Where the hell did all that time go?

Fun Fact: I was the very first person who discovered a back masked subliminal message on Tool’s “10,000 Days” album and my video got sum 100k views which was insane for that time in youtube history. Whenever Tool finally released their discography on streaming platforms, I got a copyright strike and it was taken down. fuckers.

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    32·
    16 days ago

    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

    • JPSound@lemmy.worldOP
      191·
      16 days ago

      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.

        • JPSound@lemmy.worldOP
          8·
          16 days ago

          Exactly. It’s an art in itself. A cross fade was laying the diagonal cuts of two strips onto each other at the seam. Your fade time what the angle of the cut. DAWs visualize that but it used to be an actual cut. Wild times back then. Digital completely took over right after I left college and it’s a shame because there’s something special in there that makes every edit mean something. With no Ctrl-Z, every cut is a commitment.

          If you look up pics of old iconic rock master reels, some of those things look like a Frankenstein monster. But once they put it on wax for sale, you’d never know the reels looked like hot garbage.

          • BCsven@lemmy.ca
            6·
            16 days ago

            Ah cool. I had a similar conversation about when art supplies were very costly, even a single she of watercolour paper or a tube of paint, so the artist had to conjure up something worthy and commit to it, rather than digital art where you can churn out a lot of mediocrity because it costs you nothing

  • skoadphilmore@lemmy.world
    16·
    16 days ago

    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.

    • daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      8·
      15 days ago

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

  • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    16 days ago

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

  • JPSound@lemmy.worldOP
    101·
    16 days ago

    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…

  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk
    8·
    16 days ago

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

    • JPSound@lemmy.worldOP
      51·
      16 days ago

      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.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
    71·
    16 days ago

    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

  • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    16 days ago

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

    • JPSound@lemmy.worldOP
      41·
      16 days ago

      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.

      • crank0271@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        16 days ago

        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.

  • lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    16 days ago

    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)

    • sexual_tomato@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      15 days ago

      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

    • groet@feddit.org
      2·
      15 days ago

      Damn people have free will and choose to ruin their children’s lives like that