Man, I miss old YouTube.

[Dana R Gregory]

This is why I never sign into YouTube. It is sooooo corporate. I have seen videos with commercials every 2 minutes. The ads take up more time than the actual video. Google ads have permeated everywhere, even TB, and some of them are downright disgusting. Corporate America is in your face everywhere.

 

[EddiePlaysBass]

I wasn't aware that anyone played uke with clawhammer technique. I'll bet she has a banjo too. She plays well.

It's actually a fairly common technique on the uke. I have not worked it into my practice sessions myself, though.

 

[MrAB4003]

Me too! I miss the YouTube of 2009-2011.

I had to ban YouTube altogether because of all the AI slop (to be nice), commercials / ads, and the addictive nature of everything. I noticed that when I watched YouTube for just a few hours before bed, my mental health goes to a bad place thereafter. It takes days for me to recover and it's not worth it. On a chemical level, it creates imbalances in my brain's dopamine levels. This is similar to what most drugs and p**n do to the brain, but on a different level.

The exception is if I'm watching a bass-related informational video through TB (e.g. Low End Lobster reviews or Dr. Cheese testing out basses).

 

[Element Zero]

This is why I never sign into YouTube. It is sooooo corporate. I have seen videos with commercials every 2 minutes. The ads take up more time than the actual video. Google ads have permeated everywhere, even TB, and some of them are downright disgusting. Corporate America is in your face everywhere.

No ads on my YouTube channel

 

[Dincrest]

Oh god Brokencyde. I had forgotten about them.

Why did you remind me?

Brokencyde might have been the most annoyingly "cringe" thing back then, but now it's a "look back and laugh" nostalgia thing. Like any goofy thing we clowned on when we were younger we look back semi-fondly on now. And it's not lost on me that Brokencyde's "Freaxx" might have been "el gag me" in 2008, but in 2018 that's what mainstream hip-hop sounded like. So maybe Brokencyde were ahead of their time.

 

[GTHintz]

I came across this girl's channel today:



This is what brought me to YouTube. People in their own spaces sharing their own lives doing their own thing.

Now everything is overproduced, corporate approved and sponsor driven. Web media was supposed to be an escape from old media, but it slowly became the thing we used it to get away from.

Content like the above is becoming harder and harder to find online. How long do we have until we lose what made the internet great? Can we reverse course?

Here’s hoping. Ads and censorship have become part of the propaganda machine that we all have to live alongside every day now. There’s rumble and some other alternatives but at some point they will get eaten by the machine too. Like everything else I live in hope but the realist in me knows that it’s all part of the bigger picture so it’s not going anywhere. Einstein said “I don’t know what ww3 will be fought with but ww4 will be sticks and stones.” He was right in more ways than 1.

 

[GTHintz]

Ahhh, I remember the proto-YouTube days. Boxxy, Smosh, Brokencyde, Charlie the Unicorn... good times!

Basically this was peak YouTube and it’s pretty much downhill from there. lol

 

[5StringBlues]

Hoogie Boogie Land

 

[Savage_Dreams]

Web media was supposed to be an escape from old media, but it slowly became the thing we used it to get away from.

All media was once the escape from whatever came before, until it's not. To say though that there arent people out there making videos NOT looking for corporate sponsors is untrue though.

 

[Dincrest]

Yooo...

I was at my ballroom dance lesson today. I'm working on a routine to an excerpt from the song "Walk on the Ocean" by Toad the Wet Sprocket. Once the music came on, one of the other instructors' faces lit up and he immediately said, "I love this song! It reminds me of old YouTube around 2008 or so! This song was in so many videos" and then a few of us started getting nostalgic about "old" YouTube like we're discussing here.

So I just think it's cool that something we were just talking about here came up in real life.

 

[MrAB4003]

Basically this was peak YouTube and it’s pretty much downhill from there. lol

That's a classic! Most people under the age of 25 won't get the references from this video (e.g. "Shun the non-believer!")

Here's another classic from 2010. I can still do a good impression of this one.

 

[Fico]

It's actually a fairly common technique on the uke. I have not worked it into my practice sessions myself, though.

Just goes to show you how little I know about the uke world.