VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 2 months agoYouTube nowdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square81linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoHere’s what a video page looked like back in 2003:
minus-squareFurbag@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoThe old YT player was perfect and nobody will convince me otherwise.
minus-squareEmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months ago<starts playing Weird Al’s “Good Old Days”>
minus-squareFinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months ago I was baby then 😁. It’s kind of amazing how long people have been putting up with youtube, compared to other social media + SM adjacent sites.
minus-squarefloquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI have my doubts a video could’ve had 14M views in 2003. Especially since it was launched in 2005.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI meant 2005. That was my bad. Evolution of dance, the most watched video of 2005 on the site, had over 20 million views by 2006.
minus-squareMalta Soron@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoIt looks like an edited screenshot, like “What if the Nixon-Kenny debate happened now?”
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoI think that 2026 is doing okay. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/d7886499-5a38-4fc6-bf28-d350d836e6d5.png
Here’s what a video page looked like back in 2003:
The old YT player was perfect and nobody will convince me otherwise.
<starts playing Weird Al’s “Good Old Days”>
It’s kind of amazing how long people have been putting up with youtube, compared to other social media + SM adjacent sites.
I have my doubts a video could’ve had 14M views in 2003.
Especially since it was launched in 2005.
I meant 2005. That was my bad.
Evolution of dance, the most watched video of 2005 on the site, had over 20 million views by 2006.
It looks like an edited screenshot, like “What if the Nixon-Kenny debate happened now?”
I think that 2026 is doing okay.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/d7886499-5a38-4fc6-bf28-d350d836e6d5.png