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[–] Batmancer@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] Hupf@feddit.org 8 points 12 hours ago
[–] xylogx@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Seasonally appropriate, though this one sort of predates Youtube:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=olMsAy8HTUo

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

MondoMedia videos were classic Youtube for me. They made the Here come Dr. Tran videos.

Also illWillPress videos staring Foamy the Squirrel Like so

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Any number of classic YouTube Poops.

Over 9000 Toasters

And here's a more recent one that I thought was well put together

Thomas Catches Coronavirus

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

Hyperactive

19 years old

It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia paid homage to it

[–] SGGeorwell@lemmy.world 46 points 1 day ago

Rejected by Don Hertzfeldt

[–] mirisgaiss@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

https://youtu.be/AYWN8-RQR-E

can't understand a word of it, not like you need to. comedy gold to me.

[–] CrazyLikeGollum@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago
[–] yesman@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)
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[–] sheridan@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

14 years of experience has made me much more sympathetic to that man than I was when this first went viral

I have definitely had this experience with my dog, except it was a flock of ducks and he swam halfway across a lake after them

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[–] GrayBackgroundMusic@lemmy.zip 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

George Washington song by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRom1Rz8OA

by brad neely

Washington, Washington Six-foot-eight, weighs a fucking ton Opponents beware, opponents beware He’s coming, he’s coming, he’s coming

[Verse 1: Cox + Combes] Let me lay it on the line, he had two on the vine I mean two sets of testicles, so divine On a horse made of crystal, he patrolled the land With his mason ring and schnauzer in his perfect hands Here comes George, in control Women dug his snuff and his gallant stroll Ate opponents’ brains, and invented cocaine

[–] nwtreeoctopus@sh.itjust.works 3 points 17 hours ago

Definitely check out Wizard People, Dear Reader and his biography of Ulysses S Grant if you liked Washington.

[–] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] mech@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago

Little advice: remove the first & and everything after it from your link, that's just additional tracking info.

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[–] unsettlinglymoist@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago
[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)
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[–] chunes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Sadly he died during covid.

[–] Ngroe@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Tidy Monster

"The wall is on my side.." 18yrs ago, 2008

Classic trippy short that we used to trip out watching.

[–] flabbergast@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago
[–] dellhiver@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 day ago
[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Good lord, I checked my saved videos list to see what the answer is and I realized something. The average age of my saved videos is like 17 or 18 years old. And that's only really that young because of a couple relatively recent ones. Fuck...

[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Same here. A lot of YTPs from 2009/2010.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 5 points 22 hours ago
[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 3 points 20 hours ago

The channel called "tim hunkin".

They make youtube videos from really old TV shows where this even older guy, a true genius, explains techonology in such a simple but awesome way.

[–] orbitz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 day ago

At a first thought, I'm not even sure it was YouTube but probably, Charlie the Unicorn. I've been online too long to remember old YouTube favourites specifically heh. Hell if papa Smurf lick my ass is on YouTube that could beat it unsure of exact years I watched them first well Charlie was 07-08ish if that's where it was from.

Memory unlocked for Foamy the squirrel but that wasn't YouTube specifically hah Neuroticaly Yours was the series name, it rocked. Probably shouldn't re-watch but it fit well mid / latish 2000s.

[–] AlexCory21@lemmy.world 3 points 21 hours ago

Off the top of my head, the McDonalds Big Mac rap

https://youtu.be/Q03Ki4GhONs

Crispy ;-)

[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago

https://youtu.be/2REG3-Wb5gM

Good ol Derrick Comedy. Pull out your gun

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 2 points 12 hours ago

They set us up the bomb!

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[–] tuckerm@feddit.online 4 points 23 hours ago

YouTube is my life, a song from 2007: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=p21nZmtq56M

Still gets stuck in my head sometimes. Also, some of the lyrics show just how different Youtube (and internet videos in general) were back then.

[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Wow, A) I 100% forgot these existed, and B) holy shit they did 94 of them??

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

OH MY GOD, YOU FUCKING KIDS, I'VE GOT PLACES TO BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!"

It's at least 12 years old. Pretty sure it's older though.

[–] fiendishplan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago
[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 20 hours ago
[–] OmnislashIsACloudApp@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

I don't know why but I will never fail to laugh at Arnold's pizza shop

[–] Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
[–] Sergio@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago
[–] presoak@lazysoci.al 3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)
[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 23 hours ago

Shoe-bop, which I'm not linking because apparently the audio is now forbidden. Although I wasn't around for that period of YouTube.

[–] glitchdx@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

A tophat is more e sports than you.

Rest in peace TB.

https://youtu.be/8yBajL2AAAQ

[–] Stamets@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

September 10th, 2006. The day a legend was born.

https://youtu.be/X6oUz1v17Uo

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