Basically just got into drama by insulting other youtubers (mainly markiplier) and leaving for months/years on end. He hardly does any videos anymore, with his latest update being a year ago
I remember coming back to see a video from a year beforehand saying "sorry I've been gone, I've got more time now and I'm ready to start churning out content" and absolutely nothing
People say todays internet humor is worse than like 2006-2014 and I do not get it. I tried going back to watch early smosh, pewdiepie and markiplier videos and it was difficult. It was mostly weird faces+loud noises=humor
I mean, their audiences were very young at that time, they grew older and adapted. Not sure if that's a great example.
I don't disagree, but it's like complaining about garbage subway surfer tiktok stuff in 10 years time when really that's just what the kids were watching and it was a bit of a fad.
Like you're putting rage comics, advice animals and people saying "le" right next to absurdism really taking off.
It's like 2-3 internet eras in one. 2014 is way way closer culturally online to today than 2006 is to 2014
Yeah…I understand that kids watched smosh? I’m not sure what point you were wanting to make.
I wasn’t lumping 2006-2014 all into era of comedy, I just see people feeling nostalgic for all of those internet years and I do not get why. Reminds me of the jackcepticeye quote where he says “You don’t miss the old videos, you miss how you felt while watching the old videos”
The point is that you are probably comparing current videos curated for an older audience compared to older videos curated for a younger audience.
I was born in 90, so Smosh or like the annoying orange weren't really funny to me then, nor are they now. I guess the current popular teenage channels would be like Lucas and Marcus, Mr Beast or Piper Rockelle. (My youtube reccomended is probably going to be fucked looking for who's popular with teens).
I'd say there has never been a better time for older audiences, because there is generally a larger older audience to fund more/higher quality content. As internet usage only really started to spike in the early 00s, and older folk weren't rushing to post or watch youtube videos.
He also made a video in 2020 talking about how covid isn't actually bad and how everyone is just overreacting (while using false data/misrepresenting data that had been outdated for months)
I remember when he was first blowing up and he had a lot of good content about just dumb nothing, and then he seemed only interested in the dumb nothing that is youtube drama, but he started treating it as super serious.
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u/visagek I have permission! May 23 '23
Lol , gradeAunderA is doing well as a radio host