Who remembers when this was the most watched video on YouTube?
“The clip received 70 million views in under 8 months. At that time, it was rated on YouTube as: #1 Most Viewed All Time Video on YouTube.com.” - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judson_Laipply
“He uploaded the dance to YouTube on April 6th, 2006.” - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/evolution-of-dance
As someone said in the comments, they really don’t make (promote) videos like this any more.
It’s just a beautiful video, someone performed something on stage, the crowd clearly loved it. It required real talent, and wasn’t just done to get Youtube views in a weekly/daily video posts trying only to drive engagement.
A shame that Youtube’s best days are long behind it. Yes the beast is bigger than ever and has so many more people, but it’s not quality rising to the top.
Most of YouTube used to be this type of thing.
A More Civilized Age.
Mr. Beast’s videos are pure brain rot.
In defense of YouTube…
The thing is, you absolutely can still find stuff like that. The trick is to search for stuff you like, and train YouTube’s algorithm to find more stuff like it. I’ve got mine trained enough that my feed mostly consists of stuff I actually do want to watch.
Some of it is from “content creators,” yes (although nothing from the well-known ones), but a lot of it is just random things I happen to have an interest in.
Okay, that said, YouTube’s default feed can suck my hairy scrote. It’s astoundingly bad.
For me the old dance video I couldn’t get enough of back in the day was of these dudes doing the robot at Kollaboration 2001 that capped off with this dude doing some sick liquified robot shit that still melts my mind to this day. Thought this was that video initially so had to go look it up for you folks.
David Elsewhere was the god. Kid figured that entire shit out in his garage, all by himself.
EDIT: Another amazing breakdancing video from yesteryear: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YJ3BTKMILw
Oof. That kiddo had some strong Ehlers-Danlo Syndrome going on there. I bet he’s still feeling those moves today.
Kudos to Jr with the giant dong slung over his shoulder though, lol
Ah thank you so much for linking that, every time I see that evolution of dance video come up it reminds me of the kollaboration one and I kept forgetting the name for years.
Speaking of old dance videos, I recently found this gem and it made me so happy I feel compelled to bring it up every time I can. I miss that Youtube, it was such a different place back then.
Damn takes me back 😂
Oops, replied to the wrong comment. Sorry about that!
There’s a blast from the past. I had to look the guy up, and seems like he does motivational speaking now.
Yep, I was coming to comment that my company hired him for an event we had maybe 10 years ago. It was standard “work hard and you can accomplish anything” stuff peppered with HR friendly jokes and bits of the dance routine. It was weird though because most of the people there were either too young or too old to have any idea who he was or what video people were talking about.
Man oh man … a trip down memory lane!
When the Internet was a more naive and a fr nicer place to hang out …
Now mfs like Mr Beast get 60M views in 24 hours. Crazy how the scale of these numbers have changed.
Videos of this era that reached a million views would get a segment on national news programs. Now they’re a dime a dozen.
I forgot about this - such a cool, old-school video.
Weezer’s video for Pork and Beans is a great snapshot of viral videos around that time, including this one.
It’s not “circa 2006”, it’s “2006”.
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I never understood why this was so popular tbh. It’s cool and sorta funny I guess but not most popular video of all time cool
People were more easily entertained back then. Remember that one of the first memes was literally just a baby dancing.
Verily do we stand on the shoulders of meme giants.
People are fickle and everything is relative… or something like that, maybe
