Yes. I miss the old YouTube. It feels so corporate and polished now.
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I miss the YouTubePoop days.
“What can you say about Carlton.” 🙂 “He was Carlton.”
...BOGGLE
Get
In
The box
Where there's smoke, they pinch back.
a little while back YT rebalanced their algorithm to give more weight to people with less that like 100k or something subs. Since then, I have been getting a LOT more suggestions for channels with anywhere from like single digit subs, to like 25k. Get a couple a day now. Some of it is really strange.
I watched (listened) to Linken Park songs and ended up at mr. pimple popper huge pimple exploding and some asians with blurry faces popping it.
Great time to be alive
That’s TikTok now. That’s where regular people making videos seemingly went.
I wish there was a Firefox extension that made youtubes sidebar work how it used to.
Algorithmic recommendations happen on the backend, so no chance of that unfortunately
It's not the same thing, but please enjoy The Weird Part Of The Night
And if you enjoyed this, check out my fav LC song Thinking (live sesh)
And then follow it up with ClownC0re
This might be more mainstream than what you're looking for, but this is the video that I think of from that time.
Wtf
It's still there is the recommendation process from YouTube is not gears to small tine creators.
That's how I ended up seeing Faces of Death for the first time. I didn't run with the right crowds for anyone to sneak a VHS to a sleepover in a Disney movie box.
Wasn't this the catalyst for the "YouTube at 3am" meme