Old Internet Videos/Content - YouTube videos and websites that were good back in the day

[PipTheAlchemist]

Tourette's Guy posts a new video.

Never thought I would see the words "Tourette's Guy" and "Sus" in the same sentence. Let alone on an official title...

 

[Big Nasty]

This video KILLS

Shows that local news used to do basically Kiwi Farms shit.

That guy has probably trooned out now.

 

[Stasi]

Since star wars kid and angry German kid have already been mentioned might as well drop this in here, I still can't help laughing watching it years later

 

[Kept Ya Waiting Huh]

 

[Big Nasty]

 

[Steinercard]

I don't know where else to say this so I'm going to say it here. It used to be people on the internet were much more cynical and distrusting. Zoomers seem to be under the impression this was "cringe" but I still prefer the cynical rants of the Spoony One, AVGN, fuck even spergs like Armake or old Yahtzee over this constant barrage of naked shilling by current content creators. Where did it all go wrong that being critical of something started to be seen as "being negative"? And "being negative" is somehow bad? Because we should just heckin sitdown and let people enjoy things and stuff. Fuck that hugbox shit. Maybe creative media in general wouldn't be so shit if people were more critical and didn't put their tounges down corporate arseholes to get a crumb of praise.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Where did it all go wrong that being critical of something started to be seen as "being negative"? And "being negative" is somehow bad? Because we should just heckin sitdown and let people enjoy things and stuff. Fuck that hugbox shit. Maybe creative media in general wouldn't be so shit if people were more critical and didn't put their tounges down corporate arseholes to get a crumb of praise.

I hope I'm not being cringe, but I can see both sides of this.

To your point, one of the big causes that you're not allowed to mention is virtue signaling via politics. You can't criticise shit like Ghostbusters Answer the Call or The Last of Us 2 without being seen as taking a political position. While I personally don't have to worry about it, I can see people in corporate wagie jobs just trying to make rent willing to smile and nod so they don't get fired. This extends to critics as well. Publicly endorsing people like Red Letter Media, Razorfist, and Critical Drinker will get most normies agreeing with you, but all it takes is one butthurt leftie to complain to HR to be more hassle than it's worth.


But against your point, the "hugbox shit" does have a point. Some people try too hard to be seen as aloof contrarians. What Spoony, AVGN, and others complained about was the shitty games and videos we had as kids. Like AVGN said, you'd rent a game on a Friday night, and if it was shit you played it anyway because that was your whole weekend.

The problem is after all that low hanging fruit was done, a lot of negativity is dumb and exaggerated for comic effect. It's one thing to complain about genuinely bad games, but so many average or even good games get caught in the crossfire. eg. People complain about Resident Evil 5 unjustly, and as a result when Resident Evil 6 was the turd people claimed 5 was, they had nowhere to go.

There's an important distinction to make between criticism. AVGN is a fictional character, exaggerated rage for comic effect. Spoony was really just a raging autist who attacked a Christmas tree. Critical Drinker, despite his comic persona, is sharing his real opinions. Heel vs Babyface doesn't feel genuine in the slightest. I say all this because it can be exhausting to deal with these always-on nutters like Spoony, or the completely fake and misinformed clout chasers and their fanbase of NPCs. Sometimes I just want to watch a film or talk about a game I like without having to deal with another round of tard rage.

 

[dvorak]

Music video from Horse the Band's first album released around 2003; really captures the animation style that was popular at that time on the internet.

 

[11 Herbs and Spices]

Horse the Band

Looks like I'm putting on Purple off that album.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Somewhat related. I was listening to this Sidescrollers podcast/interview with Razorfist, and the first half hour or so they talk about the old days of Screw Attack and Game Trailers.

Craig wants to buy back Screw Attack, not to revive the brand, but to repost all the old content in real time, then leave it as an internet time capsule.

 

[Judge Dredd]

Double post, but relevant I think.

I booted my PS3 for the first time in years and found it full of YouTube videos from 2013. Mostly MrRepzion and SFDebris.

MrRepzion was a vlogger. I think he might have got his start with atheism, but I knew him from the Anita Sarkeesian/GamerGate stuff (iirc he had the FBI visit his house because of it). I was surprised to learn that he's still going.

https://www.youtube.com/@Repzion/featured

SFDebris is a funny Star Trek and sci-fi show reviewer who is also still going. Most of his old videos are dead links now, and I quick search hasn't brought them up anywhere, so they might be gone.

 

[King Vidiot]

SFDebris is a funny Star Trek and sci-fi show reviewer who is also still going. Most of his old videos are dead links now, and I quick search hasn't brought them up anywhere, so they might be gone.

I remember watching SFDebris stuff regularly over 10 years ago. I think he primarily put his content on blip.tv back then, so maybe some of it was lost when that video hosting site went offline. I found this archive of his videos on blip on the Internet Archive when I did some searching around. When I looked at some of the oldest stuff in the video section of his website I noticed those videos are hosted on Dailymotion, and was surprised that they still work.

 

[TapewormBillie]

Somewhat related. I was listening to this Sidescrollers podcast/interview with Razorfist, and the first half hour or so they talk about the old days of Screw Attack and Game Trailers.

Craig wants to buy back Screw Attack, not to revive the brand, but to repost all the old content in real time, then leave it as an internet time capsule.

Fuck yeah.

Also, YouTube being squeaky clean is funny. It literally was born out of a desire to fap to Janet Jackson's nip slip. It took the corporate totalitarians who want all content to be cute gay animals wearing silly hats to crush the internet's spirit.

 

[Brabbit Narp]

I'm crossposting from another thread, just in case you guys didn't see it on https://kiwifarms.st/threads/favourite-old-internet-stuff.131984/page-27#post-17604771.

This dude out of nowhere posted two videos, both recordings of YouTube on the Wii Web Browser, dating all the way back to 2007.

These videos... I have seen some old YouTube archives before, but these are *fresh*. I hope that he has more. It always pays to remember when the site used to have certain features that they have now deprecated.

Also, something faintly reminiscent of the flash culture of the day, even if only in Flipnote. It might be cringe by modern standards, but there's a passion here you just don't find anymore out on either YouTube or elsewhere.

With regards to the former, I hope there's more. It's too much to hope for in preserving the old shit I used to watch, but even seeing the old homepage and what used to count for recommendations would be nice.

Even the side bar of what videos used to show would be cool. It definitely wasn't the same after 2017, I can tell you that. Strong recency bias for the algorithm from that point onward, hard to find anything old anymore.

 

[Merton J. Dingle]

Strong recency bias for the algorithm from that point onward, hard to find anything old anymore.

So fucking true. I remember a couple of years ago trying to find older videos for how to play the Spy in TF2 since many of these videos contained obscure routes and hiding spots that weren't immediately available on other more recent videos. That was what made me realize how fucked the algorithm was. I think I had to resort to using standard search engines to find forum or Reddit posts that mentioned some of these YouTubers from the early 2010s and then manually search their screen names to get their YouTube content to show up in search.

 

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[WTBOnlineFather]

Oh how times have changed since this came out

 

[Alex Hogendorp]

Used to watch this when I was a teenager.

Video reminds me of the internet pre Clown World era where Children were much more chill. Amazing to think what he's become now.

Can't forget about this one.

 

[Whatevermancer]

 

[TheDarknessGrows]

There was a version of the "anime is gay" song with a kid up on stage at a talent show. Where is that one? It is the best.

Jim tried to use it in his streams but only found some other version with penguins.

Also Geno's Maze.