The Real Reason MySpace Failed

[@wallstreetmillennial]

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[@michaezell4607]

We have not reached the "mid 2000's" yet as we're still 27 years away from the mid 2000's. the mid 2000's will be the year 2050.

[@lynnzerben]

Ah MySpace, you'd go to a friend's page and a random song would start blasting, you wouldn't be able to read anything because the background was too busy and the font was in a corresponding color, the drama of who was in your top 6. Good times

[@Tinfoiltomcat]

Top 6? Zoomer detected.

[@kevinleonard6855]

Those were the days.😅

[@lupusdei0819]

U too old . 6?

[@ivanm3342]

This top 6 feature should be studied by future sociologists😂😂

[@Tinfoiltomcat]

@@lupusdei0819 real ones know it was Top 8

[@lostboy8084]

Everyone should start a MySpace account again, just to screw with Facebook.

[@warrenbailey5469]

I miss the days when social media wasn't some glorified activism platform and you just had a page with a song.. lets revive Myspace lol

[@stephaniechristine6468]

It’s full of celebrities. Marketing teams been all over this for a while now

[@j4genius961]

You're VERY naive if you think MySpace wouldn't have ended up exactly were Facebook and all the other giants are today...They all started out as hip new anti-establishment apps built by underdogs until they weren't

[@havencat9337]

yea, at least mySpace its a joke all around, FB its an evil corp that makes us the joke

[@user-pc7ef5sb6x]

Someone brought back the original Myspace layout. It has over 300k users.

[@Benliftgus]

Instagram and Facebook is now just bombarded with ads taking up 90% of the newsfeed.. I hate these apps with a passion.

[@jordixboy]

why dont you stop using them then?

[@jawadarif5676]

​@@jordixboyno alternative really plus all your friends will need to move as well which won't happen

[@jordixboy]

@@jawadarif5676 you dont need social media, and you dont need to use these apps to contact your friends. You are just using excuses

[@001sander2]

Just happy that Tom was able to walk away with $20 million. He was my friend 🤓

[@michaeln.2383]

Myspace started out pretty good, but they kept making changes. The look of the homepage kept changing and looking more and more disorganized, especially when the feed started. The control panel kept changing, making it difficult to make the smallest change.

[@gomahklawm4446]

Wanting people to use real names killed them.

[@SamJohnsonAZ]

MySpace was always better than Facebook. Bring MySpace back

[@endrawes0]

I hate it when creators pretend their creations aren't just long-run advertisements

[@OffGridInvestor]

I get to pick up on the wording that starts as they start on their advert. "Nuclear security is important. And you know what else is important? Email security." (Skips 50 seconds forwards)

[@samsonsoturian6013]

It's a winner-takes-all business. Any tiny hiccup in the early days could make them lose to the competition

[@cjjuszczak]

Met my wife on Friendster while we were both in the UK, then ~17 years ago we moved to Australia. What a ride !

[@momoneylessproblems9183]

So this guy Tom. Came up with an idea at work. That was very similar to an existing product (Friendster). The only differential feature being anonymity. Got his company to put resources behind him to built it. Built it in two weeks. And within a few years sold it for $580 million. Absolute Chad

[@Sirfrummel]

Can you imagine having Myspace as your current employer? That would raise so many eyebrows 😂

[@mx338]

MySpace also used to have a small but dedicated user base coming back to listen to the music that was posted on there, until a few years ago when they lost all the music due a technical failure.

[@krazYFaic]

"While these games look basic for today's standards, they were revolutionary at the time." Man, you know how to make someone feel old. Or ancient.

[@jmitterii2]

Get use to it LOL!

[@r7calvin]

Are people more tolerant of scummy ads now? KZbin regularly shows ads for obvious scams based on medical or scientific misinformation and sketchy mobile games, and most ppl seem to just accept it.

[@someguy1559]

Use an ad blocker

[@joesshows6793]

It’s time to bring MySpace back. It was ahead of its time

[@Seppes94]

I'd say the results show, that it was behind of its time.

[@rustymason3860]

FB feels like being trapped in an endless series of really lame TV advertisements.

[@freddthurman3935]

3:59 it's funny because my friendster profile name was Optimus Prime. It was made around 2006 and never deleted until I stopped using it around 2013

[@user-pc7ef5sb6x]

Facebook is different now. Most people commenting on your pictures and requests you don't know. Most of them are from another country. And the scams are getting out of control. The scams are even bulit in to the ads. I deleted my FB and just use KZbin

[@xelefonte]

I think we all knew MySpace was dead in 2008 when we saw Tom’s page on Facebook 😂

[@kendi1417]

Threads has already failed.

[@cpm1003]

So is "Tom, your friend from MySpace" actually the founder of MySpace? It sure looks like it.

[@rogelioarmentasolorzano3848]

I miss Myspace so much… The playlist on your profile, the background edits, you could literally learn a lot of people’s taste by those 2 things. I actually met 2 girlfriends in that platform.

[@VanillaMacaron551]

It was the 2016 US election and the Cambridge Analytica scandal that did it for me. Haven't been on FB since.

[@dustup2249]

Myspace failed simply because an Australian billionaire who not only was disconnected from Australian or British street level PC users, but the American millennials that use social networks for self-promotion. Myspace found out after they failed that using and promoting efficient video codec instead of still images and simple text was the secret to getting and keeping millennials' attention.

[@SlXkxmx]

Not for certain that Viacom dodged a bullet. They could have handled things differently and continued to fill that void for random friends from around the globe.

[@ray-mc-l]

way too much stock footage and preamble

[@jasminrausier]

Come on.. Who really believe that meta have 3.8 Billions active customers ? Half of the globe don’t even use internet and don’t give a sh*t about meta.. 🙄

[@moose030406]

Its all bots and scams.

[@ThePowerMoves]

Great analysis!

[@Enriqueking]

MySpace NEVER gets old :(

[@trevonpernell0814]

I'll always remember MySpace as the reason behind Sumner Redstone firing Tom Freston from the role of Viacom CEO. One the stupidest moves I've seen take place in the entertainment industry. 7:45 NEVER FORGET.

[@thedeadbatterydepot]

True, time is money, no one has time for old technology and limitations to revenue

[@jadenpark7943]

i loved myspace

[@danser_theplayer01]

Yo, I didn't know Mark looked so alive back then.

[@Nohandleentered]

This sounds like where Twitter is headed. Someone send this video to Musk

[@kendi1417]

Nope. Twitter has a very defined niche. It's not going anywhere.

[@templarknight7]

​@@kendi1417You must not have heard, Musk is doing everything he can to break out of that niche.

[@BatkoNashBandera774]

Nah, Twitter started off with the worst of 4chan inbred. Nothing ever changed in Twitter, it's always been garbage -those who tell you otherwise are just part of the problem.

[@inthebedrightnow]

Skip the ad 3:29

[@Seagaltalk]

And threads is done. Another flash in the pan

[@lucasyokoy5262]

I love how Elon Musk is doing the exact same thing with Xitter.

[@nlocnil3602]

Hahaha yep

[@carmellacandy509]

Hey, if you pronounce that word Xitter, it would sound like shitter!!😮

[@user-wr4yl7tx3w]

this is better reporting than Main Street media.

[@peteroht6083]

Reason for failure is visible at 4.49 mins. Everything went backwards.

[@fatrobin72]

Shady and scam adverts... reminds me of KZbin...

[@mikef4077]

Anyone willing to join hands with me so we can buy myspace and revive from dead?

[@rusm5710]

no

[@mumsspaghetti6649]

Myspace had personality

[@internet_userr]

Personally, i dont think threads is the fastest growing platform. I mean, they literally lost over half their user base, so something smells fishy

[@Seppes94]

It was in it's first week of existence.

[@hindsightcapital2021]

This is about to be one of your most popular videos

[@ViewsandLikes-xb4mk]

Facebook has also turned into a scammer ad site

[@chilledtea6614]

I'm not convinced threads is "popular"

[@GardenerEarthGuy]

Rupert buying it sent everyone to FB in a couple weeks...

[@overland_adventure_nz]

Twitter, or should I say X? Is going to go the same way extremely fast. Was my space a thing in the US only because I’ve never heard of it .

[@iceman4660]

Scams, inappropriate content, etc. Nothing has changed over the decades.and an owner who didn't understand the business

[@vanesslifeygo]

lol I think twitter is going down the myspace hole. Wait, I mean X This is already dumb

[@tomspeed3354]

too young, never experienced myspace

[@Ryanrobi]

Myspace was so much better than FB.

[@pianomanhere]

I really enjoyed MySpace and liked the quirky ways in which some people would design their pages. At the time Facebook's user interface was clean, user-friendly and uncluttered. MySpace's demise and the numerous ways Facebook has f**ked with its design and its users has been appalling. No wonder fewer people use Facebook now relative to Twitter/X, Instagram and Snapchat.

[@nemeanlioness]

I always found it impossible to use MySpace. It was like amateurs layout

[@rickeygreentrades]

Snapchat is the new MySpace. Going to be dead in a few more years and had the potential of TikTok.

[@Miwna]

I wonder who will bring Facebook down. Will they become even bigger and badder?

[@f1champ551]

A site that does Web3 may take there place or something else entirely... Who knows.

[@Derekzparty]

Nothing lasts forever but with essentially 100% market saturation Facebook itself would have to massively screw up for some company to replace them.

[@NotKimiRaikkonen]

Facebook is already dead. I don't know of anyone under 40 that still uses it.

[@f1champ551]

@@NotKimiRaikkonen only ones that I know of still use it is basically some of my high school graduating class of 2007 where I live and the rest is middle age folks and people in their 40s to 60s that is just about it. On Instagram, it's a lot younger.

[@f1champ551]

@@NotKimiRaikkonen and I also use it still as well.

[@robertbeisert3315]

Facebook has an...interesting connection with a group that famously likes to know what everyone is doing and once admitted to drugging whole towns for the lulz

[@thomasbravado]

You mean the CIA? So does Newscorp and every other giant corporation, because that's how power works.

[@jonathanthink5830]

myspace failed because rupert allowed his ex-wife to move the operation to china......

[@1911Earthling]

Who?

[@michaezell4607]

It failed because it sucked. Users could not really interact with it other than to create a text based profile page that they could do next to nothing with but stare at and it was already effectively dead as a result. Facebook's emergence(now fakefok the tiktok wannabe) effectively killed it If not for facebook (fakefok the tiktok wannabe) social media would have ended with myspace.

[@Sohailali1]

Oh hell yeah frendster was the bomb!

[@nlocnil3602]

I didn't know that MySpace was owned by the devil himself Rupert Murdoch. It makes me so happy to know thay it failed after he owned it

[@frenchyroastify]

New technology will be replaced by newer technology.

[@gaboronem8615]

This sounds like tumblr case study \

[@WeekendGamerTX]

I realized why I don't particularly like videos on this channel. The cringe stock footage in the background. Its very distracting.

[@rusm5710]

Oooof Meta is a terrible company. Would love to see them fail

[@tek_soup]

you should of waited, about a month or two, threads dropped off a cliff. make a new video.

[@wendyshoowaiching4161]

Meta is like making cartoon of my life. Is it any functional in real life.

[@momoneylessproblems9183]

I dont get it. If people dont like Meta. Dont fucking use it. Its that simple. People are fucking children

[@mattiwet5526]

I was banned from MySpace after posting a gay scat picture gallery as a joke.

[@mazariej11]

good for them, 98% of gays don't like scat. You should have been more honest & posted a straight scat pic, the LGBT community doesn't want your shit staining us, mind your own business

[@creativecatalyst777]

I will NEVER use the cucks stuff. It messes things up constantly because of "integration" and "partnership" issues. Mostly it affects games, so I cannot play online games much which actually is a good thing but it leads to tons of headaches. It's worth it though...Kind of. I do believe Zuck and his "peeps" sabotaged MYSPACE. It wasn't perfect, but it was far superior to FB. I liken it to AO-HELL (AOL America Online) who just automatically switched drivers to AOL wreaking havoc in ways they will NEVER care about. They know what they did. I'm surprised Warner Bros hasn't been burnt to the ground, quite frankly. The day is young😂😂😂❤

[@ktktktktktktkt]

18:06 I know that's supposed to be the MySpace founder who I forget the name of but this looks like bootleg Simon Cowell.

[@mumsspaghetti6649]

Half of meta users are bots

[@billkamgwira3498]

What is that man coding?😂

[@randyrandhawa5347]

I don’t know man. Ever since he proved he can beat Elon‘s ass I’ve been a fan.

[@4doorsmoorhoors542]

Le First

[@simplemechanics246]

There is possible to get other platforms but meta should be banned to buy more and more companies. Meta should be cut smaller corporation, because that big one buys all other small ones and stop innovation. Honestly all big corporations should be cut 10x smaller than today. Very bad example is microsoft...they bough so many companies and turned these all to garbage

[@krislegends]

Those small companies were not forced to sell. Moreover, many small companies main goals are to be bought by big companies.