When you realize not too long ago people were made fun of for filming vertically, only for it to become the norm. It really feels like the universe is fucking with us sometimes. fml
Then you start entering communities left and right because your normal friends aren’t active enough and you manage to become a brony, a furry, a weeb, a whovian, and you realize one day you have 7 different gmails all connected to each other and to the same phone number.
I'm 28, and I felt every bit of this shit to my core, dude. I used to love spending time on forums, it was my main form of social interaction (shut up) and I made a lot of friends on them. Now, most of those friends are gone, and the forums are all dead. I literally can't *find* a forum, anymore. It fucking sucks!
@@asadd2 Which sucks because no one on Discord will read a sentence more than 10 words long. You could basically post a whole book on a forum and people would respond with lengthy replies. This allowed for some really interesting discussions about everything from game mechanics to lore. Now, it's mostly just people posting something vapid and replies saying "this," "mood," "bruh," or "wrong." The internet promised to advance communication, but it destroyed it.
Literally why I clicked on the video after the most recent Tonkatsu Sinclair one. I just had to go see how the video ended up there from starting with TikTok.
You know that bit in Portal 2, where Cave Johnson is having an epic rant about life and lemons, and GLADOS is going YEEAAH! YEAAHH! in the foreground? That's basically me this whole video.
Cave Johnson's rage is so appropriate and the rant is hilarious. His final words "I'M GOING TO BURN LIFE'S HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS!!" apply so well.
Oh man the thing about phones getting bigger is something that I almost never see anyone else complain about. I'm so fucking tired of that trend, I recently bought a 2019 model phone because it's literally the last phone by a reputable manufacturer that's less than 15cm tall.
This is how to rant. Not with some wild spin on some logic train or calling specific people out or ideology, but just a solid rant with some good humor as frosting.
Two Words: THANK YOU! Thank you for speaking the truth and making it obvious, because you are right. Edit: I only have Facebook because my family peer pressured me, my Twitter just exists forever inactive, my Instagram is only there for my Aussie friend to forward me F1 updates, and I really only use Discord because gamer.
FB: dead use for family/family friends to reach me Insta: old for my old YT channel dead Twitter: active i follow funny shit n gamer news discord: use daily for social interactions n fandoms
Yeah, one advice I can give you is never, ever in your life change that. Long reason shows below. A toxic "smartass" started it with me, so I entered reddit. Still trying to connect to things on it, but it is a decent pooper activity. Some youtubers, twitch streamers use twitter and it seemed useful, and it still is for some news. I got curious for instagram, then managed to soft-lock my 3 e-mails after "registering" because their system is "'+!%/ (login:no account on e-mail/register:already an account???), but my phone number worked, and so as I entered, it's nothing, just some people putting up their pretty pictures. I found Quora, no idea how, but that's truly a gem, clever people talking about useful, science stuff. Even the comments are amazing, all of them go into details of the post and why or how it could be better or specialized in some cases. Then vtubers came in the big C time, and with that I felt an urge to not be antisocial anymore and try to be a bit more normal. So, now I'm trying to fulfill the hole created by all the other platforms (except quora, I love it) and giving you an advice you're in control of taking. Why am I doing this? Why are you seeking an answer to that?
Years ago there was a website "shrine" devoted to the manga Battle Angel Alita, called "Rusted Angel." It was the first place I read the poem "Dream within a dream" and poetry by Pedro Calderon. It was similar to "Alice's Asylum" in a lot of ways, the biggest of which is that it is gone now, and there isn't a trace of it ever existing. I miss it. "What is life? A frenzy. What is life? A fiction. A shadow. An illusion where the greatest good is of little worth, because all of life is a dream, and dreams are only dreams."
Why'd you have to remind me of pre 2010 era fansites? Man, back then I was on so many wonderful small fansites for Star Wars, Dragonball, Silent Hill, etc. and now every last one of them are gone forever!
it all started with GeoCities communities. That was when we should have seen this outcome. Gone were the days of individually hosted fan sites. Instead everything turned into cookie cutter boards, until we are here, wiki this, wiki that, facebook/twitter for all else.
@@FuzzyCuff2010 I also think copyright takedowns were a part of it too. I often heard horror stories of legal teams going after fans back in the days before big companies truly understood the marketing utility of the internet.
@@tomokokuroki2506 Honestly though, how hard is it to call people he/her/they? It's not rocket science, you do it all the time. If I see a manly looking girl, I still say "her", but hey, if they tell me they're actually just a feminine looking guy, I just change up and say "him", no biggie. It's not hard. Don't know if it's a guy or girl? Well what are they? See that? "They". You say it all the time when gender is ambiguous. Some people feel ambiguous about their gender, so you refer to them as "they", pretty straight forward easy.
Forgot how good the internet was but this just blasted me in the past where the internet was a quick simple escape for me and now everyone tries to mix reality with the internet.
I fucking hate the internet so god damn much. I still remember a old mlp forum I found most of my friends on. The forum is gone but I still have it on my bookmarks with its thumbnail, god I miss those times. Bless you man, love you
OMG dude I'm 22 and I'm feeling the same thing. It is made badly and keeps pushing bad practices. The only reason it has any push is that literal children have all been pushed into it.
Even compared to the old MLP stuff that I LOVED... this is just about your best video yet. Keep up the work man you are amazing! Now heart my post so I can get my fix.
Honestly I feel like all those weirdos from the early days of the internet were sort of a warning we ignored. Like they were red flags going "Hey, it's not uncommon for this internet thingy to have creeps prowling it, don't share your info!". Then again I feel like stuff like doxxing is partly the fault of the big websites and their refusal to do anything about any sort of harrassment/stalking. They're being run with small staff teams as if they still were late 00's/early 10's endeavors, not the giant conglomerates with hundreds of millions of accounts they actually are.
my biggest complaint about the modern internet will always be: constructive, organic gatekeeping didn't evolve with accessibility we got so obsessed with including everybody that we didn't stop to think about whether everybody should be included in everything
Jesus this was too relatable, agreed with nearly every god damn sentence, my childhood friends at 14 were a forum for a specific Gary's Mod server with one moderator and about 20 random people. They shaped who am I as a person (they were the first people to know I was gay for one and helped me come out to others, and encouraged me to keep going on a hobby I now do for a living) and now I have no proof the whole thing wasn't just some multi-year fever dream as the site is now apparently wiped clean from the universe's timeline. (also why do phones keep getting bigger I just want them to fit in my jeans pocket in one smooth motion)
Hell, man, I'm 40 next month. From the fingers-crossed mid-life crisis to remembering the good old days of the weird, niche, make-your-eyes-bleed color schemes websites of yesteryear, this hits so many notes. And the worst part about the monoculture of the internet is, well... where the fuck else are you going to go? Me, it's UA-cam, Facebook (yeah, I know, I've established I'm old, fuck off), Wikipedia, and maybe one or two other websites that cater to my interests. Sure, it's nice to have fiber internet now, but all it means is that I can go as fast as I want to the equivalent of the corner grocery store instead of the slow drive to the hobby shops and restaurants I used to go to... if that analogy makes any sense. Anyway, welcome to getting old. At least we're all in this fiber-optic train to hell together, right?
Homestar Runner, Albino Black Sheep, I Can Has Cheezburger... that was the golden era of the internet. You absolutely nailed all of the reasons why the internet is shit now. I blame Facebook (bought and ruined Oculus), Twitter, and Google (bought and ruined UA-cam) for most of it.
Nice oil burner pic. Anyway, the internet has irrevocably changed and it troubles me sometimes how my own identity has fused with my online identity and something something I have nowhere to be stupid now.
It's great to hear you laugh so much in this vid, I'm glad you're in a bit of a better place nowadays Also yes fuck tiktok normalizing the vertical screen thing, even the UA-cam app has it now and it hurts
Hey, I'm 10 years younger and I'm with you. Fucking Cellphone cancer. The worst for me is that I don't even use my cellphone for anything, so I'm completely left in the dust by my own generation due to me being too busy cringing at them.
I am not even over 30 and I am starting to feel like this. The Internet was such a magical place before... Y'all remember the Amnesia mods? The golden age of Newgrounds? All the legendary things you should never look at, but you did anyway? Like Two girls one cup? Lemon party? It was basicly a secret rite of being an experienced internet mole. I was never on MySpace, so I can't really tell how it was... but remmber the early stages of Facebook where it didn't steal your private information? Yeah, me too. Remember those times that people on the internet didn't do things for money, and just did it for fun? The animations, all the videos when UA-cam was still young! Ah, such beautiful times... Now that bastards found out how to monopolize the internet besides just making ads, the Internet is now nothing more than a boneless skin puppet, dancing on many strings but no one sees the puppeteer... I miss Rage Comics....I miss the days when taking someone on the internet seriously was as stupid as trying to kill a god with a comically large spoon... I miss the days when Numa numa and fuckign Crazy Frog was not considered a "classic" but just catchy new songs or a catchy new song that came out a year ago... I shouldn't feel like this... but I do. Not all the things about the current internet are bad, but the times passed and the memories of them is like a knife that stabs deeper every year.
I still follow the old rules when it comes to my identity, there are no photos of myself on the internet, I have google searched myself from time to time.
UA-cam and Discord. That's the full extent of my "social media" usage. Anything else is a cesspool I'll go out of my way to stay faaar away from. And who in their right mind seriously thinks filming vertically is ever a good idea!? So many websites are formatted for viewing on phones now, with about 30% of the left and right sides of the screen being blank space.
There are days when I look at my friends and family, doing their social media thing, and I think to myself "Should I be doing that too? Is that what people do now? Is it too late for me to get in on this?" And then I go take a look, and remember exactly why I have yet to join them.
Thank you! I never get why/how people can post their faces all over the place. I had one picture of myself on Facebook and some creep found me on Skype 0-0
I'm from even further back. I used to post on the local BBS sites at 300 baud on my commodore 64. I used to have a geocities website in the late 90's. I chatted on IRC and posted on newsgroups. I hate everything about the modern internet and I hate that I'm so addicted to it.
I’m 24, but I might as well have been born in the 60s, I’m very old fashioned! Not long after I got an Instagram account, I thought I’d try out TikTok … I lasted 5 minutes on TikTok before deciding I couldn’t work out what was going on and deleted the app! I esd slso the last person in my year at school to get a phone, not even an iPhone at first, because I was dead against owning an iPhone. I agree the internet has gone downhill in recent years. I use Facebook, but hardly post anything on my own page, I post mainly in communities and groups. However, there are hoards of people on Facebook I see who post absolute rubbish, and I think, why do you feel we need to know this?! Also, why do those life quotes that have pictures of the Minions on them exist?!
Yooo, you are so cultured. Man, I got so happy when you mentioned Strongbad emails. Could never remember what my favourite episode was, I just remember that he was in a montage doing mean stuff to every character, and one of them was gifting Marizpan (the earth worm lady?) a buzzsaw. XD And G.Michaels? You're a legend.
How the hell did I forget that it used to be the golden rule was ‘never put your personal information on the internet’?! Granted I avoid social media like the plague by default but still
"Remember when you didn't put any personal information out on the Internet?" YEAH! I still don't do that. I put out just enough information that seemed reasonable only for a small circle of friends, we all met online, and even then, when I did and was a little cryptic about it, one of my friends looked up my address and sent a Google Street View image of my house! I don't even remember giving them my entire name! You can't even trust people with broad terms like the state you live in! Once you give an inch, they take a mile! I'm still in contact with these friends, and the one that sent me my own information is now working in human resources, so you know, that's comforting... At least they're in a completely different state that doesn't border mine. Or so I assume, they could be lying... 😧
Did this happen on Discord? That service is filled with freaks. You don't have to give them a name. You just have to screw up and post something like a photo with geolocation in the exif data (discord does NOT wipe it) and they can do that. Even without exif data if there's a street sign or unique building they can find you on google street view if they have a few hours to kill, especially if they know your city.
I'm 14 so my opinion doesn't matter but yeah you are correct I want to see how it was fuck it take my phone just let me have fun on the internet how it was intented
I'd share this all over but fuck social media. Seriously this hellsite is the only place I have even a shred of patience for anymore and even that's tenuous at best.
7:01 The sites I use on a daily are UA-cam, Twitter, 2 different manga sites, a novel reading site, Google, and a hentai site... on occasion I'd pop on by Twitch, Reddit, or the Steam site. And yet, I spend more hours a day online, on average, than the number of sites I use. This man speaks the truth.
i didn't go on the internet much before being in my 20s so i always get this weird second hand nostalgia when people talk about the good ol' days, anyway this video has really good energy
TLDR TikTok is full of spyware anyway, let's all go back to blogs. Real talk, I spent my teenage years on a series of online communities somewhat-inaptly named "kink memes" and I am so, so grateful for it. The basic concept was that you could say "hey I had this neat idea! Why don't Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood fight zombies*! But wait, I suck at writing, so why don't one of you do it instead!" And then some writer (coughmecough) would come along and say "gee, I sure like that idea, and you know what I also like? A built-in audience that I know _also_ likes that idea! And attention! Let's do it!" (Almost) everything was allowed**, which was why they were called kink memes, because 90% of the prompts were "what if X and Y fucked in this specific way that gets me hot" and whaddaya know, fanfic writers are horny fuckers. Aside from teaching me to mind my own goddamn business when I didn't like something but it wasn't hurting anyone, and giving me plenty of chances to practice writing excruciatingly terrible porn so I can now write slightly less excruciatingly terrible porn, the community on these sites was _fantastic_. It was niche, it was hidden, it was a little tiny plaza of nerd creativity in a little Italian back alley of the internet where cars couldn't fit between the buildings but they made the best gnocchi on the face of the planet. * I'm sure someone has written this. Link me if it's good. ** Pretty much the only off-limits thing was kids, and that was for legal reasons. Also you were expected to be over 18 or smart enough to lie about it.
I love this one comment by Agent Phil Coulson in season 1 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Great show on Netflix, about to be taken down this year, highly recommend) where he remarks how much easier his job has gotten since everyone started putting all their information on the internet. I forgot how much fun the internet used to be.
Personally, I miss the qwerty keyboards on smartphones. It made texting so much easier. I've used a Blackberry since 2009, but it'd sure be nice to have a modern android phone with the option of a qwerty keyboard. Hell, why not just have a modern equivalent of the Blackberry Torch - you got a big touch screen, you slide it up, and underneath is the keyboard.
Holy crap, I miss the good old days when the Internet was run by _people,_ not cynical corporations. This video is basically my exact feelings on the matter. Maybe we should just start a new Internet somewhere... just over there. Yeah, there, where no-one's currently looking. And put a big sign outside the front that says "NO KEYBOARD? NO ENTRY. THAT INCLUDES YOU, MR ALGORITHM. DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE YOU THERE."
Here's me with my love of big phones because I sorta use them like a tablet because I don't actually need to use my phone as a phone any more. Also not happy with photobucket. All the forums with step by step model builds I used to use and contribute to a lot have basically all died because "Paywall or we'll block everything you posted a decade ago lol."
It was your review of High Guardian Spice that brought me to you. It was your first so many videos that made me a subscriber. It was this video that made me hit the bell.
Once more, with FEEEEEEEEEEEELing XD Man, I remember all the random forums and art sites I was on back in the day. While part of me is glad they can’t be tracked on the Wayback machine or whatever because I was probably a complete cringey mess back then I do miss the funny communities we had. It really felt like a family unit.
now you building hype for your youtube videos. you're becoming such a master at showbiz! while I disagree with your thesis, I think a lot of its points will be valid from a specific perspective. I believe if we were the age of the average cell phone internet user today, we'd think just the opposite. I think smart phones made the internet accessable in much the same way the nintendo wii has made games accessable. In the end the audience for both have grown to include people we wouldn't usually associate with such things, but in the end that's more healthy for a product than the niche gatekept monopoly the nerd types would have on such things, as that'd eventually die out as more and more people are discouraged from liking the same things by people who insist you must already be an expert with such things. also I love the zoomer memes. love your stuff bro.
Damn, you're totally right! Never realized, that tik tok format is so stupid, just flip your phone, but you can't because it's default. Yeah, you are totally right about internet, I think it all became less anonymous with things like facebook, it all came downhill from there
Yeah I deleted a bunch of social media accounts last year. Kept the ones I actually enjoy. Social media can be good and has its uses, but it's mostly just vapid assholes. People who can't go two minutes without posting an instantly forgettable, poorly taken selfie on Shitstagram, or people spouting obvious bullshit that everyone knows already under the guise of wisdom on the Facebooks. Drives me up the fucking wall.
As one of the few PC literate people in my family, it brings me no small amount of """joy""" whenever I have to salvage shitty, vertical phone pictures for a birthday present or something.
This wasn’t just a rant on Tik Tok, this was an indictment of the modern internet. Good shit!
"Mass stupidity creates herd immunity." What a beautiful quote, couldn't be more true.
UA-cam Premieres - Combining disadvantages of videos with disadvantages of streams since 1989!
When you realize not too long ago people were made fun of for filming vertically, only for it to become the norm. It really feels like the universe is fucking with us sometimes. fml
that moose joke was killing me because that entire joke...is my grandmother.
His laugh just made it 100x funnier!
I want a chocolate mousse cake
Then you start entering communities left and right because your normal friends aren’t active enough and you manage to become a brony, a furry, a weeb, a whovian, and you realize one day you have 7 different gmails all connected to each other and to the same phone number.
Fuck it's too real
As Rarity once said, "Oh, it. Is. On."
HEY, we don't mention mlp on THIS channel, ok?ok.
@@user-pz1eh Everything is better with Pony. Be the Pony. Live the Pony. OBEY THE PONY.
I'm 28, and I felt every bit of this shit to my core, dude. I used to love spending time on forums, it was my main form of social interaction (shut up) and I made a lot of friends on them. Now, most of those friends are gone, and the forums are all dead. I literally can't *find* a forum, anymore. It fucking sucks!
I remember screwattack and all the other real gaming sites not this corporate bullshit.
I'm 41 and I remember the internet as it was in 1997, how do you think I feel!
@@Nightweaver1 here's some dopamine. You are good person.
its because discord is the new form of forum nowadays
@@asadd2 Which sucks because no one on Discord will read a sentence more than 10 words long.
You could basically post a whole book on a forum and people would respond with lengthy replies. This allowed for some really interesting discussions about everything from game mechanics to lore. Now, it's mostly just people posting something vapid and replies saying "this," "mood," "bruh," or "wrong."
The internet promised to advance communication, but it destroyed it.
>Premieres in 16 hours
Hopes: crushed
Dreams: shattered
Thanks for deleting the other one and sorry if I came across as rude
Fucking hell, I thought I was insane, and misremembering the days of 'don't EVER let ANYTHING' on the internet.
It's so wild to see.
Dude, you're breaking my heart with that Gianna Michaels thing right now.
Literally why I clicked on the video after the most recent Tonkatsu Sinclair one. I just had to go see how the video ended up there from starting with TikTok.
You know that bit in Portal 2, where Cave Johnson is having an epic rant about life and lemons, and GLADOS is going YEEAAH! YEAAHH! in the foreground? That's basically me this whole video.
Cave Johnson's rage is so appropriate and the rant is hilarious. His final words "I'M GOING TO BURN LIFE'S HOUSE DOWN! WITH THE LEMONS!!" apply so well.
Oh man the thing about phones getting bigger is something that I almost never see anyone else complain about. I'm so fucking tired of that trend, I recently bought a 2019 model phone because it's literally the last phone by a reputable manufacturer that's less than 15cm tall.
I know it's not much, but the Wayback Machine actually does have some of that website archived, no pictures though.
really? I couldn't find it
This is how to rant. Not with some wild spin on some logic train or calling specific people out or ideology, but just a solid rant with some good humor as frosting.
5:50 - Gen Z here. What you're describing sounds a lot like discord channels. Around 10 people talking about a specific game or show or whatever.
You’re absolutely right. That sense of community hasn’t disappeared, it’s just moved elsewhere. I’m just lamenting the fact that it had to.
Two Words:
THANK YOU!
Thank you for speaking the truth and making it obvious, because you are right.
Edit: I only have Facebook because my family peer pressured me, my Twitter just exists forever inactive, my Instagram is only there for my Aussie friend to forward me F1 updates, and I really only use Discord because gamer.
FB: dead use for family/family friends to reach me
Insta: old for my old YT channel dead
Twitter: active i follow funny shit n gamer news
discord: use daily for social interactions n fandoms
Yeah, one advice I can give you is never, ever in your life change that.
Long reason shows below.
A toxic "smartass" started it with me, so I entered reddit. Still trying to connect to things on it, but it is a decent pooper activity.
Some youtubers, twitch streamers use twitter and it seemed useful, and it still is for some news.
I got curious for instagram, then managed to soft-lock my 3 e-mails after "registering" because their system is "'+!%/ (login:no account on e-mail/register:already an account???), but my phone number worked, and so as I entered, it's nothing, just some people putting up their pretty pictures.
I found Quora, no idea how, but that's truly a gem, clever people talking about useful, science stuff. Even the comments are amazing, all of them go into details of the post and why or how it could be better or specialized in some cases.
Then vtubers came in the big C time, and with that I felt an urge to not be antisocial anymore and try to be a bit more normal. So, now I'm trying to fulfill the hole created by all the other platforms (except quora, I love it) and giving you an advice you're in control of taking. Why am I doing this? Why are you seeking an answer to that?
Years ago there was a website "shrine" devoted to the manga Battle Angel Alita, called "Rusted Angel." It was the first place I read the poem "Dream within a dream" and poetry by Pedro Calderon. It was similar to "Alice's Asylum" in a lot of ways, the biggest of which is that it is gone now, and there isn't a trace of it ever existing. I miss it.
"What is life? A frenzy. What is life? A fiction. A shadow. An illusion where the greatest good is of little worth, because all of life is a dream, and dreams are only dreams."
2:24 THIS!!!! THANK YOU!!! I can't stand people holding the phone vertical to take videos.
Holy shit. I feel you on that vague "20 user forum users" story. jfc....
Why'd you have to remind me of pre 2010 era fansites? Man, back then I was on so many wonderful small fansites for Star Wars, Dragonball, Silent Hill, etc. and now every last one of them are gone forever!
it all started with GeoCities communities. That was when we should have seen this outcome. Gone were the days of individually hosted fan sites. Instead everything turned into cookie cutter boards, until we are here, wiki this, wiki that, facebook/twitter for all else.
@@FuzzyCuff2010 I also think copyright takedowns were a part of it too. I often heard horror stories of legal teams going after fans back in the days before big companies truly understood the marketing utility of the internet.
Fear not, for the Fandom network exists to cater to all your Star Wars needs. Just remember to commit everyone's pronouns to memory lmao. kill me.
@@tomokokuroki2506 Honestly though, how hard is it to call people he/her/they? It's not rocket science, you do it all the time. If I see a manly looking girl, I still say "her", but hey, if they tell me they're actually just a feminine looking guy, I just change up and say "him", no biggie. It's not hard.
Don't know if it's a guy or girl? Well what are they? See that? "They". You say it all the time when gender is ambiguous. Some people feel ambiguous about their gender, so you refer to them as "they", pretty straight forward easy.
@@FuzzyCuff2010 Bruh. If the choices were just "he, her and they" do you really think I'd have a problem?
God...nothing made me feel old like him bringing up strongbad emails
Forgot how good the internet was but this just blasted me in the past where the internet was a quick simple escape for me and now everyone tries to mix reality with the internet.
I was LITERALLY thinking about this exact shit not long ago.
And I'm 10 years younger than you.
Jesus.
I fucking hate the internet so god damn much. I still remember a old mlp forum I found most of my friends on. The forum is gone but I still have it on my bookmarks with its thumbnail, god I miss those times. Bless you man, love you
Well, derpyboru, EquestraDaily and 4chan still work
yea nothing hits like having an old bookmark that doesn't work anymore...
Never have and never will use TikTok.
I will intensely eat popcorn while I wait for the premiere.
@@multismashify intensely scrumptious with extra butter.
Sounds like a dangerous amount of popcorn good Sir. Are you alright?
The internet is still our collective imagination. It's just become very apparent that most people don't have much imagination.
Very good point.
I agree with the sentiment, but all I can think is: "Well, someone's watched Randy Feltface buy a bookshelf..."
OMG dude I'm 22 and I'm feeling the same thing. It is made badly and keeps pushing bad practices. The only reason it has any push is that literal children have all been pushed into it.
Y'know, now that I think about it, everything _did_ start going to shit shortly after smartphones became common
Even compared to the old MLP stuff that I LOVED... this is just about your best video yet. Keep up the work man you are amazing!
Now heart my post so I can get my fix.
lol here you go. I hope I'm not enabling.
Honestly I feel like all those weirdos from the early days of the internet were sort of a warning we ignored. Like they were red flags going "Hey, it's not uncommon for this internet thingy to have creeps prowling it, don't share your info!".
Then again I feel like stuff like doxxing is partly the fault of the big websites and their refusal to do anything about any sort of harrassment/stalking. They're being run with small staff teams as if they still were late 00's/early 10's endeavors, not the giant conglomerates with hundreds of millions of accounts they actually are.
Never bothered with tiktok. Thought it was a clock app or something.
REQUIRES a phone? Can't be done on a PC? Screw that. Any such site/app/platform is dead to me forever.
my biggest complaint about the modern internet will always be: constructive, organic gatekeeping didn't evolve with accessibility
we got so obsessed with including everybody that we didn't stop to think about whether everybody should be included in everything
The sad day when you find out your the Boomer.
I have no words, this was great. Also fuck off, you’re timeless and we won’t let you get too old
When the law made it a felony not to dox yourself. Sleep with weapons. Everyone else is.
Im young, and I completely agree to everything said in this video
Hey friends. I come from the future
This was indeed a very good video. You can even call it "pog" as the kids say nowdays
I would watch it again!
The fact I agree with much of this gives me an instant midlife crisis at 24.
"Phone posting degenerates." Yes.
Jesus this was too relatable, agreed with nearly every god damn sentence, my childhood friends at 14 were a forum for a specific Gary's Mod server with one moderator and about 20 random people. They shaped who am I as a person (they were the first people to know I was gay for one and helped me come out to others, and encouraged me to keep going on a hobby I now do for a living) and now I have no proof the whole thing wasn't just some multi-year fever dream as the site is now apparently wiped clean from the universe's timeline.
(also why do phones keep getting bigger I just want them to fit in my jeans pocket in one smooth motion)
Hell, man, I'm 40 next month. From the fingers-crossed mid-life crisis to remembering the good old days of the weird, niche, make-your-eyes-bleed color schemes websites of yesteryear, this hits so many notes. And the worst part about the monoculture of the internet is, well... where the fuck else are you going to go? Me, it's UA-cam, Facebook (yeah, I know, I've established I'm old, fuck off), Wikipedia, and maybe one or two other websites that cater to my interests. Sure, it's nice to have fiber internet now, but all it means is that I can go as fast as I want to the equivalent of the corner grocery store instead of the slow drive to the hobby shops and restaurants I used to go to... if that analogy makes any sense.
Anyway, welcome to getting old. At least we're all in this fiber-optic train to hell together, right?
Homestar Runner, Albino Black Sheep, I Can Has Cheezburger... that was the golden era of the internet. You absolutely nailed all of the reasons why the internet is shit now. I blame Facebook (bought and ruined Oculus), Twitter, and Google (bought and ruined UA-cam) for most of it.
Nice oil burner pic.
Anyway, the internet has irrevocably changed and it troubles me sometimes how my own identity has fused with my online identity and something something I have nowhere to be stupid now.
I think this dude just became my spirit animal I feel this on a personal level
For what it's worth, I'm still ignoring twitter in hopes it will go away.
so close yet so far, the agonizing wait for the new video, teasing us with its existence
Swag profile picture bro!
You damn ponies....
It's great to hear you laugh so much in this vid, I'm glad you're in a bit of a better place nowadays
Also yes fuck tiktok normalizing the vertical screen thing, even the UA-cam app has it now and it hurts
Hey, I'm 10 years younger and I'm with you.
Fucking Cellphone cancer.
The worst for me is that I don't even use my cellphone for anything, so I'm completely left in the dust by my own generation due to me being too busy cringing at them.
Same.
Looking forward to it when I wake up again! :D
I am not even over 30 and I am starting to feel like this. The Internet was such a magical place before... Y'all remember the Amnesia mods? The golden age of Newgrounds? All the legendary things you should never look at, but you did anyway? Like Two girls one cup? Lemon party? It was basicly a secret rite of being an experienced internet mole.
I was never on MySpace, so I can't really tell how it was... but remmber the early stages of Facebook where it didn't steal your private information? Yeah, me too. Remember those times that people on the internet didn't do things for money, and just did it for fun? The animations, all the videos when UA-cam was still young! Ah, such beautiful times...
Now that bastards found out how to monopolize the internet besides just making ads, the Internet is now nothing more than a boneless skin puppet, dancing on many strings but no one sees the puppeteer... I miss Rage Comics....I miss the days when taking someone on the internet seriously was as stupid as trying to kill a god with a comically large spoon...
I miss the days when Numa numa and fuckign Crazy Frog was not considered a "classic" but just catchy new songs or a catchy new song that came out a year ago...
I shouldn't feel like this... but I do.
Not all the things about the current internet are bad, but the times passed and the memories of them is like a knife that stabs deeper every year.
God, I miss the days of talking with friends, finding cool little niche sites, and spreading them around.
@@TheDapperDragon Exacly.
You're my favorite scream into the void. Thank you for being so angry and passionate.
You need to make these rants a serious. They're hilarious and dead on.
God I miss the old internet before 2010ish
I still follow the old rules when it comes to my identity, there are no photos of myself on the internet, I have google searched myself from time to time.
There's an uprise in videos about a pre corporate run internet and I'm all for it
UA-cam and Discord. That's the full extent of my "social media" usage. Anything else is a cesspool I'll go out of my way to stay faaar away from.
And who in their right mind seriously thinks filming vertically is ever a good idea!?
So many websites are formatted for viewing on phones now, with about 30% of the left and right sides of the screen being blank space.
There are days when I look at my friends and family, doing their social media thing, and I think to myself "Should I be doing that too? Is that what people do now? Is it too late for me to get in on this?"
And then I go take a look, and remember exactly why I have yet to join them.
In 10 years when you have like a million subs. Remember I was here when you were under 5k.
Thank you! I never get why/how people can post their faces all over the place. I had one picture of myself on Facebook and some creep found me on Skype 0-0
You verbalized something that I couldn't mentally parse but absolutely felt. I'm 32 and I felt all of this...
I hope I remember to come back and watch this once it's finally out. I really hate premiers.
I'm from even further back. I used to post on the local BBS sites at 300 baud on my commodore 64. I used to have a geocities website in the late 90's. I chatted on IRC and posted on newsgroups. I hate everything about the modern internet and I hate that I'm so addicted to it.
That was a masterpiece.
Maybe because we all watch too much television and we seek many ways to find that good old Hollywood feel. Maybe we should return to the monke.
I’m 24, but I might as well have been born in the 60s, I’m very old fashioned!
Not long after I got an Instagram account, I thought I’d try out TikTok … I lasted 5 minutes on TikTok before deciding I couldn’t work out what was going on and deleted the app! I esd slso the last person in my year at school to get a phone, not even an iPhone at first, because I was dead against owning an iPhone.
I agree the internet has gone downhill in recent years. I use Facebook, but hardly post anything on my own page, I post mainly in communities and groups. However, there are hoards of people on Facebook I see who post absolute rubbish, and I think, why do you feel we need to know this?! Also, why do those life quotes that have pictures of the Minions on them exist?!
That rant about personal info at the end is why my facebook is set to private.
Yooo, you are so cultured.
Man, I got so happy when you mentioned Strongbad emails.
Could never remember what my favourite episode was, I just remember that he was in a montage doing mean stuff to every character, and one of them was gifting Marizpan (the earth worm lady?) a
buzzsaw. XD
And G.Michaels? You're a legend.
came here from the mlp videos. I'm SO GLAD i just learned for sure that its your crazy personality I love. Apparently MLP was just the delivery system
Thank you. You are an absolute treat, and the Internet needs more people like you in it. People who speak the truth that no one wants to hear.
oh god i forgot you were all in on the alice game. had me dying
How the hell did I forget that it used to be the golden rule was ‘never put your personal information on the internet’?!
Granted I avoid social media like the plague by default but still
"Remember when you didn't put any personal information out on the Internet?"
YEAH! I still don't do that. I put out just enough information that seemed reasonable only for a small circle of friends, we all met online, and even then, when I did and was a little cryptic about it, one of my friends looked up my address and sent a Google Street View image of my house! I don't even remember giving them my entire name! You can't even trust people with broad terms like the state you live in! Once you give an inch, they take a mile! I'm still in contact with these friends, and the one that sent me my own information is now working in human resources, so you know, that's comforting... At least they're in a completely different state that doesn't border mine. Or so I assume, they could be lying... 😧
Did this happen on Discord? That service is filled with freaks. You don't have to give them a name. You just have to screw up and post something like a photo with geolocation in the exif data (discord does NOT wipe it) and they can do that.
Even without exif data if there's a street sign or unique building they can find you on google street view if they have a few hours to kill, especially if they know your city.
PREACH IT MY MAN!!! TELL IT LIKE IT IS! FUCK 99.9% of social media!
I'm 14 so my opinion doesn't matter but yeah you are correct I want to see how it was fuck it take my phone just let me have fun on the internet how it was intented
I'd share this all over but fuck social media.
Seriously this hellsite is the only place I have even a shred of patience for anymore and even that's tenuous at best.
7:01 The sites I use on a daily are UA-cam, Twitter, 2 different manga sites, a novel reading site, Google, and a hentai site... on occasion I'd pop on by Twitch, Reddit, or the Steam site. And yet, I spend more hours a day online, on average, than the number of sites I use.
This man speaks the truth.
i didn't go on the internet much before being in my 20s so i always get this weird second hand nostalgia when people talk about the good ol' days, anyway this video has really good energy
TLDR TikTok is full of spyware anyway, let's all go back to blogs.
Real talk, I spent my teenage years on a series of online communities somewhat-inaptly named "kink memes" and I am so, so grateful for it. The basic concept was that you could say "hey I had this neat idea! Why don't Harry Potter and Luna Lovegood fight zombies*! But wait, I suck at writing, so why don't one of you do it instead!" And then some writer (coughmecough) would come along and say "gee, I sure like that idea, and you know what I also like? A built-in audience that I know _also_ likes that idea! And attention! Let's do it!" (Almost) everything was allowed**, which was why they were called kink memes, because 90% of the prompts were "what if X and Y fucked in this specific way that gets me hot" and whaddaya know, fanfic writers are horny fuckers.
Aside from teaching me to mind my own goddamn business when I didn't like something but it wasn't hurting anyone, and giving me plenty of chances to practice writing excruciatingly terrible porn so I can now write slightly less excruciatingly terrible porn, the community on these sites was _fantastic_. It was niche, it was hidden, it was a little tiny plaza of nerd creativity in a little Italian back alley of the internet where cars couldn't fit between the buildings but they made the best gnocchi on the face of the planet.
* I'm sure someone has written this. Link me if it's good.
** Pretty much the only off-limits thing was kids, and that was for legal reasons. Also you were expected to be over 18 or smart enough to lie about it.
I love this one comment by Agent Phil Coulson in season 1 of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (Great show on Netflix, about to be taken down this year, highly recommend) where he remarks how much easier his job has gotten since everyone started putting all their information on the internet.
I forgot how much fun the internet used to be.
Personally, I miss the qwerty keyboards on smartphones. It made texting so much easier. I've used a Blackberry since 2009, but it'd sure be nice to have a modern android phone with the option of a qwerty keyboard. Hell, why not just have a modern equivalent of the Blackberry Torch - you got a big touch screen, you slide it up, and underneath is the keyboard.
That rant. Wow. I feel that.
The shutdown of geocities condemned so many fansites to the void.
This.
"Mouss?? . .
Moohse??? . . .
*Moose*!!???"
And you would think that's about tictoc but actually it's about internet in general. Liked that twist
As they say in the World of Warcraft: Warlords of Dreannor trailer: "time's change."
Underrated channel. You deserve waaay more subs.
Thank you. Hopefully that will happen eventually.
Holy crap, I miss the good old days when the Internet was run by _people,_ not cynical corporations. This video is basically my exact feelings on the matter.
Maybe we should just start a new Internet somewhere... just over there. Yeah, there, where no-one's currently looking. And put a big sign outside the front that says "NO KEYBOARD? NO ENTRY. THAT INCLUDES YOU, MR ALGORITHM. DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE YOU THERE."
"No keyboard/No entry" is a good one.
We'll make our own internet, with blackjack and hookers, and keyboards, and landscape cameras
Here's me with my love of big phones because I sorta use them like a tablet because I don't actually need to use my phone as a phone any more.
Also not happy with photobucket. All the forums with step by step model builds I used to use and contribute to a lot have basically all died because "Paywall or we'll block everything you posted a decade ago lol."
I like how you found a subtle way to promote your own Twitter on the very video bashing all forms of social media.
It was your review of High Guardian Spice that brought me to you.
It was your first so many videos that made me a subscriber.
It was this video that made me hit the bell.
God, we should broadcast this everywhere.
Once more, with FEEEEEEEEEEEELing XD
Man, I remember all the random forums and art sites I was on back in the day. While part of me is glad they can’t be tracked on the Wayback machine or whatever because I was probably a complete cringey mess back then I do miss the funny communities we had. It really felt like a family unit.
now you building hype for your youtube videos. you're becoming such a master at showbiz!
while I disagree with your thesis, I think a lot of its points will be valid from a specific perspective.
I believe if we were the age of the average cell phone internet user today, we'd think just the opposite.
I think smart phones made the internet accessable in much the same way the nintendo wii has made games accessable.
In the end the audience for both have grown to include people we wouldn't usually associate with such things, but in the end that's more healthy for a product than the niche gatekept monopoly the nerd types would have on such things, as that'd eventually die out as more and more people are discouraged from liking the same things by people who insist you must already be an expert with such things.
also I love the zoomer memes.
love your stuff bro.
Man, I miss my old Nokia 2210. It feels like phones are getting more and more degenerate since then.
Damn, you're totally right! Never realized, that tik tok format is so stupid, just flip your phone, but you can't because it's default. Yeah, you are totally right about internet, I think it all became less anonymous with things like facebook, it all came downhill from there
Yeah I deleted a bunch of social media accounts last year. Kept the ones I actually enjoy. Social media can be good and has its uses, but it's mostly just vapid assholes. People who can't go two minutes without posting an instantly forgettable, poorly taken selfie on Shitstagram, or people spouting obvious bullshit that everyone knows already under the guise of wisdom on the Facebooks. Drives me up the fucking wall.
As one of the few PC literate people in my family, it brings me no small amount of """joy""" whenever I have to salvage shitty, vertical phone pictures for a birthday present or something.