Most Popular Instant Messengers 1997 - 2019 

Discord of course

Telegram

Telegram

Ok, please don't @ me

LINE Discord and Facebook Message

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Yes, I cried when I found out (a few weeks ago) that it been discontinued since 2017.

@quacksu that’s the joke

quacksu r/woosh

quacksu shut the fuck up

I take it you're not Chinese 😝

@@hexwolfi :(

Vandalopez I assume it’s an endgame reference

same

Vandalopez it’s a Chinese app

I miss the icq days. The typewriting Maching sound AND message recieved sound were wonderful

Aol:You got mail

Ikr, I especially loved the way the icons looked back then, so colorful ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

@@sbn025 haha I was a kid and used to log into my mums account and talk to her friends

…and appear offline

Chinese aop

Same - never heard about it.

Me too.

It's for China, and as you know it's the most populated country in the world. So this makes the app having many users.

That's cheating!

Did you just assume WhatsApps gender?

@@benjyyy4168 if it's a girl, it should be called whitsepps

WhatsApp fucker's!

@Demon Cat awful feminazi detected

@@user-ds7dx5dh9j r/woosh

You can pay to stalk someone on it. Don't ask me how I know.

@@TheKillerind No, I have to ask or my thoughts will keep me up. How do you know that?

Wot

@@microearthquake I live in China and use the app. The app is very intuitive and customizable but if you pony up you get to make your profile look more glamorous than the average person as well as the ability to stealthily visit someone's page and see when a particular person checks your page and get notifications when they do.

@@TheKillerind I was about to have my own research about it, but I think I'll just go to bed.

The start of a new age.

Use Escargot Server for MSN or WLM

Watej sheep is this really you?

telegram

@@trisk902 lmao do anyone cares, you are probably playing 18+ games only mate

I feel strong disgust and strong anger towards Telegram. I’m in a difficult situation so I asked several friends for help. Telegram blocked me for months from contacting new numbers for that, citing what I consider an invalid reason. This now makes it difficult for me to search for jobs, because companies often tell me to add their telegram number and send a CV, but I cannot because Telegram blocked me groundlessly and abusively according to my opinion. I reiterate: I feel strong disgust and strong anger towards Telegram.

@@charlieangkor8649 your case is different, but not popular. Telegram is the main messenger in my country and I never heard about that. Just buy a second number for the telegram and that's it

Carpet Dargen Aight. I’m gonna have to shake ur hand, sir That’s a good one😂😂

I don't know which is QQ

😂😂😂

hhhhh

lmaooo.. nice

Mazen Fire 😂😂

😂😂😂

A free trip to Mexico,

It's merengue from dominican republic

Deepak Kamat hold up, how do you have a verified mark?

Don't worry BlackBerry is dead

I had a crackberry. And i was not rich.

@@dozergetscrafty whaaat???

Rich people?? LOL

BlackBerry was expensive? One thing I can’t remember

Also Facebook is not popular in Russia. I don't know anyone who uses Facebook messenger to chat. We usually make pages on Facebook for the game accounts. So, most Russians use VK and Telegram instead of Facebook🤔

@@GlowingPie Interesting to know, thanks!

@@K-EVOFFICIAL 😁😁😁

@@GlowingPie what about WhatsApp?

@@socialmediatrends5570 Yeah, WhatsApp is widely used but by more old people. Young people and teenagers prefer Telegram. Me and my classmates use WhatsApp only for communication with teachers.

Pubg and WeChat are from the same company lol

I got a QQ account back in 2014 but I don’t use it now xd

Because you are not Chinese.

@@Noomery worse, pubg from korea qq form china

@@user-yw5sy5he6y pubg *mobile* is from China, and they're under the same company with QQ and Wechat

It indeed is chinese

Same

Yes it is chinese

qq is gay

@@peeweelongway3760 same tbh

It's by tencent and it's probably only this popular because everything else is prohibited...

@Xiao Han I just never said that...

@Xiao Han Taiwan No.1

@@luxfux8764 msn is allowed in China but it is inferior to QQ so few use it in China.

Why do you have to be scared? Don't you think you learnt something new outside of the painted world by western media?

i never heard of qq

It's what they use in China

TheRealPuzzlecube 😂

Club penguin

Because there's a billion Chinese people.

Sara Santamaria I have heard of Zoom but what is it exactly? People keep talking about it.

@@partIycIoudy Its like Skype

And what about Jitsi/jabber ? What about Discord/Matrix/Slack/Teams ? All of them are not in the graph, that's weird.

Cyrille Pontvieux Discord will make it to the list soon, but Discord isn’t very popular outside North America whose population is almost roughly represented by the U.S. population. WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger are the most popular in Asia whose population is enormous. WeChat and QQ made it to the list due to Chinese population, and they are unheard of outside China. Still, other parts of Asia, especially Southeast Asia, when combined have higher population than China itself, let alone Africa, Middle East, South America, and Europe.

Sara Santamaria oh ok thanks

*MSN

Yep

Americans dont even know whaz whatsapp is

@@Namonness what do they use for messaging?

@@Namonness we know what it is we just dont use it. Whatsapp is an Indian company i think so mostly Indians use it. Same with QQ being Chinese and used by Chinese and Facebook Messenger being American used by Americans

@@tori9365 everyone I know uses WhatsApp... And I'm from the US

True :)

Latin music makes me proud of where I am from

Yeaaa I feel it

It factually is a race

It is an intense race

Toti eram pe mess, cu link-uri la status. Cam toate cu muzica sau profile de HI5

The most messenger ever!!

@@ethanjoseph4943 Yes, Ethan. The most messenger.

Man i miss MSN days so much....

@@valenesco45 👌

Mr. Mackey ?

lol i loved msn

the msn days were the good days for me

Its a chinese company

It was made by tencent, the same company that made wechat

QQ is nothing else but a copy of ICQ. Chinese market is a barricaded market which feed these vicious peeping toms like BAT

Is one of the most important Chinese Social Networks, is like their Facebook

第欧根尼 Although I don't like Tencent, but there are already features developed by Tencent and copied by American companies such as Facebook: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VAesMQ6VtK8.html

I used to use those game rooms in Yahoo Chat in 1998. Man those slow ass Java script web browsers that were so slow, and always so slow. Still, was such a buzz chatting with people all over the world. a/s/l? Remember that? lol

Whats the song called tho i wanna listen to it when i am gonna fall asleep

Voicegamingnl when you go to sleep? That’s some hype music for sleeping. Gonna have some cool dreams

dreaming to this music should bring up interesting stuff from the depths of the mind

Which got shut down about a month ago

Oh 😂

RU-vid had a direct messaging service??

Wait...they had a direct messaging service?

Yes, they *had* , a direct messaging service

add wechat into the first 50%

Its more like what about ventrilo and teamspeak.

Discord is more IRC than the likes of the ones on this list

@@clj7544 WeChat is kinda known but wtf who uses QQ.*edit* Thanks to the replies I now understand that China bans everything foreign then copies it for their own convenience

upload more videos

That is so true. I've used Skype in 2012 and with every update it got worse to the point that i've completly stopped using it.

Marko Todorovic used it in 2015, great for talking to friends in a big group but it just became so shitty there’s more use of insta gc video calls.

@@bandithimself6841 It has much worse quality than Discord.

So true,, but it’s no mystery; it’s pretty straightforward, really. 2008, eBay buys it, has not the faintest idea what to do, sells it to a private investment group. 2011, Microsoft buy it and set their crack business development team to work on f***ing it up like everything else they’ve ever put their stupid, tasteless, corporate hands on. 2019.... yeah.

@@_cb336 i feel like Microsoft is only good for Windows and even there they fuck things up. But Yeah lets be honest, anything they bought, they fucked up. It starts with Skype and continues with minecraft. Lets not talk about Nokia

Cuz the music was good😂😂

Ahsain It’s a Chinese messaging service

@@synflwr that explains it

@@synflwr thanks, that does make sense

Why QQ is counted towards global messenger list if it's used only in china and just because anything else is banned from there

sometimes they bribe DC and get used for election rigging

It's ok, it means that you are young.

Josue Hernandez 😂

It's counting all the alt accounts we made every time we called someone a FUCK*NG CUNT

Dude just chill don't forget that it's a China's thing it might be infinite too😂

Omg im dying

Population of china 🤣🤣🤣🤣🖕it

XDDDD

whatsapp taking over the world be like

True true

KsDailyDose Indian people*

KsDailyDose until whatsapp and Messenger

WLM or MSN no dead , use Escargot

@@RealSxRDiviniteNFS My friend its not what I use.. but if people in general are using it!

@@GreekCommenter creating email escargot and Download Messenger /English / you MSN ou WLM version fav

@@RealSxRDiviniteNFS Again.. its not if I own it but the community to it is dead my friend :)

Me 2 I would love to see my icq from 90's and very early 2000's. I had a gf kill herself in 01 and afterwards I used to constantly look at her ICQ and message it as a way to cope. I was always afraid it would message me back and I'd have probably had a heart attack. ICQ was huge here in Ky in my area. We used AOL messenger some to but you weren't cool unless you had ICQ and had a shitload of friends lol.

mIRC still exists and it's from the 80's, the first online chat ever that for some odd reason didn't even appeared in this video.

lmfao

Gotta give it credit for being there for many years

Hahahaha XD I see that Facebook Messanger is going faster since it has launched

😂😂That's so fuckin true and so annoying, i hated that

@@5thdawg917 true...I hate to install messenger....Facebook forcibly made us installed

Yeah,and that is a pretty cheaty move

I use fb lite😉

Fuck China

@@24YOA Fuck you, you the son of bitch

Death is a preferable alternative to communism. Better dead, than red.

@@chengdongzong4481 do you know tiananmen square massacre 1989

@@24YOA yeah, fuck China

2 different worlds....they don't care about each other

Same here WhatsApp 😂🤣

I don't know wtf WhatsApp is either, I don't use any of these stupid shits I just used my phones messaging and Snapchat to message

QQ: I also don't know who you are.

😂😂😅

Lmao when i saw your comment i was looking where it was and then it appears

Time is money friend

What mean ,,ya,, and doin

@@pak3655 ya means you are and doin is doing

Armir Velcani ya is are you

Autumn S BAHAHHAHA IM FUCKING ASCENDINGDSJQU

This is underrated

Autumn S underrated comment

BRO HAHAHAHHAHAAH IM FUCKING HAHAHAHAHA

dude they just changed name

Where is IRC?

I was hoping to see a glance of discord... Didn't happen

I thought it was club penguin too😂😂😂

This needs more likes

didnt discord recently celebrate 250 mil or am i trippin?

Omg I want to see the rise and fall of kik. It lasted like a 3 years but I guess it didnt garner enough traction

Exo_Eve its getting shut

I redownloaded kik a few months ago ironically and not gonna lie, it legit just looks like some weird dating/hookup app now lol

Not sure how it is in other countries but at least in Germany Kik is something a lot of students are still using.

Kik is only used for sexting now lmao. Snapchat is a better version

Gideon02 Playz Qlub Qpenguin.

No, it was dolphin but in the other server (i mean pararel universe)

Me too

Same

Same

YOU ARE NOT ALONE 😂

Poor Yahoo!

And AOL

True that mate

YOU ARE NOT ALONE , I'm here with you😂

Youku?? What happen with bilibili or blibli or something???

@@linnen_elm bilibili still there.. watch there everyday >

Bruh who doesn't know Youku??

Not all heroes wear capes thank you kind stranger.

Okay so it's some propaganda app for my social credit?

Facebook owns both top 1 and top 2 most used app...

It was very popular even before Facebook bought, at least here in Brazil.....

Yeah. Whatsapp already had about half a billion users when Facebook acquired it. And it was also becoming the most used messenger in a few european countries.

@@lastminutesavior it probably got so big because it was used so much in India, country with 1.5 billion people

@@tejaswipradhan558 WhatsApp also popular in Indonesia.

I have it updated.

@@DataIsBeautifulOfficial thanks found it. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Yg06i23MXss.html

that was only popular in the U.S

it was changing name to windows live messenger

(ufo)

chewbacca awakened my soul Messi Suarez Neymar

I preffered windows live tough...

They killied it basically

Discord only gamer use it

@@shiningstarbhoi2550 No people use it for groups too outside of gaming.

Discord, team speak, and other alike are team chats. Big groups. Messengers are 1 on 1 chats. Facetime, calls, etc.

@@VypeReaper but Skype's their? Discord has the same functionality if not more.

Yeah it's pretty bs to not include Discord

I don't think WhatsApp will ever be dethroned now.... it's gonna stay up for a very very long time. Thanks to us Indians😂

You could have taken drugs and found that out long ago. Or eaten sugar

@@gautam_rathi and haitians.. Dont forget the haitians lol

@@vincaso how come the Haitians? Didn't get u brother

@@gautam_rathi thanks to brazilians too lol

I'm glad I wasn't the only one lmao

Cristian Garcia QQ is a Chinese messaging system

My thoughts “i have no idea what QQ is but i like it because it has a penguin”

Hahaha same thoughts exactly!!!

Cristian Garcia QQ is chinese

mochi as a Hongkonger I dunno what is QQ too

Lol

Google + rip

And another million of dead google programs/cites

Bcz WhatsApp has huge number Indian users.. We chat has chines users.. Next days telegram will be no.1 bcz Indians leaving whatsapp soon.

Daniel Diaz 😀 as a chinese, I have got my first QQ account when I was year 2. Because at that time everyone in my class they have got their own QQ accounts

Who has friends in China lol

Hunter 01 Chinese people

My whole family (except me I use Discord) uses QQ.

Daniel Diaz China circulates everything around WeChat, I’m not sure what QQ is

bruh shit came in out of nowhere took 2nd place then said at 2:42: aight ima head out

How did they get 254 m outta nowhere

@@kylelayne2161 Microsoft probably had every Microsoft account back then connected to it automatically

Mordecai ahh that makes sense

ight

B.L.D Racing 😢😢

i feel ya..😂😂😂🤣🤣

Lmfao

Anthea Johnson Because 99% viewers are not Chinese

Yep that's about right

incorrect. you have to factor in the people talking about the music, reminiscing of old shitty messengers, and some other shit that i'm too lazy to scroll through

I was a tiny kid and I learned about instant messaging on MSN

A Box “Google Hangouts-“ Them: trololololol no.

Both QQ and wechat are owned by one company-tencent as well😂

If Microsoft had achieved it, people would call it monopoly. 🤪

Lmao

Some One just because Facebook owns WhatsApp doesn’t mean WhatsApp has the same privacy rules as Facebook. WhatsApp has no privacy issues

Yeah so obscure that it dominated as the biggest messaging platform for years.

@@USERZ123XD It's more like there's a lot of em lul

@@USERZ123XD it only dominated because you have a lot of people not because of anything else.

@Володька Кофанов China population is more than a billion

Hardly what I'd consider obscure, but ok

WhatsApp alone destroy the monopoly market of BBM in India.... We use to pay a lot for BBM but then came WhatsApp and changed the game.

@@gautam_rathi you have to pay for bbm?!

Indonesia still using bbm til 2015

Wtf is bbm?

@@jonnathan1869 BlackBerry Messenger