The Internet Changed Me

The Internet is so le epic (me gusta)
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STORYBOARDS
Funymony ➤ / funymony
Airoah ➤ / @krugston
Owen ➤ / doggbag
Lu ➤ / horrorhare
Fern ➤ / funkysnailz
BACKGROUNDS
Annie Loomis ➤ / annieloomisart
Jessica McGinnis ➤ / jaykittens
Laura Walsh ➤ / aspentri
AntiDarkHeart ➤ / antidarkheart
Jasper Luu ➤ / portablebunbun
Katelyn "Lenny" ➤ / sweetpea_arts
2D ANIMATION
Rushlight Invader ➤ / rushlightinvader
Areg Savchenko ➤ / theregyman
Noah Cheruk ➤ / rocketsockit
RIG ANIMATION
Julia Schoel ➤ / papajoolia
Rebecca Kartzmark ➤ / kartzmark
Jerb ➤ / jerbjpg
Emilee Dummer ➤ / edummerart
Kelly Jensen ➤ / kelly_anne_art
Riki Kuniyuki ➤ / rikikuniyuki_art
ASSETS
Julia Klimas ➤ / julobster
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Lovelesskia ➤ / lovelesskia
EDITOR
Zade ➤ / realzade
COMPOSITOR
Gigaseraph ➤ / gigaseraph
SCREENSHOT HISTORIAN
Jaylaw ➤ / jaylaw_yt
TV Static
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Ms Paint
jspaint.app/
Space Cadet Pinball Guide
gamefaqs.gamespot.com/pc/5630...
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TIkTok ➤ / theoddtiktoksout

[@InktheImpassive]

Sometimes, it feels like James's indirectly flexing on the fact that he can draw hands.

[@KeWDu]

If you check the description you can see the whole team of people that worked on this video and it doesn’t really say his name on any of the credits. I think at this point he might just be doing the voiceover and directing. JaidenAnimations is about the same way I think.

[@ircusing9875]

@@KeWDu yeah, its kinda sad bc I think that odd1sout's essence is gone. The essence was that theodd1sout actually drew the videos. Now that he has a team of 32530513285905123980 people, odd1sout looks more like a brand rather than a youtube story teller animator

[@KeWDu]

@@ircusing9875 I mean, dudes already made it big. It’s not practical to devote that much time and effort into animating a full video by yourself or even with a small team, when you make so much money to just relax and hire people to help. It’s hard to argue that the quality of his older videos would compare with this one. And even if he’s not directly involved in animating, just putting out the content to share with us is probably enough fulfillment for James and Jaiden. I know what you’re saying but I feel like if I were in their shoes I’d probably do the same thing.

[@AnEmu404]

@@ircusing9875 that’s an incredibly cynical way of looking at things. He’s got a devoted team of hardworking animators like himself, so that he’s not under ungodly amounts of stress and pressure. He’s still there, he’s not being controlled by a corporate company or something, he’s just gotten a team to help.

[@ircusing9875]

@@KeWDu yeah you are actually right, I am proud of him for making it so far and I am ok with the better quality of the animation team, Its just that I like to see the old videos where Odd drew and when he was having fun with Jaiden and SomethingElse with not necessarily a lot of production better

[@cloroxart]

Honestly, we don’t give enough credit to how the internet changes people

[@BeastyMan]

Haha😂😂😂😂

[@Nicolejamay]

True

[@_xxemogachacottonxx_1273]

Yeah

[@landolordhasrizz]

Ikr

[@Fall_duck]

Fine

[@That1TrashMan]

I am effectively Gen Z as I born in 2005, but damn I had the same experience on the internet as James. Space cadet pinball was something I spent a lot of time playing as kid.

[@hohho56oy]

But did you play Hover for Windows 95?

[@elijahk.82]

Lol, yeah, i was born 2004, but i moved around quite a bit and one of my houses actually still had dial-up. Never played space cadet pinball, but i do remember youtube from back in 2010 when the way my family would watch a video is that we'd click on it, wait 45 minutes to an hour, come back, and watch all 10-20 minutes of whatever. And god was it weird. what you could just find on there. Kinda miss it tbh.

[@smithsunleashed]

Same, 2004 and all these experiences that some of the 90s babys talk about, I can relate because I’ve had the same experience too

[@NightCloudI]

​@@smithsunleashedyeah, I was born in 2006 and my childhood was nothing like the later gen z kids'. It was more like the 2000s. I grew up on DVDs and TV. When I was 11 my parents got their first smartphones and I was borowing them to listen to audiobooks.

[@superinggoneil]

6:45 LMAO THE ROMANTIC SONIC AND SHADOW DRAWING ON THE CIRCLE TOOL PART WAS SO HILARIOUS XD

[@fluffycorn_njst]

I was born in the Gen Z era but that pinball and paint program STILL hit me with some *hard* nostalgia!

[@josie3757]

same!

[@sweetkittykat2000]

Same. I just turned 24 and the ms paint, weird websites, neopets, and the fun little games that came installed on windows are all things I remember. I also used to play this penguin bowling game when I was like 8 that was installed on windows 7 and I loved it.

[@niftythegoblin]

Same! But also, we’re in that weird transitional generation of 96-02 that saw the internet and tech change A LOT but never saw the beginning of it.

[@PC_noobOfficial]

Same my mom kept her old computer, and I would play the pinball game while she was doing chores or cooking

[@SquirrelTheorist]

SAME oh my gosh, and on sweet 'ol 98

[@ishanya001]

I'm a Gen Z kid but even I got hit with nostalgia when James talked about Space Cadet Pinball and random free form selection in MS Paint.

[@GabetheMagician_22]

Me 2

[@israeldiaz4189]

Same

[@biibs]

But when he talked about 9/11... definitely don't remember it happening

[@CatBoiAnimationsIsEpic]

Exactly! For most of my childhood i had a windows xp with no internet connection, and it was truly an amazing time

[@SirusCreed]

Right! I was born in 2002 but when he thanked about the land line it hit me hard

[@kaanyasin3733]

As a full Gen Z'er (2009) i wonder how it was in the 2000s. I have a very brief like 1 year period where it wasnt discord: "yo hop on" but instead it was going to the park, meeting your friend and planning it out (i wasnt the one doing it, i just watched my family do so). And i feel like that was the peak of man. Instantaneous connection is wrong. I truly wish i was born sooner

[@xX_Knives_Xx]

late gen z here (08, jus turned 16) and i still remember a time when the internet wasnt as omnipresent and all consuming as it is today, its like with age it became amplified and now its Everywhere

[@bigrandy636]

Where I liva and with my friends we have both, we do hang out with each other and go to the park, and we usually plan it out over text messages, and I'm not much younger than you

[@goo_dragon]

I know I'm five months late, and I know this is an absolute novel, so I apologize for going way overboard lmfao if you really want a comprehensive glimpse into the past, here you go! I was born in 1999, so I can at least speak for mid 2000s onward from the perspective of a midwest American. *The Internet:* Everything felt smaller and homier, a lot of the games we played were made by people like you and me and it wasn't meant to squeeze every last cent out of you. I got on Roblox in 2008, back then the main font was comic sans if that tells you anything lmao Flash games were everywhere. KZbin wasn't the only video-focused platform, there were websites like ebaumsworld and Newgrounds which was animation-heavy (and spawned a TON of memes). I really wish I could remember more of the sites I used to visit, I doubt any of them are still up If you wanted to connect with others, you'd have to search for forums for your individual interests. It kept things tight-knit, it didn't feel like yelling into a void like how posting on Twitter does now Ads were usually confined to two spaces on webpages - a static horizontal banner towards the top, and a static square/other vertical banner along the right hand side. If you were watching KZbin back in 2009, you'd also get a transparent banner text ad along the bottom quarter of the video with a very big X that made getting rid of it easy. Even if you didn't click the X, it would go away on its own after 10 or so seconds from what I remember. The ads never left those aspect ratios, there were no autoplaying full volume videos that would scream for your attention. Most the time the not-shady ads were gifs, sometimes interactive (like websites that would let you preview mouse cursor designs to download, though most of those were indeed shady lol) There was HUGE pushback from monetization and corporations in general. People felt very much like the space was for regular people, and they didn't want every single bit of it to be monetized like it is now. VEVO was HATED back when it was created, because it was seen as the start of the end for the internet just being used "just for fun" There was a lot more emphasis on personalization, that word used to really mean something. Sticking with KZbin as an example, if you had a channel, you could design a custom subscribe button and it would be there for any viewers to see. Channels themselves could be customized by layout, custom image backgrounds, color schemes, font selection, etc... It really was something. As an aside for KZbin, back in 2011-2012ish, you could even see how many dislikes a comment got. Opinions felt like they mattered more, and even comment thieves were discouraged from stealing comments because of it. Everyone's voices were more prominent. Bots back then just... Weren't really a thing. Technology wasn't advanced enough/websites weren't prominent enough for people to create legions of spam bots to ruin discussions. The one place you would see bots is your email, which people would actually use to keep up with their friends. It was texting before everyone had phones/message apps. Lots of people, like my cousin, used AOL instant messenger/something similar, but I never used any of those. When I started to really interact with the internet was right when viruses started to get serious. In the 90s/early 2000s, a lot of viruses were actually made by amateur coders to pull pranks on their friends (think jumpscare horror image pop ups). E-commerce was in its fledgeling state as I started putzing around online, which meant there was a growing incentive to be more malicious with viruses, so I quickly had to become computer literate. Even then, though, getting a virus usually wasn't the end of the world where your entire identity/money was stolen. It was typically an annoyance where pop ups would continuously load and your browser would get slowed down by a bunch of useless add-ons. Kinda feels like the norm of what we experience today when going online. The crazy thing was, back then, most people weren't /on/ on the internet yet, so a good chunk of the people in your day-to-day life genuinely didn't even know what a "meme" was. A lot of internet humor and culture didn't really leave the space until the 2010s, and even then it was a slow trickle before permeating into the zeitgeist.

[@goo_dragon]

*Gaming:* As a whole, everything was a lot more decentralized, and I miss it. Gaming was done mostly on console, they were made by nerds instead of the soulless profit-maxing frat boys we have today, and it was a lot more of a casual hobby back then. Before companies found ways to "optimize" and "streamline" matchmaking, you'd always have matches with people of every skill level and it was pretty common to continue playing with them for longer than a single match. Party chat wasn't always a thing, so people would socialize during matches, and lots and lots of friendships were made that way. What's even wilder, is that development priority for games back then fell to singleplayer/storymode first, then multiplayer. The only microtransactions back then were for DLC, which used to be meaningful. Cosmetics were unlockable, either through in-game currency, getting achievements/etc, so devs would create fully finished multiplayer maps/game modes/campaign extensions and sell it for a modest price. There was no updating a game once it came out, so when games shipped, you knew you were getting a finished product. It really felt like you got your money's worth out of every game you got. And, like my earlier example with the internet, there was a lot more customizability back then. A lot of people didn't hook their consoles up to the internet in the early 2000s yet, so in order to spend time with your IRL friends but still play games, you would have to go over to your friend's house and play co op campaign or custom games. There used to be a thing called LAN parties, where your friends could bring their consoles to your house and hook them up, and it'd be a local multiplayer server. I remember seeing stories of ~16 people having LAN parties playing Halo 2. Weirdly enough, gaming back then wasn't seen as normal either. You'd get called "gay" "virgin" yadda yadda, but that didn't stop businesses from experimenting with reaching gamers. Companies like Burger King would package a BK game with your meal. Were they ever good? Absolutely not, but still it's a fun thing to look back on and remember *TV, and more specifically, my relationship with Commercials:* It's weird to say this, but I'm weirdly nostalgic for commercials that would play when I was a kid. What's even weirder is I'm not the only one... I recently found a shitton of channels whose sole focus is uploading recordings of commercials in between shows on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney XD, and so on, with specific original air dates. Instead of every single commercial being (supposedly) tailored to your specific viewing habits, companies had to more or less throw shit at the wall to see what stuck, so there was a little bit more variation in ad breaks. I do remember pharma ads being a thing back then, but not nearly as bad as it is nowadays... Something else I remember happening more is continuity in ads. Cereal brands, snack foods, etc would have storylines that you would see updates to every so often. Some of the ones that stick out the most to me are Trix, Lucky Charms, and Goldfish especially... You could even go on to their website and vote for the next story beat, I haven't seen anything like that since then I'll miss how impactful premieres were back then; it felt like a serious event you had to clear the calendar for since recording shows was still in its infancy. The sheer excitement I would feel as I finally got to see the newest episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender/Spongebob/American Dragon: Jake Long is a feeling I haven't felt matched yet. Sure, TV premieres still happen, but there were no streaming services to divide attention. Everyone watched the same stuff, we all shared these moments together more frequently than we do today. Media as a whole back then felt a lot more "fuck it, life is tough, so lets not take ourselves too seriously" while also somehow having extremely edgy styling. Humor, which was also pretty edgy, seemed to sell a good bit, so lots of commercials took advantage of it. I remember everyone talking about the JackLinks "Messin' with Sasquatch" series of ads. Honorable mention to the old Vonage commercials too, which would have shitty things happen to people (like a kid playing baseball in the front yard, accidentally swinging the entire bat through the front window of his house) It's also worth pointing out how CDs used to be a thing. From obtaining albums legally to burning them to make your own playlists, it was fun and exciting getting new music. Most the movies I watched back then were on VHS, but very slowly my family started getting DVDs. I haven't bought any in a long time, but back then there were menus that I'm weirdly nostalgic for. Some movie DVDs even came with games (they were mostly trash, but still a fun gimmick). **Brick and Mortar Aesthetics:* I'll keep it short, but there was once a time when companies took time to differentiate how their businesses looked. Fast food is the biggest standout, ie McDonald's having big yellow "french fries" sloping down the roofs, Taco Bell's old eye wateringly vibrant color scheme, etc. It's also worth noting that playplaces were so much more prominent, were bigger, and more fun looking (as a side tangent, playground design has changed massively and for the worst since then. I miss merry gorounds). One of Walmart's biggest design trademarks was the smiley face, which was on employee vests, plastic bags, hell, even the door greeter would give you a smiley face sticker. There was so much more identity and visual variety in towns. A cool thing about stores that sold games back then, there would be stations set up with demos loaded so you could try out the newest games. God I miss that *TLDR:* I could continue going on and on but to sum it up, the 2000s was an awkward transitory phase in society that felt very grassroots and fun; things weren't as sanitized or corporate as they are now. It feels like so much spice in life has been lost since then, and we're more isolated now despite the population being drastically bigger.

[@MrSirSir]

4:11 I love this animation, I’ve played it over about fifteen times.

[@thegoods6122]

Seeing these characters with hands will never not creep me out.

[@PurplePh0enix]

Same

[@elhazelrah]

Alot of hand flexin in this episode! Show off!

[@cappy699]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6exqmpsiLSjZqc

[@duli_hawaii]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ amen brother, we must purge all the non-believers

[@Xnxieti]

@@duli_hawaii satan satan satan Satan

[@JakeTheBikerDude]

As a kid born in the 2000s I can confirm that the internet changed my life and made me into who I am today, glad that I grew up with the internet

[@lunabutterfly4081]

I reported the bots that replied earlier so hopefully no more will show up

[@erikastone9183]

Does anybody remember Kid Pix or Purble Place or Pajama Sam, or Reader Rabbit? As a 2000's kid aka gen Z baby I remember playing these computer games. I remember playing Kid Pix in elementary school when we had computer lab such nostalgia 😭 good times.

[@mlgdc2838]

@@erikastone9183 i sorta remember reader rabbit but not the others. I was born in 04 and didn’t spend a ton of time on the internet so I don’t remember it that well.

[@Sebastian_Macdonald]

ratio

[@qmahum2053]

@@erikastone9183 purple place was all i'd play!

[@k9-thehomeboys353]

5:56 hit me hard 🤦🏽‍♂️💔

[@keishg.3838]

This!

[@YTWithJoe]

I was born in late 97 and relate so much to this! Thanks for making this man this is so awesome and nostalgic!

[@antoniotorres8710]

Same! Technically gen z but don’t fit in🤣🤣

[@donutman438]

Even as a 21st century child, i still grew up with almost all of those. I grew up with my grandparents. The sound of space cadet spinball is just sweet nostalgia

[@sytherwusky]

my nostalgia was on LAN cafes playing starcraft before discovering starcraft in Korea

[@32mazechannel]

Never played soace cadet pinball but damn this video is pure nostalgia

[@swarajpatil3042]

Yea

[@zgau0817]

I’m 14 and my mum owns a old as computer, pinball was fire

[@mac23806]

Yes I can agree that game was the epitome of entertainment back when

[@PsychoChicken]

Being born in 2001, a lot of this still resonates with me. Space Cadet pinball and Mindsweeper were the best things ever.

[@kenny_nugget]

911

[@timinator900]

@@kenny_nugget Depends, if you born before that day, it's almost like it never happened. The Gen Z's born after that day have become different compared to the older Gen Z's

[@some_dude_maybe]

2004 here and I may have missed some of the "nostalgia aspects" possibly because they weren't in my country. But things like boards instead of chats, cube-like PCs (my brother had one), Might & Magic, Doom and etc... Yeah, I've been there :)

[@blueberyjuice8242]

9/11

[@luckyboigaming6383]

@@timinator900 no thats not true i was born in 2006 and this video is literally my childhood. just without youtube because i didnt know youtube existed back then. Pinball was like the only game i played. and solitaire but i still dont know how that game is played.

[@asherrudick3912]

I actually remember those days. I was born in 2006, my parents didn’t have all of the new technology we have now, and my grandparents were dealing with something similar. I grew up with the internet the same way as you, so I can relate. The memories are flooding back like all of those dumb comments on videos and community posts saying “first”

[@TheDramacist]

Im an older millennial, and James forgot that MOST plp couldnt afford a home PC in 1998. It certainly wasnt a thing kids were allowed on to play games! A PC was my biggest purchase after my first car. Even once I had one, I still had college and a job (to pay for it all), and siblings who all wanted time online too. You'd get a 2 hr block to go online per day.

[@hohho56oy]

My Parents' first home PC costed $2,000 back in 1998 (~$3,800 today). It had an MMX Pentium II clocked at 400 Mhz, Windows 95, 32 Mb of RAM, a 6 GB Hard Drive, 4 mb AGP Graphics Card, a cd rom drive, a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive, a 100mb Iomega Zip drive (in case if you don't know what a zip drive is, a zip drive was kind of like a floppy disk but it held a lot more files on it) and 1 USB Port in the back. Back then if you wanted sound, you had to buy a separate sound card (in my case, it was a Creative AWE64 with backwards compatibility for those DOS games like the original Doom). Now this machine was pretty standard for the time [not to mention we also had a 56k modem up until 2002].

[@Awesomemay]

as much as we hate the internet we can also appreciate how many opportunities it has brought to creative people and artists

[@brodymacgaming5820]

Awesomemay how I love your videos

[@randomcommenter6132]

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[@PIasmaniac]

Bro I love your vids btw

[@stormy.wholesome.moments]

you a bot?

[@ElectricalMason]

Hey may

[@DanideLouro]

As a Gen Z guy, I experienced some of this things, 'cause I was poor and didn't had access to high tier technology back in the day. I miss the days of deviantArt and Uncyclopedia.

[@equinoxonroblox]

no bots

[@TimeFrost]

yea same, I got my own computer just 3 years ago borrowing my uncle's for hw and solitaire lol

[@1sdobog]

who accually streched

[@ap3king]

how could you hit me with the pinball i didn't need to get woken up today by that nostalgia

[@pelikim]

I am a gen z'er and I've never experienced late 90s to 2000s internet but I somehow understand everything you said about pre-2010s internet, the internet without social media is definitely like cereal without milk but there's alot more options to spend your time online without that "brainrotting algorithm monster" on your fingertips

[@slurples149]

MySpace was a thing back in the 2000s

[@apollolux]

Eh, the internet can survive just fine without centralized social media. Removing them would likely decentralize it back to random single-purpose message board websites.

[@Travis_French]

By the way need a season 2 for oddballs

[@Palkia8-Bit]

No, it’s like cereal with milk, while with social media it’s cereal without.

[@bluehoodie7395]

I’m also a gen-z but I was introduced to almost everything in this video by my gen-x parents 😅. FUN FACT we still have and use a box-TV in our basement😂

[@YourLittleKorokFriend]

James old videos: pure humor with stories James new videos: humor with a life lesson.

[@equinoxrandomness8446]

James always makes videos that have a easy-to-understand moral. I take more than an hour trying to understand the moral of a chapter I learnt in value education period

[@derpatel9760]

I want my funny stories about france back. Badly animated, preferably.

[@StaBlook]

True do

[@eenymeany1]

Ok...

[@ModeratelyObnoxious]

it was all the pbs as a kid 😔, he was infected with morals

[@rahileshanbi5551]

I don't know if it's because I'm at the beginning of Gen z (2001) or because I'm not American, but I relate so much to millennials. Most stuff James said felt nostalgic to ME. Maybe it's because a lot of these 90s-00s reached us a bit later, so I remember everything well?

[@mutantheart9375]

The start of Zoomer-kind is 1996. Not exactly the start, but still an older Gen-Z.

[@DUMDUMYT895]

Damn James that stretch felt good

[@LucyTheWolf2023]

from barely still frame animation to full blown sporadic smooth animation James, you've come so far and to be here to watch that growth throughout the years has been awesome and you are still one of my favorite comfort youtubers

[@Endzonee]

He even has his own show

[@SquirrelTheorist]

@@Endzonee YEAH! I saw that when we were going somewhere, I think at a friend's house and it's advertised

[@zo0roo]

not saying he hasn't improved, but he isn't the only one who animated this video you know that right?-

[@veryepoc6949]

ok

[@disguisedcentennial835]

It’s cuz now he has employees

[@roveish]

It’s fascinating that James can talk about the old internet and fascinate me.

[@ericavia9175]

Ikr

[@slasher4050]

these youngsters dont know ab the old internet smh

[@josh_6867]

this guy is 2 cool 4 youtube rite now!

[@ham8700]

@TheОdd1sOut 🅥 Your fake

[@nemlolrawrlawl2350]

I grew up fully with the internet even before James was born. It's amazing to me to think about just how much was still a thing or wasn't even made yet by this point. Hell I grew up with AoL being the only way on the internet, and it was It's own entire thing. Not even a brower, but another OS it felt. The pinball sound definitely hit me with the nostalgia, too.

[@comoviedian]

i love james when he’s ranting

[@BOTTLES69420]

1:14 robert idk on the rigth surfing

[@mattm7220]

The amount of references to older memes, and websites in the background of this video was a great nostalgia trip all on its own

[@alex_os_95]

@@TheOdd1sout322 scammer

[@UncleHamsBasedOpinions]

The amount of nostalgia in this video is palpable. Good on you for making me remember Pinball, James.

[@Ratboycure]

Oh man growing up with the internet was a great bit... and a great experience. Thanks fellah. Really Good

[@SlyTheHuman]

This has hit me to the core. I resonate with this. 🙆

[@ryanperkins8127]

As an elderly millennial, I gotta say this brought back some memories. Mostly frustrating ones

[@NoSteps]

@odd1st_outshush scam

[@sa1ko152]

Pinball was the greatest game to ever exist😂

[@shadedway5277]

How does it feel to be a dinosaur, like the one you play as when you don't have Internet on that Google Chrome thing?

[@alex.g7317]

@@shadedway5277 … so your saying you’ve never lost internet?

[@RandomGamer-]

@@shadedway5277 tf

[@rehpicllib4745]

That’s some interesting fan art at 6:45 there James…

[@DanideLouro]

Back when the sonic fandom was everywhere, that was the most common type of fanart you would see.

[@9deekay]

@@DanideLouro 🤨

[@Spongyboi897]

@@9deekay As a Sonic fan, you wouldn't understand and you might put down that emoji when you actually see what is in the bad side of the Sonic fandom

[@SillyfellaX]

@@Spongyboi897 *yeah…*

[@stanssbf]

@@DanideLouro I wanna go back in time then ☺️

[@Youe822]

3:12 and this scene, there’s troll face back in the hair, one dude

[@samsonrules855]

I feel like the separation of what each generation is supposed to be falls kinda flat with how technology progresses and as does the culture of the time. I'm 2000 so I'm technically gen z, but a lot of the things that James describes is much more relatable to me than any of the other stuff people in gen z seem to share as 'relatable.'

[@d.l.7042]

Watching James grow as an animator has been one of my favourite KZbin experiences so thanks James, you're great

[@jaysonsworld3568]

Me too :3

[@molly_parker_1847]

Same! That’s all I was thinking about while watching this video. I know he literally came out with an animated Netflix show but it still surprises me how far he’s come lol.

[@MysteriousOwlMan]

Me as well

[@SuspiciousIguana]

To me he's only gone downhill in the recent years. His stories now feel more chosen for the viewers, instead of him just telling something he wanted to tell. Something like soubway can never happen again because well who's going to watch James tell a story about some random thing he once did that they cannot directly relate to.

[@an-animal-lover]

@@SuspiciousIguana they said _as an animator_ they weren't talking about the video topics

[@Pk-vw5ip]

I'm sooooo glad James mentioned Space Cadet Pinball, I'd spend hours on end with my brother seeing which one of us could beat the other... Ah memories :)

[@cheddarsunchipsyes8144]

Space cadet like BFN?💀😍😍

[@nostalgiaguy3902]

​@@emmanuelyakubu2935I know who you are Emmanuel.

[@KanjiTalk]

samee

[@somerandomguy-hg8un]

either my family holds on to old stuff or that was more recent then he thinks like I’m a 2005 kid and I remember it

[@SquirrelTheorist]

I still love it!! I have it for Windows 10 and tbh my love for it never changed

[@midnightdoggo]

James: "Did we just go outside?" **Amazon ad plays**

[@HotAndBuffShrekThirstTrap]

Petition for James to make Sooubway 5: One Last Sandwich where he compares sandwiches from Su- I mean Sooubway with Jersey Mike’s and Jimmy John’s to see which food chain is the best

[@icewaterforicequeen]

I was born in 2004. It speaks to how behind-the-times my family was that I understood every reference James made here.

[@derpboi42]

Same, except I didn’t get every reference

[@ssr8555]

I’m an ‘03 but I have 5 older brothers so I grew up with a lot of the 90’s things.

[@thewafflegamer6152]

Sadly an ‘07 but did see some of the things James showed in the video, like the ratio of KZbin videos and the early web at the time. It was like the internet’s late puberty like if you were in your late teens.

[@virfah]

Same! As a fellow '04er, i understood everything. I'm laughing because i feel like i'm being treated like a child watching this video. I'm an adult.

[@Penguingoats]

oh I was born in 2013 NO JUDGEMENT

[@undeuxtois]

james and his team’s animation and art style improved so MUCH

[@JasonEllins]

Because he doesn't do them anymore. Its like 20 people working under him

[@undeuxtois]

@@JasonEllins damn, spoke like you were there physically

[@quackyboi5130]

@@JasonEllins Bro spoke like he did the animation

[@chattiertooth62]

@@quackyboi5130 He literally made a video about art and talked about how his artists work for him and wtv. James mainly writes and records now

[@IamERAMOS]

I actually don't like. Lost what made it special and pure. It feels over done and hollow now.

[@jenniferfrank6558]

Ohh this brings me back

[@HrAnimates_Official]

I love the way you incorporated Max into this video!

[@painfultoast]

ive heard so many stories from my dad about "space cadet pinball", and hearing james talk about it took me back to conversations that are some real gems.

[@Just_Some_Gal]

just commenting to break the bot chain

[@spod2998]

dude I have so many memories of that game. Played it so much on the family's old computer, a windows ME one that lasted us 9 years before we replaced it. Good times

[@DrawciaGleam02]

I played it too! Even read the instructions on the points system!!!

[@chairforce0ne]

I still remember the day we got the family computer with windows xp on it!

[@jacobtorres2136]

It's crazy how far he's come from a boardgame to a show and he still uploads

[@alex.g7317]

The show didn’t seem like it was targeting us but also seemed like it was imo

[@Narra0002]

Not really long videos, but shorts are something at least

[@BettyMayHohcountry]

both of them are in the kids section when his channel is not for kids.

[@umok8083]

Yep

[@thefunniman.7470]

and a videogame

[@Kitsune_9ine]

should we ignore the fact James created Sonadow art? - i mean i aint complaining buttt

[@MrTitaniumFox]

I'm a 04' kid and I grew up with the internet, I feel nostalgic for the 2008-2015 internet

[@darioadaseq]

I haven’t watched him for a while and it’s insane too see how much better his animation is now.

[@elinacool]

he has an animation team

[@isabelchmontuenga]

I thibk you mean *their* animation

[@Sebastian_Macdonald]

ratio

[@LitRandomness]

He’s got a team doing it for him now

[@yoongiverse.]

That’s cause it’s not all his

[@mia-saraking5479]

wow James' team is amazing!! the animation is so smooth and expressive. hats off to everyone!!

[@Theducknextdoor]

He mostly does it alone I think

[@falcon84k]

it looks the same

[@chonk1221]

@@Theducknextdoor ? his animators do like 80 percent of it lol that would be a fuckton of animation for one person

[@chonk1221]

@@Theducknextdoor he basically just does voiceover other people do everything else (animation,editing,compositing, etc)

[@SK-fu8qh]

Ehhh I like his old video/animation better.

[@b.b.w.6939]

its insane to get hit with nostalgia u weren't even born in, 2000s kids (like me) have it awesome

[@TheOriginalStarwalker64]

I remember when youtube ads were just those low opacity pop ups that you had to click an x to close. I remember playing Space Cadet Pinball, World of Goo on a disc, in one of those old, bulky PC game boxes, and Zuma Deluxe. I remember my favorite youtube video being the Kitty Cat Dance Those were the days

[@bookworm_vortex]

It's actually really cool to hear what the Internet used to be like. I really like everything about this video from the details in the story to the drawings

[@Just_Some_Gal]

just commenting to break the bot chain

[@DecaWhy]

Yuh yeah

[@MyDeadChannel.]

Hello

[@wild4934]

Yeah and back before bots were a thing

[@Md5offical]

yes

[@J_dnvg]

Even being a 2002 kid every bit of this was immensely relatable. [Especially Space Pinball and the message board stuff. Those were indeed the days.]

[@nikolais.4477]

Same, as a 2005 kid I fondly look back on the pinball game

[@NullCantHandleFreddie]

As someone from 04,that pinball game was literally my life. Me and my brother would play on that game for ages Including purple place

[@nikolais.4477]

@@NullCantHandleFreddie I think about purple place from time to time and wonder about it, and that game I think was called Destroy, where you would literally just screw up the desktop screen...good times

[@someguy2135]

Before wide scale use of the internet, dial-up bulletin board systems (BBS's) were the only option other than running a program on your computer. KZbin has some videos about them. I grew up long before personal computers or home use of the internet or smartphones, or wireless phones. I'm basically a fossil. Any questions?

[@DosDosDosDosDos787]

#2009 kid

[@Envy_Fl]

LoL The intro is so funny! 😂 Keep up the good work! 😄

[@thesillyisback2918]

the sonic fanart i cannot

[@ridwancoding5646]

I am the only one who just loves those little moments when his animation is fluid as heck?

[@jennyybarra4233]

Nope

[@zyansheep]

Yes!!!

[@terrariafan8939]

Yes sir

[@Bancanana]

Dang, half these replies are bots. Impressive

[@BlockMasterT]

No, they wouldn’t put that much effort in if people didn’t enjoy it

[@thegamedanalyst2169]

I may have been born in ‘97, but everything James referenced hit me with the nostalgias hard

[@starlord9272]

Me too but...I was born 2008 and I don't know what's wrong 😭😭😭

[@TheRooster1337]

no because according to James you've experienced none of it, you inferior Gen Z

[@whyiamafs]

@@starlord9272 I was born in '96 but I know that feeling well (virtual comfort hugs)

[@ugotvectored1628]

@Seeing Star askers?

[@RiOSquINTos]

I can relate

[@bottlenosedolphin]

As a chinese person, you have no idea how much joy I felt when I heard you say year of the rat

[@gamerulsuprem753]

2:41 geez bro went crazy I'm from generation alpha...

[@lucilucid]

Growing up on the internet has affected me in the sense where I was pushed intro a relationship with an adult when I was a kid and I saw things I shouldn't have seen. But at the same time, my parents and education failed me in a sense where I wasn't taught the things I needed and the internet has helped me learn about things I wouldn't have known otherwise.

[@nethowarrior3294]

Ouch, that must've been awful

[@itsjestjay]

The internet is uh.. double edged sword you could say? I guess it's also kinda like handling any addiction, and just use it carefully and don't use it for 10 hours a day ( which I totally don't do). Have you guys had a nice day?

[@sammiethompson1672]

Yeah I’ve been through same thing

[@justsomegirlwithamoustache]

Same...

[@susannakhalil408]

I’m proud to say that I lived long enough to see James animate himself some hands

[@Harm0nyBear]

Fr

[@Zelologist]

i didn’t even realize he animated hands until you pointed it out haha

[@coin4246]

james doesnt even animate his own videos anymore

[@Zeipio]

fe

[@some_dude_maybe]

@@coin4246 exactly

[@TheInfintyithGoofball]

4:06 this just in... the quality of this video exploded.

[@RandomHuskFan1124]

The “I forgot where I was when 9/11 happened” had my Jew on the floor 😭

[@sxld_darling3709]

i used to watch james so much in and before lockdown, and i come back every once and a while. he is still and will always be my comfort youtuber.

[@WAACKK]

Ya same here

[@-Slvshy-]

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS ME

[@-Zelda_Boi-]

SAME!!!

[@joaquinm9148]

@@Pokemanmon That makes them even better IMO

[@Drankmas]

I agree his newer stuff is more for younger children but I still watch these videos because there are genuinely jokes that will go over kids heads such as the crocodile joke and joking about “weirdos” on the internet. But I think it’s weird that his content on KZbin is for more 10 to 14 year olds but his book and Netflix show is targeted towards 7 year olds.

[@jaydejots1674]

I was born in the early 2000s, and I still remember all this from a young age. When KZbin still had those little transparent speech box things, and because my internet time was limited when I was 6 whenever my mum disconnected me from the internet I'd play in that paint program or play pinball. Ever since I turned to my teens though I've never sat at a TV unless it was to play a console game.

[@beansquad-ally3197]

Same my dude, I also had Petz 4 and og farmville (although that requited internet)

[@gagixd]

Me too! When James showed the paint ball game I got hit with nostalgia.

[@huuuuunny9385]

literally

[@Dkgow]

Crazy thing is, I was born in 93, and I don't remember the start of KZbin. I was to into Myspace, that a video sharing site meant nothing to me at the time. Crazy thinking back on it now. Middle school when youtube came out and I was on Runescape, WoW and Myspace only.

[@sgt_dingus_goofy]

0:37 "and i also dont remember where i was when *a certain day in 2001* happened"

[@JesuscoolkidsXDbecauseyes]

"you grew up with the internet. We grew up with the internet" James -2022

[@lingkailang125]

The level of skeletal detail to James' avatar knuckles is haunting

[@BraxRaz]

Can we talk about how impressive James' animation has become?

[@drivingatruck3270]

4:11 was amazing

[@indiranarayan9576]

he has an animation team now

[@ZayeedBaksh]

Yes we can

[@estee_navro8524]

Definitely. He's super creative.

[@unstableanimations]

Eh. It's still not fully animated, which is kind of sad for someone who claims to be a KZbin Animator.

[@rebelrocket412]

even though im 10 months late and i never experienced windows XP and the other old versions but for some reason i have nostalgia for them for no specific reason

[@starandrandom]

6:58 i remember doing this back in my depressed vent emo phase while drawing sad faces everywhere

[@shanicemupamombe5703]

Ok I'm not a millennial I'm a Gen Z but I can't even begin to explain the excitement I felt at 5:56. I loved pinball!!! I could spend hours on this game when I was younger.

[@Luneroz]

Sameee idk why he thinks we didn’t have it

[@PromethealBee]

PINBALL FOREVER (even if mother cuts the wifi)

[@queenc9824]

Same I love playing that game when I was younger

[@system2988]

I miss playing so I downloaded it. Now I get to play it offline whenever I feel like.

[@aadityapratapsingh9383]

me too

[@Kayoxic]

The fact that I understood almost everything in this video and im only 18 really just shows that kids born from 1986 to 2010 need to be a separate generation. I think what really defines it isn’t just the memories we made as kids during this time, but the different parenting styles. Half of gen Z has been raised by gen X while the other is being raised my millennials.

[@tachobrenner]

People born after 2011 or so are considered Generation Alpha, if I remember correctly.

[@blursed2858]

*Me raised by a gen x AND millennial parent

[@bigfishenjoyer1231]

my parents are boomers and I'm 22

[@ViolyreArt]

1996-2010 is the span of Gen Z already... did you mean to write 2000? But if you're 18, weren't you born after 2000?

[@SquirrelTheorist]

Same here, I'm 19 and totally relate. I was raised by gen-X so that could have something to do with it. Love the idea of a sub-gen, that would be cool.

[@Rudster14]

I remember when I was younger and despite the internet existing I still got an actual chain letter in the mail! I tried to keep it going but despite the fact that the letter said I didn't need stamps it turned out that I did and the post office sent them all back to me lol.

[@1chillman1]

Yo James u unlocked a core memory for me😭 2:15

[@keniadorno]

I love how accurate James is about pretty much everything 💀

[@LightCLANOT]

Here

[@Kk-lt1hs]

Yep 😭

[@Spooder_Man1421]

Especially about typing in p 😈

[@SkarjOS]

Bro the video has been up for 5 minutes. You commented this before even finishing the 9 minute video in hopes of farming likes off of children that like any comment that sucks James off.

[@hypo-critical]

Ha

[@BlueDracoAnimates]

I may be a Gen Z kid, but DAMN, nostalgia hit hard when James talked about how old youtube looks like cuz I still managed to see that when I was young. I spent an unhealthy amount playing space cadet pinball, and boy OH BOY MS paint, I loved that thing hahaha. I love this video, the quality and the animation is so expressive 💖👌

[@Usernsj8383]

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[@Salpalalo]

@@Usernsj8383 Wow! It's the real TheNormal0937sIn! omg!!!😮😮😀😮☺😯!!!

[@movedchannel2000]

I used to watch KZbin and search stuff on a ds

[@microwavecaprisun6239]

Remeber th cake baking game?

[@microwavecaprisun6239]

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ shut up You ruin the moment

[@Noobie_Pro-vl1xu]

i love the reference to roblox stories (0:09)

[@th3_encr1pt3r]

That one part of the video got me cracking

[@topazwolf08]

I was born in 2000 and I've experienced everything in this video. I think a lot of the tech and culture from the 90s stayed for the early 2000s because everything you said was nostalgic. Nowadays I try to harness that nostalgia to remind me that there were things in my childhood that were fun. Great video and I like your shoelaces ;3

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

Nah I discovered exactly why some 2000s kids are basically 90s kids while some aren't. It had to do with how much money your family had lol if you were lower middle class or lower, you got 90s stuff in the 2000s and lived the same childhood as 90s kids lol if your family made good money, you got all the newest 2000s tech

[@topazwolf08]

@@GlorifiedGremlin that makes sense actually, I was raised by my grandparents and they didn’t get the newest stuff

[@akilahposh]

@@GlorifiedGremlin😳 That actually makes so much sense

[@laibakhan7122]

@@GlorifiedGremlin exactlyy i def agree i technically had the same experience as the 90s kids

[@CS_Uravity_PRO]

@@GlorifiedGremlin yeah that exactly make sense. Especially if you're born in a developing country where ADSL didn't exist in affordable manner till 2010 lmao

[@saige_0]

4:11 my most favorite scene to ever exist

[@darthwhatever9959]

This is cursed. How can one vid possibly contain soooo freaking much nostalgia!? Even the background is filled with references. 😵‍💫I hate how perfect it is.

[@Goobertsnobert]

I love this artstye 4:17

[@veronicaharding8044]

Even as a 2003 baby, seeing that pinball game HIT ME with some nostalgia. (Also loved the Land Before Time dinosaur on one of the TVs!)

[@Amphibilaterz]

I noticed that it hit me with lots of nostalgia:(

[@manimations7007]

I’m Gen Z but was raised with millennial Generation and definitely agree that the internet has changed for the good and bad for people/society. My family’s computer was a old windows with big chunky keyboard that took a minute to start up and you had to hold the start up button for a bit for it to wake up. I also remember when KZbin was just getting started and it’s page was so weird looking with mostly cat video uploads. This brought back a lot of nostalgia! 👍

[@SailorStudent]

Same!!!😅

[@lorenzostavern649]

Yeah me too. I remember those annoying KZbin captions haha. I'm becoming old.

[@gabesarti7184]

Same here. I wasn’t allowed to use the internet though so I mainly kept playing old games like Fate, Dungeon Siege II, Morrowind, etc. either that, or I would watch my dad play them before I went to bed.

[@user-li9ui6zy8i]

The Big Lez Show is always the first thing I think of when I think of Ms paint now. Jarred Wright out here warping minds and changing lives with free software and two other co-creators ❤️😭

[@agentorder4604]

It’s nice to see how much James’ animation improved over these years!

[@sirspaghetti7821]

It's not even his animation anymore

[@calo8381]

He has animators yk

[@kaleidico]

I personally don't like the hands.

[@samandhakal2118]

@Idot. fr

[@kaitella_7746]

It's going so fast😰 I'm not used to it

[@TaylorStrutton]

as a fellow 96' baby, I feel you on the halfway-between-generations thing. I am too young to know the struggles of the broke millennial, but too old to be cool with the gen-z. Dialup was so painful - watching a website load LINE BY LINE, only to have someone need to use the phone just as it fully loaded. Spending time off the internet was also accomplished by cereal box games - boy do I miss those.

[@jaisonn25]

old

[@MAnt-ng7uf]

@@jaisonn25 ur probs a late 2010s kid

[@Arvak]

100%, I'm a '97 kid and my partner is a '95 kid, and neither of us can relate to the struggles of millenials OR gen Zs

[@davetech1269]

'94 and still honestly relate quite a bit

[@jaisonn25]

@@MAnt-ng7uf I am 2010

[@valeriedure2341]

this is so fun as someone born in the very early 2000s where i have baby memories of "graphic design is my passion" pages

[@DRAKI_Gaming]

5:56 when nostalgia kicks in ❤

[@nickmathur5950]

7:17 The pop up paper clip. Super nostalgic but also super creepy. I remember there was a pop up cat in Microsoft programs also.

[@mehiamawesome0609]

As far as I remember you could customize it Like you could select what you want, wizard, boy or cat

[@SNN95]

Man... The Pinball startup sound really hit me like a truck. I am crying and goosebump at the same time.

[@GlorifiedGremlin]

If that brought you to tears, please seek help lmao

[@SNN95]

@@GlorifiedGremlin I need a nostalgia psychiatrist xDD

[@oopsitried6174]

I remember accidently finding the games files on my computer when i was younger. Man, that's all i every player growing up, and some cd games my parents bought for us once

[@SNN95]

@@oopsitried6174 Windows XP: "All entertainment and the simplicity you can have at home with or without internet~ You want games? We have a lot pre-installed like Pinball!" Windows 8: "Pinball? What's that? Can I eat it?" Windows 10 and above: "Games? Go to the Internet you noob! Download them there!"

[@graphicsgod]

This makes me feel old.. i was born in the 70's! And the early days the closest we had to internet was putting a reciever on a device connected to a computer with just a black screen and text! All we had was bulletin boards or basic info. So those growing up in the 90's and 2000's have it good!!

[@intothewoodsatdark]

Why is this so smooth. 4:03

[@Fan-imator]

4:35 so THATS why James made up Max.

[@highroll1607]

🤨📸

[@Fan-imator]

@@highroll1607 that’s for James isn’t it.

[@nerotheprotogen5644]

hmmmmmm...

[@maxnewell3347]

😶

[@satishmohan8865]

Me pintring

[@carvinkelybastien9389]

5:24 wait, JAMES HAS CLOTHES ON THIS WHOLE TIME?!

[@StephenDurnan]

Or maybe it's skin over clothes over skin over more clothes

[@Wormiedude]

@@StephenDurnan my brain cannot comprehend what u just said-

[@Dabayaba7273]

maybe he ripped off a layer of his skin and under the skin was a shirt

[@Pseudopseudohypoparathyroid1sm]

Wha~

[@plushmode506]

Nah, he just likes stuff tight and white.

[@williamnguyen6258]

oh my god, the flashback 😭

[@basedlord]

nah my grandmas computer had crazy games on it. she still had dial up by the time we had faster internet at home so when we'd visit her, id still play the games installed but she had this one game where you controlled a space ship traveling alien planets, collecting upgrades and fighting stronger enemies. ive no clue what it was called but it was definitely a game added to later versions of XP and it scared tf out of me sometimes lmao. it also got pretty difficult

[@justliz92]

As a 92 baby, hearing the dial up sound took me back to the terror of my mom yelling at me for going online while she was on the phone. Oh man the internet has changed so much! I remember OG KZbin too. Nostalgic times♡