20 years Timelapse: The Rise and Fall of Most Popular Social Media

This video shows the most popular social media/social network, such as the earliest sites like MySpace and Friendster, and the nowadays most popular like Facebook, TH-cam, Threads, Twitter X, and many others, between the years 2003 and 2023. Numbers shows average monthly users.
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Data Source: Statista
Music: Scott Buckley - Chasing daylight, Icarus, Fate and Fortune

[@Novusod]

The most dramatic collapse was Tumblr after 2018. Most of their users migrated to Tik-tok, Pinterest, and Instagram.

[@felixrbx]

Crazy to think of when some of these social medias are populärer so long, while others didn’t even exist

[@caab0516]

How is facebook still steadily growing?

[@IchigoKurosakicool]

coz it good?

[@caab0516]

@@IchigoKurosakicool idk, it has been seemingly dead for the last 5 years, at least thats what I thought... I guess a lot of older people still use it?

[@Nintendokater]

Probably

[@Vorrimade]

probably cause many mobile games still require Facebook sign-ins for things

[@13thravenpurple94]

i think on poor and middle income countries facebook is dominating

[@rizchannel1402]

IG, TikTok, WA were so epic on the last 30 seconds

[@Kbxbigbro808]

Mean while Twitter was like am out 🤣

[@Cinemagix]

can you do "Most viewed music video 2000-2023" ?

[@pchapmanus99]

I didn’t know Facebook was still growing so fast like this lol

[@Nintendokater]

The emerge of evil somehow

[@ThanhTran-h8t]

Twitter is great but I wouldn't use it because sexy images are recognized now.

[@Si_RED666]

What do you mean

[@royconestoga7326]

We need to go back to before social media was invented.

[@iqbalgenset]

there is no eternal glory, my friend.

[@dom-romer663]

Watching Google+ plummet was very satisfying lol

[@tictac3147]

I thought Google+ deleted itself. Pretty sure that’s why it plummeted

[@normenopo82X]

YT IN 3RD PLACE?!

[@priyashmukherjee]

*TH-cam IS THE BEST* 🇮🇳

[@blazer9547]

TH-cam is American. Not indian

[@Kbxbigbro808]

Facebook is the king 👑

[@fuongnam]

yahoo messenger left the chat

[@DiallityPatch]

How do I know what year or even month we are currently in?

[@Plantboi-e9n]

Get a calendar

[@The_RPlayer]

Friendster - 2003-2004
Orkut - 2004-2005
Myspace - 2005-starting 2007
TH-cam - starting 2007-2010
Facebook - starting 2010-2023

[@Plantboi-e9n]

This is how I learned about the parabolic curve

[@V3ntilator]

In 1991 i remember IRC dominated social media on internet.
Would be more interesting if it were social media from 1990 until now.

[@Moon_Crescent2341OO]

8:01 *Twitter*

[@Kbxbigbro808]

Glad it’s declining, Elon musk deserves no success I freaking hate Elon musk

[@entgay3767]

im sorry but your telling me that more people use snapchat and telegram than reddit and twitter.

[@DerekPK]

I remember in 2013 3:45
When my mom was in to FaceBook so much

[@Kbxbigbro808]

How old are you?

[@DerekPK]

@@Kbxbigbro808 I’m 20

[@Mischnikvideos]

Twitch?

[@khalidsuxx]

META will conquer the world by 2030 as they now all out in AI

[@Kbxbigbro808]

That’s facts after there done with threads hopefully they will set there sights on conquering Reddit next

[@HappyPlaysWasTaken]

Good job with not changing twitter to x

[@florianschneider3982]

Why?

[@HappyPlaysWasTaken]

@@florianschneider3982 because twitter is twitter, not x

[@florianschneider3982]

​@@HappyPlaysWasTaken🤡

[@zenplays8090]

My favorite social media is TH-cam, of course, lol
(Also it’s because I don’t have any other social medias, lol, I only have WhatsApp and TH-cam)

[@Kbxbigbro808]

My favorite is Facebook

[@zenplays8090]

@@Kbxbigbro808 Cool

[@ujain460]

Instagram ❤❤❤❤

[@nuavecmoi]

Tumblr said no porn. People said good bye. 😂

[@Diamondhead58]

I like TH-cam

[@alexalex5257]

what about VK?

[@Kbxbigbro808]

Seeing those numbers go down on Twitter at the end is the best thing ever, Elon musk deserves no successs on anything

[@worldstat92]

Good Job
👍

[@DerekPK]

5:30 TikTok in 2017

[@BSL_HAB]

1:00

[@Cameron-wi9io]

Did y’all forget about Black Planet

[@Tuxpu]

Nice

[@justajumpingypsygirl]

Man, it makes me want to pull a Mars Argo and delete my Facebook

[@Kbxbigbro808]

And it will do literally nothing

[@TehHyperSpartan]

weird to think billionares would have the audacity to take over/create their own media sites

[@Bobiblack]

❤❤❤❤

[@lagillas]

0 CRYPTO ones

[@sjjadail]

Twitter x 😢

[@StickFiguresMaster]

Elon: I done fked up one of the hugest social media apps ever, sorry.

[@tictac3147]

Weirdest choice of music ever

[@MaxTheLazyCat]

facebook users are mostly ai bots now lmao

[@Kbxbigbro808]

Not true, and this is coming from someone who actually uses the site lmao

[@Masonicon]

Friendster is the very first Social Media I did use(even when this site shuts down) before I use facebook and twitter

[@VideoVidYT]

I don’t think this is accurate

[@Kbxbigbro808]

How come?

[@eggbo1]

YT

[@mikelgarcia6181]

Telegram 🇲🇽

[@rajnishsubedi4265]

Telegram is ❤

[@Derschneemananderwand]

Telegram is full of Aluminum Hat peopel

[@topbricks]

Third

[@RedCraftz]

First

[@Indian_Rajput]

Tik tok still in use LoL 😂😂 & have maintained good user base despite ban in INDIA

[@user-zn3zx6fk7u]

epic

[@evaaulia333]

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