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In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by JPSound@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Where the hell did all that time go?

Fun Fact: I was the very first person who discovered a back masked subliminal message on Tool's "10,000 Days" album and my video got sum 100k views which was insane for that time in youtube history. Whenever Tool finally released their discography on streaming platforms, I got a copyright strike and it was taken down. fuckers.

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[-] AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 19 points 3 months ago

According to a quick search the biggest cohort of YouTube users is 25 to 34, your account is not older than most people on YouTube. I'd apologize for being a pedantic asshole but I'd be lying, I thrive on it.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

This makes me feel better actually. I always get the vibe that it's all kids and teenagers. Maybe because they've made it too "soft" for lack of a better word that I can think of rn. I'll stop back in another 19 years.

[-] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I don’t even think under 18s can post, so what’s your metric you’re even using here?

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Vibes only. High margin of error when it comes to actual numbers but it still feels that way to me. I was only informed of the actual stats in this very thread. Can't mark this as the first time I'm been way off the mark. Ive kinda made a habit of it which is fine with enough beer.

[-] Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

You forget that most adults are mentally children, only with more money and less time. My homelab is just a more expensive lego set.

[-] bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago

I dunno, I think all my Lego sets are a factor more expensive than my rack.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

I remember asking my dad why he didn't watch cartoons anymore when I was a wee little fucker. He said that I wouldn't like cartoons either when I become an adult. Still waiting, dad. Still waiting.

[-] Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To be fair, I don't like the cartoons that existed when he was a kid anymore. But I still like the ones that existed when I was a kid. And I very much like the ones that didn't exist yet when I was a kid but do exist now.

So his opinion made sense at the time.

[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 months ago

I'm sure the number of actual small children that use YouTube is quite high as well, but data would be skewed since they aren't supposed to be on there. The views of channels that cater to them are on another level.

[-] Fabian@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Is that the age users entered? Before I was legally an adult I always just added a few years

[-] AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 3 months ago

It was from a marketing data aggregator, so it's presumably getting it from more than self-reported age, knowing how those scum sucking data vampires are.

[-] GhostTheToast@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Hey, I'm in that cohort! We are legion

[-] skoadphilmore@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

There's probably a better place to ask but I'm going to do it here because I'm remembering now... Anyone remember a kind of mock "how to" series but the person clearly doesn't know what they are doing and eventually they had a video for "how to get back into your house if you get locked out" and they end up failing to get back in and eventually they had a follow up for "how to survive in the woods". The series may have descended into madness after that point.

I assume it's been long removed but finding that again would be really neat or at least someone who remembers it better than I did.

[-] dRLY@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago

Not the channel you where talking about, but if you like fake tutorials. Then this one has some funny ones. https://www.youtube.com/@infinitesolutions

[-] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

Calm down young man, 2006 is not old.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 4 points 3 months ago

Yeah, 2006 was only like a few years ago.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

I was curious so I checked mine.

Aug 24, 2006.

Jesus I’m old.

[-] trk@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Me too, team 2006 checking in!

Crazy that it's been 10 years since I joined. Right guys? It's been 10 years? 👨🏻 👴🏻 💀

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Can I join the club too?

Joined YouTube on May 10, 2006

I even still have the old URL from the days when it didn't require the @:

https://youtube.com/psythik

[-] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

July 28, 2006 here.

Brothers!

[-] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

August 2, 1842

Amateurs!

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ok this made me chuckle.

[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Why is everyone 2006?

Edit: Oh yeah…. google: October 9, 2006

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

100k views adjusted for inflation? And you didn't parlay that into a "career" as an influencer? So much potential, wasted.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

112k AkChuUhLee. (I had to look it back up) I've been a career Tool fan but that's as far as I've ever gotten. I'm where I want to be tho. And this way, I won't need to make a fake crying apology video.

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

It's sad that your video was taken down since it looks like someone posted a video about the subliminal message three months later, in December 2008, and it's still up. (I won't post it in case it's you - I don't want to dox you.) Maybe this person posted a follow up crying apology, though.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

it's not me. I have been carrying around that resentment towards them for many years now. Front line get the spear, or so it's said.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Can we take a moment to recognize Good Guy(TM) Rick Astley for never copyright-striking his Never Gonna Give You Up videos. He is a real hero.

[-] Bongles@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

My accounts currently from 2011. I've used it a bit longer, that would've been around 18 for me and I've been using it since at least 14/15. I started with Google video I think.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago

Had a meeting with our sales guy, and he asked how long I'd been running the same engineering software since I knew it so well.

Me: about 27 years.

Him: that's longer than I have been alive.

Oof

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I do sound professionally and I originally learned to track on 2" magnetic tape. Our one digital console had something like 24 channels (which was cutting edge at the time) and every channel required a $40k card slotted into this proprietary rack costing god know how much. Now, any cheap laptop can be an audio rig that has basically unlimited channels and enough DSP to basically do anything they want. Nothing like slicing tape with a razor hoping your edit was right. Also, navigating a patch bay that looks like spilled spaghetti to pop a single channel of compression on a track.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Why do you think this image proves your contention exactly?

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

The only thing it proves is that I'll use any old screen shot to validate my nonsensical internal dialog.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Reminisce with me about the pre google glory days. In the long long ago. Salad Fingers, that Joey Jordison drum solo video, Badger Badger Badger...

[-] Metostopholes@midwest.social 2 points 3 months ago

Apr 19, 2006 for me.

I miss when the most watched video was Evolution of Dance.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 1 points 3 months ago

March 4, 2006 for me. Looks like a lot of us signed up around the same time. If memory serves, wouldn't that have been about the time that YouTube first got absorbed by Google?

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Google wasn't Google back then. Same name, different devil.

[-] Allero@lemmy.today 1 points 3 months ago

People born when you've created your YouTube account are now adults. Some are planning to have children.

Think about that.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

So crazy man. Im really glad I never had kids. Im 40 now and Im just now feeling like I may consider it. No offence to 20 years olds but seeing someone that age with two or three kids blows my mind. I feel like Im just barely old enough to even think about kids.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Ha! I got ya beat. Barely.

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[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 0 points 3 months ago

The absolute first video I saw on YouTube was the evolution of dance... which was one of the first ever viral videos ever...

[-] poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 3 months ago

I think that one predates YouTube. I remember first watching it on a friends computer who shared his files during a LAN party

[-] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

It was first uploaded to youtube, it is possible that your friend downloaded (I am sure it was possible even back then) or simply showed it to you and you weren't aware it was YouTube. I didn't even know what YouTube was when I was first saw it in 2006.

[-] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

Bro, I was almost 30 when you created that account 😂

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

let's get you back inside, grandpa. Rub some liniment on those bunions and put you on one of your favorite spaghetti westerns.

[-] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago

IT'S WEED AND VIDEO GAMES GODDAMN IT IM GEN-X 😂😭

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I misread your post at first. I edit this to simply "Weed and video games, fuck yeah!"

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