Seeing Tom Scott and MatPat being called the “old internet” might be the thing that puts me in retirement
TIL I was using the Jurassic Internet as a teenager
Old internet to me is straight up pointlesswasteoftime.com, which eventually got absorbed by Cracked like a cheap suppository after David Wong (aka mediocre comedy writer Jason Pargin) sold out. That was in 2007. And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.
And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.
I’ll have you know that Cracked is the number one source for shitty listicles that were generated by running a /r/AskReddit thread through an AI.
I assume, at least. Haven’t actually visited cracked since before 2010 probably.
It got bought out by the company that owns KnowYourMeme, ebaumsworld, and the “I can has cheezeburger?” website in 2019. That’s pretty much all you need to know.
The public internet has been around about three times longer than what you’re calling “old”.
Geocities, Angelfire, and dialup modems are the “old” internet.
BBS’s would like a word
I miss IRC
IRC is still very much around.
Not in the way it used to be though. I guess what I really miss is finding matches for counterstrike and stuff using IRC, it felt properly community based instead of designed to extract maximum money.
Seeing MatPat being called the old internet is…something all right. Almost as disorienting as seeing all the “Who?” reactions to the news. I guess it isn’t that surprising given how huge Youtube is. I’m sure there are plenty of giant channels I’ve never heard of. That being said I’m curious to see if any more “old-school” youtubers decide to retire over the next year.
Never even heard of matpat and I’ve been using YouTube since 2006
You’ve missed out on literally nothing.
Well it was good in the beginning. I stopped watching when he started uploading FNAF. Back then YouTube was fun as a young gamer: A+Start, Scykoh, the CrazyRussianHacker, animated Minecraft Music Videos to name a few.
He was never good, you were just younger and more susceptible to his manipulation.
For those of y’all who don’t know: MatPat has announced that he will be stepping down from The Game Theorists to focus on himself and his family; Tom Scott has gone on indefinite hiatus for similar reasons.
I believe this heralds a new era of the internet, where ‘old’ creators are not as influential as the ‘new’ crop springing up, given the rise of Tiktok and the general direction of social media as a whole.
This seems like a big change only because YouTube/content creators are such a new phenomenon. Makes sense to change tracks after doing the same thing for a while. Or retire if you get filthy rich. It’s a natural cycle, only this time in a new environment.
Tom Scott has been doing the same thing for 10 years. Hell I can barely do the same job for 2 years without getting bored out of my mind.
It’s kinda like tv shows. Doing the same one dash in and out is exhausting.
The Game Theorists
Who? I feel like my algo has me under a rock.
You are not alone
In other words, millennial media tired, zoomer media bussin’.
I can’t wait for him to come back in a decade only for his usual demographic to not be receptive at all to his shit because they’re all communists.
This is how I find out matpat is retiring?!
Right?!
Likewise! Figured the post was wrong and they were referring to when he sold Game Theorists, but nope! https://youtu.be/8R1_TqU68yo?feature=shared
The old Internet died when Reddit became “the front page of the Internet”
Meanwhile the Angry Video Game Nerd won’t retire when he really should.
No idea who Matpat is, but I will miss Tom Scott’s stuff… also The Canipa Effect announced he is quitting YouTube after 10 years of producing content.
Who is this Tom Scott guy? I know MattPat as a legend but Tom is a literal-who to me.
British guy who has gotten famous on YouTube… Pretty all over the place, he made videos about linguistics, computer science, trains, hovercrafts, historical bouncing bridge, and sent garlic bread to space, played a 5000 year old board game, earthquake testing machines, a float-through McDonald’s, Shakespeare, giant centrifuge, and more.
The past few months to a year or so we’ve seen a total restructure of the internet. Reddit, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have been actively scaring away their user bases.
It’s resulting in a split and divided internet. Like the days of old. Fediverse ActivityPub integration is the only thing that can undo that and revive these all-in-one style communications platforms.
I’m curious to see if it will be better or worse.
I beg to differ. If there’s one thing, even though I only got properly into the Internet around 2020, I have heard about how old social media was FAR better for the internet in general than stuff like Youtube and Twitter from people like Kurzgesagt; it allowed for more IRL-like social interaction through the segregation of communities into different ‘cliques’, kind of what Reddit and Lemmy are trying to capture. As a consequence, there was far less open and widespread drama, random hate and misinformation, unlike today.
Nobody mentioning Jenna Marbles?!?!
Also a format change for Joel Haver: no more weeklies. Also Meatcanyon.
What, did multiple someones all get hit with allegations on the same day?
Nah. They just stepped down.
No, they’re retiring from youtube
Matpat gone? Good fucking riddance. Fascist piece of shit.
…what?
