19 Years of YouTube.

When I think AnimatedJames I think marvel musical,it’s a shame it never got a sequel

That was my favorite too but I only watched them once.

 I need to save this to my reaction folder. This is the kind of energy I feel I have online these days.

Is this a real annotation? If so what video was it on?

This is going to sound dumb, but after YouTube launched, I initially steered away from it as I didn't like the name "YouTube" but I joined in 2007. 

1. How'd you discover YouTube? - Don't remember. It was in late 2006 or early 2007 I first discovered it.

2. Do you remember the first YouTube video you ever watched? Is it still available? (Adding a link is optional, but you don't have to.) - No, but the earliest videos I remember seeing when I joined in 2007 was of a video of a Canadian man playing panpipes and someone playing "Inisheer" on an Irish low whistle. The first channels I subscribed to, Jpizzle1112 (Now named Jogwheel): www.youtube.com/@jogwheel and Matthew Santoro and his vlog channel, Jory: www.youtube.com/@jory and TayZonday

3. What's a feature on YouTube that you miss terribly? - Being able to dislike comments. Before that was disabled after the Google+ integration and never fixed, when a comment got disliked, it would go further down the comment section. If the comment got enough dislikes, it would get hidden. That and customisations on channels like being able to have a custom backgrounds and links to "shows" down the side of the channel which took you to different playlists of videos.

Also annotations. I remember some people used to use them to fix a mistake they said in a video or to add further info, but some also used them to make "adventures" where one video had multiple annotations that could take you to unlisted videos so it was a bit like an adventure game with multiple endings. I even remember one video I watched had a hidden annotation that if you found it, took you to an unlisted bonus video related to that one.

4. What's the worst feature that you personally believe YouTube put out? - Removing channel customizations like custom backgrounds and removing annotations. Also being unable to dislike comments or see dislikes on videos. 
 
5. If you could go back to a specific time period in YouTube's lifespan, which one would it be? - Between 2006 and 2014 (Or before Google+ and its integration with YouTube and the algorithm change that hurt many channels views and stopped many of their subscribers from seeing their new uploaded videos). I would like to go back to when channels had more customisation, video responses were still a thing, you could not only see dislikes on videos, but actually dislike a comment and it would get voted down instead of nothing happening when you click thumbs down on a comment. 

Speaking of Google+, anyone remember the ridiculous spam of "Bob is building an army" that lots of people were putting on so many peoples videos comments as a kind of protest after Google+ was integrated with YouTube? All that did was spam videos comments and annoy some people. If you don't know, it was this: www.slimanimation.com/published/40684

Happy 19 years to YouTube!! Damn, this site is getting really old. I enjoyed everyone's responses so far, keep em coming!!

On this day, Feb. 14th, YouTube was established. Little did Jawed and his team know, they made HISTORY.


Anyways lol happy birthday I guess to YouTube.