In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is.

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• Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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• AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  According to a quick search the biggest cohort of YouTube users is 25 to 34, your account is not older than most people on YouTube. I’d apologize for being a pedantic asshole but I’d be lying, I thrive on it.

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This makes me feel better actually. I always get the vibe that it’s all kids and teenagers. Maybe because they’ve made it too “soft” for lack of a better word that I can think of rn. I’ll stop back in another 19 years.

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    • itsathursday@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Older people consume the content because that’s the dynamic that we are used to. Few produce it, we don’t have much we “need” to share or say, we are also busy earning. Young people are also busy earning, but it just so happens that their business is the platform, and they “need” to share - not that anyone is asking them to except for the advertising machine that feeds off the engagement, click and rage bait.

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    • SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t even think under 18s can post, so what’s your metric you’re even using here?

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  • Bongles@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m sure the number of actual small children that use YouTube is quite high as well, but data would be skewed since they aren’t supposed to be on there. The views of channels that cater to them are on another level.

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    • yermaw@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Until i turned 18 my birthday was the 1st of January somewhere in the 70s or 80s

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    • naught101@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Tiktok would be pulling most away

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  • Fabian@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Is that the age users entered? Before I was legally an adult I always just added a few years

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    • AngryishHumanoid@lemmynsfw.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was from a marketing data aggregator, so it’s presumably getting it from more than self-reported age, knowing how those scum sucking data vampires are.

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  • GhostTheToast@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Hey, I’m in that cohort! We are legion

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• Uri@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Young whippersnapper!

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• BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Had a meeting with our sales guy, and he asked how long I’d been running the same engineering software since I knew it so well.

  Me: about 27 years.

  Him: that’s longer than I have been alive.

  Oof

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I do sound professionally and I originally learned to track on 2" magnetic tape. Our one digital console had something like 24 channels (which was cutting edge at the time) and every channel required a $40k card slotted into this proprietary rack costing god know how much. Now, any cheap laptop can be an audio rig that has basically unlimited channels and enough DSP to basically do anything they want. Nothing like slicing tape with a razor hoping your edit was right.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah Razor tool now makes sense in KDEnlive editor

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• skoadphilmore@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • myaah@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alantutorial

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    • skoadphilmore@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh my gosh this is it and it’s still there. Gracias.

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  • Two9A@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • Echolynx@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I remember those, it was a subverted ‘How to’ channel. Maybe hacks in the name?

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• Metostopholes@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Apr 19, 2006 for me.

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

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    youtu.be/wTqsV3q7rRU

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

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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. That one with David Blaine but it was this other kid pretending to be him doing impossible tricks.

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• Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Calm down young man, 2006 is not old.

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  • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, 2006 was only like a few years ago.

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• reddit_sux@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Created my account in 2008. Can’t remember because I deleted my account. The earliest memory of Youtube I have was seeing Kimbo Slice punch a fridge. Speaking of Kimbo slice, check out the names of his grandchildren.

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  I just can’t with the names 😂

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• roofuskit@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• johsny@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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…

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  • rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Unregistered HyperCam 2

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    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Roses are red, violets are blue

      Unregistered HyperCam 2

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    my first one was 09,

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• billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was curious so I checked mine.

  Aug 24, 2006.

  Jesus I’m old.

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  • renrenPDX@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    July 28, 2006 here.

    Brothers!

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    • Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      August 2, 1842

      Amateurs!

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    • billwashere@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why is everyone 2006?

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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• maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• cm0002@piefed.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Where did the time go?

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

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  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We’re on a bridge Charlie!

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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  join date may 11 2006

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• crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • crank0271@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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• dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ha! I got ya beat. Barely.

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  • RunJun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Got you by two months.

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And one week before my 29th birthday.

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    • ramenshaman@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You beat me by 12 days

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  • M137@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh, hey, that’s my birthday (not year, only date)

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    • dohpaz42@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Happy belated birthday! I hope it was a good one.

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just couple of geriatrics now.

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• kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bro, I was almost 30 when you created that account 😂

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • kruhmaster@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      IT’S WEED AND VIDEO GAMES GODDAMN IT IM GEN-X 😂😭

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• Bongles@lemmy.zip ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  My accounts currently from 2011. I’ve used it a bit longer, that would’ve been around 18 for me and I’ve been using it since at least 14/15. I started with Google video I think.

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• Chozo@fedia.io ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Maybe that’s when they also added the ability to subscribe to channels, making it actually useful to have one if you weren’t uploading videos ?

    Idk, just spitballing, my own account is from 2009, because in 2006 my parents definitely didn’t have a broadband subscription, and Dailymotion was kinda superior to YouTube for a short time, so that’s where I usually went for a while.

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Google wasn’t Google back then. Same name, different devil.

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• LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Most people who use YouTube are over 19 years old.

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have just received the relevant stats and indeed, I’m not but it sure feels like it these days. It’s more childlike in content than it’s every been IMO. Maybe it’s just me.

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• BlueEther@no.lastname.nz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  May 2006 here

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• njm1314@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Why do you think this image proves your contention exactly?

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  • JPSound@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The only thing it proves is that I’ll use any old screen shot to validate my nonsensical internal dialog.

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• meekah@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  my account is a teen now. makes me feel old, ugh

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