The moment money became the incentive, it when TH-cam fall started. I remember when Ad revenue first started, all the top channels said the same "I don't want ad revenue, because it would make TH-cam feel like a job" , now all of them make videos with all the ad checkmarks, streched as long as necessary, Tags out the ass, etc. I will never not be upset.
@@kylehill3643 I've seen some dudes who say all they have to in the first 2 minutes, then repeat, repeat, repeat until they hit 20 minutes of "content".
I was a 16 year old in 2007 and remember this era like yesterday. People just uploaded their videos in the spirit of fun. No overanalyzing. No target demographic or goal in mind. Videos didn’t have the pristine editing and high quality they have now, but they sure were fun to watch. Good times.
Yeah man. i remember it was common to post all of our video school projects, so we could go back and watch it over and over again. They were mostly cringy af but, there was no overthinking, no expectations of “going viral”, no haters, no fear being ridiculed or cancelled. It was just for fun. Kinda crazy to look back at those days and compare it with what YT is now. I really dont think anyone could have foreseen it
@@bruhmoment2632 For years YT never actually made a profit, I don't know if they make a profit to this day. A classic example of a startup tech company business model, people invest for the prospect of future profits, while being a loss leader the platform outcompetes others to eventually become a near monopoly. Given the massive rise in ads the last few years, I think they are trying to cash in.
I was in middle school during the Golden Age of TH-cam and I didn’t know how good we had it. My friends and I watched Smosh, ASDFMovie and the Lazer Collection like a ritual, and, by God, we memorized every line. Such good times those were.
@@cephalicwasteland3504 well you know, the great thing about the internet is that once it's posted, it's posted forever! My favorites to add to this list are old Nigahiga and Charlie the Unicorn
I would argue the golden age is nowadays, as there are so many creators about so many topics... Back then there were only a few, really good youtubers, but now there are millions who excel and I will never even see due to how many there are.
Wow, this video was amazing, it’s sad that not a lot of people have seen it. Small channels are so hard to find, and finding the good channels which are genuine and just make content that they enjoy is like a needle in a haystack. I was born in 2005, so I was too young to see old TH-cam. However, it seems like a really great place, and very different from what we have today.
Top Rank AUDIOBOOKS PLUS Thank you so much! as someone born in 2001, it was an amazing time! Videos were made and uploaded by random people just to make other people laugh or be impressed! Nothing was censored or motivated by money!
I was just old enough to see a lot of it (born in 1999) and what it honestly reminds me of is modern day meme culture on social media. Just imagine if all of TH-cam, all of it, were just all those cheap, jank, yet gut-busting skits and such you see on Twitter, formerly Vine, Tik-Tok, etc., accompanied by an occasional passion project with a higher quality like a really good stick fight animation for example. I’d argue to an extent, the type of content that made old TH-cam great hasn’t necessarily gone away, just that today it’s much more dispersed across different online platforms, and is extremely limited on TH-cam itself. I should also put forth that the last decade or so of content has definitely influenced how people make content today. I’d wager the average uploader to any social media platform is far more cautious, and self-conscious than a lot of the early, really raw, unedited, unfiltered personalities and videos that started TH-cam. Smosh, Ijustine, all those early people, they didn’t have a decade worth of online content to model themselves off of, so they weren’t emulating the kind of online archetypes we have today.
2007-2008 was a really good time for TH-cam. There were reuploads of older content from Newgrounds and YTMND. "Current" content was TH-cam Poops, Halo 3 vs CoD, AVGN and Nostalgia Critic retrospectives, and just fun stuff being done for the sake of doing it. We were also right at the start of copyright takedowns (shoutout to WMG and Viacom!), and a bit too early for widespread monetisation and irl politics. It was also the year I created this account, so I'm _most definitely_ biased. :P
Old youtube was great because they made their content for fun, most TH-camrs now just want money and fame. But smaller TH-camrs are usually more genuine because they’re not making much if any money so they do it mainly for fun. I guess that’s where the old slogan “Broadcast Yourself” came from
To be honest I wasn't expecting much from the ad I clicked on, however, you've got a great style and I'd love to watch that grow. Plus being reminded of old TH-cam and the og creators is always a good thing
The fact the not only you know what ballon shop is but the fact that you actually talked about it brings so much joy to me. Balloon shop played a major role in my childhood and gave me such a strange beautiful feeling.
Love the video, so strange all this was a over a decade ago at this point. I do want to contend this idea that old TH-cam was cleaner. I mean the larger freedom was great for people getting to produce so much interesting content. But there was also to be honest, a lot of shock, gore, and gross-out stuff around that time period. I mean, remember when 2 girls 1 cup was one of the biggest videos on the platform? Or when that one video of literal terrorists beheading a US soldier went viral? I mean besides those extremes, there was also plenty of dirty, entertaining, adult skits, like Harry Potter puppet friends, or like any of the early abridged series like Yugioh Abridged, or Happy Tree Friends, etc.
The irony is that back when TH-cam and everyone on it weren't really making money, TH-camrs would make the best entertaining videos But nowadays, some TH-camrs make money out of the dumbest and simplest videos like house tours, or the "this video..." trend or "Giving my friend random free stuff that YOU can't afford!" or other lazy videos
TH-cam used to be so raw, and anyone could post anything and make it. It didn’t matter what it was. Now it’s so polished and limited and you can’t even have an opinion anymore without getting attacked. It was for the fun of it, no one cared about the money. It was an escape. Now there isn’t one...
I usually am bothered when the algorithm tries to push videos in front of me - too often I don't find them interesting or insightful. This is not one of these times. Your channel is a breath of fresh air and I love the variety and clarity you offer in videos. Thanks for making cool stuff because you like to - it shows! (And consider me subscribed as I binge a couple more of your videos :)
My first TH-cam video was back in 2007, we still had dial up internet and it took 7 hours to upload a 4MB video. At the time there was only a a spinning icon so I had no clue if my video was actually uploading. That was an interesting time LOL
Great video! As a content creator who's around since the old days of youtube, i can totally relate to everything you said ... youtube was a very different place back then.
You made me realise the videos I make are in the goofy old TH-cam style. Possibly because I was never allowed to upload to TH-cam as a kid. Love your video essays, keep em up!! :D
I think I got into a youtube a bit after the main phase you're talking about, but even the tail end of the golden age that I caught still holds a special place in my heart
As a gen Z person born in 2001 I remember seeing the "Broadcast Yourself" slogan under the TH-cam logo on my dad's laptop, the first time I was exploring internet in the late 2000s. Miss those days 😢😢😢
it kinda pisses me off that people get famous on youtube for just looking like they just got 100 plastic surgeries, or for just being rich assholes. you deserve a million subs
Bro I never got to use TH-cam until 2019 when I was 15 so I never knew the old youtube, but watching this video... it makes me strangely nostalgic for it though I have no experience with it?? It makes me want to go back to those days when the internet was not a generally toxic wasteland. Btw it would be so cool if you made a playlist of your favorite older vids for people like me to watch! God bless
I miss the days of youtube feeling like a real series of videos by regular people. The content machine can be informative, but sucked the soul of out what it originally was between branding and formula. Rip to a legend.
Man I wish I could go back to the days making stupid skit videos with my best friends in junior high. We used to have a sleepovers and crank out 5 videos in a single night, absolutely terrible but some of the most fun I’ve had
I joined TH-cam around 2010-2011. I remember seeing TH-cam Rewind 2012 and being so bewildered, even though I didn't know almost any of the people in it. If what you describe is the golden age, I feel like I grew in the silver age. I grew up on Jacksepticeye, Pewdiepie, Markiplier and Smosh. I remember walking home everyday from school and sitting down to watch 2 hour gameplay videos, and since I didn't really watch much of anything else, I would feel bad if I missed one. Nowadays I don't really do this anymore because I prefer to play the games myself. I would say I miss that era but honestly now we live at the time with the most plethora of good TH-cam content. However, I do still miss a less strict, more carefree TH-cam, where you didn't have to worry about swearing or being politically correct all the time. TH-cam feels less like a counter-culture and way more corporate.
I subscribed because when I started this video all I thought of was balloonshop. I'm glad you had the same enlightened experiences with the balloon boys as I did ❤️
I’m actually one of those people who make littlest pet shop videos! It’s not exactly playing (though in some cases, and at the beginning of my channel, it is). Also, the same thing happened in our community, the first lps video of the style of the ones today was made in 2007, videos peaked in 2015, and now the community sadly has gotten a lot smaller due to Coppa and people getting older (though this does mean a rise in quality due to age). So these videos aren’t exactly as new as your video make them seem to be (unless you were saying this is one of the only video type close to what TH-cam was like in those times ) I still have fun making videos though and even if I don’t get very many views, I still continue. It just sucks that there’s some people who do it just for the views and money, which I think was never the point of TH-cam to begin with. Anyways, good video!
Mister Sweet thanks ^~^ I needed a person on TH-cam you showed that smosh before Anthony left was the best and not crude or dumb and other things simply cause it was from a simpler time
I feel like rn is a great moment for some niche channels. Like Joel Haver said when he hit 1m subs after being an youtuber for so long: "well i find it funny. i'm like, i find what we're doing good and you're telling me there aren't hundreds if not thousands if not millions of people out there who might have the same sense of humor and same taste?"
TH-cam is at its best now. Back in 2007 you could watch for 20 minutes as a laugh but nowadays there is so much high quality content you can spend all day here
Cool perspective. During the “golden age” I was 20 years old and recording Beatles covers on my guitar, one of them had like 250,000 views, which translates to about 5 people in real life paying attention to me.
YES YES YES! I cannot even agree with some of the channels, but THE CONCEPT or the imagination and exploration and Joy is gone...... I turn TH-cam on now and just get depressed and spend my time clicking "Not Interested".
I can remember back in 2010 when my cousin made me a youtube account so i could favorite and subscribe to channels. The first ever video I watched was the It's Over 9000 scene from Dragon Ball Z and that was the first ever video I liked. Simple times
DUDE ! Thanks to you, I've been LMAO for the past hour, watching Darth Chad. This is the most rediculas thing I've seen in years. It's grrrrrreat ! Thank you So much for mentioning it in your video. Somehow I'd missed this content in all the (lost track) years of youtube I've watched. Brilliant stuff ! 🤣
I was about 10 or so during the golden age of youtube so I was just old enough to really experience it, although I would have experienced more if it didn't take my internet 30min to load each video.
I was lucky enough to be 22 in 2007. Weezer did an early little tribute to this era with the video for Pork and Beans (2008). They even managed to get many protagonists of famous videos to participate. It would be impossible today, as top youtuber are much richer and more famous than the band. How nostalgic!
I know that this video is two years old, so a belated “thank you” for mentioning that old TH-cam videos were clean and wholesome. Videos just seem to be so tasteless now. Not to mention “cookie cutter.” Nothing original at all.
I feel bad that youth today will never experience the Wild West internet we had. It used to be for teh lulz, now it's just for narcissists and mega corporations to make money.
I grew up on old youtube. I was in elementary school when I watched most of these. Re-watching old youtube content is enough to make a grown man cry. I miss it.
This is a beautiful video truly. This was a beautiful time on the internet. I wish I had taken advantage and made videos at the time. Guess I’ll do it now maybe
I grew up in the “golden age” but I’d say the content available is a lot better now. Y’all ever gone back and watched old smosh videos? Sure there is a lot of crap on here but also channels like this, Shammy, Vsauce, NakeyJakey, etc.
TH-cam’s like the Catholic Church in the medieval ages instead of making money instead of spreading the word of Jesus it’s making money instead of providing entertainment
Anyone remember HLG that Halo 3 community. Hidden Masters and stuff. Haha Lui turned into Lui Calibre that big GTA TH-camr. The rest of them. Who knows where they are.
I would argue against that era being the "Golden Age" of TH-cam, as there were far fewer youtubers who had quality content, and thus everyone watched the same people, such as Smosh, =3, etc. Nowadays there are literally millions of youtubers pumping out incredible content about all sorts of things, including niches far too small to be worth making videos about in the past. Every month I discover new creators who make me ask myself "how did I not know about them before?" Mister Sweet being one of them.
Ah hey well thank you! Is agree theres more people now making higher quality! I just feel like the passion and the simplicity is missing! You have to try something so grand and new to stand out!
It feels like there's a bit of a false dichotomy created at times...? Defining all old YT as 'great' just because it was unsophisticated feels wrong, but so does wholesale condemning current YT just because some of it is professional (personally, I applaud the fact some creators are able to make a living doing what they love!) My take would be that there's been plenty of crap around on the platform right from the start, and also some good stuff, so that YT monetization has just incentivised a different set of problems...? For example, the sheer volume of content now creates a challenge in its own right. As for whether the YT algorithm itself actually has any redeeming features...? That's a whole other discussion!! 🤦🏻♀️😜
The moment money became the incentive, it when TH-cam fall started.
I remember when Ad revenue first started, all the top channels said the same "I don't want ad revenue, because it would make TH-cam feel like a job" , now all of them make videos with all the ad checkmarks, streched as long as necessary, Tags out the ass, etc.
I will never not be upset.
Is that why so many ramble now and repeat themselves going on and on like WTF?
Oh no I cant believe people make money doing what they love >:(
@@kylehill3643 I've seen some dudes who say all they have to in the first 2 minutes, then repeat, repeat, repeat until they hit 20 minutes of "content".
I was a 16 year old in 2007 and remember this era like yesterday. People just uploaded their videos in the spirit of fun. No overanalyzing. No target demographic or goal in mind. Videos didn’t have the pristine editing and high quality they have now, but they sure were fun to watch. Good times.
@Doge man early-stage TikTok was a lot more wholesome than it is now
As someone who remembers early TH-cam and the Golden Age of Vine, there are a lot of similarities between the general vibes of the two.
Yeah man. i remember it was common to post all of our video school projects, so we could go back and watch it over and over again. They were mostly cringy af but, there was no overthinking, no expectations of “going viral”, no haters, no fear being ridiculed or cancelled. It was just for fun.
Kinda crazy to look back at those days and compare it with what YT is now. I really dont think anyone could have foreseen it
They turned it into a job. Your not allowed to have fun on the internet anymore
Now its a money making platform, instead of a fun'ness website.
Manuel Daza nope , the youtube company has upgraded alot of shit with money . and if they don't make money but spend cash , youtube's going bankrupt
* ꧁cronoxus bot꧂* TH-cam’s owned by google I don’t think they are going to get bankrupt
Sweet Te well it's certainly will be a huge impact in their income
@@bruhmoment2632 For years YT never actually made a profit, I don't know if they make a profit to this day. A classic example of a startup tech company business model, people invest for the prospect of future profits, while being a loss leader the platform outcompetes others to eventually become a near monopoly. Given the massive rise in ads the last few years, I think they are trying to cash in.
and isnt it funner, woohooo‼️
I was in middle school during the Golden Age of TH-cam and I didn’t know how good we had it. My friends and I watched Smosh, ASDFMovie and the Lazer Collection like a ritual, and, by God, we memorized every line. Such good times those were.
Wish I was born about 10 years earlier
@@cephalicwasteland3504 well you know, the great thing about the internet is that once it's posted, it's posted forever! My favorites to add to this list are old Nigahiga and Charlie the Unicorn
Potter puppet pals
i got chills when i read asdf movie i miss that shiff
I would argue the golden age is nowadays, as there are so many creators about so many topics... Back then there were only a few, really good youtubers, but now there are millions who excel and I will never even see due to how many there are.
This guy knows how to use his free ads. Love your channel dude!
How do you get free ads?
I MISS OLD SMOSH AAAHHHHH.
I WOULD LITERALLY DIE WHEN EVER I WATCHED THOSE VIDS.
now I'm just kinda bored tbh..
I also miss Anthony's emo hair :(
Exac
SHUT UPPP!!
Bruno Shamony I was about to say that
Same
The most honest video I've watched in awhile. We need a reset button.
Wow, this video was amazing, it’s sad that not a lot of people have seen it. Small channels are so hard to find, and finding the good channels which are genuine and just make content that they enjoy is like a needle in a haystack. I was born in 2005, so I was too young to see old TH-cam. However, it seems like a really great place, and very different from what we have today.
Top Rank AUDIOBOOKS PLUS Thank you so much! as someone born in 2001, it was an amazing time! Videos were made and uploaded by random people just to make other people laugh or be impressed! Nothing was censored or motivated by money!
I was just old enough to see a lot of it (born in 1999) and what it honestly reminds me of is modern day meme culture on social media. Just imagine if all of TH-cam, all of it, were just all those cheap, jank, yet gut-busting skits and such you see on Twitter, formerly Vine, Tik-Tok, etc., accompanied by an occasional passion project with a higher quality like a really good stick fight animation for example. I’d argue to an extent, the type of content that made old TH-cam great hasn’t necessarily gone away, just that today it’s much more dispersed across different online platforms, and is extremely limited on TH-cam itself. I should also put forth that the last decade or so of content has definitely influenced how people make content today. I’d wager the average uploader to any social media platform is far more cautious, and self-conscious than a lot of the early, really raw, unedited, unfiltered personalities and videos that started TH-cam. Smosh, Ijustine, all those early people, they didn’t have a decade worth of online content to model themselves off of, so they weren’t emulating the kind of online archetypes we have today.
All of the good small channels get big quick and then they are not the same
same :D I was also born in 2005
I grew up in 2005, and surprisingly i was able to see the real good side of TH-cam when i was young, and let me tell you something, it was awesome.
2007-2008 was a really good time for TH-cam.
There were reuploads of older content from Newgrounds and YTMND.
"Current" content was TH-cam Poops, Halo 3 vs CoD, AVGN and Nostalgia Critic retrospectives, and just fun stuff being done for the sake of doing it.
We were also right at the start of copyright takedowns (shoutout to WMG and Viacom!), and a bit too early for widespread monetisation and irl politics.
It was also the year I created this account, so I'm _most definitely_ biased. :P
This guy makes better content than me but has less subs, proof youtube is broken asf
Now he has more
The Hateocracy deserved
TH-cam will always be broken... that's why it's the most important to support the upcoming channels that you like...
Old youtube was great because they made their content for fun, most TH-camrs now just want money and fame. But smaller TH-camrs are usually more genuine because they’re not making much if any money so they do it mainly for fun.
I guess that’s where the old slogan “Broadcast Yourself” came from
Old youtube was more entertainment cause there were less toxic people in the coummmity.
Also the new policy is so garbage.
To be honest I wasn't expecting much from the ad I clicked on, however, you've got a great style and I'd love to watch that grow. Plus being reminded of old TH-cam and the og creators is always a good thing
I was just a little kid in the golden age of youtube and I barely remember it, but damn do I miss it.
The fact the not only you know what ballon shop is but the fact that you actually talked about it brings so much joy to me. Balloon shop played a major role in my childhood and gave me such a strange beautiful feeling.
I’m so glad you know about them!!!! They formed most of my passion for video making!!
Love the video, so strange all this was a over a decade ago at this point. I do want to contend this idea that old TH-cam was cleaner. I mean the larger freedom was great for people getting to produce so much interesting content. But there was also to be honest, a lot of shock, gore, and gross-out stuff around that time period. I mean, remember when 2 girls 1 cup was one of the biggest videos on the platform? Or when that one video of literal terrorists beheading a US soldier went viral? I mean besides those extremes, there was also plenty of dirty, entertaining, adult skits, like Harry Potter puppet friends, or like any of the early abridged series like Yugioh Abridged, or Happy Tree Friends, etc.
Feels weird to listen to a 20year old talk about "old youtube".
Great summary either way!
The irony is that back when TH-cam and everyone on it weren't really making money, TH-camrs would make the best entertaining videos
But nowadays, some TH-camrs make money out of the dumbest and simplest videos like house tours, or the "this video..." trend or "Giving my friend random free stuff that YOU can't afford!" or other lazy videos
TH-cam used to be so raw, and anyone could post anything and make it. It didn’t matter what it was. Now it’s so polished and limited and you can’t even have an opinion anymore without getting attacked. It was for the fun of it, no one cared about the money. It was an escape. Now there isn’t one...
10/10, would cry again
I usually am bothered when the algorithm tries to push videos in front of me - too often I don't find them interesting or insightful. This is not one of these times. Your channel is a breath of fresh air and I love the variety and clarity you offer in videos. Thanks for making cool stuff because you like to - it shows! (And consider me subscribed as I binge a couple more of your videos :)
I’m so glad you enjoy my stuff!!
My first TH-cam video was back in 2007, we still had dial up internet and it took 7 hours to upload a 4MB video. At the time there was only a a spinning icon so I had no clue if my video was actually uploading. That was an interesting time LOL
This is literally what tiktok is now! And coming from someone who watched old TH-cam it’s pretty cool
...no. Tik tok is about money. sooooo much about money. And extremely toxic
@@purplerobin92 you’re so right. I had to stop using tiktok. It literally is the worst a person can do to themselves.
Great video! As a content creator who's around since the old days of youtube, i can totally relate to everything you said ... youtube was a very different place back then.
Thank you! I’m glad you liked the video!!
I think this is why Joel Haver took of recently. He has this "doing it for fun" aura of old youtube.
Well that was a lot of nostalgia. . . Subscribed
You made me realise the videos I make are in the goofy old TH-cam style. Possibly because I was never allowed to upload to TH-cam as a kid.
Love your video essays, keep em up!! :D
The good old days… 🥲
I think I got into a youtube a bit after the main phase you're talking about, but even the tail end of the golden age that I caught still holds a special place in my heart
First ad that didn't clickbait
Man, this was the video I needed to watch today. Such wonderful times. And you presented it so well :)
Who can also forget fan made Lego films with super low quality audio, the days of YTMND and of course countless parodies among many others
As a gen Z person born in 2001 I remember seeing the "Broadcast Yourself" slogan under the TH-cam logo on my dad's laptop, the first time I was exploring internet in the late 2000s. Miss those days 😢😢😢
it kinda pisses me off that people get famous on youtube for just looking like they just got 100 plastic surgeries, or for just being rich assholes. you deserve a million subs
Bro I never got to use TH-cam until 2019 when I was 15 so I never knew the old youtube, but watching this video... it makes me strangely nostalgic for it though I have no experience with it?? It makes me want to go back to those days when the internet was not a generally toxic wasteland. Btw it would be so cool if you made a playlist of your favorite older vids for people like me to watch! God bless
I’m so glad you liked it! That playlist idea is actually awesome! I’ll send you a link of I ever do it!
Love this man's content so much, this video was a refreshing glass of nostalgic lemonade :)
Whelp... Now I've got the badger song stuck in my head.
Thanks a lot....
I miss the days of youtube feeling like a real series of videos by regular people. The content machine can be informative, but sucked the soul of out what it originally was between branding and formula. Rip to a legend.
This was worth watching
I screen shot this becuase I wanna have proof that I knew of him when he had 220 subs before he blows up
Takaya Montez de Oca Oh you absolutely just made my day!
Yes
Ok good for you nobody will care
My goodness I miss those days. Now somebody can do a reaction about another reaction about another reaction and people actually enjoy it
fancy seeing you here Carpo
Finally youtube recommended me an ad thats actually cool
Facts
Man I wish I could go back to the days making stupid skit videos with my best friends in junior high. We used to have a sleepovers and crank out 5 videos in a single night, absolutely terrible but some of the most fun I’ve had
This deserves more views
I joined TH-cam around 2010-2011. I remember seeing TH-cam Rewind 2012 and being so bewildered, even though I didn't know almost any of the people in it. If what you describe is the golden age, I feel like I grew in the silver age. I grew up on Jacksepticeye, Pewdiepie, Markiplier and Smosh. I remember walking home everyday from school and sitting down to watch 2 hour gameplay videos, and since I didn't really watch much of anything else, I would feel bad if I missed one. Nowadays I don't really do this anymore because I prefer to play the games myself. I would say I miss that era but honestly now we live at the time with the most plethora of good TH-cam content. However, I do still miss a less strict, more carefree TH-cam, where you didn't have to worry about swearing or being politically correct all the time. TH-cam feels less like a counter-culture and way more corporate.
I subscribed because when I started this video all I thought of was balloonshop. I'm glad you had the same enlightened experiences with the balloon boys as I did ❤️
I’m actually one of those people who make littlest pet shop videos! It’s not exactly playing (though in some cases, and at the beginning of my channel, it is). Also, the same thing happened in our community, the first lps video of the style of the ones today was made in 2007, videos peaked in 2015, and now the community sadly has gotten a lot smaller due to Coppa and people getting older (though this does mean a rise in quality due to age). So these videos aren’t exactly as new as your video make them seem to be (unless you were saying this is one of the only video type close to what TH-cam was like in those times )
I still have fun making videos though and even if I don’t get very many views, I still continue. It just sucks that there’s some people who do it just for the views and money, which I think was never the point of TH-cam to begin with. Anyways, good video!
I'd say 2013 was the last year of TH-cam's first prime wave, great video
Please continue to make content dude
You’re so underrated, but still, you earned your 802nd sub!
Why do you not have more views/ likes/ subscribers????? You are fucking amazing, keep up the wonderful work man!!!!
I totally remember those good old days of YT. So glad I was able to enjoy those times. I remember watching those videos in my computer class
This was a channel promotion, now it’s not… uh… don’t wanna delete this comment because people replied to it
Mister Sweet thanks ^~^ I needed a person on TH-cam you showed that smosh before Anthony left was the best and not crude or dumb and other things simply cause it was from a simpler time
Mister Sweet Glad I clicked on the promotion! You make some good stuff bro
For once something on the ads is something I actually wanted to see
I think this is the first actually good channel promotion I've seen, great work!
I feel like rn is a great moment for some niche channels. Like Joel Haver said when he hit 1m subs after being an youtuber for so long: "well i find it funny. i'm like, i find what we're doing good and you're telling me there aren't hundreds if not thousands if not millions of people out there who might have the same sense of humor and same taste?"
damn this was a mad wholesome video thank you for making my night golden age youtube forever
How does this introspective content only have 20k views. Siskel and Ebert says two thumbs up
You're like wholesome, sane(ish) filthyfrank. I love it!
It’s crazy how he keeps hearting comments after a year.
Drunk Raccoon you don’t want a heart?
Mister Sweet yeah, but don’t get me wrong it’s amazing is what I tried to say.
@@Romulus_aint_shyt okay I give heart anyway
Mister Sweet thank you very much ❤️
This is a good video
Thx for those wise words! This needs to geht pointed Out. Hope there will BE better times
The golden age of TH-cam was 2016 filthy frank, Idubbz, max, leafy is here that was my golden age
Such a nice wholesome video! Thank you!
TH-cam is at its best now. Back in 2007 you could watch for 20 minutes as a laugh but nowadays there is so much high quality content you can spend all day here
holy shit the nostalgia hit hard, totally forgot about chad vader lol
And then in 2009 I came across Balloon Shop. Awesome stuff
Cool perspective. During the “golden age” I was 20 years old and recording Beatles covers on my guitar, one of them had like 250,000 views, which translates to about 5 people in real life paying attention to me.
YES YES YES! I cannot even agree with some of the channels, but THE CONCEPT or the imagination and exploration and Joy is gone...... I turn TH-cam on now and just get depressed and spend my time clicking "Not Interested".
Hello! This is my first time ever seeing your channel!
TH-cam just disable my video's comment only bcuz i set "this video is for kids" i wanna go back to old yt, new one suck ;-;
I can remember back in 2010 when my cousin made me a youtube account so i could favorite and subscribe to channels. The first ever video I watched was the It's Over 9000 scene from Dragon Ball Z and that was the first ever video I liked. Simple times
DUDE ! Thanks to you, I've been LMAO for the past hour, watching Darth Chad.
This is the most rediculas thing I've seen in years. It's grrrrrreat !
Thank you So much for mentioning it in your video.
Somehow I'd missed this content in all the (lost track) years of youtube I've watched.
Brilliant stuff ! 🤣
Oh I’m so glad!!!!
I was about 10 or so during the golden age of youtube so I was just old enough to really experience it, although I would have experienced more if it didn't take my internet 30min to load each video.
I remember my boss saying what is all this TH-cam’s everywhere?
May this channel bloom up
I was lucky enough to be 22 in 2007.
Weezer did an early little tribute to this era with the video for Pork and Beans (2008).
They even managed to get many protagonists of famous videos to participate.
It would be impossible today, as top youtuber are much richer and more famous than the band.
How nostalgic!
Your old now man well middle aged did you get married or other things people do when there 30
I know that this video is two years old, so a belated “thank you” for mentioning that old TH-cam videos were clean and wholesome. Videos just seem to be so tasteless now. Not to mention “cookie cutter.” Nothing original at all.
I feel bad that youth today will never experience the Wild West internet we had. It used to be for teh lulz, now it's just for narcissists and mega corporations to make money.
Oh my god this man just made me remember I was a nigahiga fan!
Dude! I just came across your channel, and it's sooo good! And this video does a great job explaining why. Keep it up, man!
You wanna talk about old TH-cam, then we should talk about Nathan Barnatt sometime.
I grew up on old youtube. I was in elementary school when I watched most of these. Re-watching old youtube content is enough to make a grown man cry. I miss it.
AYE the littlest pet shop videos were here on old youtube, i loved watching those as a kid 😭
This is a beautiful video truly. This was a beautiful time on the internet. I wish I had taken advantage and made videos at the time. Guess I’ll do it now maybe
I'll never forget the series "How animals eat their food".... Those videos define the Golden Age of YT for me.
this is the best ad thingy I’ve ever seen
i liked 2012 youtube though
TH-cam: it’s nothing personal it’s just business
Me: but at what cost that you lost the most important thing to you, creativity
I grew up in the “golden age” but I’d say the content available is a lot better now. Y’all ever gone back and watched old smosh videos? Sure there is a lot of crap on here but also channels like this, Shammy, Vsauce, NakeyJakey, etc.
This is great advice for smaller yt channels like me and my friends channel 😁 thank u
Happy to help!
My dude why you only at 15k subs wtf you're videos are great my sir you have me sold make more feed the algorithm
damn an actual quality youtube that uses ads, every other youtubed with ads is complete aids, not you tho keep it up good job
TH-cam’s like the Catholic Church in the medieval ages instead of making money instead of spreading the word of Jesus it’s making money instead of providing entertainment
This was honestly refreshing to see, it felt like a glimpse of the golden age of youtube, really good content!
im so glad this was in my recommended :))
Anyone remember HLG that Halo 3 community. Hidden Masters and stuff. Haha Lui turned into Lui Calibre that big GTA TH-camr. The rest of them. Who knows where they are.
Smosh..... good memories...... I missed those days.... even the Pen 15 days lol
I would argue against that era being the "Golden Age" of TH-cam, as there were far fewer youtubers who had quality content, and thus everyone watched the same people, such as Smosh, =3, etc. Nowadays there are literally millions of youtubers pumping out incredible content about all sorts of things, including niches far too small to be worth making videos about in the past. Every month I discover new creators who make me ask myself "how did I not know about them before?" Mister Sweet being one of them.
Ah hey well thank you! Is agree theres more people now making higher quality! I just feel like the passion and the simplicity is missing! You have to try something so grand and new to stand out!
It feels like there's a bit of a false dichotomy created at times...? Defining all old YT as 'great' just because it was unsophisticated feels wrong, but so does wholesale condemning current YT just because some of it is professional (personally, I applaud the fact some creators are able to make a living doing what they love!)
My take would be that there's been plenty of crap around on the platform right from the start, and also some good stuff, so that YT monetization has just incentivised a different set of problems...? For example, the sheer volume of content now creates a challenge in its own right.
As for whether the YT algorithm itself actually has any redeeming features...? That's a whole other discussion!! 🤦🏻♀️😜
@@anna_in_aotearoa3166 eh actually just asked my mom and she said you’re wrong
This video is too wholesome... I love it ^v^
Joel Haver out here making good quality skit videos just like the old days
Geez Louise yes! He is hilarious!
Omg, balloon shop was my childhood lol
Wholesome gush with a dash of a git off my lawn rant. Perfection.
I found this because it's an ad but I'm glad I found this
You earn my sub :)