not a chance, you can't do videos like Mr Beast does on TikTok
Yeah, I do agree there will always be a desire for "longer form videos" from people of all ages, maybe just not as much as in the past. And Youtube stars are still known mostly from Youtube among the youth, even if they have a presence on TikTok too. I don't think we've quite reached the point where younger folks think that someone "originated" on Tiktok who ACTUALLY originated on Youtube. Most did grow up with Youtube in their lives after all, in some cases almost replacing TV, DVDs/VHS tapes, TIVO, and websites of the older generation. I saw a semi-known gen Z Youtuber a few months ago who even commented that she didn't even recall WATCHING like actual TV shows as a kid, mostly just weird experiment videos on Youtube.
Heck, I mean, Livejournal, Newgrounds, and Deviantart are all still technically "alive" and have their fans despite not having near the presence or cultural impact they did in the 2000s. Not sure there are too many younger Gen Z or Gen Alpha in that bunch, but hey, they haven't disappeared or anything.
Too young to have used it when it was actually popular, but I do browse it sometimes in order to look for Winamp skins and that sort of thing. I do wonder how much stuff on there is unarchived/hasn't been reuploaded to other sites.
You can really tell that a lot of people crave the customisability of blogs/personal sites, though. Just about everybody on fandom/stan Twitter these days uses Carrd or Linktree in order to do really basic things that literally every blogging/website hosting service is able to do, such as telling people about your interests, or (god forbid)... adding multiple links to other websites. And Tumblr gets a few new users every time another social media company screws up, and small communities are forming on Neocities and Spacehey. Obviously those are niche examples, but I hope more people start going back to that kind of format instead of just staying on whatever has the largest amount of users.
Winamp skins? And yeah there's likely a lot of lost media on those older "social media before social media" sites. Dead links very common for older fandoms there.
Interesting to see blogs being revived in such a way! Like for a newer generation, or a spiritual successor to older sites.
And that's a great point-new communities can form around and within older sites when bigger companies mess up. As mentioned earlier, I think the Pandemic made a lot of people long for an "older, cozier" internet time built more around fandoms and interests and hobbies before major influencers, or lifestyle overload, or heavy ads, or growing censorship, or NOISE NOISE NOISE on the bigger sites @_@
Not familiar with Carrd or Linktree, but I have seen Youtubers reference Linktree at least
And yes, some diversity in "social media" is nice! I get bored of the sterilized, bling bling social media sites myself.
True. But youtube didn't always let you do longer videos, they used to be limited by 10 minutes. Idk, I'm thinking there's going to be a change due to youtube having competition. Not just from tiktok, but twitch and the like.
Wow, I didn't even consider Twitch which is crazy because it's still pretty dang huge. I don't know if I consider it a "competitor" or not to Youtube TBH, unless a bunch of Youtubers migrated over to there from Youtube and/or do most of their real business there. I've seen plenty of people watching Youtube on their phones in public or sharing Youtube videos endlessly, but not so much Twitch, but maybe Twitch isn't super phone friendly or something? Is Twitch the same or a distinct audience from Youtube, I wonder?
Too young to have used it when it was actually popular, but I do browse it sometimes in order to look for Winamp skins and that sort of thing. I do wonder how much stuff on there is unarchived/hasn't been reuploaded to other sites.
You can really tell that a lot of people crave the customisability of blogs/personal sites, though. Just about everybody on fandom/stan Twitter these days uses Carrd or Linktree in order to do really basic things that literally every blogging/website hosting service is able to do, such as telling people about your interests, or (god forbid)... adding multiple links to other websites. And Tumblr gets a few new users every time another social media company screws up, and small communities are forming on Neocities and Spacehey. Obviously those are niche examples, but I hope more people start going back to that kind of format instead of just staying on whatever has the largest amount of users.
Customization was why I originally wouldn't leave MySpace for Facebook.
Part of me feels a bit bummed over missing out on the Myspace era and going straight to FB instead. Myspace really had its own distinct culture and yes, customization options that better display personality/interests, and felt overall more "energetic" and less businesslike IMO. Speaking of other sites besides Livejournal, I've met individuals who did do writing on Gaia Online back in the day.
True. But youtube didn't always let you do longer videos, they used to be limited by 10 minutes. Idk, I'm thinking there's going to be a change due to youtube having competition. Not just from tiktok, but twitch and the like.
Youtube originally let you do long videos from the start(I know this because Armake21's older longer videos like Quattro Adventures were originally on there on his first channel) then they changed it to 10 minutes for some unknown reasons then after like a year or so they got rid of the time limit.
Customization was why I originally wouldn't leave MySpace for Facebook.
Part of me feels a bit bummed over missing out on the Myspace era and going straight to FB instead. Myspace really had its own distinct culture and yes, customization options that better display personality/interests, and felt overall more "energetic" and less businesslike IMO. Speaking of other sites besides Livejournal, I've met individuals who did do writing on Gaia Online back in the day.
I will say there is still a good chunk of younger people on Facebook, they're just now mostly posting in private groups and you don't see them making too many journals or using it to comment on articles and whatnot.
Too young to have used it when it was actually popular, but I do browse it sometimes in order to look for Winamp skins and that sort of thing. I do wonder how much stuff on there is unarchived/hasn't been reuploaded to other sites.
You can really tell that a lot of people crave the customisability of blogs/personal sites, though. Just about everybody on fandom/stan Twitter these days uses Carrd or Linktree in order to do really basic things that literally every blogging/website hosting service is able to do, such as telling people about your interests, or (god forbid)... adding multiple links to other websites. And Tumblr gets a few new users every time another social media company screws up, and small communities are forming on Neocities and Spacehey. Obviously those are niche examples, but I hope more people start going back to that kind of format instead of just staying on whatever has the largest amount of users.
Winamp skins? And yeah there's likely a lot of lost media on those older "social media before social media" sites. Dead links very common for older fandoms there.
Interesting to see blogs being revived in such a way! Like for a newer generation, or a spiritual successor to older sites.
And that's a great point-new communities can form around and within older sites when bigger companies mess up. As mentioned earlier, I think the Pandemic made a lot of people long for an "older, cozier" internet time built more around fandoms and interests and hobbies before major influencers, or lifestyle overload, or heavy ads, or growing censorship, or NOISE NOISE NOISE on the bigger sites @_@
Not familiar with Carrd or Linktree, but I have seen Youtubers reference Linktree at least
And yes, some diversity in "social media" is nice! I get bored of the sterilized, bling bling social media sites myself.
There's a huge archive of Winamp skins here if you still use it to listen to music for whatever reason. A lot of them were originally uploaded to LJ and Deviantart. I think the company that ran it is trying to remake and turn it into some NFT thing, but you can still download the original program for free with no ads and it runs on Windows 10/11. But yeah, I have definitely come across a lot of dead download links, which can be frustrating.
Carrd is like a digital business card hosting service for, like, people with jobs, but when people started migrating from Tumblr to Twitter for fandom stuff, people started using it as an alternative to having a blog theme/'about' page. Even under the most dire circumstances (boring, sterile web design) people will find a workaround so they can make cute personal websites.
Thanks for sharing the stuff about winamp skins! What a cool part of internet history. I'm glad that people can find a way to "spruce" up their profiles no matter how bland the actual format is