Comment by AI_beffr
1 year ago
this is what youtube and reddit was like during 2011. it was calm, serene, accepting, warm, human. it was just this perfect mixture of user friendliness, people knowing how to type and use computers and just before the internet was taken seriously by anyone and corrupted by money. before social media became a serious political consideration. i remember very clearly that even at the time it felt too good to be true. these videos capture that feeling pretty well. it was all unfiltered and it made you feel like you were connected to the world. like you had your finger on the pulse of the world. or like the entire world was inside your computer. really warm fuzzy vibes. i still miss that. but now i am too busy to spend so much time on the computer anyway.
I miss those days too, but my recollection of Youtube is a little different. Lots of piracy for example.
You're speaking of a world that doesn't exist. Even back then people were trying to make money out of YouTube.
>Even back then people were trying to make money out of YouTube
It's a matter of degree. Early YouTube was much closer to what the parent poster describes than the YouTube of today.
When I first discovered YouTube and uploaded videos, the thought of making money (let alone making a living) was nowhere in my mind.
There were people trying to make money but that wasn't the default and the attempts at doing so weren't as repetitive.