The Merger That Shaped the Internet | YouTube x Google

[@nationsquid]

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[@fishconniosuerLIVE]

nord vpn

[@tEmMiEyAyAyA]

Come on you got a jack to me down I wanna die help me out help me out out I farted I need help I need I'm hungry I'm hungry it's dark in here and I want ice cream and now it's dark or dark or dark you fart go out what no I don't I bet google I'm not gonna come up with any of those I don't think so you're not supposed to get me I'm a microphone so yeah I don't know what to I think this is it's not it isn't oh no this is this is bad I wonder what's gonna come with like 0 results probably not yeah I mean probably yes it's probably not gonna come up with any results at all yeah what do I do I just

[@miniposeidon]

I’m 3rd

[@miniposeidon]

And it seems like nord vpn changed, It’s name

[@DreamsSup]

I legit read this as N word pass 💀

[@danieln6700]

YT to me is one of the most important websites and things in internet culture or whatever. The web wasn't as popular or mainstream when youtube came out and helped get ppl who wouldn't normally use the net to get on the net. The 2000s era of the net was pretty cool and interesting looking back with new stuff coming out.

[@DrSpaceman42]

💯

[@realstormdancer]

I swear to god, NationSquid has èlite quality of video yet he is not even at 500k. that's crazy, I watched all of this videos once again about 2-3 days ago, he deserves more.

[@fivebrosstopmos]

Unfortunately, most of the the population is too attention deficient to be able to watch something technical like this.

[@rileyhoward7344]

no fr i was shook after watching all his videos a few months ago and then seeing how small he was

[@gavincosgrove511]

If yall love this type of attention to detail LEMINO is also a really good documentary type channel

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

I just wondered how he got the old KZbin, especially on internet explorer. There is the wayback machine, but its quite broken

[@BerryStudiosOFC]

Wow, I could have sworn he had like 985,000 subs. I've been following him for a long time and I never realized he's underrated af

[@borond]

this guy should have at least a million for the quality of the content he makes, criminally underrated

[@FSAPOJake]

I'm not saying NileRed and NationSquid are the same person because they sound the same. All I'm saying is I've never seen them doing voiceover in a room together.

[@near5148]

Ngl I really thought it was him

[@nickjuly4A]

You forgot to mention about the fact that uploaded videos on Google Video had to actually be manually reviewed by real people at Google and would take weeks to be public. This was their way of combating copyright infringement before content ID existed.

[@TeamSeventh]

nationsquid's channel is one of the most underated channels on the youtube platform. his content is very well edited.

[@CrappyAICover]

True

[@elysianblu]

Do you have any recommendations of similar channels?

[@TeamSeventh]

@@elysianblu idk disrupt...

[@teghanshaer2005]

@@elysianbluGubby or Tuv

[@PJWolf-]

Infographics? Idk-@@elysianblu

[@ZackarySmigel]

I think we can ALL agree I have nice hair, but NationSquid's hair is even nicer.

[@Ryu1478]

nah mines better

[@charlieyipeee]

to think that theres an alternate universe where we only use vimeo bc yt wasn't saved by google scares me

[@Kitkatcaitlin]

Your videos are so entertaining, also your voice is very easy to listen to. I would genuinely listen to a podcast if you made one and I get distracted easily when i have nothing to look at, so that's saying something. You're very underrated and deserve way more than 300k subs 💕

[@LoyalLuna]

I’d love a nationsquid podcast! I always think he’d make a fab podcast!

[@laser90]

You are the most underrated guy on KZbin. You should have at least 3-5mil, but some people are greedy when it comes to computer/computer virus-related channels. I really hope you reach that Milestone some day!

[@BerryStudiosOFC]

Mil is an abbreviation of k in my language, so when I read your comment I was like "he has more than that " lol

[@laser90]

@@BerryStudiosOFC lmao 😂. It would literally be an insult if I said that he deserves less subscribers 😂

[@inflateable7387]

at my school, youtube was blocked but for a very brief window of time, there was absolutely nothing they could do about google video so there, see, there was one main group of people using google video - people at school who couldn't access youtube I rly didn't think it was bad

[@gonderage]

Same here but with Google Plus. Mainstream social media was blocked but Plus at my school. Turns out that Google Plus was a thriving platform, met a lot of cool people there.

[@CZghost]

Funny to consider that Google is the very thing that kills KZbin nowadays.

[@LavaCreeperPeople]

The Company That Saved KZbin

[@EriksGarbage]

@@LavaCreeperPeopleyes, that's the title of the video.

[@LookToWindward]

How so?

[@plagueofangel8694]

I'm not saying Google is the best company but I think any other company would have been worse. The sheer cost of video hosting means only a few large companies would be able to afford it and most of them are worse. Take Amazon's handling of twitch, which is exponentially worse.

[@GamepadStudios]

The Company That Screwed Up KZbin

[@GaioCalvao]

Yet again, another fantastic work y'all! Just wish you guys would have mentioned the "009 Sound System" song that was KZbin's first measurement to deal with copyrighted songs in their users videos.

[@neanda]

"i'd probably be watching Murder She Wrote at 3 in the morning" so true, it's strange to think about the days before all our on demand choices now. in the 90s, cable was a godsend compared to the 4 channels of UK terrestrial tv, but cable was still prescribed content, and having to wait a week for the next episode. YT, and goku, are my sites for watching vids, and spotify for music rather than the CD collection or mp3 downloads. it's crazy how fast things are changing that we hardly notice it

[@LoyalLuna]

My favourite KZbinr at the moment! Your videos have a really high production value, crisp and clean editing, and interesting subject matter! You deserve so many more subscribers! Also regular uploads!! I’d be super interested if you ever made a podcast as I’d love to listen!

[@OrangeFlame1]

KZbin: You saved us! Google: Oh, I wouldn't say "saved", more like "under new management"

[@marciamartins1992]

And it completly sucks.

[@fanunite567]

I mean, Google kinda saved KZbin from the lawsuits that the entertainment industry brought up when copyrighted video reuploads were rampant.

[@Tetracontakaitetragon]

5:35 "sims 2 fanfiction"

[@GoblinII]

See what’s fascinating to me is how in the google video days a google employee had to manually approve your video where as now the content id system does it automatically and it can detect copyrighted content and various other things that break tos I’m wondering how that technology came about because clearly AI must be involved right? But back then? No way machine learning was that advanced

[@the-NightStar]

Actually there is a huge repository of copyrighted media libraries given by the IP holder companies, and content ID is matched up by identical data when matched up against that database.

[@LynxBlack]

And now KZbin is preventing users from using AdBlock, fuck KZbin man and the ads, can't stop me

[@Cyntaria]

Ah KZbin red. I remember watching Lazer Team in cinemas, not knowing who Rooster Teeth were and my friend and I still quote it to this day

[@WolfiiDog13]

Omg. This video just unlocked the long forgotten memory of Google Video being a thing

[@dejazO0]

it's amazing we could still watch alot of copyrighted content here.

[@flipflops99]

Please make a video about the *Internet Archive* (wayback machine)

[@michaelomondi-gq5yh]

the old internet was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much better

[@EvlEgle]

We should go make our own internet, with blackjack and hookers

[@ivanlinuxandunix]

on some linux distros the first time you use the sudo command it says "with great power, comes with great responsibility"

[@jescis]

Which is a "Spider-Man" reference… and I mean WAY before the movies!! The specific phrasing "with great power comes great responsibility" evolved from Spider-Man's first appearance in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15, written by Stan Lee. It is not spoken by any character, but instead appears in a narrative caption of the comic book's last panel…

[@chrisdigitalartist]

A little off topic @nationsquid but I thought it was so cool finding out that you too are a Buddy Holly fan. I am a big Buddy Holly fan myself. I know this may not be tech related, but have you ever thought of putting together a Buddy Holly documentary?

[@nationsquid]

I almost did this a few years ago actually!!! Just a bit hard with copyrights and all. Once I get clearance on that though it is for sure happening!

[@chrisdigitalartist]

@nationsquid Oh cool! Aww yes, that makes sense!

[@유미-o2q]

great content glad i found this growing channel and cant wait to see where you take it!

[@pyqio]

We now have ads everywhere on KZbin, not only once before the start of a video.

[@WilG082]

The first KZbin video I saw was embedded in a myspace page. Did I just age myself??

[@timsmythfilmsandanimations]

I think maybe KZbin lost it's way when they started paying the video creators.

[@zHazzzard]

when we needed him the most, he's back with a new vid

[@Hollowdude15]

I like how youtube was saved by google and great video man :]

[@86-panda]

I love that zack from real estate wizard is becoming a normal here 😀

[@Random_Idiot69420]

2:49 I still hate that they opened that horrible mess called TikTok instead of KZbin

[@choppergirl]

KZbin swx. You don't find out just how bad. Until you become a prolific content creator. Nothing at all comes back to you, except grief, for all the work you put into this bottomless hole time sink.

[@Dezo365]

when i see this channel i completely forget that it dosent have Millions of subs Like How Are You Still At K? Really Underatted!

[@metroidsky]

Suggested video idea: The Downfall of Skype

[@Alteralph]

it's funny thinking that i ran way from watching tv to the internet because of the ads, that was back in the mid-late 2000s. now, the internet feels more corporate than i could ever imagine it, sure, you can run away from it, and use alternatives, use extensions for sites like youtube and so on, but the feeling is not the same.

[@Marwan_Abdelhalim]

This channel deserves more subscribers for this high quality content, can we get him to atleast 500k subscribers everybody?

[@hanniffydinn6019]

Considering the dumpster fire Twitter sold for 44billion what’s KZbin worth now? 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤡🤡🤡🤡🌍🌍🌍🌍

[@marciamartins1992]

I hate this merger, it ecrapafied my experience. I have to sign in to my account every time, it's on some sort of timing device that contantly kicks me off, and i can't fix it.

[@CrowleyBlack2]

17:49 age like fine wine.

[@peachenelle]

0:13 Bankotsu yes 😩

[@Roxify-n1r]

When KZbin was still being made it originally gunna be a dating site

[@Greeny_BJ]

Ik your late everyone already knows

[@TheCod3r]

IMO KZbin was better before the merger

[@SirCaptainCharles]

why not do a video about the "sopa and pipa blackout" where Internet users fight against Internet censorship by people at the government back in 2011 to 2012 when online piracy was a big issue at the time

[@AccelerateHedge]

Dang, you really can't decide on a title for this one lol (jk, great video XD)

[@teghanshaer2005]

Ah, the irony. Google saved KZbin, but is now killing it, but there’s no alternative to KZbin anyway.

[@xerxes4real]

rumble?

[@harukami912]

There _is_ an alternative, it's called PH.

[@xerxes4real]

@@harukami912 dedicated to a different culture

[@bumblebeegamerreal]

Top eight alternatives to KZbin - Odysee - Rumble - Bit chute - Vidlii - Vimeo - Bitview - PeerTube - Libry

[@teghanshaer2005]

@@harukami912 LMAO

[@VillainOfLegend]

As much as I loved KZbin in its early days, and as much as I dislike being inundated by ads, the shadiness of Google and everything KZbin has become today, we can't say that Google DIDN'T save it. If Google didn't acquire KZbin, it might've imploded, collapsed, etc. We can't change the past, forward is the only way. If a Google-owned KZbin is unbearable, where should we go instead, to watch and create content?

[@ShmoliklikeE]

I think that for a KZbinr to be good there are 20 points for voice and 10 for content which is why I rate you 30/30

[@rjpdkaraokeatbp.2492]

Imagine copyright owners uploading their contents got flagged by themselves lol

[@abbie_joan]

to think the only reason it became a video sharing site was because they wanted to upload a nip slip from Janet Jackson at the Super Bowl 😔

[@ONgamersTrashcan]

Is that a picture beatles for sale in the background?

[@LaurieValcourt-Lachance-zt5mh]

google has killed youtube

[@bodgemaster7946]

_looks at channel list_ Oh, blue dot... _clicks channel, clicks new video_ Oh, it’s not actually a new video, it’s a future video. -_-

[@HungerGamesFan00]

so something i had no idea existed at all existed through to 2012??

[@bamdadkhan]

copyright laws are kind of the worst part of neo-capitalism : (

[@justey2]

Great Video, Well done, deserves more views

[@fastertrackcreative]

My concern is that if it's (KZbin) not earning money directly then it's earning via spying on users

[@marciamartins1992]

I feel like I'm being spied on and i hate it. I dont like tying all my devices up just to log into something.

[@TacoTurtle6]

HERE BEFORE VIRAL AND THIS VIDEO IS ACTUALLY AWESOME

[@AmenProletar]

The copyright claims are now getting too fake. 3 years ago, I made an instrumental cover of the USSR anthem. I literally used my own style and instruments. I got a copyright claim from someone located in the UK. I was like "God, this is literally a national communist anthem. Why would anyone claim it as theirs?" That was silly.

[@billyhatcher643]

funny thing that now google is destroying youtube even though they saved it over a decade ago and now i know why susan took over as ceo of youtube because she was leading the google video project i remember seeing google video years ago

[@aaronofficials]

Well thats fun that the CEO of yt was against these stupid ads before videos but google being google (asholes) decided to do it anyways

[@PhilipMurphy8Extra]

If Google never took over KZbin, It will no longer exist as the original owners needed help to make money off it.

[@arashi86]

NationSquid deserves more subs!

[@Schnipp08]

Very good video!

[@black_baron_net]

☠BLACK BARON☠ The Apple Emoji panel and the Google KZbin Emoji panel ... there are days in web development ... they don't like each other very much.

[@Its-Fryday]

Never trust a web host provider who offers "unlimited bandwidth". That's like saying a highway can have "unlimited lanes". In reality, highways can only be so wide before becoming impractical x unrealistic and bandwidth can only be as wide as its media allows. The web hosts offering "unlimited bandwidth" think "bandwidth" is how many bytes of data are transmitted from/to their servers, which is NOT bandwidth.

[@NatPal]

4:07 These go to eleven! 😂💻

[@Pride_Pumkin_Puperthegac-lu6do]

Nationsquid is way too underrated! He deserves so many more subs

[@DisappointedSon0813]

Imo, this was the beginning of the end for the internet.

[@BuckySeifert]

Horray you got Leo's name correct! Good job! You get a cookie!

[@kankanashi717]

While watching this, I forgot I was actually watching in this on KZbin itself.

[@Wizardof]

Looks like YT has a new interface for those not logged in....Hhrmmm.🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@averyyeen]

*the company that killed youtube

[@bloss0myt]

yo nice vid keep up the good work

[@jescis]

I recently got a message from KZbin that said that someone said my newest video had copyrighted material, and that it won't get a flag if I don't go further to earn money off of it… my objective wasn't to be partner or anything, I just uploaded content that I made when I went live on Twitch!! 😒😒

[@nanapoohsmom4927]

I tried uploading a video from Panic! At The Disco’s Calendar Business documentary…and it immediately got a copyright slapped on it. No warning whatsoever. I’m still mad about that.

[@Hexi75]

Lmao geometry dash reference!1!1 12:26

[@scmbgoogle7790]

wherr

[@Hexi75]

Limbo

[@scmbgoogle7790]

@@Hexi75 bro that existed before gd

[@Hexi75]

I know but it is an actual level in GD called limbo so I'm technically right

[@scmbgoogle7790]

@@Hexi75 nationsquid prolly wasnt referencing GD he might be referencing the real limbo

[@alexis0a]

Google came to make KZbin garbage... so many stupid things that they do, I hate them.

[@Tech_Code127-76]

Yay! Another video to entertain me!

[@allengarcia00]

This dude is the new SummoningSalt!

[@OfficialRainsynth]

In the old days, you could indeed "broadcast yourself..." Now it just a smoking pile of dogshit...

[@p.etcheetah]

Paramount … Taking down all my ai SpongeBob’s …

[@minoena]

wow i never realized so many of your subs are literal children until watching the live chat

[@Emzo123]

Seems to be this way for all live chats

[@bensmith4563]

I remember the early days of KZbin it was like the wild west

[@dasjuggernaut1]

KZbin became the proaganda arm of google.

[@marciamartins1992]

Normally I woudn't pay much notice, but after they crapafied everything, they caught my attention, and I'll be commenting more often.

[@HLGmatrix1]

4:38

[@ViIgax]

*>Saved* Kek, you misspelled RUNIED.

[@croppedrubbish]

So did you.

[@ViIgax]

@@croppedrubbish That’s the joke.

[@croppedrubbish]

@@ViIgax I used to be great at picking up jokes. Guess I should start working on that again.

[@harukami912]

Let's look on the bright side, Elon Musk could've been the one who bought YT.

[@rileyhoward7344]

are we gonna talk about 'sims 2 fanfiction'

[@Tickbeat]

Clickbait of any kind infuriates me so much that I wanna start a company to eternaly destroy it Rq could somebody do that? Easy enough.

[@BlackMaleLion]

I really disagree with “Google saved KZbin”. Google just took KZbin and turned it into a site made to please other companies, just like with Google video. “Google saved KZbin” my foot.

[@GoldenTrumpet24]

I miss the old KZbin, where content creators didn't have to be careful about what words they say.

[@TRexMorgan]

Yeah and the moderation is all done by AI that doesn't understand context.

[@mycomputerthings]

i was the last one to chat in the live chat. but good vid

[@mycomputerthings]

you cant see it cause it was after it ended but before the chat ended

[@tealover70]

what an accomplishment!

[@milosbatmanvideos]

DAMMIT I MISSED THE STREAM

[@danieln6700]

Didnt it make its first profit recently?

[@ramzymilano4237]

Of course, this is the reason why youtube guidelines are sux

[@zeeyoung4696]

This premier thing is pretty cool

[@ElectricoGamez]

Like the first video in the series, the second is gonna be great (Hopefully)