this video made me find out that typing 'awesome' to make the youtube timeline rainbow doesnt 100% work anymore because of the color redesign IM SO SAD (edit: changed "doesnt work anymore" to "doesnt 100% work anymore" . thats what i meant originally)
As of typing this comment, it does work, but it's very borked. I have an extension that allows me to customize the playbar's color, and upon typing "awesome" it switches back to the supposed original playbar when it's supposed to display the rainbow easter egg. The code is still there, it just doesn't work like it's supposed to anymore.
Actually used to just say "301 views" but near the end it added the plus sign. For a long time people were just confused about the 301 views thing, till the numberphile video explained it. Speaking of easter eggs, that video is still frozen at 301 views to this day.
Annotations Restored for TH-cam is a good third party extension for bringing back annotations for older videos, which even if I don't go back to older stuff a lot of the time, is still useful because there are some videos I can't find anywhere else that basically require annotations for things like Subtitles that aren't hard embedded into the vid itself.
I really miss the "Collections" feature. You could group channels you're subscribed to into lists and have it's own feed for each list. It was great. Now we have only the Subscriptions feed which is lame.
Oh man do I remember these! I used to love the customisation options TH-cam had. Some people were very creative, using channel templates and stuff. What I also loved was the TH-cam Inbox, being able to send people PMs, share videos, friend/contact requests, etc. I also remember the Video Response function where I remember people using it for memes (back in the day called fads and fad responses). And of course that good old Star Rating. I miss it all so dearly. :'(
@@bjiru_ There are some extensions on browsers like Firefox and Chrome that help you change the layout of TH-cam back to a recreation of the older layouts. I actually am using one right now called CustomTube. The older layouts are a bit broken but atleast its something. And yeah about Customization, people really do need to start allowing more customization options on their sites. Its 2025 for god sake and technology is better than ever, they cannot tell us they can't do something like this anymore. I atleast want my darn comment section on my channel back. lol
annotations were my favorite thing back then, i still remember how i just figured out how to make ones in my videos and when i'm looking back at my old videos they're gone.... hell, they were so useful and opened up a lot of creative opportunities for you!! overall i prefer old youtube design even tho it's considered outdated now but it felt like you're actually browsing something new, something.. futuristic? i'm really sad that a lot of companies are now focusing on updating mobile versions of their products and adapting the pc versions directly from it. as for me it's still better yo use a desktop version of something instead of trying to use my phone
Completely agree, desktop has kinda just been abandoned? It used to be they created the desktop experience, then another one on the side for mobile, now it’s the other way around, only on mobile you can do so much
2:21 technically, video responses still exist to this day, but not in full video format. You can create a shorts duet against full video, and it'll display under the description
Aww, you forgot the pony easter egg. Yes, TH-cam used to have an easter egg where if you searched for any of the names of the characters from My Little Pony G4, like "Twilight Sparkle" or "Rainbow Dash", the seek bar would be replaced in the video with a stylized version with that character as the theme. This was also around the same time they had a secret command in Google Hangouts where if you'd type '/pony' into the compose message box, then a bunch of pixelated ponies would walk across your chat window. I think there were many bronies employed at Google around that time.
Banners and customizing your channel were some of the reasons I got super obsessed with TH-cam. In the past I managed to have a few channels partnered with an mcn before the layout changed, and I miss those times dearly. At least it taught me graphic design and making TH-cam videos! Fantastic video!
Channel customization is what I miss the most. Personally, I wasn't as keen on the new channel layout they brought in around 2011 because it hid most of your background and it got rid of a ton of customization that the original layout had. Also, they integrated banners into the original style layout back in 2009 iirc. I think you had to have over a certain amount of subscribers to have one though. Ngl, the main person I remember having one back then was TheAmazingAtheist.
no your definitely right, I remember definitely seeing Fred with an original youtube channel layout banner, that was definitely the peak customization forsure. I miss it man..
I still have one very cringey My Chemical Romance custom background I made to fit my custom TH-cam layout in 2011- they still had pretty good customization options that late!
12:39 *the bar will start flashing many colors like a seizure. but for some reason in my pc only the big dot of the bar flashes, maybe is the new magenta avoiding it because of epilepsy*
I'm surprised not to see this feature listed in the video, and it's one of the most useful I've ever seen.... There used to be a drop-down timeline of videos on top of the video you were currently watching. It would center on the currently playing video, and show you future and previous uploads in relation to it , so you could easily get to the next video that uploader uploaded. They eventually updated that feature to be less useful, moving it to the right, where it would just be a list of all videos the uploader uploaded, starting at most recent. Now, it is a tab that is buried under your recommended videos, and the order of the videos from that uploader shown is completely random. So, I guess it's not a removed feature, mishandled and turned into a shell of its former self
aw man, that does sound really cool, I dont think I ever used it but that would be extremely convenient, especially for like series of videos, that sucks
This is rlly good, at first i thought this was a super popular youtuber, but it was just bjiru! i RECOGNIZE ur videos from I miss the themes, never stop doing these content! A suggestion is maybe do a video on flash games or flipnote? Id love to see that!
Thank you for watching :3, I have been trying to figure out how to do a huge Flash video right for literally over a year hahahaha, it’s just such an important topic to me there’s so much I want to say in one video, *also stylish, interesting I’ll have a look at it
i mean, the reason they removed messages is the same reason any other big platform kills off interaction methods, predators, it always circles back to predators. thats atleast what i remembered it being iirc.
I miss the old YT, I miss those good old days :( I have been happy that we have been getting videos from 15, 16, to even 17 years ago and being able to relive what the old website use to be from what I remember. Back in what I term the "Golden Age of TH-cam" from 2006-2012 videos were about people goofing around, making funny stuff and people sharing their passions. The old YT of my childhood is now an alien concept compared to the current state of YT as we know it and the same goes for the current state of the Internet. I never grew up in the stone age of the 90s Internet but I did grow up in the wild period of the 2000s Internet and it felt organic, free and real, like anything was possible and that we could freely express ourselves and now the current Internet is a dead, stale, limited corporate controlled entity.
Looking back on it, it's surprising how accesing friendly and less restrictive youtube was back then and to me TH-cam was like a another Myspace of sorts when it came to the page customizations, spending pretty much my entire middle school days just watching YTP's and a lot of random stuff without a care in the world. Nowadays those fun days when youtube had some "soul" on it were slowly dissapearing over time and became so restrictive over everything, hell even some of the comments that you do get shadow banned for absolutely no reason. TH-cam has become so dull in so many ways in the last decade, just like everything else out there.
You forgot that back in the day video playback was based on Flash and HTML5 transition was so painful for everyone. Anyway, you did a great job once again, thnx
Hey! i know a lot of people miss most of these features, but did you guys know you could restore some of these to regular TH-cam? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) Vorapis 2O13 - Restore the 2O13 TH-cam Layout (tutorial in my 2nd channel) StarTube (Requires Vorapis 2O13 to work) - Restore ANY old TH-cam layout from 2009 all the way to 2020 Restored Annotations for TH-cam - Restore Annotations Stylus - Apply Custom CSS to any page
6:51 I still remember "playing" a hot wheels game here on youtube, it used the annotations to customize your car by using a ton of different short vids for every possible option, very nostalgic and sad thag it doesnt work anymore. It was really fun and hella creative
Man i miss annotations so much. I remember i used to watch so many of those annotation game videos, they were so so cool, and really added another level to the viewing experience. Nowadays things are so detatched
I remeber back In 2016-2017, I used to watch dantdm videos and stampy videos. My internet was slow back then, and I remember struggling to close annotations to watch the real video.
Oh man i miss annotations, I remember purpleeyeswtf having a video where the annotations were a separate story based off this one throwaway gag character, still makes me laugh, miss those days
PS: You can still get the TH-cam layout from 2013 (With an archive of annotations!) with the Vorapis 3 (aka V3) and StarTube userscripts. I'd recommend anyone who prefers the old layouts over the modern day use them, as with StarTube you can choose any layout from 2011 - 2023
This was a great video, a blast to the past. Another thing I remember fondly was comments directly on your TH-cam channel, right at the bottom. While I definitely used DMs sometimes, it was often easier to just comment on someone's channel to get their attention. I think another thing that I miss were the comment sections that didn't have any of the shadowmuting that currently happens. If you type keywords nowadays your comment will just not get posted (not just crude words, but genuinely useful words and sites). You could send someone a link and they could click it, and it was way less restrictive.
The first time I heard someone talking about "TH-cam" and asked "What's that?" he described it as "a site where you can watch any TV show or anime totally free". Those were the days.
the second iteration of youtube messages was rolled out in around 2018, and tbh it wasnt good for me because my ex would constantly harass me by sending videos like "top ten tragedies" and then hoping all of it would happen to me. wild times man
Yay! Love your videos, glad to see this :D i remember using the dm feature in 2018 with my friend, we would send each other horror jump scares and nothing else lol
Another fun easter egg in TH-cam back in 2013/14 was the "Webdriver torso" chanel. Back in the day, if you put these letters in the search bar, TH-cam would start display red and blue blocks in the timeline. It was very fun =>
damn, I feel old, I really liked TH-cam direct messages (And I fought for my life there), I really had friendships with several small content creators (mostly kids or teenagers), but I also used to fight with fucking adults for hours, I was like 11-13 yo I used to love the old TH-cam channel layout, it was so over the top and fun, like if you were a big content creator you could have a bigger banner and people were so creative making them. during 2012-2015 I used to spend my whole day on youtube, watching live streams, videos, fighting with random people in the comments section, crazy times
I remember messaging my best friend in high school through TH-cam all the time and sending videos amongst each other (mostly weeb things since I was in an anime phase at the time). I kinda miss that actually, although I can basically get the same experience through Discord.
Oh I do too… the emojis, oh and calling on Skype, that was so fun, me and my friends would prank call so many times while In a group call i wish you could call on discord
I still miss interactive banner like Eddsworld's channel. I usually grew up watching those and it sucks to look minimalist visual because of mobile phones rises up since 2013-2014. Why not just split up in two, one for pc and one for phones? For pc you got everything! but the phones kept the minimal like recently.
I didn't even notice when annotations left, wow I just assumed they were still around and fell out of flavor. I remember community annotations being so annoying.
Actually, there was another channel design before the one you said was the design it originally looked. 5:30 is how TH-cam channels looked from 2009 to 2012. There was a different better design before 2009.
I miss annotations so much, there's even couple of video that act as an interactive game with help of those feature, sad you can play with them anymore
4:26 one of my favorite features was the "___ videos" button on the right of that arrow. It was great if you wanted to see videos by the same channel, you could open the drop down menu and it would reveal recent uploads by the creator. I cannot think of one logical reason why youtube would take that out.
░░░░░███████ ]▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ Bob is building an army. ▂▄▅█████████▅▄▃▂ ☻/︻╦╤─ This tank & Bob are against Google+ Il███████████████████]. /▌ Copy and Paste this all over ◥⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙◤.. / \ TH-cam if you are with us
bjiru has committed the postage of the video ... I love bjiru the content creator... i was asleep when you posted I wish I saw it earlier!!! I'm very ill
When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me: “do not click anything on the video, because popups could be scams”, and for years I haven’t realised he was talking about annotations 😭
this video made me find out that typing 'awesome' to make the youtube timeline rainbow doesnt 100% work anymore because of the color redesign IM SO SAD
(edit: changed "doesnt work anymore" to "doesnt 100% work anymore" . thats what i meant originally)
As of typing this comment, it does work, but it's very borked. I have an extension that allows me to customize the playbar's color, and upon typing "awesome" it switches back to the supposed original playbar when it's supposed to display the rainbow easter egg. The code is still there, it just doesn't work like it's supposed to anymore.
@@MikoriChan what's the extension?
it works for me. i didn't get the color redesign yet
for me the little dot blinks rainbow as well as the HD symbol over the settings gear
@EndertX150 I think they're using Enhancer for TH-cam. I also have a custom playbar color, but I'm not 100% confident that its what they're using
Actually used to just say "301 views" but near the end it added the plus sign.
For a long time people were just confused about the 301 views thing, till the numberphile video explained it.
Speaking of easter eggs, that video is still frozen at 301 views to this day.
ooooooh right yes, I became conscious more when the + was there, that is interesting
your editing is amazing dude
tysm theov527
Didn't matpat quit? Why is he still uploading? 😂😂 Did he get lost all his money already? Lol
Annotations Restored for TH-cam is a good third party extension for bringing back annotations for older videos, which even if I don't go back to older stuff a lot of the time, is still useful because there are some videos I can't find anywhere else that basically require annotations for things like Subtitles that aren't hard embedded into the vid itself.
I really miss the "Collections" feature. You could group channels you're subscribed to into lists and have it's own feed for each list. It was great. Now we have only the Subscriptions feed which is lame.
This has GOT to be one of the most underrated channels ever
YIPPE MY GOAT!!!! HE FINALLY REMEMBERS HIS PASSWORD!!!!! (Im gonna love watching this video
HAHAHAhaha, I did, will try not to forget this time
Oh man do I remember these! I used to love the customisation options TH-cam had. Some people were very creative, using channel templates and stuff. What I also loved was the TH-cam Inbox, being able to send people PMs, share videos, friend/contact requests, etc. I also remember the Video Response function where I remember people using it for memes (back in the day called fads and fad responses). And of course that good old Star Rating. I miss it all so dearly. :'(
I do aswell.. obviously lol, customization really just hits me the most, I wish I could do so much more to all my places of the internet
@@bjiru_ There are some extensions on browsers like Firefox and Chrome that help you change the layout of TH-cam back to a recreation of the older layouts. I actually am using one right now called CustomTube. The older layouts are a bit broken but atleast its something. And yeah about Customization, people really do need to start allowing more customization options on their sites. Its 2025 for god sake and technology is better than ever, they cannot tell us they can't do something like this anymore. I atleast want my darn comment section on my channel back. lol
"Fun? Variation? What does that even mean? Flat is where it's at!"
- todays designers/ developers
As someone born '96 I do remember quite alot of this and... man, things are pretty corporate-bland nowadays in the internet.
Me too, I kinda hope AI slop brings back web rings
We were blessed with the wild west of the internet, early 2010's it was bigger than the previous age and still was fairly unrestricted
It's not too bad. It could definitely be worse and there is potential for things to change towards the better.
@@TigransTipswhat keeps you so positive
annotations were my favorite thing back then, i still remember how i just figured out how to make ones in my videos and when i'm looking back at my old videos they're gone.... hell, they were so useful and opened up a lot of creative opportunities for you!!
overall i prefer old youtube design even tho it's considered outdated now but it felt like you're actually browsing something new, something.. futuristic?
i'm really sad that a lot of companies are now focusing on updating mobile versions of their products and adapting the pc versions directly from it. as for me it's still better yo use a desktop version of something instead of trying to use my phone
Completely agree, desktop has kinda just been abandoned? It used to be they created the desktop experience, then another one on the side for mobile, now it’s the other way around, only on mobile you can do so much
2:21 technically, video responses still exist to this day, but not in full video format. You can create a shorts duet against full video, and it'll display under the description
Aaaaaaa that’s very true actually, o never thought about it like that technically they did come back, technically..
@@bjiru_ you can alse do it to comments on any short not only yours
7:55 LOL!
This entire channel is a goldmine of amazing editing, wonderful nostalgia, and comedy.
youtube more like LAMEtube,,, heh,,,,,, goddem 😼
ough gotem ouuuugh you goteem so good
Its more like just *Tube* at this point.
@ hahahahhahaha thats a great way to put it
True
*insert laugh track*
Aww, you forgot the pony easter egg.
Yes, TH-cam used to have an easter egg where if you searched for any of the names of the characters from My Little Pony G4, like "Twilight Sparkle" or "Rainbow Dash", the seek bar would be replaced in the video with a stylized version with that character as the theme.
This was also around the same time they had a secret command in Google Hangouts where if you'd type '/pony' into the compose message box, then a bunch of pixelated ponies would walk across your chat window.
I think there were many bronies employed at Google around that time.
I love that we all still deadname twitter
EVERYONE SHUT UP BJIRU POSTED🗣️‼️
very few youtubers have earned the notifications on honor for me... bjiru stands among the proud
Banners and customizing your channel were some of the reasons I got super obsessed with TH-cam. In the past I managed to have a few channels partnered with an mcn before the layout changed, and I miss those times dearly. At least it taught me graphic design and making TH-cam videos! Fantastic video!
Channel customization is what I miss the most. Personally, I wasn't as keen on the new channel layout they brought in around 2011 because it hid most of your background and it got rid of a ton of customization that the original layout had. Also, they integrated banners into the original style layout back in 2009 iirc. I think you had to have over a certain amount of subscribers to have one though. Ngl, the main person I remember having one back then was TheAmazingAtheist.
no your definitely right, I remember definitely seeing Fred with an original youtube channel layout banner, that was definitely the peak customization forsure. I miss it man..
I still have one very cringey My Chemical Romance custom background I made to fit my custom TH-cam layout in 2011- they still had pretty good customization options that late!
@ oh wow I would kill for my files from back then
@@bjiru_ I can thank myself for putting it in my scraps on deviantArt otherwise it'd have been lost to time
anyone remember how difficult it was to have a channel name that was just one word after google+ rolled out?
i remember so much
12:39 *the bar will start flashing many colors like a seizure. but for some reason in my pc only the big dot of the bar flashes, maybe is the new magenta avoiding it because of epilepsy*
i think we might be the same age man, i absolutely love your retrospectives of back when the internet was fun and personal
9:47 I love the song Space Trip Steps for Meteor Herd!! What a good choice, glad you’re back!
I'm surprised not to see this feature listed in the video, and it's one of the most useful I've ever seen....
There used to be a drop-down timeline of videos on top of the video you were currently watching. It would center on the currently playing video, and show you future and previous uploads in relation to it , so you could easily get to the next video that uploader uploaded.
They eventually updated that feature to be less useful, moving it to the right, where it would just be a list of all videos the uploader uploaded, starting at most recent.
Now, it is a tab that is buried under your recommended videos, and the order of the videos from that uploader shown is completely random.
So, I guess it's not a removed feature, mishandled and turned into a shell of its former self
aw man, that does sound really cool, I dont think I ever used it but that would be extremely convenient, especially for like series of videos, that sucks
This is rlly good, at first i thought this was a super popular youtuber, but it was just bjiru! i RECOGNIZE ur videos from I miss the themes, never stop doing these content! A suggestion is maybe do a video on flash games or flipnote? Id love to see that!
Also btw you can still customize youtube by using an extension called stylish, its actually for pc though
Thank you for watching :3, I have been trying to figure out how to do a huge Flash video right for literally over a year hahahaha, it’s just such an important topic to me there’s so much I want to say in one video,
*also stylish, interesting I’ll have a look at it
301+ CLUB!
YOU TRUELY ARE!!!!!!!!
now it's 360p club
I absolutely love seeing intact annotations on videos- I remember they were the standard to fix misinformation or typos in your videos lol
i mean, the reason they removed messages is the same reason any other big platform kills off interaction methods, predators, it always circles back to predators.
thats atleast what i remembered it being iirc.
hey man, amazing video!! love how you still associate youtube with old school stuff like 301+, even today :)
I miss the old YT, I miss those good old days :( I have been happy that we have been getting videos from 15, 16, to even 17 years ago and being able to relive what the old website use to be from what I remember. Back in what I term the "Golden Age of TH-cam" from 2006-2012 videos were about people goofing around, making funny stuff and people sharing their passions. The old YT of my childhood is now an alien concept compared to the current state of YT as we know it and the same goes for the current state of the Internet. I never grew up in the stone age of the 90s Internet but I did grow up in the wild period of the 2000s Internet and it felt organic, free and real, like anything was possible and that we could freely express ourselves and now the current Internet is a dead, stale, limited corporate controlled entity.
Looking back on it, it's surprising how accesing friendly and less restrictive youtube was back then and to me TH-cam was like a another Myspace of sorts when it came to the page customizations, spending pretty much my entire middle school days just watching YTP's and a lot of random stuff without a care in the world.
Nowadays those fun days when youtube had some "soul" on it were slowly dissapearing over time and became so restrictive over everything, hell even some of the comments that you do get shadow banned for absolutely no reason. TH-cam has become so dull in so many ways in the last decade, just like everything else out there.
yayy you're back!!! great video as always and such fun editing, made me very nostalgic :)
I am, I remembered the password hahahaha, tysm :3
you’re my favorite channel!! i absolutely adore your editing style and how you talk about a bunch of interesting stuff!
ur literally turning into one of my fav youtubers pls get big and famous
You forgot that back in the day video playback was based on Flash and HTML5 transition was so painful for everyone.
Anyway, you did a great job once again, thnx
Hey! i know a lot of people miss most of these features, but did you guys know you could restore some of these to regular TH-cam? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Vorapis 2O13 - Restore the 2O13 TH-cam Layout (tutorial in my 2nd channel)
StarTube (Requires Vorapis 2O13 to work) - Restore ANY old TH-cam layout from 2009 all the way to 2020
Restored Annotations for TH-cam - Restore Annotations
Stylus - Apply Custom CSS to any page
Ooh that is interesting, I actually meant to mention annotations restored as it’s how I got most of this footage, whoops
They really need to bring back the drop text/post-it thing, it was really useful
New video, I was waiting for a long time for another of your greatest videos!
thx for your patience
@bjiru_ I know, also, could you do a video about the Mp3 2000 music devices one day?
possibly, the story of the ipod, and zunes and all the wacko 3rd party ones is a very cool one
@@bjiru_ ok great, hope to see it one day...and I hope ome if your mp3 devices aren't broken or have a annoying nostalgic song.
that thumbnail is so well made
your upload notif made me crash at 94% on electrodynamix. hope you're happy.
IM SO SORRY ITS LIKE TUE CAPTAIN AMERICA MEME HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
6:51 I still remember "playing" a hot wheels game here on youtube, it used the annotations to customize your car by using a ton of different short vids for every possible option, very nostalgic and sad thag it doesnt work anymore. It was really fun and hella creative
i sure do miss the extinct features youtube
goddamn it... I cant have one smooth upload process hahahah
If your interested the music in the background for the first couple of minutes is jet set radio electroic toothbrush
Man i miss annotations so much. I remember i used to watch so many of those annotation game videos, they were so so cool, and really added another level to the viewing experience. Nowadays things are so detatched
I remeber back In 2016-2017, I used to watch dantdm videos and stampy videos. My internet was slow back then, and I remember struggling to close annotations to watch the real video.
I MISS ANNOTATIONS SO BAD!!! so many videos broken now due to annotations removed
Oh man i miss annotations, I remember purpleeyeswtf having a video where the annotations were a separate story based off this one throwaway gag character, still makes me laugh, miss those days
PS: You can still get the TH-cam layout from 2013 (With an archive of annotations!) with the Vorapis 3 (aka V3) and StarTube userscripts. I'd recommend anyone who prefers the old layouts over the modern day use them, as with StarTube you can choose any layout from 2011 - 2023
I use a thing called V3, it brings back 2013 yt and It brings back annotations.. Idk how it does it but it is cool asf.
Man I just noticed that you have a Rockhopper plushie in your chair!!
He's my bestie 💙💙💙💙
This was a great video, a blast to the past. Another thing I remember fondly was comments directly on your TH-cam channel, right at the bottom. While I definitely used DMs sometimes, it was often easier to just comment on someone's channel to get their attention. I think another thing that I miss were the comment sections that didn't have any of the shadowmuting that currently happens. If you type keywords nowadays your comment will just not get posted (not just crude words, but genuinely useful words and sites). You could send someone a link and they could click it, and it was way less restrictive.
The first time I heard someone talking about "TH-cam" and asked "What's that?" he described it as "a site where you can watch any TV show or anime totally free". Those were the days.
Ooooh I remember, I was very young for the 0 copyright days but I was there too
the second iteration of youtube messages was rolled out in around 2018, and tbh it wasnt good for me because my ex would constantly harass me by sending videos like "top ten tragedies" and then hoping all of it would happen to me. wild times man
Man, that was a walk down memory lane. A feature I actually just want is a block button; tired of bots finding me @ .@
6:10 goated bracelet choice
Wow what a blast to the past, with by far the best TH-camr to embrace the best era of this platform!
tysm matrucious, hope you have been well
This is a high quality video, thanks for making it 🤍
Yay! Love your videos, glad to see this :D
i remember using the dm feature in 2018 with my friend, we would send each other horror jump scares and nothing else lol
I also used it, and I sent I think 4 total messages hahahah
as soon as I saw the redirect white box annotation I instinctively tried to click it and then felt like a fool afterwards
Hehehehe, you are not the fool… only a refugee of another time…
Another fun easter egg in TH-cam back in 2013/14 was the "Webdriver torso" chanel. Back in the day, if you put these letters in the search bar, TH-cam would start display red and blue blocks in the timeline. It was very fun =>
I remember a lot of these TH-cam features! I love the snake game and the 301+ views.
damn, I feel old, I really liked TH-cam direct messages (And I fought for my life there), I really had friendships with several small content creators (mostly kids or teenagers), but I also used to fight with fucking adults for hours, I was like 11-13 yo
I used to love the old TH-cam channel layout, it was so over the top and fun, like if you were a big content creator you could have a bigger banner and people were so creative making them.
during 2012-2015 I used to spend my whole day on youtube, watching live streams, videos, fighting with random people in the comments section, crazy times
Woke up to a fresh banger
The editing is top notch!
oh hey you're that guy that had a floating phone on the background of a video once. I liked it when you did that
Thank you can of campbells soup
I remember messaging my best friend in high school through TH-cam all the time and sending videos amongst each other (mostly weeb things since I was in an anime phase at the time). I kinda miss that actually, although I can basically get the same experience through Discord.
My mans forgot about audio swap. Who could forget the iconic 009 Sound System blasting over a notepad tutorial filmed with unregistered hypercam 2
Wow I missed this handsome gentleman. Welcome back mr b. Jiru
Thank you mrr Ryan, of hill
0:39 Ahh, the old Skype incoming message sound. I actually kinda miss classic Skype.
Oh I do too… the emojis, oh and calling on Skype, that was so fun, me and my friends would prank call so many times while In a group call i wish you could call on discord
I remember watching flash animations that were fights between popular characters, and you could choose how the fight could go with annotations.
I still miss interactive banner like Eddsworld's channel. I usually grew up watching those and it sucks to look minimalist visual because of mobile phones rises up since 2013-2014.
Why not just split up in two, one for pc and one for phones? For pc you got everything! but the phones kept the minimal like recently.
I know right!! why not just have annotations or pc exclusive things, that just, dont work on phone
That outro with old thematic was a really good one)
i would like to add that annotations were added to mobile devices around 2016-2017 and then were later removed and replaced with end cards
The too many cooks Easter egg was peak
I USED TO USE THE DMS LIKE CRAZY I HAD GROUP CHATS WITH MY FAVORITE ANIMATION MEME CHANNELS😭😭
Forgotten 3rd yellow button “drop bowel”
Ooooooooh, I must’ve forgotten about this one sorry
Peakness (also finally someone else who noticed the "awesome" easter egg)
I loved interactive annotations! Annoying Orange vs. Angry Birds was the shit
I didn't even notice when annotations left, wow
I just assumed they were still around and fell out of flavor. I remember community annotations being so annoying.
0:04 i didn't missed youtube i missed your videos 🗣🔥
thank you so much for your patience
The reason annotations were removed was due to people linking piracy/gambling/illegal/malware sites.
Bob! What a blast from the past!
Actually, there was another channel design before the one you said was the design it originally looked. 5:30 is how TH-cam channels looked from 2009 to 2012. There was a different better design before 2009.
I don't know what it is about your voice but it took me about 2 minutes of you talking to realise that you don't actually have a Scottish accent.
I have a “bjiru accent”
I miss DMs so much. Used to talk to so many people on there
I thought i was crazy when annotations when MISSING LIKE MANY PEOPLE WERE LIKE THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT WAS IT💀
I miss annotations so much, there's even couple of video that act as an interactive game with help of those feature, sad you can play with them anymore
15:40 fun fact there's a notable exception to this, a video by numberphile explaining the 301 thing, that to this day still reports 301 views!
!!! Was going to mention the numberphile vid, it’s very cool
4:26 one of my favorite features was the "___ videos" button on the right of that arrow. It was great if you wanted to see videos by the same channel, you could open the drop down menu and it would reveal recent uploads by the creator. I cannot think of one logical reason why youtube would take that out.
2:07 that "baa" means "you can't" in my language so it kinda makes sense
Oh interesting!!!!
God I missed customizing my theme 😩😩😩
What a day… a goby upload and miku in fortnite? Going down in history
it is one for the history book S . .
I wish the dms were still up. It would make sending video ideas so much easier
The awesome easter egg broke I'm so sad aaaa
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◥⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙◤.. / \ TH-cam if you are with us
bjiru has committed the postage of the video ... I love bjiru the content creator... i was asleep when you posted I wish I saw it earlier!!! I'm very ill
Oh goodness I hope you feel better!
I remember getting my mind blown by that old Wario Land Shake It ad on youtube that doesn't work anymore.
When I was a kid, my dad used to tell me: “do not click anything on the video, because popups could be scams”, and for years I haven’t realised he was talking about annotations 😭
i miss the dislike counter the most
I wish youtube messages were still around, it would be quicker and easier than having to message someone on Twitter or Discord