31 y/o white passing mixed w/ Black monster woman from the Netherlands. Artist (occasionally). Writer (again, every so often). Prone to camera sniffing behavior, one of them θΔ folk.
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Mine was in 2011 which was my first year of college, since we didn't have internet good enough to play videos at home before that
2006, when it had first started to like, catch on
that said I was mostly using it to look up previously obscure music I couldn't find on limewire so this was basically me at the time 
I vaguely remember an April fool’s joke referencing All Your Base. And then I got a weird mental complex about watching video and stopped for like 8 years lol
Wow, as late as 2017... I'm old enough that I remember pre-Google YouTube from back in middle school. It was way more IRL than any other site which a lot of people liked but I didn't. Plus, YouTube videos were limited to 10 minutes, but Google Video let you upload any length, which made it way better for watching pirated content. In the end YouTube won because their comment section was way, way better. Before that, it was all Flash animations on Albino Blacksheep and Newgrounds. eBaum's too but it was the iFunny of the mid 00s.
I was aware of it by the very end of the 2000s but didn't care because I was too busy playing warcraft 3. I started watching french starcraft 2 replay casts in 2010 which I believe was the first time I really got into it.
I remember being introduced in about 2007-2008 seeing some then fresh memes and some homemade series'. A reupload of numa numa among my earliest memories.
I was aware of its existence, but I really only started to watch it after 2016. Until then I'd had the fortuitous excuse of being on dialup, and I exercised it frequently to avoid watching any little piece of frivolous Youtube trash people tried to link me to. <3
