This makes me feel better actually. I always get the vibe that it's all kids and teenagers. Maybe because they've made it too "soft" for lack of a better word that I can think of rn. I'll stop back in another 19 years.

I'm sure the number of actual small children that use YouTube is quite high as well, but data would be skewed since they aren't supposed to be on there. The views of channels that cater to them are on another level.

Is that the age users entered? Before I was legally an adult I always just added a few years

Hey, I'm in that cohort! We are legion

I do sound professionally and I originally learned to track on 2" magnetic tape. Our one digital console had something like 24 channels (which was cutting edge at the time) and every channel required a $40k card slotted into this proprietary rack costing god know how much. Now, any cheap laptop can be an audio rig that has basically unlimited channels and enough DSP to basically do anything they want. Nothing like slicing tape with a razor hoping your edit was right. Also, navigating a patch bay that looks like spilled spaghetti to pop a single channel of compression on a track.

https://youtu.be/wTqsV3q7rRU

Found it. wow, this video looks like shit. I remember it in ultra high def.

Ohhhhh what a classic. I remember huddling around my girlfriend's (at the time) family computer watching that one god know how many times in a row. Also, hat one with David Blaine but it was this other kid pretending to be him doing impossible tricks.

killer bean and badger badger badger for the OGs

Alantutorial

Sounds like HowToBasic (or Basics?), from memory.

I remember those, it was a subverted 'How to' channel. Maybe hacks in the name?

Not the channel you where talking about, but if you like fake tutorials. Then this one has some funny ones. https://www.youtube.com/@infinitesolutions

Says the young whippersnapper.

Unregistered HyperCam 2

my first one was 09,

We're on a bridge Charlie!

My sibling is way younger than I and she and their friends were asking me what it was like during 9/11 because that's entirely before their time. I felt like an old vet talking about storming the beaches on D-Day. It's so wild how actual adults were born in what feels like just a few years ago.

So crazy man. Im really glad I never had kids. Im 40 now and Im just now feeling like I may consider it. No offence to 20 years olds but seeing someone that age with two or three kids blows my mind. I feel like Im just barely old enough to even think about kids.

19 is not an adult, even if technically they are in the legal sense, thats still firmly in the kid territory. To think some are planning for kids at that age just shows how immature they are.

Impossible.

112k AkChuUhLee. (I had to look it back up) I've been a career Tool fan but that's as far as I've ever gotten. I'm where I want to be tho. And this way, I won't need to make a fake crying apology video.

Me too, team 2006 checking in!

Crazy that it's been 10 years since I joined. Right guys? It's been 10 years? 👨🏻 👴🏻 💀

July 28, 2006 here.

Brothers!

Only a few days after you for me.

Got you by two months.

Oh, hey, that's my birthday (not year, only date)

Just couple of geriatrics now.

let's get you back inside, grandpa. Rub some liniment on those bunions and put you on one of your favorite spaghetti westerns.

Maybe that's when they also added the ability to subscribe to channels, making it actually useful to have an account if you weren't uploading videos ?

Idk, just spitballing, my own account is from 2009, because in 2006 my parents definitely didn't have a broadband subscription, and Dailymotion was kinda superior to YouTube for a short time, so that's where I usually went for a while.

Google wasn't Google back then. Same name, different devil.