VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 14 hours agoYouTube nowdiscuss.onlineimagemessage-square74fedilinkarrow-up1932
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minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up61·14 hours agoHere’s what a video page looked like back in 2003:
minus-squarefloquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·12 hours agoI have my doubts a video could’ve had 14M views in 2003. Especially since it was launched in 2005.
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·12 hours 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-up5·11 hours agoIt looks like an edited screenshot, like “What if the Nixon-Kenny debate happened now?”
minus-squaretal@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoI think that 2026 is doing okay. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/d7886499-5a38-4fc6-bf28-d350d836e6d5.png
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-27 hours agoBut will your setup open the pod bay doors?
minus-squareFurbag@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·10 hours agoThe old YT player was perfect and nobody will convince me otherwise.
minus-squareEmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·13 hours ago<starts playing Weird Al’s “Good Old Days”>
minus-squareFinjaminPoach@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·11 hours 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.
Here’s what a video page looked like back in 2003:
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
But will your setup open the pod bay doors?
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.