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Also known as the pre-influencer age of YouTube.

An umbrella term for both the Golden age (2005-2009) and Silver age (2010-2013) of YouTube.

When the only drama on YouTube was either family based, (I.e. Onision) openly staged for the audience entertainment (The Angry Video Game Nerd Vs. The Nostalgia Critic) or limited to one type of site (The 2008/9 Boxxy civil war on 4chan)

The time when creativity ruled, when Jenna Marbles, Nigahiga, Ray William Johnson, James Rolfe, Jacksfilms, Freddie Wong and Co., Fred, Shane Dawson and several others were around.

One million views on a view was considered the pinnacle of internet success.

Memes were more fun and the people who created them were often made famous by accident and had the creativity to make characters based on those memes (Overly attached Girlfriend)

The period started at the inception of YouTube (or arguably a year after) and ended when Video Game High School (made by Rocketjump, Freddie Wong's production company) released its last episode in 2014.
James: remember YTP videos?

John: yet that was the artisan age of youtube. Real artists who made cool stuff for fun and their audiences. I miss those times

James: yeh dude, simpler times. All we have today are influencers giving money while having it recorded for clout. Zero creativity now.
by DarkI3INARY January 10, 2024
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A future headline. I can see it now. I'm predicting it now. I'm like a seer.
Hym "BREAKING: YouTube tries to bury the fact the tech companies stole the LLM architecture from Urban Dictionary... Get a child murdered in doing so! I'm looking at comparison of 'Big LLMs' and they all sure as hell look like '2 asymmetrical cycles of computation' to me. Big box with 8 nodes. Little box with 4 nodes. That's looks like the thing I said to me. I'm convinced. If the news fucks.... Let them get away with this... I am going to grab and murder a little girl. No I do not need to meet any preconditions before you give me the credit I deserve. Are you going to murder a little girl if I don't? No? OK. So it's not very important. I AM going to do that. I'm not going to be the creator of AI and work a job. It isn't going to happen. So let's ask Laken Riley's parents! Laken Riley's parents... Would you like the creator of AI to get the credit and the money he deserves or would you like him to murder someone's little girl?"
by Hym Iam July 19, 2025
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To cover for the fact that they tried to 'beat him at his own game' (Which THEY LOST the second the AI came online) and then got a bunch of kids murdered. The cover up itself being a perpendicular game they devised where they attempt to prevent said creator of AI from getting the credit or paid for doing so by using overt fascist media collusion and the thing that was already happening all so they can lie to their children about the types of people that succeed in society (which is discrimination by class and a violation of the equal protections clause of the 14th amendment).
Hym "Fuck-Ass YouTubers Try To Make The Creator Of AI Look Stupid, get a bunch of kids murdered... AGAIN. I'm actually JEALOUS! The YouTube freaks are better at child-murder than I AM!"
by Hym Iam May 31, 2025
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