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Evolution of Dance (YouTube Most Watched, circa 2006) (youtube.com)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by JulesWinnfield@lemmy.world to c/videos@lemmy.world

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Who remembers when this was the most watched video on YouTube?

"The clip received 70 million views in under 8 months. At that time, it was rated on YouTube as: #1 Most Viewed All Time Video on YouTube.com." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judson_Laipply

"He uploaded the dance to YouTube on April 6th, 2006." - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/evolution-of-dance

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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

In defense of YouTube...

The thing is, you absolutely can still find stuff like that. The trick is to search for stuff you like, and train YouTube's algorithm to find more stuff like it. I've got mine trained enough that my feed mostly consists of stuff I actually do want to watch.

Some of it is from "content creators," yes (although nothing from the well-known ones), but a lot of it is just random things I happen to have an interest in.

Okay, that said, YouTube's default feed can suck my hairy scrote. It's astoundingly bad.