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Like a really old video

Mine is this one: https://youtu.be/hkV7FjivJ7U

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[–] Echinoderm@aussie.zone 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

20 years on my partner and I still quote The End of the World occasionally.

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That and https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/285267 was great back in the day. Before even youtube.

Fucking early ass Neil Cicierega, he has come so far!

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

Look at all those chickens

I still quote this several times a week.

[–] SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone 16 points 1 week ago
[–] impudentmortal@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

What a fun question. Made me nostalgic for early social media days.

Early YouTube: Daft Punk Hands

Pre-Youtube: The End of the World

[–] Maiq@lemy.lol 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)
[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Harder Better Faster Stronger

Best paired with Daft Hands

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.

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Numa Numa predates YT. I don't think it should count in this case.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 9 points 1 week ago

Almost all my iconic video favorites aren't YouTube original content (though they have been uploaded to YouTube).

Like Slackcircus's Fabulous Secret Powers

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 9 points 1 week ago

I forgot this one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qN72LEQnaU

The Hamster Dance Song

If you want to feel old.

[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Here’s my favorite deep cut. It was the first video I ever saw on YouTube: My Hands Are Bananas

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

DING DONG BANNU

oh and also, seriously, does anybody want to come to Candy Mountain with me? I found Candy Mountain!

[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago

I'm sure the most watched ones might be: The Duck song, Asdfmovie, and the like...

My picks:

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 1 week ago
[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

redsatyr - copy that floppy

Lightning Bolt - 13 Monsters

JESUS CHRIST IN RICHMOND PARK

shitbuster


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.

Spiders On Drugs

Americanface

[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

A good compilation: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0F31B2079F0C884B

Nowadays it would be against copyright for half the videos.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I want it that way. 19 years ago. Probably the first YouTube I ever watched.

https://youtu.be/N2rZxCrb7iU

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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.

[–] Mister_Feeny@fedia.io 2 points 1 week ago
[–] Nikls94@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
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