What Ever Happened to Everyone's Friend MySpace Tom?

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    Tom Anderson, better known online as MySpace Tom, was, for a brief period in the early 2000s, arguably the most popular man on the internet. Boasting over 200 million friends at the apex of MySpace’s popularity, Tom was everybody who signed up to use the site’s first, but hopefully not only, friend. So what is he doing now and why was he everyone’s friend?
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  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  6 лет назад +78

    Now that you know what happened to MySpace Tom check out this video and find out about Jerry Lewis and the Crying Clown:
    ruclips.net/video/UAeN-mGzbuU/видео.html

    • @gardensofthegods
      @gardensofthegods 6 лет назад +2

      People misuse that word nowadays... it actually used to be "unarguably " as in undisputable.
      Just like people nowadays misuse the word " literal "... I wish you would do a piece on people misusing and abusing the word
      " literal " nowadays ... it is very frustrating .. for whatever reason people today seem to think it means really or very , as opposed to something that actually happened

    • @michelleroxy21
      @michelleroxy21 5 лет назад +1

      hi. hope you can respond or just take into consideration for your own benefit. i have been using a crap laptop more than my phone lately and i automatically watch my videos at 1080p60HD; for some reason no matter how long i paused your videos and let them buffer, they kept on pausing about every 4-6 seconds for .5-1 second. i've sadly clicked off of a number of your videos because of this. today it happened again and i decided to switch the quality to 480p (no offense, but i like listening to you talk & gathering information, i'm not looking for the quality of a makeup product or something). maybe a quick disclaimer at the beginning of your video may be of use to some people, thus lessening the chance that anyone would click off out of frustration like me and have to miss out on cool new information. thanks so much if you read this, i just figured i'd do my part and share what information i can with this channel that i enjoy so very much. - Pocket

    • @etrigan1389
      @etrigan1389 5 лет назад

      You're zed?

    • @petercarioscia9189
      @petercarioscia9189 5 лет назад +3

      3:37 Did you say salmon of capistrano? Did you mean swallows of capistrano or is there a sister saying about their salmon too?
      Oh...it's a meme apparently....

    • @rorydaniel9016
      @rorydaniel9016 5 лет назад +1

      the host is kinda cute

  • @mBUSHattack
    @mBUSHattack 6 лет назад +2342

    I always liked MySpace more. I only left because no one was left on it, but being able to code your own layout was a fantastic aspect.

    • @ivanm10
      @ivanm10 6 лет назад +85

      Michael Bush .. I agree bro.. BRING BACK MYSPACE!!!!!!!!!

    • @bushdenae
      @bushdenae 6 лет назад +23

      Brother?

    • @ivanm10
      @ivanm10 6 лет назад +14

      Denae Bush .. yeah Sis

    • @ivanm10
      @ivanm10 6 лет назад +4

      Something Wicked This Way Comes .. yes however i meant it more of a nostalgic way with bringing more ppl back on it again... nomsayin

    • @ivanm10
      @ivanm10 6 лет назад +2

      Something Wicked This Way Comes
      .. I am on it.. its ur fault ur not spreading the word... Fool!!!

  • @TheSteveSteele
    @TheSteveSteele 6 лет назад +1409

    He’s one of the smart ones. Made his money and got the hell of that awful business and now he’s got the rest of his life to do whatever he wants. Perfect. I liked MySpace better than Facebook anyway.

    • @DarkAngelEU
      @DarkAngelEU 6 лет назад +60

      It was better than Facebook, you could do literally what you wanted and express yourself in a very different manner than Facebook allows you to. Facebook is just kinda meh, easy for chat messages and advertising tho.

    • @orangeradishneo
      @orangeradishneo 6 лет назад +44

      as a young teen it taught me basic HTML, something we weren't learning until high school at the time! i remember a 16 year old girl got rich from making myspace layouts, too. much more talent than half the youtubers out there, who just blog or make useless prank videos on their boyfriends and girlfriends.

    • @fuzzyhair321
      @fuzzyhair321 6 лет назад +2

      @Kevin Ague getting brought up to Congress to answer questions. God that was horrible to watch

    • @adamhovey407
      @adamhovey407 6 лет назад +5

      I don't have either one, now. The only reason, that I even got a Facebook, is because all my friends got a Facebook. Now, I've come to see, that email works pretty well. Being a teenager in the days of Myspace, that was something else though.

    • @joshuabryant9845
      @joshuabryant9845 6 лет назад +4

      Pretty sure most public schools don't teach HTML at all. I never did learn it in school, graduated 2014. Learned everything I know on social media sites and chat rooms.

  • @jarvasedundy1
    @jarvasedundy1 6 лет назад +528

    *MySpace broke alot of friendships. When you visit your best friend page. And you didn't see yourself in their top 10 friends list 😂*

    • @leilahnicki2111
      @leilahnicki2111 6 лет назад +21

      The whole top friendships thing was so stupid, often you'd see people including people they had never met in their top friendships just because they wanted top appeal to that person... If you lost a friend because they didn't list you then they were probably a dog bitch... I never even used the feature, but if you rank some rando on the internet above your school friends... Which wasn't uncommon... You can understand why it was such a stupid feature... People like facebook because they aren't reminded about how little they really matter to somebody who spends 50% of their time with them... School friendships have always been a huge joke.

    • @laykni
      @laykni 5 лет назад +6

      Top 8

    • @Yarona1
      @Yarona1 5 лет назад +13

      Or when you figure out your boyfriend is cheating on you because he has another girl in his #1 spot so your roommate hacks into his account and finds their private messages going back months....yeah, fun times...

    • @Yarona1
      @Yarona1 5 лет назад +6

      @@aldowaldo05 yeah, but trolling leads to real people getting hurt...can't say I'm a fan of that side of social media.

    • @Jay-jb2vr
      @Jay-jb2vr 5 лет назад +1

      @@Yarona1 haha haha that's hilarious

  • @alpham777
    @alpham777 6 лет назад +253

    I miss MySpace so much spent hours coding and creating flash animations . At one point even hosted all the content for the layout on a server at my house. Something about those times made the internet feel more alive than it does today.

    • @aldowaldo05
      @aldowaldo05 5 лет назад +3

      alpham777 I think I took a coding class because of myspace but later dropped out because I had nothing to do with my major.

    • @docgray5004
      @docgray5004 5 лет назад +5

      Ahh...and visits to newgrounds

    • @marieblade0613
      @marieblade0613 5 лет назад +1

      It did.

    • @johnnybird5466
      @johnnybird5466 3 года назад +3

      What about live journal? My teenage angst still exists out there on the internet somewhere lol

    • @annieinwonderland
      @annieinwonderland Год назад +1

      @@johnnybird5466 it became tumblr

  • @jackstraw732
    @jackstraw732 4 года назад +151

    Tom never tried to censor us. He didn't want to spy on everything we did. Tom was a friend to us all.

    • @MaynardCrow
      @MaynardCrow 3 года назад +13

      The world needs more Toms, less Zuckerborgs and Jackass from Twatter.

    • @joshyoung1440
      @joshyoung1440 2 года назад +2

      Yes, Simon literally said these things

    • @TheJpep2424
      @TheJpep2424 Год назад +1

      He didn't Try to censor conservatives

    • @timsheehan6954
      @timsheehan6954 Год назад +1

      MySpace definitely banned people, and post blocked people

    • @tamekkaknuth9612
      @tamekkaknuth9612 Год назад

      2000% confident

  • @therealwild1
    @therealwild1 5 лет назад +319

    I miss the old days of MySpace. There was more personality, and more freedom.
    Facebook sucks. It's the 1984 of social media.

    • @stevehay964
      @stevehay964 4 года назад +4

      @Amber Thurman "hear" 😆

    • @Topknot60
      @Topknot60 4 года назад +7

      @Jeff Ward
      Facebook sucks. It's the 1984 of social media.
      --That's a feature and not a bug.

    • @drumboarder1
      @drumboarder1 4 года назад +2

      There is only 1984 social media outside 4chan and that.. It just requires too much energy.. But at least it doesn't censor, everyone's equal (ly shit.. Tho that's the beauty)

    • @erikmunoz55
      @erikmunoz55 3 года назад +1

      O how right you were! I
      Here after Twitter banning everyone!

    • @jessalvarez
      @jessalvarez 3 года назад +2

      yess i 100% agrree with you like i always hated when people say oh make a facebook like why thats shits fukn borimg no music layouts top freinds like whyyyy Facebook really borimg i domt even get on it anymore i would love old myspace back for sure with tom and a good on for our phoones ans where our headphiones for the music and easy the new one is a scramblr everywhere i dont know Wtf im doing lol its comfusing

  • @adesignersperspective
    @adesignersperspective 6 лет назад +411

    i was actually one of the first 50 folks working at myspace with tom back in the day. left shortly after the newscorp buyout. never knew tom super well but he always seemed a down to earth and nice guy in our limited interactions. somewhere on the internet there's a picture of me with a hot pink mohawk standing next to him and the rest of myspace HQ circa 2005 in front of a firetruck in santa monica. i miss the days when social networks weren't all about buying and selling your life information like facebook.

    • @tgoods5049
      @tgoods5049 6 лет назад +19

      Lars Amble yep everyone in the RUclips comments section was a first 50 employee at a major tech company.

    • @TheBodgybrothers
      @TheBodgybrothers 6 лет назад +32

      tgoods504 I wasn't

    • @seanskins3850
      @seanskins3850 6 лет назад +21

      Brad McLean me neither...

    • @spetnaz369
      @spetnaz369 6 лет назад +14

      tgoods504 I’m not...

    • @raid89100
      @raid89100 6 лет назад +1

      Lars Amble *seriously doubt

  • @asleeperj
    @asleeperj 5 лет назад +109

    To be honest I think Myspace is a better name than facebook

  • @VideoMatoran
    @VideoMatoran 6 лет назад +354

    Myspace used to be cool. And profile customization was part of what made it cool in the first place.

    • @Jay-jb2vr
      @Jay-jb2vr 6 лет назад +13

      Unless their profile pages had a bunch of shit on it, then it took 8 years for the page to load...

    • @juliancornejo1402
      @juliancornejo1402 6 лет назад +4

      Gosh those load times for someone who had their page quite literally 'blinged out' with shiny fonts lol

    • @jpr90
      @jpr90 6 лет назад +9

      Exactly. I didn't see the appeal of Facebook at all specifically because you couldn't customize it...

    • @brycegriffin9271
      @brycegriffin9271 6 лет назад +14

      NutsInTheSauce Same here. I hated that everyone started to switched to FaceBook because it was so bland in comparison. Still is.

    • @SyukriLajin
      @SyukriLajin 6 лет назад +1

      What made them strong was also the one that killed them. Though, i'm interested to know if myspace exist with today's technology, would it have ended way better?

  • @hansverdieu7770
    @hansverdieu7770 6 лет назад +118

    Tom is the real definition of "take the money and run"

  • @Cowboy-mo4je
    @Cowboy-mo4je 6 лет назад +494

    "I'm not dead" LMAO

    • @ae86hachi
      @ae86hachi 6 лет назад +8

      ANGEL 303 Monty Python... comedic genius.

    • @Cowboy-mo4je
      @Cowboy-mo4je 6 лет назад

      😄

    • @LiftPizzas
      @LiftPizzas 6 лет назад +4

      I think I'll go for a walk.

    • @brockm4047
      @brockm4047 6 лет назад +2

      Lift Pizzas You’re not fooling anyone, you know.

    • @trainfan4449
      @trainfan4449 6 лет назад +5

      "i feel happy, happy!"

  • @408drez
    @408drez 5 лет назад +63

    He never turned his back on us and we all did, now the world has facedick

  • @crisisactor420
    @crisisactor420 6 лет назад +115

    I was expelled for making a Myspace page posing as my Vice Principle when I was in 8th grade. The site had more friends than me in less than a week. It was an immature move on my part but I was a bored student. In an unexpected twist of fate, and due to the quality of my work, the prank ultimately landed me in the gifted program.

    • @michaelcerda5514
      @michaelcerda5514 5 лет назад +7

      The first click on your profile "alpha sigma shithead"
      Gifted, I am sure

    • @thestreet9537
      @thestreet9537 5 лет назад +6

      That’s why there’s so many criminals in the nsa.

    • @thr2648
      @thr2648 5 лет назад

      Totally

    • @roninjolin7687
      @roninjolin7687 5 лет назад +1

      I made a profile of my 8th grade math teacher and someone accused someone else of doing it and somehow she caught me

    • @saschagray8708
      @saschagray8708 4 года назад

      Excellent.

  • @NicWalker627
    @NicWalker627 6 лет назад +416

    Well, Myspace certainly is the MTV of the internet now. Lol

    • @user-ur9wy1lt8z
      @user-ur9wy1lt8z 6 лет назад +1

      Nick Walker Right on

    • @captain_swaggin4065
      @captain_swaggin4065 6 лет назад

      Illusion mtv is racist?

    • @huntercarter5426
      @huntercarter5426 6 лет назад +11

      Captain_swaggin everything is racist

    • @survivinggamer2598
      @survivinggamer2598 6 лет назад +6

      @@huntercarter5426 I believe they did something called "new years resolutions for white people"

    • @tyy1823
      @tyy1823 5 лет назад +4

      surviving gamer oh wow. you must feel so discriminated against. :(

  • @EP591
    @EP591 5 лет назад +139

    Kids these days will never know the excruciating pain of getting moved form the first spot in someone's page to second. Relationships were destroyed by my Top 8.

    • @sersastark
      @sersastark 5 лет назад +1

      Relationships friendships families and rivalries.

    • @eugeneabreut5208
      @eugeneabreut5208 3 года назад +3

      I was ruthless. I had top 3 lol

    • @chrisbeach423
      @chrisbeach423 2 года назад

      lmao forreal, i wish facebook would have a feature like that 😄

  • @AnimalFacts
    @AnimalFacts 6 лет назад +1531

    That was quite entertaining Simon. Moving you to my top 8.

  • @dbxvhero9006
    @dbxvhero9006 6 лет назад +27

    "At least I've got you, Tom. You're always there for me."
    ~ Piccolo

    • @roytheviewer4893
      @roytheviewer4893 3 года назад +1

      Tom you’ve been replaced

    • @Nathan-Explosion
      @Nathan-Explosion 3 года назад

      yeah but he left us high and dry to have a life and let us be with $uckerberg

  • @DreamcastFarm
    @DreamcastFarm 6 лет назад +210

    Not a video we need. But the video we deserve

    • @jasonyeee
      @jasonyeee 6 лет назад

      GreedyLing FULLLLMETALL!!!

  • @CTRLerSupport
    @CTRLerSupport 6 лет назад +70

    Toms seems like a good example of what a person does when they don't need a job and don't worry about income.

    • @dildonius
      @dildonius 5 лет назад +5

      Walking Classic Sad that capitalism forces that to be some dream that we pray we can realize in the final few decades of our lives if luck. What you two just described, what Tom does, is the way that humans are meant to live their lives. Not slaving away for some sociopath in exchange for pieces of paper that humans have ascribed imaginary value to.

    • @mopnem
      @mopnem 5 лет назад

      Tom seems like a great example of white male America, dont overreact racially RUclips- but seriously. Cop slap on the wrist, social sight to get girls, rewarded for well..

  • @AmyraCarter
    @AmyraCarter 6 лет назад +130

    Honestly, myspace was far better than Facebook will ever be... RIP

  • @mattkd76
    @mattkd76 6 лет назад +80

    MySpace was way ahead of it's time. It was in its prime when they developed the 2.0 profiles. Facebook still can't top what MySpace did. When Tom sold MySpace to FOX, it was over. The MySpace Forums were the best part of the whole experience, in my opinion. I met a lot of great people in those forums. Most of them were moderators who volunteered to keep the forums clean. My favorite moderators were redrum and fer~fer. I'll never forget them. My screen-name was ~5mark (aka. ratio, aka. Matthewkd) and I hung out in the Filmmaker Forum. Those were the days.

    • @riffraff1880
      @riffraff1880 5 лет назад

      Haha.. i hung out in the wa room.. anyone else?

  • @titmaus7732
    @titmaus7732 6 лет назад +236

    I miss old myspace.

    • @anibababa
      @anibababa 6 лет назад +9

      Tit Maus I miss old Victorian age.

    • @titmaus7732
      @titmaus7732 6 лет назад +5

      Creativity Isn't I miss when rome fell :(

    • @Nothing_serious
      @Nothing_serious 6 лет назад +9

      I miss darkness, my old friend

    • @sammyshehole
      @sammyshehole 6 лет назад +5

      I miss whipping Jesus. Seems like it was just yesterday.

    • @-danR
      @-danR 6 лет назад +4

      Yes and no. I don't miss some of the mods.

  • @BennySoliven
    @BennySoliven 6 лет назад +46

    Got here because I tried logging into my MySpace account

    • @Jason918114
      @Jason918114 4 года назад +2

      I tried that too a few years ago and couldn't figure out how to recover it.

    • @bertharosas2551
      @bertharosas2551 3 года назад

      Benny what a small world lol

    • @jessalvarez
      @jessalvarez 3 года назад +1

      i dont rember my email user would be nice if there still there and opeong up a all the surprising pichturea of back then of us would be so nice and the nostalgia 🤩🤩😘😍😍😁😍😁😍😀😍😍😀😘😀

  • @nnaoj
    @nnaoj 6 лет назад +41

    myspace would always have a place in my heart because it got me into learning html!

    • @stephenrochester6309
      @stephenrochester6309 5 лет назад +1

      JoAnn T same here, first time I’d ever seen it and thought it looked cool as hell

  • @debbieescobar2203
    @debbieescobar2203 5 лет назад +23

    MySpace was so cool. Wish it would make a comeback. I used to love my profile and the option of having your favorite song on your profile.🥰

    • @mikexxxmilly
      @mikexxxmilly 2 года назад +1

      I think if they went back to the original format with maybe a bit more modern style, people would absolutely go back.

  • @brettcooper3893
    @brettcooper3893 6 лет назад +99

    It should be noted that My Chemical Romance was one of the first bands to really break out using MySpace. They put up some of their early songs to stream on MySpace ("Vampires Will Never Hurt You" comes to mind) and the rest is Warped Tour history.

    • @adamcarson6294
      @adamcarson6294 6 лет назад +2

      Brett Cooper fuck em

    • @brettcooper3893
      @brettcooper3893 6 лет назад +3

      Adam Carson your mom.

    • @brettcooper3893
      @brettcooper3893 6 лет назад +2

      Brett Herring he started it! I was just being informative.

    • @brettcooper3893
      @brettcooper3893 6 лет назад +6

      Charles Bucket say what you want in as dimwitted of a way as possible, but it doesn't change what I said about their MySpace ventures and they have the record sales, critical acclaim, and rabid fanbase to back me up. Btw, I've also reported your comment as inappropriate.

    • @charlesbucket162
      @charlesbucket162 6 лет назад +1

      Brett Cooper nobody likes a tattle tale...

  • @seeyang9821
    @seeyang9821 5 лет назад +26

    I miss MySpace because I could listen any kind of music without going on spotify.

  • @MegaJimbob125
    @MegaJimbob125 5 лет назад +14

    We miss you Tom and thank you for your gift of MySpace to us.

  • @WolfWould
    @WolfWould 6 лет назад +244

    You know what was awesome about the Myspace days? No politics. It was just plain fun.

    • @dildonius
      @dildonius 5 лет назад +13

      There was politics. There always has been politics and always will be. Just because you were a snot-nosed kid who didn’t understand what was going on at the time or didn’t pay attention, doesn’t mean there were no political issues or discussions on the internet. Those were the Bush years for fucks sake. What were you like 4 years old at the time or something?

    • @makmakg242
      @makmakg242 5 лет назад +9

      @@dildonius Ignorance is bliss

    • @riffraff1880
      @riffraff1880 5 лет назад +22

      U idiots totally missed what he meant by no politics......... r/whooooosh

    • @stevehay964
      @stevehay964 4 года назад +1

      They added "friends" to my profile who were people I didn't know and who had only visited my page and when I complained they said that surely I wanted as many friends as possible?

    • @lijohnyoutube101
      @lijohnyoutube101 4 года назад +3

      Why would someone not want politics? Politics control your entire life from quality of water you drink, to hospital standards, to education guidelines, to taxed amount etc etc etc Paying attention to politics allows you to understand what is directing your life.

  • @The.Stalker
    @The.Stalker 6 лет назад +149

    I heard Simon say Bitch. I am happy now.

    • @xxXthekevXxx
      @xxXthekevXxx 6 лет назад +11

      Here’s Simon saying “shit” a bunch and talking about butt-licking:
      ruclips.net/video/3In4aG2Lq6E/видео.html
      You’re Welcome.

    • @The.Stalker
      @The.Stalker 6 лет назад +8

      You're doing the work of the gods.

  • @amberjude2886
    @amberjude2886 5 лет назад +69

    I actually met my husband via Myspace in 2007, partially because of the html stuff. My background was a favorite anime character that he also favored so he added me. Been together ever since.

    • @jondecarbonel8158
      @jondecarbonel8158 5 лет назад +2

      💝😎👌🌴

    • @Squeaxx
      @Squeaxx 5 лет назад +5

      Amber Jude My husband I also met on MySpace. Still married 10 years.

    • @Bustersword07
      @Bustersword07 4 года назад +2

      @EaqIe hey, if it works for them, more power to them lol

    • @johnnyfelcher8156
      @johnnyfelcher8156 4 года назад

      That's a great story!

  • @Erikk87
    @Erikk87 6 лет назад +265

    My only real friend.

    • @Red_Lanterns_Rage
      @Red_Lanterns_Rage 6 лет назад

      "only friend?" sounds like a line from a Nine Inch Nails song......gee IDK, i just can't remember....
      ruclips.net/video/KR4DjYczINM/видео.html
      ^oh yeah, that's it.....oh gods absolutely love that song....

    • @CarpeNoctem135
      @CarpeNoctem135 6 лет назад

      Erik, I’m going to share with you the sure fire way to cure depression
      First you have to learn to love it, because once you do, it will leave like everyone else.

  • @tx2sturgis
    @tx2sturgis 4 года назад +8

    I really enjoyed the music that played whenever you visited someone's page. All kinds of musical playlists while you poked around on their place on myspace.

  • @twilliamspro
    @twilliamspro 6 лет назад +108

    Theres something very satisfying about Simon saying Bitch like that

  • @timbaker1428
    @timbaker1428 5 лет назад +6

    Yes, Myspace! If I had to spend hours setting up my page with flashing backgrounds and background music, you're gonna have to wait hours for the page to finish loading. I remember seeing the clean, streamlined look of Facebook, thinking: "that'll never take off, Myspace is where it's at."

  • @3_up_moon
    @3_up_moon 6 лет назад +203

    So in other words, MySpace is far superior to Facebook. Go figure.

    • @beitie
      @beitie 6 лет назад +7

      *was

    • @JamesPanic
      @JamesPanic 6 лет назад +4

      Is.

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 6 лет назад +11

      I dont get why Myspace died off, it was better than Facebook for most of the time they were competing. It wasn't until *after* Facebook took over that Facebook started to get better.

    • @whitewolf3359
      @whitewolf3359 6 лет назад +14

      I think reason everyone moved to Facebook is because it was new and interesting at the time but MySpace was way better I loved being able to add music to my page and bumper stickers

    • @whitewolf3359
      @whitewolf3359 6 лет назад +2

      Does anyone anyone else hate that Facebook only lets you have a limited number of friends ???

  • @nikkilee3840
    @nikkilee3840 6 лет назад +78

    MySpace was so much cooler than Facebook. I'm sad that it died. I'mma go sign up again.

    • @Therealmoseslupai
      @Therealmoseslupai 4 года назад

      It was tho’

    • @UmmYeahOk
      @UmmYeahOk 4 года назад +6

      I thought MySpace was stupid. I also thought Facebook was a million times worse (and still do). No idea why so many people jumped ship onto that one. I mean, it originally was for college kids only. If you’ve already worked so hard on your myspace page, why start completely over on Facebook, where you can’t even customize anything?

  • @gotisc
    @gotisc 6 лет назад +208

    I unfriend Tom a couple of times, but he kept reappearing.

    • @smallblue08
      @smallblue08 6 лет назад +63

      he just wanted friends

    • @tengkualiff
      @tengkualiff 6 лет назад +65

      not cool man

    • @jeremybenson5782
      @jeremybenson5782 6 лет назад +5

      Because like herpes, Tom does not go away. You have that for life.

    • @jeremybenson5782
      @jeremybenson5782 6 лет назад +2

      Next time I would suggest practicing safe connect.

    • @SluttChops
      @SluttChops 6 лет назад +11

      I deleted him too, but when I joined Facebook, I was shocked when he showed up as my first friend...then, it happened again when I joined Instagram, Tumblr, Pinterest, LinkedIn and LiveJournal. I finally had to take out a restraining order against him.

  • @kiwiflare
    @kiwiflare 4 года назад +6

    This is one of the best possible stories I could have hoped for, for the creator of my teenage online years...I'm genuinely happy for him

  • @Shambles27
    @Shambles27 6 лет назад +120

    He was my closest friend, I'll never forget him

    • @TylerSane5
      @TylerSane5 6 лет назад

      He used to talk behind your back tho? :o

    • @billkeithchannel
      @billkeithchannel 6 лет назад +1

      Wasn't the late Guy May everyone's friend on Facebook?

  • @ChrisGirard
    @ChrisGirard 6 лет назад +4

    The "plain old dumb luck" comes from Friendster's servers being horrendously slow in Summer 2003. Everyone who was out of school was joining Friendster until it became so slow that nobody could use it. So everyone who was already on Friendster migrated over to MySpace by the end of that year and Friendster died a pretty fast death after that.

  • @AlucardNoir
    @AlucardNoir 6 лет назад +97

    You know what's sad? MySpace is technically more relevant than MTV, both on the internet and music-wise.
    Edit courtesy of Tengku Aliff.

    • @tengkualiff
      @tengkualiff 6 лет назад +3

      AlucardNoir than

    • @Wurmo
      @Wurmo 6 лет назад +4

      Seems like Mtv has gone down hill lately. They just spew out anti-white hate disguised as activism. They don't even have good reality shows anymore. They still play re-runs of Jackass and Viva la bam because the ratings suck so bad.

    • @AndrewAMartin
      @AndrewAMartin 5 лет назад +4

      @@Wurmo Lately? MTV hasn't been relevant musically since the 90's. The addition of 'reality' shows signaled the end of MTV being about music.

    • @RoofTopFocus
      @RoofTopFocus 5 лет назад +2

      I'm almost 25 and MTV wasnt even relevant when I was in highschool... Theyve been dying for a while.

  • @Oncus2
    @Oncus2 6 лет назад +19

    This story is way more interesting than I thought it would be.

  • @flobiish
    @flobiish 5 лет назад +96

    I didn't want a history. I just wanted to know where Tom is.

    • @flobiish
      @flobiish 5 лет назад +5

      This was more of a joke, surprised it got so many thumbs up.

    • @stephenrochester6309
      @stephenrochester6309 5 лет назад +13

      Joshua Hatfield it’s not a joke for me, I genuinely just want to know what happened to Tom without the additional 13 minutes of guff

    • @mikebarnes7441
      @mikebarnes7441 5 лет назад +1

      9 is a lot of thumbs up?

    • @flobiish
      @flobiish 5 лет назад +6

      @@mikebarnes7441 For the content of that comment, I'd say yes.

    • @thewildstone1518
      @thewildstone1518 4 года назад

      Google it

  • @themadhattress5008
    @themadhattress5008 6 лет назад +60

    Honestly miss Myspace the way it used to be. Now it's all confusing and hard to manage. Facebook makes navigation, among other things, so much easier, but it's all so uniform, as well. The ability to customize your page quite thoroughly on Myspace was brilliant and I loved it. Really good times tbh.

    • @djjohnneybbadd
      @djjohnneybbadd 6 лет назад +6

      The Mad Hattress Facebook is like a sterile dentist office

    • @AndrewAMartin
      @AndrewAMartin 5 лет назад +2

      Customization is great, except when it's done poorly -- I remember seeing profiles where you couldn't read any of the text because of a poorly chosen text color and background picture combination. I was rather late to MySpace, I think I already was on Facebook, around 2008ish. And being older, I saw it as mostly stupid online games (Mafia Wars, etc.) that I didn't care about. The custom profiles were OK, but Facebook's News Feed (at the time) was better for keeping track of what your friends were doing...

  • @Jaydeyay
    @Jaydeyay 6 лет назад +19

    That Monty Python clip had me dying. That was great

  • @Infernape7890
    @Infernape7890 6 лет назад +32

    Remember looking for hip hop and black metal on Myspace. There was a surprising amount of 70's style hard rock, too.

  • @stephenray95
    @stephenray95 6 лет назад +8

    I miss MySpace. No clue how Facebook pulled ahead, though can at least admit that part of it would be due to their failure of preventing bots.

  • @JakeHunter2010
    @JakeHunter2010 6 лет назад +174

    Good ole Myspace days.

    • @Mr28d23
      @Mr28d23 6 лет назад +6

      Make myspace great again

    • @arthas640
      @arthas640 6 лет назад +3

      i actually liked Myspace more then Facebook, it was so much more customisable and allowed you to separate your page from the crowd. I also miss people with names like Darkblade_420_69_4ever

  • @BuddyLee23
    @BuddyLee23 6 лет назад +17

    i like to think that Tom liked this video at some point.

  • @hexkwondo
    @hexkwondo 6 лет назад +7

    I loved MySpace. I miss being able to customize my own page.

  • @andrewoldham3675
    @andrewoldham3675 3 года назад +3

    Now I want to see a The Social Network style biopic film for MySpace Tom. He could be played by a recognizable but not constantly hounded by the tabs star like Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Miles Teller, or Nicholas Hoult.

  • @KOSAMAGAMES
    @KOSAMAGAMES 6 лет назад +7

    Tumblr is the new myspace.
    Your parents won't ever figure it out.

  • @GlueC
    @GlueC 6 лет назад +12

    This guy used to be my friend, but we haven't talked a single time since he got all famous :\

  • @JamesR624
    @JamesR624 6 лет назад +4

    I really liked how you included some "extra trivia" here and there, only tagently related to the topic. There ARE questions that make you go "yeah, I wonder about that" in your videos and it's awesome how in this one, you addressed all of them quickly. The perfect balance of "distracted and focused". I hope to see this format of video a LOT more.

  • @ThatLittleKitten
    @ThatLittleKitten 6 лет назад +13

    "They rebranded the bug as a feature" RUclips should do the same

  • @TodayIFoundOut
    @TodayIFoundOut  6 лет назад +327

    MySpace Tom's Instagram as mentioned :-): instagram.com/myspacetom/?hl=en
    *edit: Most surprising thing about this video- how many people didn't get the reference in the Salmon of Capistrano line. :-) Are there really that many people who've missed out on the comedic masterpiece that is Dumb and Dumber? For those who haven't seen it, do yourself a favor and please stop whatever you're doing right now and watch it ;-): amzn.to/2BAuvIB

    • @forid200
      @forid200 6 лет назад

      Today I Found Out
      Actually thought that you forgot :0

    • @Otokichi786
      @Otokichi786 6 лет назад +1

      The photos are...interesting but not outstanding. Exotic locales with a pretty woman in the frame are repeated in this block of photos. I've seen better and I've seen worse. His are...just interesting.

    • @MrFRCD
      @MrFRCD 6 лет назад +3

      Link to the Daftpunk vid please?

    • @akesq01
      @akesq01 6 лет назад +1

      thank you for the introduction MySpaceTom's Instagram! Wowza!

    • @thanksfernuthin
      @thanksfernuthin 6 лет назад +1

      I loved you describing his picture as if it was the Mona Lisa. Most of it could be used to describe most portraits ever taken!

  • @rufousdederp
    @rufousdederp 5 лет назад +2

    Tom does have a good smile 😁

  • @spiritedrenee9895
    @spiritedrenee9895 6 лет назад +347

    "We want MySpace to be the MeTV of the internet."

  • @ThePsychosis92
    @ThePsychosis92 6 лет назад +1

    As a child Tom would talk to me, laugh with me,cry with me and play hide the marble with me.
    other people never saw him.but once I saw everyone knew MY TOM on myspace.I never grew up the same knowing my Tom was being shared with everyone.

  • @estephanyrios7700
    @estephanyrios7700 5 лет назад +3

    Lol it was a bug?! I loved changing my profile backround every week....even tho no one cared 😌😌

  • @CliveRobertKennedy
    @CliveRobertKennedy 6 лет назад +2

    This reminded me to sign into Myspace and delete all the old pictures and then my account, thanks

  • @RebekahCarrow
    @RebekahCarrow 5 лет назад +3

    That “I’m not dead” clip from Monty Pythons- The Holy Grail had me lmao

  • @GrillWasabi
    @GrillWasabi 6 лет назад +8

    I used to code my profile and design gifs for celebrities.

  • @MyDecade
    @MyDecade 6 лет назад +70

    I remember when I first made MySpace I saw Tom and thought “who’s this hottie? I must be popular haha”

  • @GameWorks12
    @GameWorks12 6 лет назад +6

    Just sitting here wondering how many kids looking up MySpace for the first time

  • @greenefieldmann3014
    @greenefieldmann3014 6 лет назад +16

    I lost my shit when you said "the salmon of Capistrano."

    • @DZrache
      @DZrache 6 лет назад +1

      Same X'D

    • @planetX15
      @planetX15 6 лет назад +3

      Greene Fieldmann It's been three days, were you able to find it again?

    • @greenefieldmann3014
      @greenefieldmann3014 6 лет назад +2

      Day 3: Shit still missing. Morale beginning to run low. You can see in the mens' eyes that they know how this is going to end.

  • @franksanders9677
    @franksanders9677 5 лет назад +1

    MySpace was 100X better then Facebook...customized ur page, music, best friend page, change ur name, somebody always inboxed you, I still remember the notification sound

  • @RyanHeaney42
    @RyanHeaney42 6 лет назад +22

    Wait, Tom real life lived the movie Hackers?!

  • @marscaleb
    @marscaleb 6 лет назад

    I loved this video much more than your usual ones. You added enough humor that I actually laughed, and used more recognizable pictures and video rather than relying so much on stock photos. Good work!

  • @daveayerstdavies
    @daveayerstdavies 6 лет назад +10

    "Salmon of Capistrano" ???? Swallows surely, or did I miss something?

  • @KazernskyYT
    @KazernskyYT 6 лет назад +1580

    Today I Found Out MySpace still exists

  • @infinity365
    @infinity365 6 лет назад +1

    It's so great how these are gradually getting legitimately funnier.

  • @i-sink-i
    @i-sink-i 5 лет назад +3

    “I can always count on you, Tom...”
    -TFS Piccolo

  • @S2kTi
    @S2kTi 6 лет назад +2

    Ahhh myspace. I remember being friends with owl city back when no one knew who he was I think he had like 200 something friends at the time. I remember he would comment on my friends pictures from school about how cute she was and shit haha we were like 15 lol he was probably not much older. Good times.

  • @M1Ndl3Ss_as_it_gets
    @M1Ndl3Ss_as_it_gets 6 лет назад +6

    He is also on Google plus and shares his photography all the time.

  • @bobthebrickbuilder1876
    @bobthebrickbuilder1876 6 лет назад +1

    I still have a little shirt pin that I got from MySpace way back from the 1st or 2nd year the site was around. I used to make all kinds of unique profile layouts on MySpace, used to code Flash and would make my page into all kinds of different Flash layouts with animations. 1 of my favorites was a layout that was a Nintendo DS with each screen having different information/links and each of the face buttons being links to other pages. It was pretty cool and I made it back whenever the DS came out originally. The layout customization and the bands was what I was there for, when they started to change everything around 2009-2010 was when I was done with the site.

  • @goodi2shooz
    @goodi2shooz 6 лет назад +3

    Honestly I had always thought that Tom was just a fictional character. ..wow.

  • @CyanicCore
    @CyanicCore 3 года назад +2

    This is a neat one! It's very interesting to learn more about how internet culture began, especially as sites like these added more fantasy elements (names like these, for example). While never using the website myself, I'm glad to see Tom was able to do so well through his life.

  • @lesliemoiseauthor
    @lesliemoiseauthor 6 лет назад +34

    About the early age of social media.

  • @valeyard6650
    @valeyard6650 10 месяцев назад +1

    MySpace on my sidekick phone and AIMing my friends was just it. the absolute best.

  • @drewnelson6040
    @drewnelson6040 6 лет назад +11

    He took back his space.

  • @amandacastro6631
    @amandacastro6631 4 года назад +1

    Tom is a very upstanding citizen. Now he is living his best life. Tom you’re a better friend than Facebook.

  • @Rudywtf
    @Rudywtf 6 лет назад +10

    11:43 is the answer. seriously would of been a lot quicker google the question

  • @jasonsutter3818
    @jasonsutter3818 6 лет назад

    Ive been following Tom's photos for about a year now. They are amazing.

  • @MickeyD2012
    @MickeyD2012 6 лет назад +71

    I miss Tom.

  • @maruku4445
    @maruku4445 3 года назад +2

    LoL. I like how at the time Myspace was around, people really hated it and Tom. Now, people really hate Facebook and Mark and are begging for Myspace and Tom to come back.

  • @lilrosebush
    @lilrosebush 6 лет назад +114

    This is kinda like british budget value Vsauce

    • @lilrosebush
      @lilrosebush 6 лет назад +7

      Kinda like him tho

    • @DZrache
      @DZrache 6 лет назад +12

      Quite literally "budget value" now that Micheal only does Red on a regular basis now...to be fair, I'm sure he's making even better content now (the white room experiment/demonstration looked hardcore, and apparently there's also an episode where he takes truth serum, which I'm too terrified to look into.)

    • @lilrosebush
      @lilrosebush 6 лет назад +1

      DZrache yea lol the truth serum episode isn't that bad. The best one is when he drank a psychedelic

    • @Xperim
      @Xperim 6 лет назад +6

      On the truth serum episode Michael admits he likes Vsauce better than Mindfield.

    • @lilrosebush
      @lilrosebush 6 лет назад

      Xperim i agree. He did say on the h3h3 podcast that mind field annoys him

  • @edcho5774
    @edcho5774 6 лет назад +1

    I'll never forget Myspace Tom. He was everyone's first friend on Myspace.

    • @dsxa918
      @dsxa918 Год назад

      Yeah but around 13:45 in this video, Simon does the headthing and brings sexy back

  • @Epyrian04
    @Epyrian04 6 лет назад +15

    Huh... it sounds as though MySpace is the free-speech variant of Facebook today... that may be a good website to revitalize.

    • @Epyrian04
      @Epyrian04 6 лет назад +1

      I think Facebook is now mostly used by Moms.

  • @anithen
    @anithen 6 лет назад +9

    Man, Tom is having fun all day every day.

  • @MidnightMan5001
    @MidnightMan5001 6 лет назад +38

    Didn't Cell kill him? Got to ask Piccolo about that.

    • @TalesStahl
      @TalesStahl 6 лет назад +3

      i always wondered about this reference. Never was on MySpace so i did not got this joke until now

    • @kisameh420
      @kisameh420 6 лет назад +4

      being a dragon ball fan i don’t get this joke

    • @TalesStahl
      @TalesStahl 6 лет назад +6

      +Izzy there is the DBZ abridged. In the first episode one of there first jokes was how Piccolo has no friends except Tom on Myspace. He later unfriend him after goku said he would add him if he helped getting gohan back from Raddiz. While the first few episods have a low quality you should watch DBZA.
      ruclips.net/video/2nYozPLpJRE/видео.html

    • @jaedenvanderberg3890
      @jaedenvanderberg3890 6 лет назад +2

      TFS thanks you.

    • @joeda900
      @joeda900 6 лет назад

      IgnitedSage I'VE WAITED FOR THIS COMMENT XD

  • @KyleCowden
    @KyleCowden 3 года назад

    "..flock to it like the salmon of Capistrano." You almost owed me a keyboard as coffee actually came out my nose.

  • @BrendoBlanco
    @BrendoBlanco 6 лет назад +15

    Make you feel old......

  • @fractalign
    @fractalign 6 лет назад

    Watching this brings back memories. I really loved being able to customise my page, I also loved the artist based focus. Being able to talk to musicians and listen to their latest releases was always enjoyable.

  • @chenico0908
    @chenico0908 6 лет назад +8

    Woooow just checked out his Instagram and it's so majestic! 😍 like,wow!

  • @NiamhCreates
    @NiamhCreates 6 лет назад

    That whole section on the Mona Lisa cracked me up, hahaha.

  • @justbeingobvious5065
    @justbeingobvious5065 6 лет назад +17

    Heyyy it's Michael from Vsauce

  • @anthonymort5202
    @anthonymort5202 4 года назад +1

    I can't even think about MySpace without wanting to tear up it was a lot of my childhood