The Fall of Social Media of Old

[@magicmush1998]

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[@loj2252]

49s ago

[@dilancalero5854]

That sneed-evangelion reference goes hard 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@Cerenedy]

Can you make a video on the "pool is closed" situation that happened in the 2000s? It seems like a topic fit for this channel!

[@General..Grievous]

@@dilancalero5854 Sneedvangelion

[@chicofnaf7114]

Not gonna lie, that intro got kinda depressing, true, but depressing

[@cinemint]

What people don't realize about Google+ is that the only dedicated fanbase it had were people who used it for fandoms. Seriously. It was an off brand Tumblr there for a bit.

[@thatpyrope]

I remember it was really big with furries when I was in HS

[@DakotaofRaptors]

Lots of RP

[@PonyoVEVO]

As a OG Google+ user, glad to have witnessed it all at its peak to its complete downfall. It truly was a roller coaster of highs and lows

[@NingenSlayerZamasu]

I remember back when RWBY wasn’t the punching bag it is today had a pretty big following on it. When Monty died it ended up have a week of mourning.

[@StardustNovaChannel]

Even Jawed Karim talked about Google+

[@aortaplatinum]

I miss vine -Tarzan's last thought as he plummets to the jungle floor

[@kentuckycryptid]

This is the single best comment ever written.

[@mramogus1032]

Vine is coming back soon

[@fabricci04]

I'm dead 😭

[@Paper246]

@@mramogus1032 fr?

[@shoeliver]

@@Paper246no

[@Arcademan09]

Remember: it's always morally correct to mock ResetEra users

[@backupschmliff1156]

Omfg ResetEra is the most cancerous site I have ever seen. It's worse than Twitter and Reddit. It is genuinely horrible.

[@kerzch672]

They basically remade neogaf but with a userbase even more braindead and even less interested in actually playing video games instead of discussing politics

[@BasedRamen]

ResetEra is practically the most miserable website to come across, probably more so than twitter.

[@CMSonYT]

@@BasedRamen Try Mastodon or for your SANITY, DONT

[@BasedRamen]

@@CMSonYT mastodon is more or less boring at best

[@Nerdtendo6366]

RIP Miiverse, the best Social Media ever because I could only talk to my fellow WiiU fans aka depressed people

[@theliondogshow1928]

Miiverse taught just how great the water looked in Wii U games.

[@dantesdiscoinfernolol]

Miiverse unironically inspired me to actually learn how to draw. Oh, and also meme. We did a lot of that too.

[@ThatPearlKid]

Nowadays Miiverse lives on in.... Inkopolis Plaza/Spatsville posts?

[@Gamefreak924]

lol I was console banned with miiverse

[@flamestoyershadowkill]

there is a hope. Fan servers exist for wii u and 3ds

[@_-AX-_]

Steam profiles are the closest thing to modern MySpace profiles

[@danielgaylor]

Steam profile customization is really damn good. Even if you can't upload custom backgrounds or color palettes, you can get very creative with what you have. Its a good middle ground imo I think if sites had customization at even half of steams level, it would be pretty fun.

[@stepbrochungus7722]

You're right. Only issue is you cant do it right off the batt.

[@danielgaylor]

​@@stepbrochungus7722 I agree I wish you had more options starting out.

[@stepbrochungus7722]

@@danielgaylor unfortunitly your profile is also your trophy. So in doing so a nicer profile means higher level.

[@Thrackerzod8]

@@danielgaylor i hate how limited the custom backgrounds and color palettes are, you have to buy a bunch of games or buy a expensive one just to get enough points to buy one animated background to at least three

[@TheHallow31]

I think the thing that irks me the most about the modern-day internet is how bland and generic most websites look. It's like everyone is using the exact same site-building kit. I miss the days when websites had more style and personality to them.

[@SirBlackReeds]

To a certain extent, they probably are: CloudFlare, Wordpress, Canva, Wix, Shopify, Weebly, you name it.

[@ncrvako]

Welll it is that. HTML and other basic lunganges and tools are hard for many people to use so the they are specifically simple tools to make a site.

[@Type75Advance]

​@@ncrvakowe're talking like corporations and companies making websites. They have all the money and energy to create it and yet they make the most bland and generic looking one

[@mitskifan9000]

​@@ncrvako Coroporations have the resources for that. It's not about the difficulty rather the goal is to appeal to as many people as possible - by making it as generic as one can.

[@Kodeb8]

That's because they literally are. Webdevs nowadays use CSS frameworks like bootstrap to save time. Also, thanks to phones, you can't get too crazy with your web design, because if you want your website to be accessible to everyone, you're forced to make it adaptable to smaller screens. Google will actually derank your website from the index if it's not mobile friendly.

[@gododoof]

Clowning on NeoGaf users never gets old.

[@ViktorKruger99]

this is something I realize recently but, young people has no idea what NeoGAF is and then I realize how old I am

[@CMSonYT]

NeoGaf truely was a special kind of terrible. We're "lucky" to have reddit nowadays

[@ImmaLittlePip]

​@@CMSonYTa lot of those users made a new site called reset era which is far more worst than neogaf but reset era got exposed for a discord their mods and admins were a part of Let's just say the stuff talked and posted there would make Vaush blush

[@Dotdotdot51516]

I thought it was a person for so long, I thought JPEGMAFIA just hated a rapper named NeoGAF.

[@I_Exist557]

​​@@ViktorKruger99 I'm a young person myself, and I've actually once used NeoGaf. I thought fine at first until went much more deeper into it and then I realized how much of a toxic cess pool that site was. Lol.

[@yoshisreal]

Nico Nico Douga (although much more popular in Japan) is also an old social media site that was a huge hit back then, Touhou wouldn't become a cult classic if it weren't for the reuploads to KZbin. The reuploads even helped globalize some popular memes like Gachimuchi and Ran Ran Ruu. Nowadays became mostly barren due to KZbin taking its place, and its English division got its plug pulled around the late 2010s. Still, it (alongside 4chan, which was originally an anime-focused website before it became the wild controversial site that it eventually morphed into) helped open the cultural floodgate between Japanese and western users.

[@randomtinypotatocried]

Sadly there is a ton of videos from that site at the time I can't find on KZbin

[@schizophist2963]

Ah man nico nico douga, delay lama fire temple and okkusenman came from there too

[@terrydavis146]

thats not social media and its not even dead

[@CMSonYT]

4chan was never just an anime website. It was whatever moot was willing to add as a board site. That said b/anime was literally the first board and then it being split made /b/ and /a/ the very first boards followed by other boards like /h/entai and yes, it's had racism since its earliest of years. In 4chan's original culture, racism, amongst an infinite number of other things is hilarious. Also 4chan was always controversial and has a long history of getting shat on and misunderstood both unintentionally and intentionally with the media If you'd like to see some pages on 4chan history, visit bibanon maybe even stop by their chat for related or more specific stuff. Also 4chan was very, very, very, close to Encyclopedia Dramatica Early 4chan and ED more or less literally had the same userbase as 4chan took it over immediately. And yes they have their own forum, but they hate 4chan now.

[@dengeki2005]

That's still up

[@randir14]

One of the other reasons for the fall of Neogaf is a lead moderator was arrested for CP.

[@theALTF4]

yyyeouch! horrid memory came to my mind reading this... Neogaf and SomethignAwful deserved their fall from grace for being pedantic...and pedo why u do this to me

[@leviticusprime4904]

@@theALTF4those who preach the loudest have the most to hide

[@Jokoko2828]

Who hasn't gotten arrested for CP by this point?

[@t-eehee7057]

oh so that's what that guy in the comments was trying to reference

[@Raymundo_2112]

This guy genuinely never misses

[@rawanalahmed8086]

Yo, nice to see you :)

[@honeycomblord9384]

Couldn't make a truer statement if I tried

[@LDT2001]

woah I didn't know raymundo was a magic mush fan

[@draconisdemiurge]

He never misses, the absolute legend!

[@MajinJuice]

Yeah he’s good

[@sweetpea644]

I would argue Tumblr was among the olds, it was THE fandom space and used immensely before the 2018 lewd purge. But it doesn't exactly count since it's still active, it's just not the same.

[@lafenetre9733]

I hear people say it’s relatively better since the “crazies” left with the purge. They’re probably right because I haven’t heard of anymore Dashcon type shit going on

[@erin4now]

yeah I still use Tumblr because it's a pretty great archive of emo bands from and around my hometown during the 2010s and I'm using that as a resource for a big project of mine. even though I don't actively use Tumblr like a typical user on the site I've noticed it's a pretty healthy community overall, most people I've interacted with are super chill

[@ducky7724]

@@lafenetre9733 Unfortunately the crazies moved over to twitter and reddit

[@Mac-eo4bc]

Honestly, it was bound to happen Especially with the "See Pee"

[@luthientinuviel3883]

Im on tumblr and its pretty nice and lowkey. There is next to no algorithm (one that functions anyway) and its a cozy way to enjoy fandoms im in without dealing with as much toxicity. We have fun over there. Then entire website got obsessed with Dracula (the novel) for a while, and one time we all basically invented an entire movie, Goncharov, and pretended it was real. Its a nice little corner of the internet

[@4zy1]

22:32 Even KZbin is guilty of this, remember when you could customize your entire channel with backgrounds?

[@miniondaechir]

My YT background used to be a "This is Sparta+I'mma firin' mah lazor" repeating gif meme in the early, early days of KZbin. I actually don't think the term meme was popular then.

[@kaiservenom270]

I remember... I was there...

[@collaterale1]

Yup

[@snappwolftv]

Best of times..I miss the golden era of YT

[@ImmaLittlePip]

I miss old KZbin I miss the friend request The KZbin channel comments The private messages And I miss the freedom of old KZbin

[@mikethetowns]

The amount of folks fluent in HTML would have been dramatically decreased if Myspace and its customization never existed.

[@watashiBUGBEAR]

And Neopets

[@JK-gm6kk]

Seriously. Holy crap, sometimes I would embed a hidden player playing, like, merzbow or something, and leave a generic comment in there, as well, so as to hopefully not draw suspicion to it. Good times.

[@Lar_me]

It goes to show that the best way to learn something is to do it for fun.

[@EtheRenard]

Same for deviantArt. Using deviantArt was my first experience in HTML. Now I'm a web developer

[@zooer64]

What i miss about the old internet was the decentralized nature of it all. Yes, crossovers and website rivalries were always a thing, but it was remarkably easier to genuinely have your own slice on the internet dedicated to your specific niche. Not anymore. EVERYONE has to share the same spaces.

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

Website wars and raids were fun af lol.

[@thatonedood85]

There are plenty of niche websites out there, what you're describing is a skill issue

[@DrewPicklesTheDark]

@@thatonedood85 In his defense, most search engines funnel you to the big ones and ignore small ones, even if your search criteria matches everything on the site. And most stop at 25 pages now, even though they say there are a zillion results. You need direct links these days.

[@MisanthropicOcellus]

​@@thatonedood85no, but what you are doing is showing your own lack of knowledge and context up pretty nicely

[@EcchiVwV]

It all went to sh!t when normies found out about 4chan. I'm not saying this as someone who particularly used it either, but the scaremongering from news networks over a certain board on there and a cartoon frog that became associated with said board back in 2016 set the wheels in motion for the internet being sanitised and centralised.

[@ExaltedUriel]

I so badly miss the level of HTML customization in old websites, now all you get is a profile pic, a bio, and maybe a banner. Their excuse was "security concerns" but the number of bots nowadays makes it feel like equivalent exchange. KZbin channels especially were so cool, I remember Chuggaaconroy putting clickable icons that linked to playlists of all his Let's Plays at the top of the page, and you could have unique backgrounds, shit was cash.

[@vlc-cosplayer]

Remember that time they stole 20 quadrillion dollars using some CSS? Never again, never again... 😔

[@VibeStir]

We'll be putting that back into the browser when we launch VibeStir for the web

[@Deano_MOOD]

The fact that I'm old enough to remember being forced to make a Google+ account makes me feel old

[@goGothitaLOL]

You, me, both

[@malachigv]

Yeah… what were they thinking?

[@Ag76945]

You made Google+ sound cooler than it was, the UI on the phone app was borderline unusable

[@miniondaechir]

The bad site infrastructure and UI was part of the charm (the complaining about it was funny every time).

[@ViktorKruger99]

fun fact my current YT user account was made so I could use YT and comment on videos I'm still amazed at the fake name I choose that day and still using today

[@ViviSectia]

@@ViktorKruger99 Mine is also from when that happened and everyone's usernames were replaced by their real names. I used some name generator to make a temporary one and was planning to change it to something else later but I still haven't decided on one yet.

[@DerMeisterEdits]

Ever use it on a PSP?

[@LegendBegins]

I'm beyond sick of the mobilization and corporatization of the internet. I hope variety and individuality returns soon.

[@JanJansen985]

It wont It never will As soon as you let the corpos and the normies in they wont leave

[@the_mariocrafter]

early 2010s corporate internet at least looked good and felt good without algorithms.

[@TheSultan1470]

Ugh. LegendBegins: (sticks a pink dildoe on his page)

[@TheSultan1470]

​@chinsaw2727 Pfffffff "grow up" lol. That's a permanent child.

[@L.argemike]

@chinsaw2727erm,,,,, grow up!!!!! 🤓

[@wiregods]

This video doesn’t mention amino so far but that’s probably the probably the better. Never was a more traumatized as a child by one platform

[@baron_von_brunk]

I miss staying up all night in 2003 and playing Gunbound with random nerds from the defunct G4TV forums.

[@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments]

Ahh, Gunbound. That brings back some memories. While I didn't play it as much as my friends I do remember playing it. I guess I was more of a RuneScape kid.

[@Wotvr]

Bro...a wave of memories just came rushing back. Thanks for reminding me of Gunbound.

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

The destruction of a Google site that most represents the end of the old internet and the beginning of the new internet is not Google Plus. It's Google Reader.

[@j.2512]

even google search is nearly unusable now

[@DerMeisterEdits]

Google Buzz

[@SwizzleMix]

Dude holy shit I remember when you had like, 20K subs. I guess the niche of "Old Internet scholar" really popped off, congrats!

[@beowolfxz3163]

Now that you mention it, the number did grow substantial

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Honestly he's filling a niche that was left when internet historian stop covering internet history

[@lyleabner2475]

I know Skype isn't really social media but it's kinda funny how it died the moment discord showed up

[@joshshrum2764]

This is true.

[@fleshchild]

Moreso Microsoft buying Skype up and having no idea what to do with it

[@micjimster4845]

damn. im not even that old yet feel old remembering skipe, is it even still around?

[@belstar1128]

first they forced me to stop using msn messenger and use skype then they ruined skype i wonder how long discord will last

[@sleaf6]

You can’t just hit me with Emma Blackery, Boogie and Ray William Johnson all in a row like that

[@lachlank.8270]

=3

[@BerzerkerTank]

You keep getting me with these Randy Stair jumpscares, man, it's horrifying.

[@بسيطو-ر7ص]

Where is randy stair in the video?

[@liammcnicholas918]

@@بسيطو-ر7ص5:22

[@someperson4536]

​@@بسيطو-ر7ص 5:24

[@Altern8One]

Somewhere in Google+ section, where he's just starting

[@YourBuddyBrady]

That feeling when you realize that you'll never be as funny as Ray William Johnson attacking Google Plus.

[@EmployeeAMillion]

Farmer 1 and Farmer 2 in the thumbmail? This is gonna be good.

[@biggreen1456]

The one with the hat is canonically "Al Sneed", creator of the simpsons said so

[@BixbiteBungo]

Look at the city slicker driving his fancy German car

[@The_Based_Batman]

​@@biggreen1456 Isn't the one to the right Charles Tamzarian canonically too?

[@user-qy9tz6cb1j]

@@BixbiteBungo this car was made in guatemala...

[@MatthewPrower]

you mean al sneed and charles tamzarian

[@SPONGEBOB20]

Neogaf was basically Reddit before Reddit in terms of mods

[@SirBlackReeds]

* Reddit 2.0 Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Reddit originally like 4chan's dorky cousin?

[@fudgen.a1249]

Yeah, but Reddit mods (the bad ones in my experience anyway) usually try to at the very least hide their biases when banning a benign commenter they don’t agree with. Neogaf… Just seemed exhausting.

[@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments]

​@@SirBlackReedsEhh, not really. Reddit was formed by users of Digg, yet another social media kind of service that I'm surprised isn't talked about in this video. The similarities come from subreddits. Like how 4Chan has different image boards Reddit has different subreddits. Reddit was pretty decent up until 2016 or so IMO. That is also when the mobile app launched so you can probably guess what happened. Though I guess a lot of places became incredibly toxic in 2016 and not just reddit. Reddit isn't really that bad when you find a smaller subreddit focused on specific topics however the larger public subreddits are shit. Even subreddits filled with people that like "Free Speech" will ban you like /conservative even if you just disagree with them on one single small issue.

[@CMSonYT]

@@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments Only partially correct. Digg's fall made for the first time reddit blew up, but in 2009, /b/ crashed from being too popular (people kept trying to outfunny each other...), so the /b/tards went to reddit and 4chan and reddit in general became close in terms of the userbase. Reddit was very different back then, and was defined by people from both digg and 4chan and was technically a free speech site.

[@YTKeepsDeletingAllMyComments]

@@CMSonYT Ahh didn't know about 4chan crashing or users leaving it. Thanks. And yeah Reddit used to be pretty cool (even with all the stupid jokes and memes), even the main subs. Like I said, in 2016 is when it really noticeably started changing or at least when I really recognized it and deleted my account. It coincides with the launch of the mobile app which probably brought in a bunch of new people. Also politics at that time really turned into 2 party brain rot everywhere, George Washington was right about the 2 party system.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

I remember editing my MySpace page to play the Captain S theme song. Fun times, I only posted on NeoGAF once and they banned me, they didn't like my take on Senran Kagura

[@namelessresource5782]

Oh my God I am not the only one who remembers Captain S. I loved that shit growing up.

[@CMSonYT]

what WAS your take on Senran Kagura?

[@phoenixdouchebag904]

​@@CMSonYTtaking into account NeoGaf was filled with puritans, he probably liked the series.

[@JoeyJ0J0]

@@CMSonYT probably positive if I got banned, this was back in 2013-14

[@TheSultan1470]

​@@JoeyJ0J0 Oh, well, that's like a billion years ago

[@ginidontthinkso4282]

I really hope there's a resetera video because the entire site is just batshit insane

[@alphons1456o]

Myspace is definitely a good ending for the owner. The owner didn't go crazy with politics or turn their site into a vestigal arm of the government or whatever corporate boardroom they belong to...at least, to my knowledge

[@ExtremeWreck]

They're probably hiding from people who hated the event in which all MySpace content before 2016 was purged.

[@Lar_me]

Myspace Tom was probably the only good social media owner ☹

[@TheSultan1470]

...what

[@viscountrainbows2857]

If Mush mentions GaiaOnline I will be reduced to subatomic particles.

[@SporianSummit]

isnt gaiaonline still alive though?

[@justsomerandoman]

I miss neogaf and uncensored tumblr. Not because I used them, but because they were good at isolating undesirables from other media.

[@HidamariNuko]

I made a myspace page for each of the characters and bosses in Twilight Princess, complete with bios. It was a cringy time for sure.

[@anueutsuho7425]

Wait, all the bosses? I love the idea of legit RPing as Morpheel. That's great.

[@goldenhydreigon4727]

I can imagine the daily activities they all have. I feel like Blizzeta would be comparing her jumpscare to popular screamers around the time.

[@leejtam0914]

you really have to have been around for the unregulated internet to actually experience how wild it was

[@Takato]

If you ask anyone from Brazil ages 25 and up about "old social media", 100% of them will talk about Orkut. It was our Myspace, man. It was basically a multi-forum site with social media profiles and features. Some of the most fun I had on the internet was on 2006-2009 in Orkut.

[@dysphoria-chan]

This video will feel even more ironic when in the early 2040s, people will see our current social media as obsolete.

[@sizzis2045]

Regarding Twitter's customization, it's funny how the site back at the beginning allowed you to set a custom background image and all, let you have animated GIFs for profile pic (those who haven't changed it since then still get to keep one), and even recently it allowed you at least to freely choose what color to show the interactive parts on your account (buttons, links, etc..., those which are now stuck to light blue). A similar argument could also be made about KZbin channels too. I guess the deprivation of customization options is something that has hit every social media from the late 2010s onwards, really.

[@TheSultan1470]

Please, it would be best if everyone just had the Bleeter sheep as their logo

[@Fizzbizz]

Back in 2008 when I made my youtube account, I loved how i could customize my channel in just about any way I wanted to. Now, nearing the age of 30, I do not give a single shit about that, not only because I think it'd be a bit pointless unless I was a content creator, but also because the customization options aren't there anymore. Every channel has the same, generic, boring ass look, and they don't allow the personalities of the creators behind them to shine at all.

[@Jpthemanz]

I always wondered what the "gaf" was in Scribblenauts when I was younger. I thought I was just stupid.

[@Lar_me]

Scribblenauts was stuffed with so many bizarre inside jokes that I barely even questioned it. 🤷‍♂

[@tylertheguy3160]

I was born in 2002 and one of my biggest regrets is that I didn't get to experience 90's internet. That era has always fascinated me and from what I've heard it was basically the fucking wild west.

[@Man-q5r]

Bro, look at me who's born in 2010 but finds most of the old internet nostalgic and kinda cool ngl.

[@belstar1128]

the 90s internet was bad this video is about the 2000s. the 90s internet didn't work most of the time and was expensive and it took 10 minutes to load an image most sites were just text.

[@Arcademan09]

Chad Warden was ahead of his time. *EVERYONE* fell for it

[@aortaplatinum]

I still quote "PS Triple" and "C'mon, the Wii? That controller looks like a dildo"

[@releasethekraken5039]

*Warden

[@henrynelson9301]

It’s even better when you realize nobody would take it seriously nowadays

[@AWESOMO5]

That shiet looks lika DeelDo

[@Arcademan09]

@@AWESOMO5 Everytime I hear him impersonate Link I laugh my ass off "Haa~ Haa~" "Devil May Cry? More like 'Devil Run Up on a Nigg-' ", it's so stupid it's amazing

[@WeedDigimon]

I feel like I'm always gonna be haunted by the spectre of GamerGate 2014 never ended

[@comixproviderftw_02]

AVGN had Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Nostalgia Critic had the Bat Credit Card MagicMush has GamerGate

[@daro4066]

And it won't end for a while with Sweet Baby inc. and all the other ESG consultant companies carrying on its legacy

[@liammcnicholas918]

@chinsaw2727Apparently something about women in video games. IDK either

[@FelipeJaquez]

​​​​​@chinsaw2727 Video game journalism and general corruption or nepotism within the industry. That is all I can give you without also being branded a label or buzzword.

[@simonsimons1252]

Sometimes I wish I could go back realizing how much the internet would eventually change.

[@SirBlackReeds]

There are services that make the web look like yesteryear including: oldwebtoday, TheOldNet, Memento Time Travel, and apparently Pale Moon browser and Deepnet Explorer can be used to make web pages look like the glory days. Not to mention that freeware version of the Mosaic browser still work.

[@j.2512]

Not sure if i would have taken more advantage of it or just try to stay away completely, knowing that eventually me and my peers would be digital orphans, having invested so much in something that doesn't even exist anymore and now there's nowhere else to go online for us

[@salsamancer]

​@@j.2512wouldn't that make you homeless rather than orphans?

[@honxiu]

The only permanent thing in this world is change

[@Metricsteel]

So neoGAF is where all these reddit mods came from

[@KrimsonKattYT]

No they all went to ResetEra which is like old NeoGaf but somehow even worse. Oppose the hivemind once and it's an instant permaban. Reddit isn't too bad. There were only a handful of "problem users" back in 2019-2022 that modded 100 servers each and were insanely oppressive, but they're all gone now.

[@Hilipinapixili]

@@KrimsonKattYT Reddit is very dependant on the subreddit you're in, to be fair. Some like GamingCircleJerk are absolutely awful.

[@Peb02497]

​@@KrimsonKattYTbut now they are replaced by corpos.

[@blondesummer7980]

Fall of Sneed and Rise of Chuck

[@liammcnicholas918]

Sneed II: The Chuckening

[@BoyOHBoy123]

myspace will return in 2022

[@robocatssj3theofficial]

20222

[@j.2512]

forums making a comeback is the only thing that can save the internet

[@aesthet1kal]

well i mean, spacehey exists

[@belstar1128]

2012

[@poble]

@@aesthet1kal too bad it's gotten toxic, I left a few months ago and haven't looked back

[@onioncontrol]

I remember google plus being absolutely filthy with pornographic artwork. Their feed worked in such a weird way you get followed by anyone you respond to in a yt comment so I would get notifications for furry porn artists I didn't even follow just for commenting on videos.

[@TheSultan1470]

...videos of furry art

[@belstar1128]

it was disturbing

[@NingenSlayerZamasu]

The funny thing about Google+ was that it was my first real unfiltered experience with Fandom culture wasn’t as terrible as it is today. It wasn’t as bad as Homestuck but that’s like saying having an alcohol addiction isn’t as bad as having an addiction to crystal meth.

[@TheUballe]

Ah, the old Teamxbox, gamespot, and IGN forums were fertile ground for endless flame wars.

[@ManiacalForeigner]

Ray William Johnson raging at Google+ set to Silent Hill 2 music is pure art It's borderline experimental

[@tristysstuff6664]

I remember whej tumblr banned risky content and all the weirdo went to twitter and that's when twitter became the complete trash it is now. Ain't that funny? Honestly, it's a topic an entire video could be dedicated to

[@TheSultan1470]

Eugh. I'll take your word for it, bird

[@FelipeJaquez]

Twitter became shit once the big celebrities and politicians started using it.

[@JK-gm6kk]

Universal intro + scarlet takes a tumble has me CRYING and my dog very concerned with my loud ass laughter that woke him up

[@jamesborlan2850]

NeoGAF the place where if you breath air you’re banned

[@pointyorb]

The description of this video is correct; I love learning about what I was born too late to experience

[@BugsyFoga]

I recall going through some old stuff in storage, and found a book on how to use my space, which was neat ancient relic to look back on time that once was .

[@Mario_Angel_Medina]

26:51 in fairness to MySpace, they could barely held together one social media website, having to manage another one would probably cause both to either collapse into incompatibility with newer technologies (or be take down by the Goverment or something)

[@ResearcherOak]

You're the true Internet Historian. This is the kind of content I was looking for.

[@aortaplatinum]

Whang is far closer to that description Too bad he started advertising sex toys, wtf man...

[@namelessresource5782]

​@@aortaplatinum Whang did WHAT

[@themc3140]

@@aortaplatinum I mean, he's not the first. There are lots of worse sponsorships to take morally speaking, and advertising those is pretty on-brand considering a lot of what he covers.

[@henrynelson9301]

⁠@@aortaplatinumwhang is definitely not the only KZbinr to take sex toy sponsorships. And even then it’s not a big deal.

[@aortaplatinum]

@@themc3140 it is on brand, but it's still kinda gross and weird. I'm shocked KZbin even allows that when he has to self-censor so much of his videos

[@enthiegavoir5955]

Man, I remember being active online the exact time google+ was rolled out. Late at night clicking on another Bashurverse video, but this time no one could interact with any old comments, within minutes people realized what had been done to them. The next day, Bob was everywhere.

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

Pardon me for commenting twice, but after reaching the NeoGAF portion of this video… “Dread it. Run from it. “Gamer/Goobergate arrives all the same.”

[@nohrianscum9791]

*"I am inevitable."*

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

@@nohrianscum9791 “And I… am Sneed Man.” (*SNAP*)

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

@@nohrianscum9791”And I… am Fancy German Car Man.” (SNAP)

[@schizophist2963]

"Goonergate is eternal"

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Funny thing is Goober gate 2 is happening right now with all the sweet baby inc stuff going on

[@NPGLAMB]

I hated that Google+ published all my KZbin comments to the public outside of that videos comment section

[@hahahello7519]

Vine is still so fascinating to me on a very different level. I'm an internet addict and by 2013 I spent a lot of my spare time on 4chan and other le funny sites, but a few years later I heard: Dude, Vine got shut down. And I was like: What the heck is vine? Maybe it wasn't a big thing here in Europe, but I only heard about this platform after it was gone and when all those videos got "migrated" to KZbin and Twitter. And of course when musicaly and then TikTok went off. But also: I was never that familiar with mobile social media apps and got my first smartphone in 2016. I guess that might explain my ignorance.

[@Jepze158]

- Maybe it wasn't a big thing here in Europe I was thinking that as well because what I remember during peak of Vine's popularity nobody in my school watched them or I didn't see anybody watching them. Only reason I knew about it was because all the complaints of those compilations being everywhere.

[@EcchiVwV]

The only thing I ever watched on Vine was the GTA 5 gameplay leaks.

[@WMan37]

24:02 I was too busy having fun on Newgrounds at the time to have social media in the early 2000s to be honest. Sure, I had an account on newgrounds, but I rarely commented, I was just watching and playing flash stuff and browsing the newgrounds audio portal and was completely content with what I had. I missed Myspace's heyday despite being around for that era, and I'm kinda kicking myself for letting it pass me by cause I hate the bland design of modern websites.

[@TheSultan1470]

Ugh, WMan modifies page: (pink page with mp3 of Avril Lavigne)

[@brickch4pel]

0:00: This didn't age well Last I checked, it's 2025.

[@Arbmanthesheep]

Huh... Surprised you didn't use Friendster as a subject. That felt like such an early example of social media not going how they intended.

[@SirBlackReeds]

Or Geocities, no?

[@randomtinypotatocried]

I was surprised to see it even for a second in the video. Also apparently it's back

[@honxiu]

Friendster was my first social media

[@aleee2323]

2:08 DOBBY INSERT 😂😂😂 Mushy never fails to deliver 😁

[@AlfredFJones1776]

Man I miss Vine. Back when nobody hated the Paul Brothers cuz they were just two silly dudes who made 7 second videos. Now Logan is the WWE United States Champion for Christ’s sake.

[@elneco4654]

It's funny to think that at one point WWE made their own Vine. Remember Tout?

[@PepoHuh]

Never in my life did I think that Leo Luster would teach me stuff about the internet

[@waxmeltfan]

ikr. my fav beauty influencer really fell off fr :/

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

It’s because of MagicMush that I was able to learn the stories of Andrew Dobson, the “open door” AVGN ripoff, and the Archivist.

[@kingbash6466]

As much of as people roasted it back then, Vine used to be the site that had the funniest shit imaginable. 80% of the memes everyone uses today can be traced to that it, and for better or worse, it's an important piece of internet history because of that.

[@windego999]

Yeah, I genuinely miss Vine. I know Tiktok is techincally the replacement but it's just not the same.

[@Sorrelhas]

The Vine boom sound effect is the cornerstone of modern comedy

[@JennyTheNerdBat]

80% is a huge overstatement, but yeah, the site was important for meme culture.

[@Chaogod1233]

Absolutely no where near 80%. Thats an insane overstatement when so many other websites exist that have contributed waaaay more lol

[@nooneimportant2002]

Take off the nostalgia goggles. Vine is and always was the unfunniest sh*t imaginable.

[@DoctorBeardface]

I'm a new subscriber. I must say it's an absolute pleasure watching videos about Internet history by a guy who sounds like Mr. Garrison. Keep up the great work. ❤

[@Racuuuun]

so sad... i remember using these back in 1989. Good times.

[@blackwellsdiary]

DAMN

[@TheMasterblah]

Was the Matrix an accurate reflection of the 90's?

[@liammcnicholas918]

I remember using these back in 1810.

[@TheSultan1470]

​@@liammcnicholas918 FWOOOO say hello to LEMMMY for me

[@carlosdgutierrez6570]

​@@TheMasterblah the non fiction stuff? Yeah, mostly, you got lost a lot more with how crappy were the GPS devices back then, let alone paper maps. Google maps and its competition are one of the most underrated and useful things invented this century.

[@ImmaLittlePip]

Your videos are just so rewatchable Every time you upload I tend to rewatch some of your other stuff

[@jesuiscrespo]

aw hell yeah new Parallel Pipes AND MagicMush videos at the same time

[@midwestbox]

I remember using myspace at it's peak in middle school. was the reason I learned basic coding, I felt like such a tech wiz knowing how to make super customized profiles with all the hidden music players and the like 😂

[@jotarokujoandstarplatinum1280]

Please use some of that Rocket Money sponsorship cash to get a pop filter.

[@Nameless-ln5mr]

Vine?!?! NOOOOO!!!!! NOT THE THING THAT CONTINUES TO PLAGUE US WITH THAT *BOOM* SOUND EFFECT THAT KEEPS SHOWING UPIN SHILL VIDEOS!!!!!

[@orvilleredenpiller338]

Vine?!?! NOOOOOO!!!! NOT THE THING THAT is literally the worst social media site imaginable.

[@IshmaelBarrie-r7v]

@@orvilleredenpiller338 If you think Vine of all websites are the worst then you are just way too uncultured.

[@OrbObserver]

The Vine Boom is engrained into internet meme culture, get over it.

[@viscountrainbows2857]

At this point having this strong a reaction to the "vine boom" makes you sound like one of those Boomers™ that lays into everyone that uses "lol". I'd love to see what your views are on the latest batches of Gen Z colloquialisms.

[@baconlabs]

🗿

[@B3LL]

i had just felt a sudden urge to search for a new magicmush video and stumbled upon a freshly posted surprise. the strange thing is that this has happened at least 3 times before. what is this phenomena

[@Dinosaurwith42heads]

Rest in piece, you'll be missed

[@SneedBass]

Chuck get up the new Sneed just dropped.

[@tykamen5588]

And to think that Google plus was googles worst idea ever, oh how wrong we were.

[@I_Exist557]

I think it was likely Google stadia

[@AlqhemyA]

Ray William Johnson stabbing the google+ logo with a pencil multiple times before screaming "YEAH!" is for some reason so funny to me and i dont know why

[@runman624]

8:33 god, that takes me back, i witnessed those copy pasta nonstop live

[@pictonomii3295]

If you need an example of the kind of reprobates that use ResetEra, they tried to go after Masahiro Sakurai for not including enough black people in Smash Ultimate, and for uploading an image where a black character gets hit with F.L.U.D.D, saying that obviously it was supposed to reference the civil rights movement.

[@TheSultan1470]

... ... *LOL*

[@liammcnicholas918]

That sounds like a Babylon Bee article

[@trevorp8124]

I'll always have fond memories of " 'Road Work Ahead'? Uhh, yeah, I sure hope it does!" *hits gas*

[@rawanalahmed8086]

‏‪at 5:24‬‏ Yup, that Randy Stair

[@theactualTVB]

I’ll never forget MySpace Tom. Probably for the wrong reasons

[@amerimangaka]

You sound like someone is holding you hostage during that ad reading

[@henrynelson9301]

That’s kinda just how reading sponsor scripts work. The way he says “I use it all the time trust me” at the end is clearly sarcastic tho.

[@TheSultan1470]

​@@henrynelson9301 Proof

[@micjimster4845]

it seems hes going the tomska approach of pushing buttons when it comes to ad regulation..

[@badluckbrooks]

random but i LOVE your accent. you sound very southern in the best way possible. i’m a born and raised georgian so i can definitely appreciate it. it sounds like i’m being spoken to by a friend.

[@diberhaze]

in this video you mention myspace still being around but it seems that it's on the verge of being shut down because no new news articles have been published since early 2022, most images seem to be broken, you can't upload any more songs, and the songs that are already there you can't even play. once i tried going into some random page and it gave me an error. so it's definitely on its deathbed by now

[@Im_Tori_Senpai]

As an old G+ user, I think the biggest thing keeping the site afloat were fandoms and roleplayers. I used to roleplay a lot with people on that site during middle and high school, and how everyone had banded together on the last day of G+ to celebrate and mourn. I remember too that users in the RP community went to other sites like MeWe after G+ died, purely because they allowed NSFW content when G+ pulled a Tumblr and stopped allowing NSFW content.

[@BlackViperGX]

Goober gate and Sonic are like the guest characters of this channel

[@triggeredcat120]

Vine is absolutely a platform I miss. Came across so many hilarious clips that lives rent free in my mind.

[@chasethecupcake]

No matter what you make videos on, I will always watch

[@Sykroid]

I just wanna say that You're The Man Now Dog. Anyway, I hate how every username ever is taken, captcha's are equivalent to an SAT test, I need 20 letters and special characters for accounts, forums have been pushed out by subreddits and discord servers, literally EVERYTHING on the internet gets shared everywhere, and the fact that the internet is an extension of the real world rather than being an escape. Also 4chan is 21 years old now, which is insane to me. Summer kids used to get banned for not being old enough. But there were people who hadn't been born yet, that are now old enough to post.

[@stotab8700]

RayWilliamJohnson's running gag where he murdered the Google+ logo every video was one of my favorites he did. Not sure why it stuck in my head, but I'm glad you showed it off

[@Im_ThunderEagle]

I created a Google+ account before KZbin mandated it so I could change my KZbin name (it was a lot harder back then) so I was not affected at all 💅

[@laurisaarinen1126]

LOL those old Ray William Johnson clips destroying the Google + logo still make me laugh 😂

[@masterseal0418]

I'm like this grandparent who tells little Timmy "I remember the time Skype, Gaia Online, Neogaf, and Miiverse in my younger days."(the last one I actually used whilst an impressionable child, never heard of the thirdly mentioned until now, nor have been on the former two at all), the internet aged prominently to the point where Vine, Google+, and MySpace were treated as relics of the past. I know some users on Twitter/X, Instagram, Facebook, and KZbin who still use Tumblr, but the SJWs and toxic fanbases to good shows(e.g. Steven Universe, Voltron Legendary Defender, Rick and Morty, Twilight, Supernatural, Tumblr Sexymen, Undertale, MLP:FIM, et cetera) are what severely damaged Tumblr's reputation. MySpace was influential to underground movements such as emo, scene, and goth, to the point where it was satirized for them entirely, and iconic music videos from the likes of Michael Jackson's Thriller gained more than a million likes for being the best and most important of all. And it seems Elon Musk is considering bringing back Vine and MySpace from the grave, so I salute him for that!

[@thecaptain6520]

"I miss 10 years ago when the internet sucked for a completely different reason"

[@homersimpson3800]

Forced to use Google+ to comment on videos, those were dark times.