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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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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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.
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.
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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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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Is that the age users entered? Before I was legally an adult I always just added a few years
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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
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. Also, navigating a patch bay that looks like spilled spaghetti to pop a single channel of compression on a track.
Ah Razor tool now makes sense in KDEnlive editor
Exactly. It's an art in itself. A cross fade was laying the diagonal cuts of two strips onto each other at the seam. Your fade time what the angle of the cut. DAWs visualize that but it used to be an actual cut. Wild times back then. Digital completely took over right after I left college and it's a shame because there's something special in there that makes every edit mean something. With no Ctrl-Z, every cut is a commitment.
If you look up pics of old iconic rock master reels, some of those things look like a Frankenstein monster. But once they put it on wax for sale, you'd never know the reels looked like hot garbage.
Ah cool. I had a similar conversation about when art supplies were very costly, even a single she of watercolour paper or a tube of paint, so the artist had to conjure up something worthy and commit to it, rather than digital art where you can churn out a lot of mediocrity because it costs you nothing
Apr 19, 2006 for me.
I miss when the most watched video was Evolution of Dance.
Found it. wow, this video looks like shit. I remember it in ultra high def.
This definitely got worse over time. Which does happen when YouTube makes changes.
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I wonder if you'll still get prompted to prove you're over 18.
You are. My account is also over 18 yo. But youtube have tried to ask for ID to watch "adult content" on youtube before.
Calm down young man, 2006 is not old.
Yeah, 2006 was only like a few years 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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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.
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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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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Mine would me much older if it wasn't for an mentally unstable ex-girlfriend deleting my original account.
They are collecting your deta for this long ಠ_ಠ Surely they know you more than you
People born when you've created your YouTube account are now adults. Some are planning to have children.
Think about that.
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Where did the time go?
Anyways, does anybody wanna come with me to Candy Mountain?
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A coworker of mine was born in 2006. I never knew hiring toddlers was legal...
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.
I was curious so I checked mine.
Aug 24, 2006.
Jesus I’m old.
Me too, team 2006 checking in!
Crazy that it's been 10 years since I joined. Right guys? It's been 10 years? 👨🏻 👴🏻 💀
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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 😂 (Hint: Kimbo Legacy and Kevlar)
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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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Bro, I was almost 30 when you created that account 😂
let's get you back inside, grandpa. Rub some liniment on those bunions and put you on one of your favorite spaghetti westerns.
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
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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