Originally posted by Trout
Remember when...
Bring me to life, Bodies, and Dreamscape were basically YouTube's national anthem songs?
Remember when most of your video feed were CoD4/MW2 and Halo glitch tutorials?
Remember looking up tutorial videos and watching people record their screen with the little "Unregistered Hypercam" watermark?
Remember rating "5 Stars"? and the Subscribe button being golden/yellow?
What do you remember?
Sub4sub (back when 2000 subs was insane to get)
YouTube Streams (the best chatroom ever! They need to bring it back)
Having automatic grid layout on subscriptions
AMVs were big
Every other montage video used Linkin Park music
Username666
People jacked YouTube accounts all-the-fucking-time, regardless of its username or email used.
You could have multiple YouTube accounts on one email
YouTube Live
Viacom takeover on YouTube
Google takeover on YouTube
Premium users could have banners as substitute for their usernames on bottom of the videos.
You could have banners on top of your profile, if you were premium
Smosh was #1
Everybody hated Fred and Chris Croker
YouTube put ratings of premium users on their profile page.
You could allow other users to annotate your videos.
You had to put the video quality (360, 480) into the video's url
etc. etc.