Seeing Tom Scott and MatPat being called the “old internet” might be the thing that puts me in retirement
TIL I was using the Jurassic Internet as a teenager
Old internet to me is straight up pointlesswasteoftime.com, which eventually got absorbed by Cracked like a cheap suppository after David Wong (aka mediocre comedy writer Jason Pargin) sold out. That was in 2007. And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.
And I thought the old internet was YTMND,slashdot, and fark.
Fuck I’m old.
Kuro5hin goes in there somewhere too
And now Cracked is functionally a content graveyard.
I’ll have you know that Cracked is the number one source for shitty listicles that were generated by running a /r/AskReddit thread through an AI.
I assume, at least. Haven’t actually visited cracked since before 2010 probably.
It got bought out by the company that owns KnowYourMeme, ebaumsworld, and the “I can has cheezeburger?” website in 2019. That’s pretty much all you need to know.
The general reaction to this post being “Who’s Matpat?” is super interesting to me. And the comments saying that Tom Scott and Matpat aren’t old are also interesting since they follow the trend in Lemmy of the average age being a lot older than any other social network. I’m Gen Z and primarily consume content via a very Zoomer-heavy platform, YouTube, and the only other social network I have is Lemmy, which I’d say is very millennial-dominated. Which is why I stayed on Lemmy when I first got on here in June, since I liked the difference in opinion on the same topics on Lemmy and YouTube. Nothing related to the post, just something I’ve noticed for a while but never shared.
I feel like people not knowing this Matpat person may also just be a case of the channel being called “The Game Theorists”.
I have seen videos of that channel suggested, but never clicked on any, because it looked like typical content mill stuff to me. If you don’t watch any videos, you’ll only ever read “The Game Theorists”…
as a fellow zoomer I can verify that Lemmy is unique in that you and me as zoomers seem to be a minority here
Same here, it’s a lot more chill of a place at least
YouTube is zoomer heavy. I know that’s true, but I like to believe that I, a millennial, am still welcome there.
I remember YouTube being millennial dominated. I wonder if it’s just a phase before realizing you’re throwing comments into the void and by being a central social site that still allows anonymity, it just invokes trolls - like xitter.
Wait till you find out YouTube isn’t that old and came about because some horny dudes couldn’t find the video of Janet Jackson’s boob. I mean, 18 is ancient for the internet and other tech, but I’d say it goes beyond just being a website with its social prevalence.
I’ve got accounts older than my niece and she’ll be 16 in a month.
This is how I find out matpat is retiring?!
Right?!
For those of y’all who don’t know: MatPat has announced that he will be stepping down from The Game Theorists to focus on himself and his family; Tom Scott has gone on indefinite hiatus for similar reasons.
I believe this heralds a new era of the internet, where ‘old’ creators are not as influential as the ‘new’ crop springing up, given the rise of Tiktok and the general direction of social media as a whole.
I can’t wait for him to come back in a decade only for his usual demographic to not be receptive at all to his shit because they’re all communists.
No idea who Matpat is, but I will miss Tom Scott’s stuff… also The Canipa Effect announced he is quitting YouTube after 10 years of producing content.
Who is this Tom Scott guy? I know MattPat as a legend but Tom is a literal-who to me.
British guy who has gotten famous on YouTube… Pretty all over the place, he made videos about linguistics, computer science, trains, hovercrafts, historical bouncing bridge, and sent garlic bread to space, played a 5000 year old board game, earthquake testing machines, a float-through McDonald’s, Shakespeare, giant centrifuge, and more.
Also a format change for Joel Haver: no more weeklies. Also Meatcanyon.
Matpat gone? Good fucking riddance. Fascist piece of shit.
We are living in a future Hypnospace Outlaw sequel right now
but that’s just a theory
What happened to MatPat? I mean good riddence if he’s gone but what happened?
