We did it on field day (couldn’t go outside bc it rained) and I won bc I was tall and could stack it high up than the other kids. That’s my claim to fame
My favorite part of Bo's performance was right after Katy Perry awkwardly tried flirting with a teenager( Bo) his first words were Thank you MRS Perry. Absolute roast. Bo was and is the best. 2008 YT was so interesting... Daxflame, Bo Burnham, Smosh, Nigahiga, FRED, Rhett and Link... crazy
Funny story, Bo Burnham performed at my college in 2010 or 2011, and... He's not allowed to come back because he threw a mic stand across the stage and the school got mad. 😂
@@TulpechaidoplaysMCpretty sure that was a subtle way to say, "yeah I just turned 18 woman who is well into her 20s, that was a really weird thing to say."
Man… 2008. What a year. That was the year I was born, died, got married, had 6 children, graduated college AND high school, and discovered the Knights Templar treasure. Good times :’)
I forgot how big a deal the whole cup stacking thing was until this moment. Like everyone was so into it. And then it bled so smoothly into that stupid cup song that every girl learned like, overnight I guess.
I had a friend in middle school who came in 2nd place at our state championship for cup stacking! Apparently it’s very popular amongst Asian countries (my friend is Japanese and said about 3/4 of the competitors were Asian). She’s still crazy good at it.
God bless this struggling king with his original ideas. Like honestly hes not just churning out copies of other commentary TH-camrs like some do but actually giving us such original videos. GET THIS MAN TO ONE MIL
It's seriously the biggest reason i like him,he delivers original video ideas while remaining wholesome and funny. Why he doesn't have a million subscribers yet is a mystery to me.
It's almost disturbing just how vast the gap between every performance is to Bo Burnham's. Dude was the only person there who seemed to understand exactly where he was and where the platform was going.
i mean she was reading from a pre written script lol. she didn't sexualize him whoever wrote that intro did. unless you guys honestly think Katy Perry writes her own segways at awards shows
I don’t think she was married in 2008 though. I took Bo’s response to be reminding her that he was still just a kid (he was 18 at the time and she was 24)
Props to Lucas for getting himself basically set for life from taking Nickelodeon's money, personally I don't watch his current content and I didn't really watch Fred in the day either but he seems genuinely happy with his life from what I've seen of him currently and I can't put him down for that
Firstly, Komi-san supremacy. Secondly, I never liked Fred as a young person but I do enjoy watching Lucas now, and yeah he's doing well from what I see!
I watched back in the Fred days, and still do now. I think there was a few years I forgot about him when I was busy with school and life, but one day I was like "oh yeah, how's he doing?" And started watching again lol
“A whole damn group of ukes?!?! Something about that is just unsettling.” Oh if you think that small group is unsettling, I have your nightmare scenario. Two weekends ago I went to a nearby ukulele carnival and strummed along with around 100 other ukulele players. I really enjoyed it, but I could see how that’s a bit much.
reminds me of the nearby ukulele fest that just happened near me lmao (possibly the same one, or maybe uke fests are just more popular than i realized)
YT events where they mash genres together reminds me of when teachers would force you to hang out w/ other kids because "everyone needs to get along" but it just ends up being awkward, boring, and cringey because nobody likes the same thing
Oh, wow, those bits with bo burnham really show how jaded he already was. I’m surprised that this event wasn’t brought up in CJ’s video, but it’s true - he really was patient zero, and he already knew it by the time he was 18.
I assume with Cj’s research, either he saw this and then was able to put it in with other moments where bo burnham seemed super jaded OR this is so fucking hard to find that not even Cj saw it, which means it was truly hidden because Cj does so much intense research. we should tweet this at him this seems like something he would lose his mind at honestly. Like mentioned in the video, its probably only that clip of his song that was commonly found and not the whole live show
@@Babyteef yeah seriously, the digging in that video alone was just bonkers - I wouldn't be shocked if it just didn't make the cut for the video tbh, it was so long. I don't use Twitter or anything like that but it def seems like something cj would be super interested to see
Patient zero...for what? Jaded depression? Cause that's been around for a bit longer than that lol. Sorry if I'm missing your meaning, but a little context might help
@@randomwowjunkie a youtube essayist (CJtheX) made a long-ass video discussing bo burnham, specifically the Jeff Bezos song from inside, and in that video CJ went through every single piece of Bo's comedy that he could find, and one huge part of the video was that Bo was really one of the first viral TH-cam sensations to end up with a massive audience, and specifically said he was "patient zero" for the world we live in now where every single thing we do online is a performance etc. It's an incredible video and I highly recommend watching it
man you don't get a lot of people talking about this era nowadays. it's hard to find people to share the nostalgia with, i feel alone. thank you for the video
Did anyone else notice Rhett and Link in the crowd at 9:48? So weird seeing them in the audience of something like this knowing how massive they are now!
@@TheProofLady yeah but T Shirt Wars and Chuck Testa were 10/11 years ago. In 2008 they’d only just done Online Nation so I don’t think they were “dominating” yet
People forget that before he got big for doing VFX videos on youtube with FreddieW/RocketJump he was renown for his Guitar Hero capabilities. IIRC he won some national Guitar Hero competitions.
Tay Zonday is an icon Additionally: The memory that is cup stacking was one I completely forgot about, but oh boy was I obsessed with cup stacking. I tried to learn how to be good at stacking cups, but I literally have no coordination.
No joke. I just heard "Welcome to TH-cam" for the first time this past week because I was on Bo Burnham's Spotify listening to "Welcome to the Internet" for the five billionth time and stumbled across it. I could tell it was dated. I'm 22 so I am old enough to remember certain things about 2008. I remember Fred(Lucas Cruikshank) and Nigahiga's videos so fondly but my access to the internet was spotty at best. I didn't always have it so that's probably why I missed out on things like TH-cam Live. I would have been all over that shit if I had known about it as a 9 year old. 😂
It's crazy to see how people viewed TH-cam back in the day, they saw it as more of a trendy reality show and less as a website that would change the entertainment industry forever
Yeah, like I want to go back in time to when I was four and invest in TH-cam stocks, cause damn is it so influential to our modern way of consuming media.
This makes me think how crazy it is that Bo Burnham, Issa Rae, and Justin Bieber became so popular that they basically transcended TH-cam. I mean, they got their starts here, but they're hardly associated with the website anymore.
I didn’t know TH-cam Live was a thing! Despite that, I was 100% the demographic that they were going for. I recognized every featured creator, and the nostalgia hit like a ton of bricks. TH-cam Live today would be so hard to do, because, as you said, even millions of followers nowadays doesn’t mean nearly as much. The “most followed” TH-camrs aren’t even on my radar, and I’m sure that’s true for a lot of other viewers. Thanks for covering this! The Wild West of TH-cam is always fun to look back on.
At the time his channel was modeled off of Perez Hilton and TMZ-esque celebrity gossip blogs. Eventually as TH-cam got bigger and youtubers more famous, these style of channels evolved into the drama channels like Keemstar where they talk about more TH-cam centric gossip and drama.
I think the reason ‘The Mythbusters’ act was kind of mid, was that it was originally designed as an exemplar tool for showing graphical power differences between a CPU and a GPU for Nvidia when ‘The Mythbusters’ hosted one of their Cons. They showed a single paintball gun on an articulating arm draw a smiley face and then used the big machine to make a rough image of the mona Lisa by sticking different colored paintballs in the various barrels and shooting them out at once. This showed the graphical advantage of Nvidia’s multiple Cuda cores vs the much less powerful CPU graphics. I think that video is still up on YT somewhere.
i'v never seen this live show, but I can feel the pure iconic energy it holds just from hearing you describe it and showing clips. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
nothing but love for MatPat and what he does for the community. i honestly still watch all the theory videos even though i'm 25 lol. his humour isn't for me anymore, but his dedication to the platform and other creators is really admirable
17:17 In defense of the cup-stacking bit of the show, cup-stacking was HUGE on youtube in 2008. A massive community of people trying to beat each other’s records. It makes waaaaay more sense for the sports segment to be about cup-stacking than something like soccer/football because the cup-stacking community found a unique place on youtube whereas (like you said) soccer/football was something already universal that appealed to a wide international audience. I know this vid is 2 years old now, but to anyone reading this now, I highly recommend Jordy McNeill’s cup-stacking video! She goes over a bit of history as well as her own experiences in that youtube niche :)
6:37 last year, because of Covid we weren’t allowed to sing in choir and as an alternative, the choir director had us learn to play ukulele and then at the end of the year we did a concert with the ukuleles. Choir was made up of a decent chunk of the 7th and 8th graders so if that TH-cam live group was too much, I guess ours was insanity
Matt Sloan of the Chad Vader Star Wars series has actually voiced Darth Vader in many of the Lego Star Wars shows/games… so Disney couldn’t have been too mad haha. What a wild ride back to 2008 this was though.
Ohhh I’ve been WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!! I skipped out on a party in 2008 to watch this event aired live on TH-cam. I still have Bo’s song memorized. There was a new Charlie the Unicorn animation. I truly thought it was the best day ever. This is the trip down memory lane I NEEDED
(mind you, I was in middle school & the party was really a dinner party for my parents friends and me being an awkward preteen would’ve much rather stayed home to watch TH-cam Live. also just now remembering I also had a Flip camera and the quality was absolutely shit lol)
I remember watching the his live for the sole reason of hearing bo's new song because I was 13 and had a huge crush on him. and I was also just proud of myself for knowing nearly every single act in the show. Crazy.
Early TH-cam was great, had a much stronger community. Back when most "big’ TH-camrs knew each other a least a bit. Back when you could post video responses directly to a specific video. You had the Vlogbrothers taking over TH-cam’s front page yearly (back when TH-cam had a real trending system) and most TH-camrs in support making P4A videos of their favorite charity. Also in 2009 when Vlogbrothers used its community the Nerdfighters to compete in the DARPA Network Challenge, a challenge with 10 balloons across the US for a chance at $40,000 for charity. I got a call in the morning of the event from Pogobat/Dan Brown (creator of one of the first popular interactive videos Who Wants to be a YouTubBllionaire), he asked me to search around Houston since a balloon had been rumored to be there. Was a ton of fun searching for it that day. We lost to MIT but we put up a good fight. I could go on and on about little nuggets of early TH-cam history, it had an Impact on me too.
It's so weird, he ticks every box. His videos are fun to watch and nicely edited, he's naturally funny and charming and seems genuinely nice, he's creative and has a real talent for this. I know his numbers are growing and he's bigger than 90% of channels but I think it's time our boy took off. Stratospheric babyyyy
I think it's because Danny and Drew are more on the funny side. They do jokes and mini sketches and even some of the not jokes are funny, and while Scott is entertaining as hell, it isn't a content you usually laugh at yknow
@@dottyContrarian from the show golden girls, the character sofia petrillo used to tell a lot of stories about her childhood back in sicily and usually started with that phrase
Holy shit, that kid acting out the Dark Knight scene... that is some difficult watching. He is putting forward such a sincere effort and that makes it hurt so much more. Instant second-hand embarrassment.
Quite the weird event. I missed this completely, but it's like a wild time capsule. I'm writing a fiction book in that time frame of 2000s, and it can be tricky to research things sometimes. Still, thank you man. MVP.
Hey Scott, that Guitar Hero player was FreddieW, in case you didn’t know. He got huge originally for being a pro at GH, doing tournaments and such. Just a little fun fact.
22:35 that is one goddamn legendary quote. the world pre 2014 was nearly perfect, the world pre 2016 was good. the world past 2016 is quite depressing more often than not
There is one thing missing in that show to encapsulate that time on YT, Notepad tutorial for anything techwise, with either Bring me to life, Numb, or Paralyzer playing in background
Back in 2008, people would just think of those videos as low-effort crap that nobody would want to feature in a high-quality production. It took 20 years for us to get the nostalgia value from them.
@@vurpo7080 Not true at all. Production value was just different back in the day and part of the charm of TH-cam was it was a launching pad to success where you could express yourself however you wanted. Lots of us were just using windows movie maker or just recording off webcams. Some knew about editing and some of us didn't. It was vlogging, showing off skills and tricks, making montages, making MVs and lip syncing. They were like online home videos for the public. It was cool and new so just having videos on a platform like TH-cam or Myspace was exciting to people.
as someone who lived through the times where speed stacks were the hottest thing, before scott even said the name of the sport, i was already screaming "speed stacking!!!" at the screen. simpler times... i remember half of the people in my class owned that shit (myself included lmao). a banger video as usual!!!
I have actually talked to Michael Buckley and he is very sweet and considerate, he did a lot of work on himself after ending his TH-cam show. While yes he was a human disaster in 2008 (who wasn’t tbh) he is generally a good person as far as I know
I think i remember him saying that one reason he stopped doing what the buck is because he did a lot of learning and he realized that the format no longer something that would work with all of the societal changes happening at the time. Im glad that he ended the show when he did and didnt try to continue forcing it.
Yes! I watched What the Buck back in the day, and I still follow him on Instagram now and he’s a completely different person now. I look forward to his Instagram videos in the mornings now.
11:05 WAIT, that was from youtube live?! I've seen the clip many times but never knew where that came from. Scott, you've left out what was arguably the best performance that night! Joe Satriani x Funtwo was awesome!
That guy playing guitar hero was first made popular for being insanely good at the game, but later went on to become a TH-cam legend. That is Freddie W that made extremely popular skits under that name before making Rocket Jump channel known for short videos like Medal of Honor Cat and his kickstart funded success series Video Game High School. He has moved on to other artistic endeavors, but his old group all have various successful projects going on still.
Ayyy, I love to see some love for Jon Bellion. Idk if he's "famous" by now. But I've always love his vocal percussion, and production in general. Haha, just cool to hear you shout him out.
@@adammgolan where have you heard this. Latest I've heard is that he feature on a track, and worked on the album with Lawrence. I know there were talk of an rap album at some point. With that old Twitter video he since deleted, where he was rapping. If you know of any news tho, please let me in. I'm so excited for more music from him!
It hypes me up when I see other people loving his music too! Even tho I kind of want to feel like he's like some secret underground artist that only I know of.
Gonna keep my 2008 hair permanently and there’s nothing you can do about it
NOOOOOOOOOO
There's nothing I want to do about it so suck it Scott!
shave it.
You naively thought you could avoid me, Scott.
You cannot.
TED is coming for you.
strugglin since 2008
this takes me back. welcome to youtube is a banger, katy perry was awkward, but i'm just impressed you pulled together all those references to 2008
Woah
Katy Perry became famous from being awkward
Awesome
ILY Jarvis
Hi Jarbis
Cup stacking was so huge that we literally had to do it in gym class. This was a buried memory until this video
Bro us too. They tried to break some record by having the most kids doing it at once on this particular day
Dammit I'm getting nostalgia from this
We did it on field day (couldn’t go outside bc it rained) and I won bc I was tall and could stack it high up than the other kids. That’s my claim to fame
I’m an elementary teacher and cup stacking is still a required unit the kids have to learn and practice lol
Same. Sometimes my gym teacher put it in like these obstacle courses we had to do every once in awhile
Scott saying "In 2008" is like a 80 year old saying "Back in my day".
I don’t care
@@parkerstrei5650 Ok
@@jackleslie7391 be quiet
@@parkerstrei5650 Be quite what?
@@jackleslie7391 I said be quiet dummy
It's an honor to have my reupload featured. You're the man, BTW!
Nice
Legend. I see you
Cheese...cat?
Thank you for bringing it back. 🙏
You’re a legend man
My favorite part of Bo's performance was right after Katy Perry awkwardly tried flirting with a teenager( Bo) his first words were Thank you MRS Perry. Absolute roast. Bo was and is the best. 2008 YT was so interesting... Daxflame, Bo Burnham, Smosh, Nigahiga, FRED, Rhett and Link... crazy
Funny story, Bo Burnham performed at my college in 2010 or 2011, and... He's not allowed to come back because he threw a mic stand across the stage and the school got mad. 😂
@@schrdngrskat3847 I mean ya that does sound pretty uncalled for
Except she wasn’t Mrs at all
@@schrdngrskat3847 why did he do that tho
@@TulpechaidoplaysMCpretty sure that was a subtle way to say, "yeah I just turned 18 woman who is well into her 20s, that was a really weird thing to say."
Man… 2008. What a year. That was the year I was born, died, got married, had 6 children, graduated college AND high school, and discovered the Knights Templar treasure. Good times :’)
No that was 2009
That’s an identity fraud moment
Heyyyy '08! That's the year I graduated too! *"08 Don't Hate"* was our class slogan😅
And the year i moved
Congrats on getting out of the 2008 timeloop btw.
I forgot how big a deal the whole cup stacking thing was until this moment. Like everyone was so into it. And then it bled so smoothly into that stupid cup song that every girl learned like, overnight I guess.
I still don’t know how to do it :’)
@@lucifernazaedi me neither honestly. It felt like everyone just suddenly knew how to do it and so I was like "why bother trying to learn now?"
When I was in elementary school we had a whole segment in p.e. focused on cup stacking...
I had a friend in middle school who came in 2nd place at our state championship for cup stacking! Apparently it’s very popular amongst Asian countries (my friend is Japanese and said about 3/4 of the competitors were Asian). She’s still crazy good at it.
i remember speed stacking cups took up an entire 6 weeks of PE class when i was a kid. crazy times
God bless this struggling king with his original ideas. Like honestly hes not just churning out copies of other commentary TH-camrs like some do but actually giving us such original videos. GET THIS MAN TO ONE MIL
forrreal im sick of copycat tubers
It's seriously the biggest reason i like him,he delivers original video ideas while remaining wholesome and funny.
Why he doesn't have a million subscribers yet is a mystery to me.
@@nourkrouma honestly !! I don’t understand why he isn’t more popular ? Like the algorithm or something maybe ? Bcus the content is there!
bro i only just realised that he’s not even at 1mil what. i always just assumed he had loads bc of how good his videos acc are hahaha
What about blockixel artistry :trol:
It's almost disturbing just how vast the gap between every performance is to Bo Burnham's.
Dude was the only person there who seemed to understand exactly where he was and where the platform was going.
“You might not be my cheese cat, but you are my hero” so touching
@@notyourcheesecat OH MY GOODNESS
Gotta love that after Katie Perry sexualised Bo Burnham, he immediately answered by reminding her that she was married. «Thanks Mrs. Perry» lol
And 8 years later he performed kill yourself in Make Happy.
i mean she was reading from a pre written script lol. she didn't sexualize him whoever wrote that intro did. unless you guys honestly think Katy Perry writes her own segways at awards shows
@@inyrui She was big enough already that she likely could've just said "no, change it".
I don’t think she was married in 2008 though. I took Bo’s response to be reminding her that he was still just a kid (he was 18 at the time and she was 24)
@@Fay7666 i think she didn't care enough to want to change it
Props to Lucas for getting himself basically set for life from taking Nickelodeon's money, personally I don't watch his current content and I didn't really watch Fred in the day either but he seems genuinely happy with his life from what I've seen of him currently and I can't put him down for that
Firstly, Komi-san supremacy.
Secondly, I never liked Fred as a young person but I do enjoy watching Lucas now, and yeah he's doing well from what I see!
His content now is honestly super funny, I love it!
Never watched Fred (I’m 30 lol) but Lucas is lovely, I definitely recommend checking out his channel these days tbh
I watched back in the Fred days, and still do now. I think there was a few years I forgot about him when I was busy with school and life, but one day I was like "oh yeah, how's he doing?" And started watching again lol
I never liked Fred but I love watching Lucas!
Losing it at Bo sitting like a gargoyle in the middle of the show
Why is he sitting like that 😭
Because he hates everyone and everything there
11:13 "There is no way this man is just playing Guitar Hero right now" dude that's Freddie Wong and he's shredding
Disrespecting the guitar hero himself
“A whole damn group of ukes?!?! Something about that is just unsettling.”
Oh if you think that small group is unsettling, I have your nightmare scenario. Two weekends ago I went to a nearby ukulele carnival and strummed along with around 100 other ukulele players. I really enjoyed it, but I could see how that’s a bit much.
reminds me of the nearby ukulele fest that just happened near me lmao (possibly the same one, or maybe uke fests are just more popular than i realized)
My mum was involved in an attempted world record break. Picture a whole stadium of ukulele players
Bo Burnham did not give a shit and it’s hilarious
YT events where they mash genres together reminds me of when teachers would force you to hang out w/ other kids because "everyone needs to get along" but it just ends up being awkward, boring, and cringey because nobody likes the same thing
Dashcon but with TH-cam
Is that Bolt? Not gonna lie, Bolt was like the Nick Wilde of my day.
@#freewdw puppy bolt yeah
@@Julia-tk2em bolt is one of my favorite disney animals 🥺
yup.
bo burnham's character development makes sense, like the progression of 2008 bo to 2021 bo make you go like, yeah that's about right
You know, Adam has said that he and Jamie never really got along and Jamie wasn’t all that comfortable performing, and you can tell
Oh, wow, those bits with bo burnham really show how jaded he already was. I’m surprised that this event wasn’t brought up in CJ’s video, but it’s true - he really was patient zero, and he already knew it by the time he was 18.
I assume with Cj’s research, either he saw this and then was able to put it in with other moments where bo burnham seemed super jaded OR this is so fucking hard to find that not even Cj saw it, which means it was truly hidden because Cj does so much intense research. we should tweet this at him this seems like something he would lose his mind at honestly. Like mentioned in the video, its probably only that clip of his song that was commonly found and not the whole live show
@@Babyteef yeah seriously, the digging in that video alone was just bonkers - I wouldn't be shocked if it just didn't make the cut for the video tbh, it was so long. I don't use Twitter or anything like that but it def seems like something cj would be super interested to see
I remember watching his song he did and thought he was joking when he said thank you Ms Perry not that he was just not having it
Patient zero...for what? Jaded depression? Cause that's been around for a bit longer than that lol. Sorry if I'm missing your meaning, but a little context might help
@@randomwowjunkie a youtube essayist (CJtheX) made a long-ass video discussing bo burnham, specifically the Jeff Bezos song from inside, and in that video CJ went through every single piece of Bo's comedy that he could find, and one huge part of the video was that Bo was really one of the first viral TH-cam sensations to end up with a massive audience, and specifically said he was "patient zero" for the world we live in now where every single thing we do online is a performance etc. It's an incredible video and I highly recommend watching it
I go back to Bo Burnham’s performance so often I completely forgot about the rest of the show
Same
Man even Obama was there
Same
Godspeed for all the times you had to watch Katy Perry being creepy to an 18 year old
"Good thing there's no censorship on youtube" ... meme of the century
The ukulele bit really aged well, watching this post colleen
man you don't get a lot of people talking about this era nowadays. it's hard to find people to share the nostalgia with, i feel alone. thank you for the video
Scott confirming he is a man of culture by acknowledging that Will it Blend was peak TH-cam
I religiously watched Will It Blend back in the day. Hope that guys and his blender are doing well
As an "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This" Stan, I have to respectfully disagree.
I still think about that blender sometimes
Will It Blend? That is the question!
Cold Ones did a video of it and it was still amazing to watch lol
Did anyone else notice Rhett and Link in the crowd at 9:48? So weird seeing them in the audience of something like this knowing how massive they are now!
they've always been massive! haha
Rhett and Link are OG TH-camrs. Their T-Shirt Wars and Chuck Tesla dominated early internet.
@@TheProofLady yeah but T Shirt Wars and Chuck Testa were 10/11 years ago. In 2008 they’d only just done Online Nation so I don’t think they were “dominating” yet
That’s so wild! I never would have noticed! Thanks for pointing it out! They’re super awesome and it’s wild to see them hete
Oh yeah at 7:54 I see them!
That wasn't just anyone playing guitar hero, that was the GOAT Freddie Wong.
THAT WAS FREDDIE??? BRUHH
who could forget Freddie Wong in VGHS
People forget that before he got big for doing VFX videos on youtube with FreddieW/RocketJump he was renown for his Guitar Hero capabilities. IIRC he won some national Guitar Hero competitions.
@@Regitron3000 The first FreddieW video I watched was him playing YYZ, he may have been one of the first channels I subbed too
Low key offended he didn't get the VGHS reference 😤🤣
Tay Zonday is an icon
Additionally: The memory that is cup stacking was one I completely forgot about, but oh boy was I obsessed with cup stacking. I tried to learn how to be good at stacking cups, but I literally have no coordination.
No joke. I just heard "Welcome to TH-cam" for the first time this past week because I was on Bo Burnham's Spotify listening to "Welcome to the Internet" for the five billionth time and stumbled across it. I could tell it was dated. I'm 22 so I am old enough to remember certain things about 2008. I remember Fred(Lucas Cruikshank) and Nigahiga's videos so fondly but my access to the internet was spotty at best. I didn't always have it so that's probably why I missed out on things like TH-cam Live. I would have been all over that shit if I had known about it as a 9 year old. 😂
It's crazy to see how people viewed TH-cam back in the day, they saw it as more of a trendy reality show and less as a website that would change the entertainment industry forever
Yeah, like I want to go back in time to when I was four and invest in TH-cam stocks, cause damn is it so influential to our modern way of consuming media.
This is like the Star Wars: Christmas special but everyone has bowl cuts
xD
This makes me think how crazy it is that Bo Burnham, Issa Rae, and Justin Bieber became so popular that they basically transcended TH-cam. I mean, they got their starts here, but they're hardly associated with the website anymore.
“you may not be my cheese cat, but you are my hero” is a phrase i desperately want to use on a daily basis
I'm gonna have to make a Tshirt. And keep it for myself.
that "thank god he's at least 18" made me feel so uncomfortable omg
I didn’t know TH-cam Live was a thing! Despite that, I was 100% the demographic that they were going for. I recognized every featured creator, and the nostalgia hit like a ton of bricks.
TH-cam Live today would be so hard to do, because, as you said, even millions of followers nowadays doesn’t mean nearly as much. The “most followed” TH-camrs aren’t even on my radar, and I’m sure that’s true for a lot of other viewers.
Thanks for covering this! The Wild West of TH-cam is always fun to look back on.
Like TH-cam rewind. I’m lucky if I know 20 faces featured and I only watch or have watched like 5 😅
Same, people can name drop the most popular youtubers and I’ll be like, “who?”
Case in point I had to google bo burnham. 😂
@@astrowolvez he’s a comedian, not a TH-camr. He’s fantastic, I highly recommend his stuff.
"What the Buck, a man who can only be described as the original Keemstar."
Holy shit, that's so accurate. And Miley is his Ethan.
At the time his channel was modeled off of Perez Hilton and TMZ-esque celebrity gossip blogs. Eventually as TH-cam got bigger and youtubers more famous, these style of channels evolved into the drama channels like Keemstar where they talk about more TH-cam centric gossip and drama.
@@Regitron3000 and also Keemstar does using drops the N-word language A.K.A Racist Language ever😫😫😱
Holy crap I completely forgot about What the Buck!!!
@@erinrose14 it is, what the michael buckley segment was A huge cringe about miley cyrus birthday in 15 years old.
William Sledd was just like what the buck the celebrity gossip it was so entertaining
When scott references 2008 you know its going to be a good video.
T'was a golden year.
I think the reason ‘The Mythbusters’ act was kind of mid, was that it was originally designed as an exemplar tool for showing graphical power differences between a CPU and a GPU for Nvidia when ‘The Mythbusters’ hosted one of their Cons. They showed a single paintball gun on an articulating arm draw a smiley face and then used the big machine to make a rough image of the mona Lisa by sticking different colored paintballs in the various barrels and shooting them out at once. This showed the graphical advantage of Nvidia’s multiple Cuda cores vs the much less powerful CPU graphics. I think that video is still up on YT somewhere.
i'v never seen this live show, but I can feel the pure iconic energy it holds just from hearing you describe it and showing clips. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!
My favorite recurring bit is Scott referring to will.i.am's Bigheads history
Matpat and his wife did a really good job with their live show a few months ago raising 3 times their goal amount for charity
nothing but love for MatPat and what he does for the community. i honestly still watch all the theory videos even though i'm 25 lol. his humour isn't for me anymore, but his dedication to the platform and other creators is really admirable
@@inyrui lol i felt that, i still watch but always have to skip the intros
Kudos to good ol' Matpat!
@@liberpolo5540 the guy never sleeps lol
Matpat iconic
as someone who had never heard of youtube live since i was way too young to be on yt in 2008, this was an absolute treat
I’m glad to hear that…. Kiryu-chaaaaan
Same
I haven't thought about those flip cameras since 2008 and I have just unlocked so many memories. What a bizarre era.
17:17 In defense of the cup-stacking bit of the show, cup-stacking was HUGE on youtube in 2008. A massive community of people trying to beat each other’s records. It makes waaaaay more sense for the sports segment to be about cup-stacking than something like soccer/football because the cup-stacking community found a unique place on youtube whereas (like you said) soccer/football was something already universal that appealed to a wide international audience. I know this vid is 2 years old now, but to anyone reading this now, I highly recommend Jordy McNeill’s cup-stacking video! She goes over a bit of history as well as her own experiences in that youtube niche :)
Bo Burnham, Lisa Nova, Dax Flame, Smosh, Alphacat, FreddieW, Tay Zonday, Will It Blend, Fred... TRULY ICONIC
I really like the feel of this channel. "OH WAIT I JUST REMEMBERED A THING AND I NEED TO TELL PEOPLE!" And I love it
6:45 "Ukes" feels like a derogatory term against ukulele players and i cant wait to use it
Cup stacking was definitely the most exciting sport they could have showcased
6:37 last year, because of Covid we weren’t allowed to sing in choir and as an alternative, the choir director had us learn to play ukulele and then at the end of the year we did a concert with the ukuleles. Choir was made up of a decent chunk of the 7th and 8th graders so if that TH-cam live group was too much, I guess ours was insanity
Matt Sloan of the Chad Vader Star Wars series has actually voiced Darth Vader in many of the Lego Star Wars shows/games… so Disney couldn’t have been too mad haha. What a wild ride back to 2008 this was though.
Scott Torture Pack:
Group of Ukuleles
and
An infinite loop of a person beatboxing
OMG A BEATBOXING UKULELE GROUP????
Ukuleles are the most annoying instruments ever created
@@ianb.2575 after recorders (flutes for toddlers) of course
@@anna_banana414 and DUO Cup stacking champ was annoying😭😭😭
@@josieparker4710 it is
I really appreciate that you put chapters in your video's timeline!
same here!
can't belive you just sat there as freddy fucking wong played the guitar and with the most disrespect said "this man" shame on you scott shame
A guy furiously playing Guitar Hero during TH-cam live is probably the most 2008 thing ever
Freddie W got his start doing goofy guitar hero videos before action videos
Ohhh I’ve been WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!! I skipped out on a party in 2008 to watch this event aired live on TH-cam. I still have Bo’s song memorized. There was a new Charlie the Unicorn animation. I truly thought it was the best day ever. This is the trip down memory lane I NEEDED
(mind you, I was in middle school & the party was really a dinner party for my parents friends and me being an awkward preteen would’ve much rather stayed home to watch TH-cam Live. also just now remembering I also had a Flip camera and the quality was absolutely shit lol)
FLIP cameras being used for school English projects is so specific and so true 🤣🤣 brought back all the memories
I remember watching the his live for the sole reason of hearing bo's new song because I was 13 and had a huge crush on him. and I was also just proud of myself for knowing nearly every single act in the show. Crazy.
Early TH-cam was great, had a much stronger community. Back when most "big’ TH-camrs knew each other a least a bit. Back when you could post video responses directly to a specific video. You had the Vlogbrothers taking over TH-cam’s front page yearly (back when TH-cam had a real trending system) and most TH-camrs in support making P4A videos of their favorite charity.
Also in 2009 when Vlogbrothers used its community the Nerdfighters to compete in the DARPA Network Challenge, a challenge with 10 balloons across the US for a chance at $40,000 for charity. I got a call in the morning of the event from Pogobat/Dan Brown (creator of one of the first popular interactive videos Who Wants to be a YouTubBllionaire), he asked me to search around Houston since a balloon had been rumored to be there. Was a ton of fun searching for it that day. We lost to MIT but we put up a good fight.
I could go on and on about little nuggets of early TH-cam history, it had an Impact on me too.
there are 37 million channels on youtube so being in the top 50k is an incredible feat!
Bro, you are so underrated. Like you should be at least to Danny and Drew's number of subs. You make quality content that's always so good
It's so weird, he ticks every box. His videos are fun to watch and nicely edited, he's naturally funny and charming and seems genuinely nice, he's creative and has a real talent for this. I know his numbers are growing and he's bigger than 90% of channels but I think it's time our boy took off. Stratospheric babyyyy
@@gregsmith1641 another commenter pointed out that it may be because of his originality and more niche topic choices!
At certain points throughout the video, I kept thinking how he sounded just like Kurtis, and even laughed the same as him-
I think it's because Danny and Drew are more on the funny side. They do jokes and mini sketches and even some of the not jokes are funny, and while Scott is entertaining as hell, it isn't a content you usually laugh at yknow
“Back in 2008” is Scott’s “Picture this: Sicily, 1912”
:? what is that from... :?
@@dottyContrarian The Golden Girls, I believe.
🤣
@@dottyContrarian from the show golden girls, the character sofia petrillo used to tell a lot of stories about her childhood back in sicily and usually started with that phrase
We don't deserve you Scott Cramer; Please keep feeding us this fire content for years to come.
Holy shit, that kid acting out the Dark Knight scene... that is some difficult watching. He is putting forward such a sincere effort and that makes it hurt so much more. Instant second-hand embarrassment.
I feel bad because it wasn’t even bad acting just kind of cringy
Quite the weird event. I missed this completely, but it's like a wild time capsule. I'm writing a fiction book in that time frame of 2000s, and it can be tricky to research things sometimes. Still, thank you man. MVP.
the mid-2000s have been lost to the passage of time. you're gonna struggle to find much information sadly :(
Dude what book are you writing i wanna see
@@pasta-and-heroin whyyyyy why did they do that to us 💔
Hey Scott, that Guitar Hero player was FreddieW, in case you didn’t know. He got huge originally for being a pro at GH, doing tournaments and such. Just a little fun fact.
I forgot about FreddieW. I used to be a big fan.
@@hannahm4078 Sorry, Rocket Jump. 😂😂
Scott knocking on Freddie Wong hurts me on a personal level
is this the same guy in that Sicko Mode Guitar Hero video
@@inyruiyou are thinking of acai I think he’s the biggest content creator on the games
9:30 the way Katy Perry is holding that microphone looks engineered to be the least comfortable way to hold something meant to be held.
22:35 that is one goddamn legendary quote. the world pre 2014 was nearly perfect, the world pre 2016 was good. the world past 2016 is quite depressing more often than not
That Chad Vader cameo had me in tears, I completely buried that series in my memory 😂 about to go binge watch it now
It’s so VIOLENTLY 2008! I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this before
There is one thing missing in that show to encapsulate that time on YT, Notepad tutorial for anything techwise, with either Bring me to life, Numb, or Paralyzer playing in background
90% of videos were that or montages with the song bodies playing
Let the bodies hit the floor and Here comes the boom.
Back in 2008, people would just think of those videos as low-effort crap that nobody would want to feature in a high-quality production. It took 20 years for us to get the nostalgia value from them.
@@vurpo7080 Not true at all. Production value was just different back in the day and part of the charm of TH-cam was it was a launching pad to success where you could express yourself however you wanted. Lots of us were just using windows movie maker or just recording off webcams. Some knew about editing and some of us didn't. It was vlogging, showing off skills and tricks, making montages, making MVs and lip syncing. They were like online home videos for the public. It was cool and new so just having videos on a platform like TH-cam or Myspace was exciting to people.
Thank you, Scott. This almost seeped out of the deepest corners of my long-term memory and then you jammed it right back in.
Hey Illini!
as someone who lived through the times where speed stacks were the hottest thing, before scott even said the name of the sport, i was already screaming "speed stacking!!!" at the screen. simpler times... i remember half of the people in my class owned that shit (myself included lmao). a banger video as usual!!!
Never watched Lucas when he was Fred. But he's so incredibly funny now!
I love how Scott always manages sneak in a Big Heads reference
I wish they still did the TH-cam Live shows so we can see the Among Us musical perform up on stage in front of everybody. *chef kiss* 🤌
Watch the youtube musical
His like to dislike ratio is insane. Scott Cramer is doing everything right. 1 mil is easily right down the road!
@NotSoButteryFly the video currently has 154 dislikes
finishing off with a dave days cover was cherry on top of the 2008 youtube cake
22:00 it was really trippy hearing legend of Zelda music in the background because I always play BOTW while watching his videos
I have actually talked to Michael Buckley and he is very sweet and considerate, he did a lot of work on himself after ending his TH-cam show. While yes he was a human disaster in 2008 (who wasn’t tbh) he is generally a good person as far as I know
I think i remember him saying that one reason he stopped doing what the buck is because he did a lot of learning and he realized that the format no longer something that would work with all of the societal changes happening at the time. Im glad that he ended the show when he did and didnt try to continue forcing it.
Yes! I watched What the Buck back in the day, and I still follow him on Instagram now and he’s a completely different person now. I look forward to his Instagram videos in the mornings now.
"Good thing there's no censorship on youtube"
Can I just say that cup stacking is definitely the best sport they could have picked. There's no way I could have done that.
Duuuuude I'm 25 and that screenshot of old youtube is a blast from the past! I grew up watching smosh, nigahiga, whatthebuck hahahaaha . woah.
11:05 WAIT, that was from youtube live?! I've seen the clip many times but never knew where that came from. Scott, you've left out what was arguably the best performance that night! Joe Satriani x Funtwo was awesome!
Review / rewatch the TH-cam awards that happened in the 2010’s. I’m pretty sure that aged terribly.
Weezer did a better job bringing TH-cam together with "Pork And Beans" than this monstrosity ever did.
Bo for the whole performance: W A K E M E U P I N S I D E
Whatever they paid him was _just_ enough
I remember watching this at 16 thinking this was such a big deal then falling asleep half through it
That guy playing guitar hero was first made popular for being insanely good at the game, but later went on to become a TH-cam legend. That is Freddie W that made extremely popular skits under that name before making Rocket Jump channel known for short videos like Medal of Honor Cat and his kickstart funded success series Video Game High School. He has moved on to other artistic endeavors, but his old group all have various successful projects going on still.
As soon as you asked what sport they would be featuring I immediately thought "cup stacking" 🤣 that shit was EVERYWHERE in 2008
Ayyy, I love to see some love for Jon Bellion. Idk if he's "famous" by now. But I've always love his vocal percussion, and production in general. Haha, just cool to hear you shout him out.
Also, love to see some love for Jon Bellion in the comment section. Makes me feel like I belong in this community even more.
@@adammgolan Jon is so damn talented, but humble as well. He deserves all the love in the world. We must protect him.
@@TheMadsC I'm really hyped that new music from him is on the horizon. Crop Circles feels like forever ago.
@@adammgolan where have you heard this. Latest I've heard is that he feature on a track, and worked on the album with Lawrence. I know there were talk of an rap album at some point. With that old Twitter video he since deleted, where he was rapping.
If you know of any news tho, please let me in. I'm so excited for more music from him!
It hypes me up when I see other people loving his music too! Even tho I kind of want to feel like he's like some secret underground artist that only I know of.
Scott saying "like a Jon Bellion type of thing." Caught me super off guard, I forgot that other people listen to him.
For some reason I feel the same way about Bo Burnham even tho he's well known 😅
RIGHT? Like, he's so huge but still seems kinda niche. Not talked about in the mainstream, still has millions of views.
14:51 subconsciously started holding my breath and felt my heart rate spike during the Fred bit. My god he upsets me
I was also born in 1996 and can confirm that 2008 had a weirdly large impact on me.
I haven’t thought about WhatTheBuck in over a decade and I’m now angry that you had the audacity to remind me of him.
Honestly same
I feel like you should do a video with Lucas [ Fred] . You guys have some overlap in topics! He's not that character anymore haha
He is on tik tok 👀
@@SD-tl4wf and on youtube 😐
Scott can’t forget about 2008 because he’s still rocking the same haircut for 13 years
I loved Michael Buckley. That's about it of my memory though.
Ugh the Dave Days cover of Love Story in the credits has me SOBBING the nostalgia of it all
My goodness! I haven’t thought about TH-cam live since it came out. Wow you opened a box of repressed memories. I miss the TH-cam of my teens.