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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
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I don't know what any of that means
It's where all the videos from stupidvideos.com moved to after stupid videos.com
Some online culture thing was so prevalent that it can be abbreviated to "ytp", clarified to mean "YouTube Poop", and then explained what it came from...and I still have no clue what it is or was.
And I was online those years too.
Me too, me too.
Maybe it was more of a gen z thing?
That's what I thought too. But it says "milennials".
I've looked at YTP videos now, and I would describe it as... You know the annoying videos that are funny "bEcauSE tHei err sOO raANdOme"? The ones with suddenly saturated audio, or annoying visuals, and/or repeats something 10 times in a row?
Turns out that isn't something GenX came up with, and YTP is the "millennial" equivalent / precursor.
Younger millenials are basically gen z. The true millennials are the ones who are a very specific age, who can remember a time before the internet was widespread
And the Internet didn’t become widespread until like ‘96-‘98
Right. So millennials that were born in 1996 have a VERY different experience from millennials who can remember 1996
I was a terminal 4channer at the time. In part, ytp was used as a way to weaponize shitposts against youtube for something they did to upset 4chan. Maybe it was when they introduced ads. But the idea was clear. Edit very long but technically simple videos. Like, 10 hrs of Lloyd making the most annoying sound in the world. Upload it to YouTube. Then open as many tabs of YTP as possible on your PC to effectively DDOS YouTube. If you weren't YTPing, you weren't being a good citizen of the internet.
Amazingly, the strat did not work.