s just sad honestly...
As someone who's also on the spectrum, you took the words right out of my mouth.
Jesus so long
This is the longest fucking comment on RUclips.
The golden era has indeed ended...
@@cagkiller0317 I can back this statement myself. I am also on the 'spectrum'. Yet I hate online censorship in all its forms.
We are reaching nostalgia levels that shouldn't even be possible
I'm nostalgic with things I've never even experienced or heard of before.
jack bran I was just 9 at the time but I remember scrolling RUclips in 2008 and the unstoppable freedom and creativity online at that time was exhilarating. Being on the Internet in the 00s was like exploring an untouched fantasy land
Remember back in 2008-2009 when youtube was not connected to google and you could customize your profile page with wallpapers, gifs anf pics?
Yeah good times
I may or may not catch a glimpse of all that because I was very young. Damn that really sounds like a great place to be.
@@zicdragon believe me, it was. No speech and content policing, no trigger warings, it was raw and fun as this yt today will never be again
Google Plus destroyed that customization.
didn't google buy youtube in '06?
@@moonflower6607 perhaps but it didn't connect with google up until 2010-2011 I think
"They took down hentai heaven, noooooo!"
- A 12 year old boy
I remember being 12 and seeing hentai for the first time. Good times. Good times.
@@FilmsNerf2
Those are rookie numbers. I was 11.
@Non-Existent Its certainly heaven to some folks.
@@fenn_fren fucking weeabo, im. 15.and havent
@@windtraffic2955 good for you asswipe