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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by JPSound@lemmy.world to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

Where the hell did all that time go?

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

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[-] Metostopholes@midwest.social 28 points 1 month ago

Apr 19, 2006 for me.

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

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

https://youtu.be/wTqsV3q7rRU

Found it. wow, this video looks like shit. I remember it in ultra high def.

[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago

This definitely got worse over time. Which does happen when YouTube makes changes.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Ohhhhh what a classic. I remember huddling around my girlfriend's (at the time) family computer watching that one god know how many times in a row. Also, hat one with David Blaine but it was this other kid pretending to be him doing impossible tricks.

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[-] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 20 points 1 month ago

I wonder if you'll still get prompted to prove you're over 18.

[-] daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago

You are. My account is also over 18 yo. But youtube have tried to ask for ID to watch "adult content" on youtube before.

[-] skoadphilmore@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

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

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

[-] Two9A@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sounds like HowToBasic (or Basics?), from memory.

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[-] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 month ago

Calm down young man, 2006 is not old.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 13 points 1 month ago

Yeah, 2006 was only like a few years ago.

[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

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

[-] Cevilia 16 points 1 month ago

Where the hell did all that time go?

I dunno fam, I went to sleep in the mid 1990s and now I'm 40 and have a car and a mortgage and how the fuck did all this happen

[-] MeThisGuy@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

I am around that age and don't have either of those. and wtf happened in the last 5 yrs?

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[-] rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago
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[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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

[-] rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago
[-] Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

Roses are red, violets are blue

Unregistered HyperCam 2

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[-] Allero@lemmy.today 11 points 1 month ago

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

Think about that.

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 month ago

Mine would me much older if it wasn't for an mentally unstable ex-girlfriend deleting my original account.

[-] cm0002@piefed.world 10 points 1 month ago

Where did the time go?

Anyways, does anybody wanna come with me to Candy Mountain?

[-] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

We're on a bridge Charlie!

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[-] Uri@infosec.pub 10 points 1 month ago

They are collecting your deta for this long ΰ² _ΰ²  Surely they know you more than you

[-] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

A coworker of mine was born in 2006. I never knew hiring toddlers was legal...

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

My sibling is way younger than I and she and their friends were asking me what it was like during 9/11 because that's entirely before their time. I felt like an old vet talking about storming the beaches on D-Day. It's so wild how actual adults were born in what feels like just a few years ago.

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 month ago

I'll drop a knee-breaking one:

I was born in 2006.

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

I was curious so I checked mine.

Aug 24, 2006.

Jesus I’m old.

[-] trk@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago

Me too, team 2006 checking in!

Crazy that it's been 10 years since I joined. Right guys? It's been 10 years? πŸ‘¨πŸ» πŸ‘΄πŸ» πŸ’€

[-] Psythik@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Can I join the club too?

Joined YouTube on May 10, 2006

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

https://youtube.com/psythik

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[-] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Created my account in 2008. Can't remember because I deleted my account last year. Anyway, the earliest memory of Youtube I have was seeing Kimbo Slice punch a fridge. Speaking of Kimbo Slice, check out the names of his son and grandchildren.

I just can't πŸ˜‚ (Hint: Kimbo Legacy and Kevlar)

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[-] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Yet the "ai" system one day will think that you're underage and block your account until you send a photo of your face, your id and your ass

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

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

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

Bro, I was almost 30 when you created that account πŸ˜‚

[-] JPSound@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

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

[-] kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

IT'S WEED AND VIDEO GAMES GODDAMN IT IM GEN-X πŸ˜‚πŸ˜­

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[-] realitista@lemmus.org 6 points 1 month ago

I've gotcha beat by a few months.

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[-] Chozo@fedia.io 5 points 1 month ago

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

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[-] dohpaz42@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Ha! I got ya beat. Barely.

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[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

I changed my Google account in 2011 so ended up with a newer account. Womp womp.

[-] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 1 month ago

Most people who use YouTube are over 19 years old.

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