> > Vidlii still has the SPIRIT of old youtube though, that is the point.
> > It isn't about the UI, though the old yt layout is objectively better.
> > The videos on the site may not all 100% be ~2007 culture exclusively 
> > but the spirit of the site is still the same, it is place where 
> > anyone can upload anything, mostly stupid shit for fun. No one on 
> > vidlii is making $ off of doing it like modern yt. Vidlii isn't an
> > all seeing overreaching system like google is that is tied into 
> > everything. Vidlii doesn't remove your video for using certain MUSIC
> > Or for talking shit, or talking about certain topics that the
> > "influencers" of our realm have deemed taboo like not being gay.
> > Vidlii isn't hiding results from my search, and tags actually mean
> > something.
> > Look at bitchute, another youtube alternative but something that
> > is NOT made in the spirit of old youtube, pretty much 99% of the
> > videos there are loser nerd wanna be political talking heads who
> > just make videos complaining and nothing productive. Now look at the
> > vidlii home page and wow look new unique videos? and stuff that is 
> > familiar to me, someone who was on yt back then? Also lots of drama
> > and shit talking? this is EXACTLY like youtube use to be. 
> > Just because some users are not old enough to have used youtube when
> > it was like vidlii doesn't matter. These new users are making new
> > shit in the same spirit of the old website. I DOUBT that you were
> > using japanese only bbs sites in the early 90s yet here you are,
> > on a site that is a modern recreation of an early 90s jp bbs.
> > You don't have the same culture as they did. You don't know the
> > inside jokes and ways of speaking that they had in their culture.
> > And most people  don't even know what the spirit of those early
> > sites were or their intended purpose, yet here we are on a 
> > recreation of those sites making our own shit with a mix of what
> > we do know about their original culture and some of our own 
> > (thank god for rule 8 tho)
> > PS I was using vidlii years before lolwut SAVED the site, and the
> > ONLY people that have a problem with it are suffering from kuz
> > derangement syndrome since he dares to provide hosting. The only
> > real problem with vidlii is the mass uploaded SEO bot videos about
> > like lawncare and shit. 
> > In fact lolwut himself describes the spirit of old youtube 
> > and how vidlii is re creating it PERFECTLY on his website:
> > https://lolwut.info/vidlii-bitview.html
> I wasn't referring specifically to vidlii, and I definitely wasn't 
> referring to Heyuri, but if you want to talk about vidlii then I'll 
> inform you that vidlii doesn't have a single ounce of the spirit that 
> old youtube had, AT ALL (;´Д`)
> I was on youtube since the second half of 2005, and in 2005-2006 the 
> site mostly consisted of the following things:
> - ordinary people aged 16-30 vlogging to each other or discussing news 
>   and pop culture from their bedrooms
> - ordinary people aged 16-30 recording themselves performing various 
>   musical covers and performances in their bedrooms
> - ordinary people aged 16-30 recording themselves performing various 
>   comedy skits in their bedrooms
> - ordinary people aged 16-30 making cool/funny remixes/mashups/
>   machinima/stop-motion animations/etc. in their bedrooms
> - ordinary people aged 16-30 writing comments that were - at times - 
>   brutally honest and insulting, but not completely off-topic non-sequi-
>   turs that are trying too hard to be funny, nor treating youtube like 
>   it's /b/ or /s4s/
> - the kinds of candid home videos that would previously have been found 
>   on the likes of America's Funniest Home Videos
> - tons of movies/TV shows/music videos/etc. stolen from elsewhere that 
>   would usually get taken down before long
> There were many things that fell outside of those categories as youtube 
> was always a large, multifaceted website, but the vast majority of what 
> most people were using youtube for at that time was as I described
> What it definitely wasn't was spastic children making intentionally low 
> quality videos - there was the YTP fad from late 2006 to around 2008 
> when it died down, and the MLG fad around 2012-2014, but those were 
> relatively small niches and weren't at all reflective of youtube as a 
> whole. Plus, some of those were actually funny (back then anyway)
> Although youtube wasn't anywhere near as limited in terms of FREDDUMS 
> OF SPECH as it is today, youtube (and virtually every other site on the 
> internet) was significantly less "boundary-pushing" than it became in 
> later years, and it was always a far cry from the likes of 4chan - and 
> even 4chan back then didn't cultivate the kinds of low quality garbage 
> that vidlii mostly houses today
> The closest thing vidlii has to old youtube content is videos that have 
> been stolen from youtube, or reuploaded from youtube as a backup by 
> people who are primarily based on youtube. In terms of the old youtube 
> culture (which could be summarized as being a typical early-mid 2000s 
> social network where most people are there to meet and interact with 
> new people from around the world and make new friends), vidlii and all 
> the other "old youtube" clones never have anything of the sort
> Instead they just have a small group of mentally retarded children 
> making ironically shitty, post-ironically shitty, and unironically 
> shitty videos to an audience of no one. Oh, and monkey torture pr0n I 
> guess... (;´Д`)
> Regarding Ayashii World, boards like this started in 1997 and their 
> "heyday" continued to around 2003. This board isn't trying to emulate 
> or recreate that time period/culture as much as it looks to it for 
> inspiration, and it fully intends to do and be its own thing (much like 
> the rest of Heyuri). Vidlii on the other hand is trying to "emulate, as 
> much as is reasonably possible, the overall experience of 2000s 
> YouTube" according to lolwut's own words, and in my opinion it fails 
> miserably at it (through no fault of anyone running the site)

Gee mr longposter, is there any websites you do like? (ﾟ～ﾟ)

Reference: 2022/08/27(Sat) 23:55:53