THE INSANE RISE & FALL OF MYSPACE!
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- Опубліковано 23 тра 2024
- What killed MySpace? Did Facebook kill MySpace Tom's creation? Was it the scene kids and their Blingee profiles? Or something else?
* The rise of Friendster and how Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook beat both
* The metalcore bands like Asking Alexandria and Bring Me The Horizon that blew up on MySpace
* Deathcore bands like Job For A Cowboy and Suicide Silence
* The crunkcore scene including Brokencyde, Dot Dot Curve, Hollywood Undead and Millionaires
* Scene kids and scene queens like Andy Biersack (Andy Sixx) Melissa Green and Audrey Kitching
* How Jeffree Star went from a MySpace kid to giant beauty influencer
* Pimp My Profile, friend adders, top 8 drama and more!
** The rap song is "MySpace Back" by BeatKing
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no thanks, insta is for normies
Hahaha always with the Jerome. I love it
Now I kinda want a "What Killed Scene Pop, Indie Pop" I really miss acts like Owl City and Bastille .
18 minutes to avoid saying what actually caused the mass migration away from ms to fb: moms & aunts.
My song was creature by atreyu loved watching it scare the bajeebas out of normies
I genuinely miss those days. The internet felt less corporate, more community based, more DIY and just cooler. RIP blog culture.
Myspace and Bebo changed errything
I agree with you wholeheartedly. 2000's internet and social media was more wild wild west. No big corporations, no stocks, just DIY shit. Myspace was very innovative, creative and individualistic. You could make your background with HTML or if you weren't tech savvy like myself, you could at least choose from a variety of templates. I followed and discovered a lot of cool bands.
And the best part is that there was no algorithm to provide unaccountable censorship and promote fascism.
My generation actually learned that 9/11 was a fascist coup from MySpace and the only thing the intelligence agencies could do about it was start spreading disinformation about chemtrails. That could never happen today. All the tech companies today are either willingly or forcefully in bed with the forces of fascism. It's getting really scary seeing how far they are going with censorship.
Only one thing is certain, we are doomed. Instead of wasting your time and committing a cruel act by having children that will die before they become teenagers, spend all that time and energy you would use raising children and dedicate it to studying politics. It's the best thing we can do until the end to make the world a better place. That's what the intelligence agencies do is they gather knowledge and information and truth and then use everything they have learned to lie and manipulate everyone for evil but if we know truth also and have a world view based in reality then they can't manipulate us. Knowledge is power and it's the only way we can counter them.
Remember when bebo had those quizzez to see how hot you were.
Capitalism is wonderful ain't it?
Anyone have a MySpace friend train I can join?
The WORST thing Myspace did was DELETE peoples stuff when they updated servers a few years ago. id die for my scene pics :(
Facts. Even all my photos that were backed up to photobucket was deleted 😭
Shawn Kurtis I took all my photobucket pictures and saved them to my iCloud like 5 years ago for a collage. Glad I did.
Could you try using the “Way Back Machine” website
So that's what happened??? I've tried going back a few times and NOTHING!!!!
Timmy D. Good idea
I’m so embarrassed to say my MySpace auto song at one point was “Freaks” by Brok3ncyde
Two of my fave UA-camrs collide
It’s actually “Freaxxx” but 👌🏻
That beat is a banger tho
BrokeNCYDE still slaps man idk why ur embarrassed lol
based
Hey, it's Tom. He was my first Myspace friend. I should catch up with him.
He was my first and only friend
He’s a photographer just living off his money and traveling. I read an article like a month ago about him.
I can't believe he died RIPA
illumin81 are you taking about Tom? Because he is still alive
At least I still have you Tom
“Or use your cellphone, but only after 9 when there’s free minutes.”
Okay, I feel old.
Or roaming charges. Is that even a thing anymore?
Me too...
Good ol Cingular.🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just turned 30 I feel you..
Wow...I had totally forgotten about the free min after 9 era!!!!! WOW
Where I lived in Michigan there was even a place called Myspace cafe...you could go there during the day and use their computers to go on myspace...then at night they had scenecore bands play...that was a simpler time in life
That sounds so cool!
@Luke Hunker Roseville
Can confirm
that sounds like such a beautiful place 😭
Played there with liferuiner and dr Acula
When you couldn't customize your profile anymore, that was the death blow.
Marvin Henkel Yup. What they did was: Use the data mined on certain people to build a file on them, to see what they’re receptive to, and reinforce their worldviews, (often outright lies) and demonize the other sides worldviews, (often lies) and basically by pitting people against each other, you get constant arguing which counts as “engagement” which makes the company more money.
And Zuckerberg is heavily tied to certain political agendas, and is pulling the strings more than most people realize on peoples dialogues and worldviews. It’s pretty whack.
@@cosmojenkins3020 you mean the political agenda of limiting free speech as much as possible? that's a plan, carried out by everyone in major positions of power
All my old messages from years ago seemed to have been deleted when I decided to log back into my account.
"because I'm not a 13 year old girl"
Me, a 27 year old guy, listening to Feels Like Woe by The Ready Set...haha
and there's me, 18 years old, still listening to owl city...
Love like woe*
23 year old guy and i listen to never shout never more than i probably should for a 23 year old guy
O JKM why did you just describe me lol. And the weird thing is I never liked him when I was younger but I gave him a chance at 23 and can’t stop listening
@@GriffinLisuk i knew the odd song as a kid, really got into him again after watching the cozy representatives 3 part series. But you cant put NSN on and not feel happy and sometimes we all need that. I also thinking growing up made me drop that 'its for girls' mentality.
Myspace’s glory days lined up with my high school years, so I have a ton of nostalgia for it and you better believe I’m guilty of doing almost everything in this video; genre mislabeling, xedgyxcorex name, eye bleeding backgrounds and gifs, top 8 drama. Feels like the last era where the internet felt like a wild untamed frontier.
Top 8 drama was all too real.
I was seansmileandwave
Don't forget the survey posts. You said WHAT about feeling [x]?! I THOUGHT I WAS YOUR FRIEND
Your a living legend
The Devil Wears Prada added ME on myspace. That’s how old I am. Lol.
Dogs can grow beards all over was my absolute favorite song. I love the break downs. Lol
😅
same haha
Sometimes I feel like MySpace was the last holdout of music having any value on a mass scale.
It was the beginning of the end. Although some of it was good it allowed for a lot of over saturation and a lot of the music was pretty bad.
There’s still good music out there my dude
@@nbdxSkywalker rare. And standards for a lot of things have plummeted
I remember when I bought a coding for dummies book at a Hastings and when the cashier asked me why I was picking it up and I told her "I want to learn to code my MySpace page" with a straight face. 16 years later I still have the book and still can't code to save my life haha.
RIP hastings :(
F in the chat for Hastings.....
People used to asked me decorate their page. People who didn’t even like me trust me enough to give them they’re passwords and whatnot.
The Myspace era is like comparable to the 80s hardcore era. Something that will never be the same again that a select few of kids really got to experience
Except for the fact that the myspace phenomena was worldwide. Didn't u watch the video? Much love from the third world :)
@@finlandiasinapuros3969 it's kind of comparable is what I meant
Every era has their thing. Right now its e-boys/e-girl's and that emo-rap stuff.
When my wife does something nice or unexpected, I tell her she’s “made it into my Myspace Top 8” lmao. Glory days.
I still say this all the time!!!!!!
My husband says I’m in his Fave 5. Lmaooo
I'm gonna use that next time I'm flirting with someone
my space spastic losers
That's cute as shit. ❤😁
I found so many great bands on MySpace like Alesana, A Skylit Drive, Silverstein, and a ton more which really opened me up to all this music! Ended up being my gateway into the music scene and been a fan ever since! Also thanks for using the meme I made at 08:52 👻🤘
Dang. I totally forgot about alesana. Talk about chaos lol
Alesana is still my favorite band, wish they'd make new music but they're all grown up and dads now
@@austinfilms1007 I'm a dad now too and it's been such a surreal experience that the bands that literally saved my life and helped me make sense of my teen years are now having children and helping me make sense of that. For example the most recent albums of Taking Back Sunday, Manchester orchestra, and Senses Fail. Alesana needs to get on this bandwagon of making emo dad music.
@@alexwendel6425 Well the clean vocalist Shawn brought back his pop punk band from before Alesana, TLE, and all their songs are about being dads however it's in a comical style. He did do an ama on an Alesana fans facebook group saying Alesana was working on a new album but I think that was in November 2019 and we haven't heard anything since so who knows.
Ghost Killer Entertainment Bro. Those are some great bands. You have great taste 👍🏻 I will never grow out of them 😄
I do not have a vampire freaks, I only have a MySpace.
omg no u didn't lmao. I forgot about vampire freaks!!!!
Yessss I kinda freaked when he said Vampire Freaks, I remember it so well. I also loved DeviantArt and would often cop a sweet profile background using art found there.
@@neonlacee I wasn’t cool enough for VF but I sure as fuck loved DA. Memorieeees.
Anyone remember AIM? I miss talking to people and having 20 different small window chats open at a time while I constantly went back n' forth talking to everyone. When people actually held conversations and interacted like normal people do unlike nowadays where everyone acts shady and pretend like they didn't see your msg.
I spent a lot of time on aim!
The time wasted revamping my cOoL AIM profile and trying to structure it correctly, dear lord.
And don’t get me started on the edgelord away messages lmao
YES!! AIM was a favorite of mine! I was so excited when I saw that I could customize the titles of friend groups: I.E. AIM had a way to keep your connections organized- you had Friends, Family, and Work. I changed mine to "dorks", "losers", and "goobers". I thought i was so clever. 🤢🤮🤢🤮
I remember using Meebo just to have AIM, Yahoo, and Live Messenger all together in one spot.
@PedroDaVePacas omgosh that is so true!!
Oh they days where everyone learned how to HTML code just to put a music player and sparkly shit on their pages.
here i am - no sparkly shit but the fucking music player!
I feel called out
I do similar shit with my tumblr, lol
When colored fonts were mind blowing
I also had Super Mario 3 in its entirety and pacman and donkey kong arcade on my page
" This band wants to be my friend, I feel so special "...
That hit hard, damn you fake Gerard Way profile! Damn you!
Funnily enough, Myspace aesthetics made a comeback in a post-ironic way.
And I'll never forgive MS for "losing" all those songs from their databases. One of my favorites as a teen was there and it was lost forever.
During high school, I used to sneak out of bed around midnight to go on MySpace to listen to all deathcore/metalcore bands I can ever find (which is totally NOT ok with my household here in Asia) and even took notes of all my findings.
If it wasn't for those 3 years being obsessed over heavy music on MySpace, I most definitely won't become a musician I am today and will probably be just a 'normal folk'. I won't even be here writing this comment. So yeah, I gotta say MySpace actually played a huge role in my life
Dans Huang what kind of music you play?
@@paulthe2mikolajdupontsrens586 he transitioned to Kpop
@@JAMBI.. Huang is a Chinese last name you ignorant dummy. He's not even Korean. If you gonna crack wack jokes at least have the basic knowledge to do them properly..
M_J S well there actually a few chinese in South Korea in certain kpop boy group.
@@paulthe2mikolajdupontsrens586 Sure I know that myself but that's clearly not what Jarvis was referencing. If you see a Chinese name, kpop shouldn't the first thing that comes to your head anyway. That guy Jarvis simply saw an Asian name and thought he'd make a racial joke about the guy playing kpop music because assumed he was Korean. You don't need to defend someone who made a weak racial joke
myspace was so much better then Facebook specifically because of the customization. you could instantly know the type of person you were dealing with based on the design and music. their new design is just totally incomprehensible and impossible to navigate
I totally agree. I loved being able to be truly customize my profile to reflect my personality. Oh, and remember those cool gifs you could send to your friends in their comments section? That was awesome.
MySpace was such a vibe man. Coming across bands like You Me at Six, Arctic Monkeys and Bring Me the Horizon for the first time feeling like you were at the start of something special was so cool. Better days.
Man I miss so much MySpace.
I met my wife there. She had a Silverstein song on her profile and I remember I had an Alexisonfire song on mine.
14 years later still together!
You didn't mention that Arctic Monkeys actually started on Myspace and their hype got so great that their first single went straight to number one in the UK charts immediately. I think it was 2005. It was insane
Wasn't that profile actually not there's and was made by a fan? They said that in a Prefix interview or something
Yes i believe it was created by a fan who went to one of their shows and bought their EP "Who the Fuck are the Arctic Monkeys?" And uploaded it to MySpace. Next thing you know, they blew up. Just shows the power of the Internet. One minute you're a no name band from England next thing you know, you're dominating the charts. MySpace really was amazing for fans to promote their fav bands music and blow them up
You guys are probably right, I didn't know these details.
Finn probably didn't know that. He said indie rock is one of his main blind spots and in details like this it really shows. But you're right, Arctic Monkeys success really jump started the whole 00's UK indie rock scene with bands like Bloc Party, Keiser Chiefs and Franz Ferdinand
@@andreisidro6544 you're absolutely right. This is something that changed the music business from then on, actually.
Facebook is such a letdown compared to myspace
Yup
Ooohbopbopboppadoohwah it’s only better for nostalgic reasons like if you didn’t have it back in the day you prob wouldn’t like it, had to be there to get it. If you used it now you’d be like wtf is this
T-RopE I was there that’s why I like it, but if someone born in 2002 used it now it would feel dated to them no stories,algorithms where not as smart, less videos etc gen z wouldn’t like it I admit I could be wrong in the sense that to nostalgia is the only reason it seems like it was better but to say that nostalgia has no affect is stupider
@Ooohbopbopboppadoohwah your teacher sounds like they shouldn't be teaching. Myspace was far superior to facebook. Hell it's still better back then, than facebook is today. I had my page all customized with crazy background and pointer. I had a music playlist that would play when you clicked on my page. You could play Super Mario Bros 3 in its entirety on my page. I also had Donkey Kong arcade and pacman.
@Ooohbopbopboppadoohwah twas a joke calm down lmao
Let's not forget that on Weird Al's "White and Nerdy" he says "My Myspace page all pimped out/People begging for my top 8 spaces/I know Pi to a thousand places/Don't got grills but I still wear braces"
This is the video I’ve been looking for, for soooooo long. An honest take on what was actually happening . I was in high school 06-2010, and this scene was slammed into our faces. Warped Tour was in its heyday. All of these bands were there. BMTH, BrokenCYDE, Millionaires, Tila Tequila. Everything was so low quality and we didn’t care at ALL. It was such a movement and I was pretty shocked to see it die before I even turned 21. RIP myspace. You were the friend who had cool parents who would let us drink even though we were under 21. Honorable mention: the SHOES video. FerSure Maybe, FerSure Not, FerSure EH, FerSure BOMB.
I was a little too young and a little too sheltered for MySpace but I’m kind of sad I missed it.
Same
Same
This reminds me, I need to update my MySpace profile.
So much nostalgia over here it’s unbelievable.
I legitimately met my wife (and now mother of my child) on MySpace because she was in a high school friends Top 8 friends and I thought “she’s hot”. - True story
The mention of VampireFreaks ohhhhhhh shiiiiiit! That’s OG alternative social media
I remember there was a week in July 2007, where all my friends left en masse and it turned into a literal ghost-town
Privacy is dead, freedom is dying..technology is being used against us. If there was a time I thought social media was fun, was myspace in 2006-2009.. Facebook became something I absolutely hate but everyone in my family and all my old friends are on it. If you don't post on social media now days friends will literally fade away, you will feel like your hiding from the world. Facebook also reminds me of a virtual high school cafeteria where everyone is trying to fit in show off and be popular
I agree 100%
I agree with you wholeheartedly! Man, your comment hits close to home to me... I remember 10 years ago when you made a FB account, parents and normies asked what that FB thing was and why you need stuff like that. Nowadays it's the complete inversion. People think it's weird when you don't have FB or any other social media account. The world is upside down... The increasing amount of censorship and radicalisation on social media is very dangerous for our societies.
@John VolkenI'm 30 and I have plenty of active friends from 25-30 on fb...Does everyone use snap or tic toc? Wild.
Facebook is pretty lame in comparison.Its really bland and impersonal.
Check out the Social Dilemma on Netflix. It goes into depth on how modern social media is destroying the fabric of society and how it has become unstoppable. It's highly fascinating and also terrifying at the same time. We have to make some massive changes as a collective if we want any future that has humans in the picture. We're living through one of the most tumultuous times in the history of mankind and I don't think many people realize it.
Several of my biggest relationship "fights" were about my girlfriend being upset that I had the boys and my favorite bands ahead of her on my top 8...i eventually switched to all bands and stayed single 🤣
I remember this lol I did the same thing. All bands. Then I made my page so cluttered it would crash most people's browsers so my girlfriends didn't snoop around.
@@destroyerdestroy87 hahahahaha
MySpace is literally how I discovered the band HeavyHeavyLowLow.
This helped me realize that a good portion of my life was changed by MySpace's focus on music and its effect on US youth culture. It pushed the culture towards enjoying music and perhaps specifically live music. I was in a band right at this time and, without MySpace, I doubt we would have had any real success; however, the band did alright and several of the band members pursued careers in music because of it, myself included.
Secondly, what you said about MySpace changing the nature of success for a musician in the industry into being a social media influencer who also plays music... Just fucking genius, man. In the end, does that actually change the music made? Has to. Weird!!
Great vid 🤗
Between The Great Escape, Shake It, and Hey There Delilah, I just realized that I owe a good bit of my childhood music to MySpace, since they were popular there first before being played at least 10 times a day on my local pop station (where I got my exposure for those songs as a 6 year old of course) a little bit later
[Finn McKenty is in your extended network]
I miss MySpace and constantly redoing profile layout and setting my songs and cursor. The good days!!
I remember back in 2009 when I first heard Asking Alexandria and added them on MySpace. They sent me a personal message thanking me for adding them and asking how I was.
I actually got on MySpace earlier for nostalgia, then you upload this lmao.
Mine got deleted somehow. Probably for the sake of cringe
I think they removed like basically all private pages and made it where you have to be a content creator.
Opaik TV didnt they lose a whole ton of data not that long ago?
Its so Diferent now. I've lost so many pictures of myself when they changed the site...probably for the best lmao
I recovered mine a few years ago (they made it pretty easy) and was able to save the pictures I had on there.... and remove all the cringe lmao
I remember having my friend take a picture of me on an actual camera, then me walking to the library to put it on my MySpace.
Hahahah that's awful. Luckily I didn't have friends
Lol
literally. I feel so lucky to have those memories. it's the olden days at this point
Omg hahaha the pioneers of social media
I'm 28 now as of making this post and I need anybody that remembers any of these MySpace bands to up vote and reply with nostalgia
WeCameWithBrokenTeeth
A Black Rose Buriel
Waking The Cadaver
School Girl knife Fight
The Number 12 look's like you
As Blood Runs Black
Iwrestledabearonce
fate, sky eats airplane, killwhitneydead, help someone kill someone, drop dead gorgeous, dead in existence, knights of the abyss, menstruatingtuppyhole, bubblegum octopus, oceano, last house on the left, with dead hands rising, winter solstice... some of that stuff is still really good
hahah Hey man my nostalgia was being the drummer in the #12 on the first 3 records and Myspace was everything. I used to do a lot of our PR and it was soooo easy and fun on Myspace, I truly fucking hate facebook. But thanks for the shout out!! I Miss those days soooo much!!!!!!!!
Seen #12 looks like u with through the eyes of the dead.. killer show! I played with with dead hands rising a couple times.. what a time it was! Was in my early 20s, had my 1st apt, worked at sonic and didn't care about.much else... oh the good ol days lol
Is schoolgirl knife fight name copyrighted?
bro, drop dead gorgeous...
This is your best video! I watch it every few months. I also love scrolling through all the comments and seeing everyone's experiences of the site. I'm 22 and am forever sad about missing this era of the internet and alternative culture, it seems like a really special time that's been lost to the over-sanitization of the internet. There are obviously so many benefits to the usability of the current internet, but it still sucks that there's really nothing else like MySpace today. I hope I'll get to live through something similar before I get too old :(
There was also a dating component to Myspace where you could search profiles of singles in your area. I met a longtime girlfriend on Myspace (she was a FL scene kid who moved to NY). The MySpace page customizations I think influenced a lot of dating apps like Hinge and OkCupid because you'd click on someone's page and based on what song played, what their background was, and their first couple of 'likes' - you kinda knew what they were about. I loved that the Reversal of Man song with The 'Burbs sample "I wanna kill everyone..." played when you went to my page. It would freak out co-workers at my temp job. Siiiigh, the good ol' days.
Umm...I was like 30 when MySpace came out & I loved it. I'll always be 15 at heart.
The levels of nostalgia are off the charts. This era was my late teens early 20s
I’m so hyped you put the secret handshakes this vid!!! Easily my fav band when I was a kid wow
The best part is that everyone my age wishes we could just have myspace back now...
Give me my original page, music Playlist and friend comments from my heydays. MySpace was when I was like 20yrs-23 or 24. Ah the glory days.
Agree
Quiet is kept, but Myspace musicians actually popularized the Karen hairdo.
YUP. taking the gunshot wound justin pearson scene look to the mainstream when blonde Beckys started wearing raccoon tails and shit is what created that.
rude
WHILE I DON'T DISAGREE. KAREN. HAIR. Originated in the late 90s by Borders employees, and was quite NORMALIZED.
aahhh the locust
Jade puget
im happy to see this video! ive never fully grown out of my scene kid style. myspace music and fashion gets dismissed so easily by people when it was really a time of immense creativity and self expression. it had us learning html/css, graphic design, hairdressing, making/modifying our clothes, getting involved in our local diy scenes, trying so many new things. we were living so loud. i remember it fondly, but i did delete it because older men were really really creeping on me and there wasn't a lot of privacy or safety options.
I blame Tom for MySpace failing. Dude’s trying to be friends with everyone
I really loved customizing my backgrounds on that site.
Fun HTML learning/practice.
Same! I made/edited backgrounds to use with my DIV layout on photoshop.
@@thecreatedvoid117 I actually learned how to code from MySpace and tumblr.
🥀Vampiraa🥀 same here! I learned HTML pretty quickly simply because of MySpace 😆
I still am nostalgic about the MySpace era, every couple of years I actually still go on my account and it seems like everything there was stopped in time.
How is your page still up and active???
Started out just like you said creating myspace layouts for myself and local bands. Taught myself Photoshop as well as how to draw and paint. Now I work at a large game studio on AAA games! Awesome video Finn!
MySpace nurtured my entry into metal, it helped me find new bands, know when local bands were playing, leave them messages when hung over the next morning and send them live photos I took and tribute art (usually including dead trees) before that I relied on Terrorizer mag which only came out once a month. Now I’m nostalgic. Awesome video Finn.
"I think if you were to talk to a lot of UX people or front-end developers now, a lot of them would tell you that that's how they got their start...by hacking their Myspace profile." Can confirm. I'm still waiting on someone to recreate Myspace and achieve world peace again, like that time Pokemon Go came out.
there actually is a new version now, its called spacehey
The nostalgia that this video created has me just XD RAWRing everywhere.
your comment about a friend request from a band making you feel special was so true for me. i was in awe as i scrolled myspace for the first time and saw local bands existing in the same space as the big ones
Every time I've seen this video recommended it has had a different thumbnail. Kudos to you sir, keep up that grind.
I found BlessTheFall on Myspace which was the gateway band that led me to discover all the post hardcore and metalcore bands of that era.
"Brokencyde walked so Bones could run"...I died.
Saruhh Anne Bones ? the rapper or someone else??
@@danib712 the rapper indeed.
I quoted him on Twitter haha
dani b the rapper
Hilarious
Thanks for the nostalgia trip! I was born in ‘89, and MySpace was a big part of my formative years as a teenager. Logging onto MySpace on a Friday after school at my friends place, browsing bulletins of parties and stuff, ahhh the memories. It’s funny though, the whole emo/scene thing really bugged me. I wasn’t into the music AT ALL. But I loved the chicks! Haha. Me and my friends were more of the stoner/rocker guys and looked down at all that. The memories..........
This video makes me happy. I saw on your Instagram it was performing poorly. It sucks because this is some of your best work and I think your older audience is loving it.
Thanks man!
"use your cell after 9, cause free minutes" Woooow I forgot all about that lol
lol same, and if I'm not mistaken that's also when beepers were just fading out.. Ha!!
Oh boy, this takes me WAY back. I used to go down that „band‘s top 8“-rabbithole as well:D
Awesome video dude. We are of a similar age and really enjoy the nostalgia trip analysis of trends. Super cool
Man, you're hypin me for that Crunkcore video, awesome vid as always
Awe i miss Myspace, those were the days!
Yeah, me too :-/
Myspace actually died when Tom sell/leaves. But he actually making a good move and now living his best life.
Did you know, (i heard this a while back) Tom wasn't the owner of Myspace he was an engineer there and they thought it was a rad idea to have someone as an Icon of the site.. I'm not 100% sold on this, but it's still funny to think if it's true. Long live Myspace days!!!!!
I've been waiting for this episode! Myspace was such a wild place especially if you were in a band. I met and joined so many bands and even met my wife because of myspace.
MySpace was the shit!! If only a girl could go back. 😭
I still remember my emo glitter backgrounds and "Cute is what we aim for" pics. 💜😔
This brought back memories. I had a myspace account back in 2004 and deleted it in 2011.
Great video. Let's be honest, I'm in my early thirties and MySpace taught a lot of folks in my generation to use HTML and CSS. My main profile crashed so many slow computers back then. Also a lot of our old band projects were on MySpace but since last year all the old tracks were deleted. Before that, I went on MySpace from time to time to listen to the old death core stuff mz friends did during these years.
I love how you used The Secret Handshake. Loved listening to them back in high-school. 👍
Just need to say, that I watch each and every single video you make. keep up the good work. it's is absolutly awesome. Also you made me awere of Emmure! Which is my new favorite band . More power to you.
Thank you!
The top 8 was the "special thanks" liner notes of the 00's. Remember when that local band would get popular, and remove your band from their top 8, or having to decide if you were going to replace someone in your top 8 because you just got friended a new, bigger band? Yeah, those were the tough decisions of the myspace days lol.
Perfect way to put it
awesome man next time can you cover "welcome 2 my homepage!!" on 1997 geocities?
Nice vid. I spent so much time on MySpace managing shows for my band. I booked We Came As Romans to open up for us a couple years before they blew up. They were super nice dudes.
I would've loved to hear the "Myspace music exclusive" sound effect. Great video!
I remember it really dying in like 08 when iwas a sophmore. Everyone was switching to facebook because our parents were getting on myspace.
And now everyone's mom is on fb
I was a sophomore too. I was one of the last people I knew at my school who didn't have a Facebook. I remember going on there the final day & it being so lonely & like empty & I finally realized I had to concede & make a Facebook bc if I didnt I couldnt talk to my friends at home. I feel like such shit now that I straight up deleted my MySpace page when I made the switch. I wish I could go back & look again. Might sound melodramatic but the end of MySpace really took my depression as a teenager to another level. It was like losing the whole existence of those years for me.
@@andreapatrick9039 myspace era were the golden years! I never actually deleted my account (if I can even remember) I just stopped logging in altogether once everyone jumped ship to facebook
you hit me outta left field with playing Jerome hahahah
My favorite myspace blip was that weird subgenre of rap that included Andre Legacy, Mickey Avalon, Dirt Nasty, etc.
Member when the song "if looks could kill" by a heartwell ending broke Myspace early 2005? they actually removed the song.
How did the song break MySpace?
@@andreapatrick9039 It was played so many times that the site had lag.
I feel so lucky to have lived through this era. Forming bands, playing shows, trading weed to get on the guest list of your favorite band after they posted a bulletin asking if anyone had had any "green" haha. The culture and scene was so vibrant, full of young "artist", musicians, merch designers, layout designers, myspace page managers(shit the first social media coordinators? Every kid I knew during and after high school had some involvement in whatever scene they enjoyed, and much of it seemed authentic. I remember several bands from my local scene actually made it thanks to myspace(and their talent of course) The Color Morale is the first example I can think of, they were just a high school band and then just kept growing and fucking blew up. It was just so cool. I hope kids these days have a similar experience in some way, some how.
Higler as in veil of Maya? Are you that higler?
Kudos,you sir couldn't have made a more important statement and truly gave myspace the recognition it deserves.thank you so much.btw,I was at that earth crisis show in Cleveland,my friend was the one who got blasted with the guitar,he's doing just for fine,his most memorable show ever, I still can't believe that they threw the lights on mopped the floor of the blood and downset came out and just ripped it!!💯🤟
Hell yeah, the news station on the news clips is local here in the twin cities! Thanks for another informative vid!
News Corp. bought myspace, they had a deal with Google to add even more ads into myspace. The aspect of music, blogging, and entertainment... they were left behind, and the website keeps getting errors and bugs.
Meanwhile, the new kid (Facebook) keeps adding features and eventually overtook myspace.
I wish they keep that wild customization. It's the only thing that really makes myspace stood up from other social media. But then Tumblr happened.
But Finn what random scene nouns did you change “eprops” and “comments” to on your Xanga?
Have you done anything on the MySpace grind scene (heavy heavy low low, duck duck goose, the sawtooth grin, the great neck hope, Robinson, etc)? Keep up the cool content!
I remember learning basic html and spending hours creating my MySpace page! This was also around the time I had a crippling drug addiction and was in an abusive relationship and was also not diagnosed with my mental illnesses yet but damn, I wrote (I'm a writer) some of my most deepest and meaningful blogs on MySpace and now they are all gone. Good thing I saved all my photos I had on there! I do miss the good ole MySpace days though! Great video!!!
CONFIRMED! I was in a DIY HC band from '04-'07 and we booked entire nationwide tours through Myspace. PLUS: Being able to listen to songs from a band on a flier you'd never heard of before going to a show was a game changer.
I was too young to have a Myspace back when it was insanely popular, so I missed that perfect emo time period for it...
i'd like to say i am sorry that you missed on the excitement on discovering a bunch of new bands every freaking week - then a lot of bands were pretty much copy paste but still fun times
@@mike_tkgchs Yeah, I'd rather have that than how fb is now. A meme sharing platform with political bullshit in between that brings out the worst in people...
same here ;/
i was just a baby back then lol. born in 2005 :(
@@bounceycake1 it was good times - although now you have access to a ton more music (at a much higher streaming quality) via spotify, so there's pros and cons
I love the Jocko book in the background. You are awesome Finn and your content is legit! \m/
Ah I miss the days of random bands adding you and sending you a message or commenting on your profile to check their stuff. MySpace was golden for new music discovery. It was so great
Love the video. I literally cringed when I heard tila tequila's name haha
I 100% think it's time for "we need to talk about Tom Delonge"
Wow dude your literally the FIRST PERSON I can remember speaking about Friendster, the first real social media platform. I was on there for about a year or so before Myspace came out and when I mentioned Friendster to people, they were Iike "wtf is that" NOW, I mention Friendster and most people say 'dont you mean Napster?". It's cool you not only remember but actually speak on it. Keep up the good work Finn and stay safe!!
clicking trough the best frends of bands you liked gave me the best new bands i found :D