20 years on my partner and I still quote The End of the World occasionally.
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That and https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/285267 was great back in the day. Before even youtube.
What a fun question. Made me nostalgic for early social media days.
Early YouTube: Daft Punk Hands
Pre-Youtube: The End of the World
Daft Bodies will never get old. Those girls couldn't dance but they could synchronize. Some of the best of white girls being dorks on the internet that there ever was.
Numa Numa predates YT. I don't think it should count in this case.
Almost all my iconic video favorites aren't YouTube original content (though they have been uploaded to YouTube).
Like Slackcircus's Fabulous Secret Powers
I forgot this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN72LEQnaU
The Hamster Dance Song
If you want to feel old.
DING DONG BANNU
oh and also, seriously, does anybody want to come to Candy Mountain with me? I found Candy Mountain!
I'm sure the most watched ones might be: The Duck song, Asdfmovie, and the like...
My picks:
- (Stupid funny) playing Parappa the Rapper 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGlCGMm8Qag
- (Informative) CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y3jE3B8HsE
- (Music) The Canadian band Barenaked Ladies recording songs in their Bathroom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebWzQ-sZZto
- There was this one youtube minigame (maybe it was a google homepage game? I don't remember) commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall Anniversary, with a wall you could break by moving the timeline bar back and forth. I can't find it anymore.
This guy Andrew Struthers made cool stuff back in the day, too bad he became a COVID-denying anti-trans bigot. He made his mark with Spiders On Drugs and then used the money he made to make a feature film. Americanface, the resulting film, is one of my favorite films. It really sucks that he became such a dickbag.
A good compilation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0F31B2079F0C884B
Nowadays it would be against copyright for half the videos.
I want it that way. 19 years ago. Probably the first YouTube I ever watched.
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Not sure if this counts, but like any earlier time period, I'd be too young to be on the internet so its "classic" to me, but anyways: my favorite is probably this Vsauce video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDrBIKOR01c
I'm not sure if this is like #1 favorite, but probably a Top 10. Vsauce is one of my favorite channels. Videos kinda give a mini-existential crisis but also shows how cool existence is, in a sort of nihilistic way.