In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is.

I'm old enough to remember when YouTube was a separate account from your Google login.

I'll drop a knee-breaking one:

I was born in 2006.

Impossible.
- Bro is 19. He can vote.

According to a quick search the biggest cohort of YouTube users is 25 to 34, your account is not older than most people on YouTube. I'd apologize for being a pedantic asshole but I'd be lying, I thrive on it.

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.
- Older people consume the content because that’s the dynamic that we are used to. Few produce it, we don’t have much we “need” to share or say, we are also busy earning. Young people are also busy earning, but it just so happens that their business is the platform, and they “need” to share - not that anyone is asking them to except for the advertising machine that feeds off the engagement, click and rage bait.
- I don’t even think under 18s can post, so what’s your metric you’re even using here?
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.
- Until i turned 18 my birthday was the 1st of January somewhere in the 70s or 80s
- Tiktok would be pulling most away
Is that the age users entered? Before I was legally an adult I always just added a few years
- It was from a marketing data aggregator, so it's presumably getting it from more than self-reported age, knowing how those scum sucking data vampires are.
Hey, I'm in that cohort! We are legion

I noticed the last modified date on some of my mp3s recently and realized almost all of them are old enough to drink and some are nearly 30 years old :(

People born when you've created your YouTube account are now adults. Some are planning to have children.

Think about that.

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.
- 19 year old are not children. Maybe a transitional state, but for closer to being an adult than a "kid".

Where the hell did all that time go?

I dunno fam, I went to sleep in the mid 1990s and now I'm 40 and have a car and a mortgage and how the fuck did all this happen

I am around that age and don't have either of those. and wtf happened in the last 5 yrs?
- Well, 2015 was a writeoff, 2016 was the year I got my mortgage, 2017 I started my new job, 2018 same shit different year, and 2019 was just a blur. So far 2020 has been pretty shit. I can't wait for 2021, if it ever comes.

Well shit, I think I might be one of the oldest here.

Got me beat. June of 2006 for me.

I wonder if you'll still get prompted to prove you're over 18.

You are. My account is also over 18 yo. But youtube have tried to ask for ID to watch "adult content" on youtube before.

The absolute first video I saw on YouTube was the evolution of dance... which was one of the first ever viral videos ever...

I think that one predates YouTube. I remember first watching it on a friends computer who shared his files during a LAN party
- It was first uploaded to youtube, it is possible that your friend downloaded (I am sure it was possible even back then) or simply showed it to you and you weren't aware it was YouTube. I didn't even know what YouTube was when I was first saw it in 2006.

Had a meeting with our sales guy, and he asked how long I'd been running the same engineering software since I knew it so well.

Me: about 27 years.

Him: that's longer than I have been alive.

Oof

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.
- Ah Razor tool now makes sense in KDEnlive editor

Young whippersnapper!

Says the young whippersnapper.

I've gotcha beat by a few months.

Only a few days after you for me.

There's probably a better place to ask but I'm going to do it here because I'm remembering now... Anyone remember a kind of mock "how to" series but the person clearly doesn't know what they are doing and eventually they had a video for "how to get back into your house if you get locked out" and they end up failing to get back in and eventually they had a follow up for "how to survive in the woods". The series may have descended into madness after that point.

I assume it's been long removed but finding that again would be really neat or at least someone who remembers it better than I did.

Alantutorial
- Oh my gosh this is it and it's still there. Gracias.
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
Sounds like HowToBasic (or Basics?), from memory.
- If it was HowToBasic, there would have been eggs getting smashed.
I remember those, it was a subverted 'How to' channel. Maybe hacks in the name?

Apr 19, 2006 for me.

I miss when the most watched video was Evolution of Dance.

killer bean and badger badger badger for the OGs
https://youtu.be/wTqsV3q7rRU
Found it. wow, this video looks like shit. I remember it in ultra high def.
- This definitely got worse over time. Which does happen when YouTube makes changes.
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.

12th of December 2006 here.

Now show us your Steam age

They are collecting your deta for this long ಠ_ಠ Surely they know you more than you

Calm down young man, 2006 is not old.

Yeah, 2006 was only like a few years ago.

Mine would me much older if it wasn't for an mentally unstable ex-girlfriend deleting my original account.

Can we take a moment to recognize Good Guy(TM) Rick Astley for never copyright-striking his Never Gonna Give You Up videos. He is a real hero.

may 05 here

In amongst then pack, it seems

Mine says 2011. But I've been online since 2005. 2001 if You count dial up. Guess You didn't need an account back then.

Created my account in 2008. Can't remember because I deleted my account last year. Anyway, the earliest memory of Youtube I have was seeing Kimbo Slice punch a fridge. Speaking of Kimbo Slice, check out the names of his son and grandchildren.

I just can't 😂 (Hint: Kimbo Legacy and Kevlar)

Watching Kimbo Slice beat the shit out of people in random back yards was peak. Beat the hell out of needing to download the whole thing before watching it like you had to do with Red vs Blue
Damn people have free will and choose to ruin their children's lives like that

Reminisce with me about the pre google glory days. In the long long ago. Salad Fingers, that Joey Jordison drum solo video, Badger Badger Badger...

Unregistered HyperCam 2
- Roses are red, violets are blue
  Unregistered HyperCam 2
my first one was 09,

A coworker of mine was born in 2006. I never knew hiring toddlers was legal...

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.

Where did the time go?

Anyways, does anybody wanna come with me to Candy Mountain?

We're on a bridge Charlie!
- Put a banana in your ear!
  (A banana in my ear?)
  Put a ripe banana right into your favourite ear!
  It's true!
  (Says who?)
  So true! Once it's in your fears will disappear!
  This is what I got from memory. Haven't seen the video in about a decade.

I was curious so I checked mine.

Aug 24, 2006.

Jesus I’m old.

Me too, team 2006 checking in!
Crazy that it's been 10 years since I joined. Right guys? It's been 10 years? 👨🏻 👴🏻 💀
- That's my Bday bro..
- Can I join the club too?
  I even still have the old URL from the days when it didn't require the @:
  https://youtube.com/psythik
- Nov, 2006
July 28, 2006 here.
Brothers!
- August 2, 1842
  Amateurs!
- Why is everyone 2006?
  Edit: Oh yeah…. google: October 9, 2006

Yet the "ai" system one day will think that you're underage and block your account until you send a photo of your face, your id and your ass

I changed my Google account in 2011 so ended up with a newer account. Womp womp.

100k views adjusted for inflation? And you didn't parlay that into a "career" as an influencer? So much potential, wasted.

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.
- It's sad that your video was taken down since it looks like someone posted a video about the subliminal message three months later, in December 2008, and it's still up. (I won't post it in case it's you - I don't want to dox you.) Maybe this person posted a follow up crying apology, though.

Bro, I was almost 30 when you created that account 😂

let's get you back inside, grandpa. Rub some liniment on those bunions and put you on one of your favorite spaghetti westerns.
- IT'S WEED AND VIDEO GAMES GODDAMN IT IM GEN-X 😂😭

Ha! I got ya beat. Barely.

Got you by two months.
- And one week before my 29th birthday.
- You beat me by 12 days
Oh, hey, that's my birthday (not year, only date)
- Happy belated birthday! I hope it was a good one.
Just couple of geriatrics now.

On a tangent I went to buy a secateurs (small plant chopper) off eBay - they wanted proof I was over eighteen; via a credit card. My eBay account is 16 years old. What the actual fuck?

My oldest account I can still access is my eBay account at roughly 20 years old. Next oldest is my Steam account at 18.

March 4, 2006 for me. Looks like a lot of us signed up around the same time. If memory serves, wouldn't that have been about the time that YouTube first got absorbed by Google?

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.

Link me to the subliminal message that sounds sick

Here is the link to one that didn't get a strike from about that time. But I've also had to attach proof, I was THE FIRST. Found it when I was in college.
https://youtu.be/GJ2IXfnTmig
- Me “oh 10,000 days, that’s a recent one, I remember that release”
  Also me: becomes a pile of green dust

So long ago, my brain hasn't formed my first memory yet

My accounts currently from 2011. I've used it a bit longer, that would've been around 18 for me and I've been using it since at least 14/15. I started with Google video I think.

Most people who use YouTube are over 19 years old.

I have just received the relevant stats and indeed, I'm not but it sure feels like it these days. It's more childlike in content than it's every been IMO. Maybe it's just me.

Mine is may 2009, but I had one for years before that. 2009 is just when my YouTube and google accounts merged

May 2006 here

You made me check mine, can't believe i'm there in 2008.

October 24, ‘06.

I'm June 2006 ... Time needs to slow down!!

my original account is slightly older, but because i changed my phone number, i cannot login, despite knowing the password

my account is a teen now. makes me feel old, ugh

Who TF is looking at YT in the shower? Bro, wash off, rub one out and dry off. You need at least like 30 seconds a day away from your screen. They didn't water protect your phone so you could doomscroll instead of washing your ass.

Why do you think this image proves your contention exactly?

The only thing it proves is that I'll use any old screen shot to validate my nonsensical internal dialog.