The Internet Changed Me 

If you check the description you can see the whole team of people that worked on this video and it doesn’t really say his name on any of the credits. I think at this point he might just be doing the voiceover and directing. JaidenAnimations is about the same way I think.

@@KeWDu yeah, its kinda sad bc I think that odd1sout's essence is gone. The essence was that theodd1sout actually drew the videos. Now that he has a team of 32530513285905123980 people, odd1sout looks more like a brand rather than a youtube story teller animator

@@ircusing9875 I mean, dudes already made it big. It’s not practical to devote that much time and effort into animating a full video by yourself or even with a small team, when you make so much money to just relax and hire people to help. It’s hard to argue that the quality of his older videos would compare with this one. And even if he’s not directly involved in animating, just putting out the content to share with us is probably enough fulfillment for James and Jaiden. I know what you’re saying but I feel like if I were in their shoes I’d probably do the same thing.

@@ircusing9875 that’s an incredibly cynical way of looking at things. He’s got a devoted team of hardworking animators like himself, so that he’s not under ungodly amounts of stress and pressure. He’s still there, he’s not being controlled by a corporate company or something, he’s just gotten a team to help.

@@KeWDu yeah you are actually right, I am proud of him for making it so far and I am ok with the better quality of the animation team, Its just that I like to see the old videos where Odd drew and when he was having fun with Jaiden and SomethingElse with not necessarily a lot of production better

Haha😂😂😂😂

True

Yeah

Ikr

Fine

But did you play Hover for Windows 95?

Lol, yeah, i was born 2004, but i moved around quite a bit and one of my houses actually still had dial-up. Never played space cadet pinball, but i do remember youtube from back in 2010 when the way my family would watch a video is that we'd click on it, wait 45 minutes to an hour, come back, and watch all 10-20 minutes of whatever. And god was it weird. what you could just find on there. Kinda miss it tbh.

Same, 2004 and all these experiences that some of the 90s babys talk about, I can relate because I’ve had the same experience too

​@@smithsunleashedyeah, I was born in 2006 and my childhood was nothing like the later gen z kids'. It was more like the 2000s. I grew up on DVDs and TV. When I was 11 my parents got their first smartphones and I was borowing them to listen to audiobooks.

same!

Same. I just turned 24 and the ms paint, weird websites, neopets, and the fun little games that came installed on windows are all things I remember. I also used to play this penguin bowling game when I was like 8 that was installed on windows 7 and I loved it.

Same! But also, we’re in that weird transitional generation of 96-02 that saw the internet and tech change A LOT but never saw the beginning of it.

Same my mom kept her old computer, and I would play the pinball game while she was doing chores or cooking

SAME oh my gosh, and on sweet 'ol 98

Me 2

Same

But when he talked about 9/11... definitely don't remember it happening

Exactly! For most of my childhood i had a windows xp with no internet connection, and it was truly an amazing time

Right! I was born in 2002 but when he thanked about the land line it hit me hard

late gen z here (08, jus turned 16) and i still remember a time when the internet wasnt as omnipresent and all consuming as it is today, its like with age it became amplified and now its Everywhere

Where I liva and with my friends we have both, we do hang out with each other and go to the park, and we usually plan it out over text messages, and I'm not much younger than you

I know I'm five months late, and I know this is an absolute novel, so I apologize for going way overboard lmfao if you really want a comprehensive glimpse into the past, here you go! I was born in 1999, so I can at least speak for mid 2000s onward from the perspective of a midwest American. *The Internet:* Everything felt smaller and homier, a lot of the games we played were made by people like you and me and it wasn't meant to squeeze every last cent out of you. I got on Roblox in 2008, back then the main font was comic sans if that tells you anything lmao Flash games were everywhere. RU-vid wasn't the only video-focused platform, there were websites like ebaumsworld and Newgrounds which was animation-heavy (and spawned a TON of memes). I really wish I could remember more of the sites I used to visit, I doubt any of them are still up If you wanted to connect with others, you'd have to search for forums for your individual interests. It kept things tight-knit, it didn't feel like yelling into a void like how posting on Twitter does now Ads were usually confined to two spaces on webpages - a static horizontal banner towards the top, and a static square/other vertical banner along the right hand side. If you were watching RU-vid back in 2009, you'd also get a transparent banner text ad along the bottom quarter of the video with a very big X that made getting rid of it easy. Even if you didn't click the X, it would go away on its own after 10 or so seconds from what I remember. The ads never left those aspect ratios, there were no autoplaying full volume videos that would scream for your attention. Most the time the not-shady ads were gifs, sometimes interactive (like websites that would let you preview mouse cursor designs to download, though most of those were indeed shady lol) There was HUGE pushback from monetization and corporations in general. People felt very much like the space was for regular people, and they didn't want every single bit of it to be monetized like it is now. VEVO was HATED back when it was created, because it was seen as the start of the end for the internet just being used "just for fun" There was a lot more emphasis on personalization, that word used to really mean something. Sticking with RU-vid as an example, if you had a channel, you could design a custom subscribe button and it would be there for any viewers to see. Channels themselves could be customized by layout, custom image backgrounds, color schemes, font selection, etc... It really was something. As an aside for RU-vid, back in 2011-2012ish, you could even see how many dislikes a comment got. Opinions felt like they mattered more, and even comment thieves were discouraged from stealing comments because of it. Everyone's voices were more prominent. Bots back then just... Weren't really a thing. Technology wasn't advanced enough/websites weren't prominent enough for people to create legions of spam bots to ruin discussions. The one place you would see bots is your email, which people would actually use to keep up with their friends. It was texting before everyone had phones/message apps. Lots of people, like my cousin, used AOL instant messenger/something similar, but I never used any of those. When I started to really interact with the internet was right when viruses started to get serious. In the 90s/early 2000s, a lot of viruses were actually made by amateur coders to pull pranks on their friends (think jumpscare horror image pop ups). E-commerce was in its fledgeling state as I started putzing around online, which meant there was a growing incentive to be more malicious with viruses, so I quickly had to become computer literate. Even then, though, getting a virus usually wasn't the end of the world where your entire identity/money was stolen. It was typically an annoyance where pop ups would continuously load and your browser would get slowed down by a bunch of useless add-ons. Kinda feels like the norm of what we experience today when going online. The crazy thing was, back then, most people weren't /on/ on the internet yet, so a good chunk of the people in your day-to-day life genuinely didn't even know what a "meme" was. A lot of internet humor and culture didn't really leave the space until the 2010s, and even then it was a slow trickle before permeating into the zeitgeist.

*Gaming:* As a whole, everything was a lot more decentralized, and I miss it. Gaming was done mostly on console, they were made by nerds instead of the soulless profit-maxing frat boys we have today, and it was a lot more of a casual hobby back then. Before companies found ways to "optimize" and "streamline" matchmaking, you'd always have matches with people of every skill level and it was pretty common to continue playing with them for longer than a single match. Party chat wasn't always a thing, so people would socialize during matches, and lots and lots of friendships were made that way. What's even wilder, is that development priority for games back then fell to singleplayer/storymode first, then multiplayer. The only microtransactions back then were for DLC, which used to be meaningful. Cosmetics were unlockable, either through in-game currency, getting achievements/etc, so devs would create fully finished multiplayer maps/game modes/campaign extensions and sell it for a modest price. There was no updating a game once it came out, so when games shipped, you knew you were getting a finished product. It really felt like you got your money's worth out of every game you got. And, like my earlier example with the internet, there was a lot more customizability back then. A lot of people didn't hook their consoles up to the internet in the early 2000s yet, so in order to spend time with your IRL friends but still play games, you would have to go over to your friend's house and play co op campaign or custom games. There used to be a thing called LAN parties, where your friends could bring their consoles to your house and hook them up, and it'd be a local multiplayer server. I remember seeing stories of ~16 people having LAN parties playing Halo 2. Weirdly enough, gaming back then wasn't seen as normal either. You'd get called "gay" "virgin" yadda yadda, but that didn't stop businesses from experimenting with reaching gamers. Companies like Burger King would package a BK game with your meal. Were they ever good? Absolutely not, but still it's a fun thing to look back on and remember *TV, and more specifically, my relationship with Commercials:* It's weird to say this, but I'm weirdly nostalgic for commercials that would play when I was a kid. What's even weirder is I'm not the only one... I recently found a shitton of channels whose sole focus is uploading recordings of commercials in between shows on Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, Disney XD, and so on, with specific original air dates. Instead of every single commercial being (supposedly) tailored to your specific viewing habits, companies had to more or less throw shit at the wall to see what stuck, so there was a little bit more variation in ad breaks. I do remember pharma ads being a thing back then, but not nearly as bad as it is nowadays... Something else I remember happening more is continuity in ads. Cereal brands, snack foods, etc would have storylines that you would see updates to every so often. Some of the ones that stick out the most to me are Trix, Lucky Charms, and Goldfish especially... You could even go on to their website and vote for the next story beat, I haven't seen anything like that since then I'll miss how impactful premieres were back then; it felt like a serious event you had to clear the calendar for since recording shows was still in its infancy. The sheer excitement I would feel as I finally got to see the newest episode of Avatar: The Last Airbender/Spongebob/American Dragon: Jake Long is a feeling I haven't felt matched yet. Sure, TV premieres still happen, but there were no streaming services to divide attention. Everyone watched the same stuff, we all shared these moments together more frequently than we do today. Media as a whole back then felt a lot more "fuck it, life is tough, so lets not take ourselves too seriously" while also somehow having extremely edgy styling. Humor, which was also pretty edgy, seemed to sell a good bit, so lots of commercials took advantage of it. I remember everyone talking about the JackLinks "Messin' with Sasquatch" series of ads. Honorable mention to the old Vonage commercials too, which would have shitty things happen to people (like a kid playing baseball in the front yard, accidentally swinging the entire bat through the front window of his house) It's also worth pointing out how CDs used to be a thing. From obtaining albums legally to burning them to make your own playlists, it was fun and exciting getting new music. Most the movies I watched back then were on VHS, but very slowly my family started getting DVDs. I haven't bought any in a long time, but back then there were menus that I'm weirdly nostalgic for. Some movie DVDs even came with games (they were mostly trash, but still a fun gimmick). **Brick and Mortar Aesthetics:* I'll keep it short, but there was once a time when companies took time to differentiate how their businesses looked. Fast food is the biggest standout, ie McDonald's having big yellow "french fries" sloping down the roofs, Taco Bell's old eye wateringly vibrant color scheme, etc. It's also worth noting that playplaces were so much more prominent, were bigger, and more fun looking (as a side tangent, playground design has changed massively and for the worst since then. I miss merry gorounds). One of Walmart's biggest design trademarks was the smiley face, which was on employee vests, plastic bags, hell, even the door greeter would give you a smiley face sticker. There was so much more identity and visual variety in towns. A cool thing about stores that sold games back then, there would be stations set up with demos loaded so you could try out the newest games. God I miss that *TLDR:* I could continue going on and on but to sum it up, the 2000s was an awkward transitory phase in society that felt very grassroots and fun; things weren't as sanitized or corporate as they are now. It feels like so much spice in life has been lost since then, and we're more isolated now despite the population being drastically bigger.

Same

Alot of hand flexin in this episode! Show off!

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@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ amen brother, we must purge all the non-believers

@@duli_hawaii satan satan satan Satan

I reported the bots that replied earlier so hopefully no more will show up

Does anybody remember Kid Pix or Purble Place or Pajama Sam, or Reader Rabbit? As a 2000's kid aka gen Z baby I remember playing these computer games. I remember playing Kid Pix in elementary school when we had computer lab such nostalgia 😭 good times.

@@erikastone9183 i sorta remember reader rabbit but not the others. I was born in 04 and didn’t spend a ton of time on the internet so I don’t remember it that well.

ratio

@@erikastone9183 purple place was all i'd play!

This!

Same! Technically gen z but don’t fit in🤣🤣

my nostalgia was on LAN cafes playing starcraft before discovering starcraft in Korea

Never played soace cadet pinball but damn this video is pure nostalgia

Yea

I’m 14 and my mum owns a old as computer, pinball was fire

Yes I can agree that game was the epitome of entertainment back when

911

@@kenny_nugget Depends, if you born before that day, it's almost like it never happened. The Gen Z's born after that day have become different compared to the older Gen Z's

2004 here and I may have missed some of the "nostalgia aspects" possibly because they weren't in my country. But things like boards instead of chats, cube-like PCs (my brother had one), Might & Magic, Doom and etc... Yeah, I've been there :)

9/11

@@timinator900 no thats not true i was born in 2006 and this video is literally my childhood. just without youtube because i didnt know youtube existed back then. Pinball was like the only game i played. and solitaire but i still dont know how that game is played.

My Parents' first home PC costed $2,000 back in 1998 (~$3,800 today). It had an MMX Pentium II clocked at 400 Mhz, Windows 95, 32 Mb of RAM, a 6 GB Hard Drive, 4 mb AGP Graphics Card, a cd rom drive, a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive, a 100mb Iomega Zip drive (in case if you don't know what a zip drive is, a zip drive was kind of like a floppy disk but it held a lot more files on it) and 1 USB Port in the back. Back then if you wanted sound, you had to buy a separate sound card (in my case, it was a Creative AWE64 with backwards compatibility for those DOS games like the original Doom). Now this machine was pretty standard for the time [not to mention we also had a 56k modem up until 2002].

Awesomemay how I love your videos

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Bro I love your vids btw

you a bot?

Hey may

no bots

yea same, I got my own computer just 3 years ago borrowing my uncle's for hw and solitaire lol

MySpace was a thing back in the 2000s

Eh, the internet can survive just fine without centralized social media. Removing them would likely decentralize it back to random single-purpose message board websites.

By the way need a season 2 for oddballs

No, it’s like cereal with milk, while with social media it’s cereal without.

I’m also a gen-z but I was introduced to almost everything in this video by my gen-x parents 😅. FUN FACT we still have and use a box-TV in our basement😂

James always makes videos that have a easy-to-understand moral. I take more than an hour trying to understand the moral of a chapter I learnt in value education period

I want my funny stories about france back. Badly animated, preferably.

True do

Ok...

it was all the pbs as a kid 😔, he was infected with morals

The start of Zoomer-kind is 1996. Not exactly the start, but still an older Gen-Z.

He even has his own show

@@Endzonee YEAH! I saw that when we were going somewhere, I think at a friend's house and it's advertised

not saying he hasn't improved, but he isn't the only one who animated this video you know that right?-

ok

It’s cuz now he has employees

Ikr

these youngsters dont know ab the old internet smh

this guy is 2 cool 4 youtube rite now!

@TheОdd1sOut 🅥 Your fake

I grew up fully with the internet even before James was born. It's amazing to me to think about just how much was still a thing or wasn't even made yet by this point. Hell I grew up with AoL being the only way on the internet, and it was It's own entire thing. Not even a brower, but another OS it felt. The pinball sound definitely hit me with the nostalgia, too.

@@TheOdd1sout322 scammer

@odd1st_outshush scam

Pinball was the greatest game to ever exist😂

How does it feel to be a dinosaur, like the one you play as when you don't have Internet on that Google Chrome thing?

@@shadedway5277 … so your saying you’ve never lost internet?

@@shadedway5277 tf

Back when the sonic fandom was everywhere, that was the most common type of fanart you would see.

@@DanideLouro 🤨

@@9deekay As a Sonic fan, you wouldn't understand and you might put down that emoji when you actually see what is in the bad side of the Sonic fandom

@@Spongyboi897 *yeah…*

@@DanideLouro I wanna go back in time then ☺️

Me too :3

Same! That’s all I was thinking about while watching this video. I know he literally came out with an animated Netflix show but it still surprises me how far he’s come lol.

Me as well

To me he's only gone downhill in the recent years. His stories now feel more chosen for the viewers, instead of him just telling something he wanted to tell. Something like soubway can never happen again because well who's going to watch James tell a story about some random thing he once did that they cannot directly relate to.

@@SuspiciousIguana they said _as an animator_ they weren't talking about the video topics

Space cadet like BFN?💀😍😍

​@@emmanuelyakubu2935I know who you are Emmanuel.

samee

either my family holds on to old stuff or that was more recent then he thinks like I’m a 2005 kid and I remember it

I still love it!! I have it for Windows 10 and tbh my love for it never changed

Same, except I didn’t get every reference

I’m an ‘03 but I have 5 older brothers so I grew up with a lot of the 90’s things.

Sadly an ‘07 but did see some of the things James showed in the video, like the ratio of RU-vid videos and the early web at the time. It was like the internet’s late puberty like if you were in your late teens.

Same! As a fellow '04er, i understood everything. I'm laughing because i feel like i'm being treated like a child watching this video. I'm an adult.

oh I was born in 2013 NO JUDGEMENT

Because he doesn't do them anymore. Its like 20 people working under him

@@JasonEllins damn, spoke like you were there physically

@@JasonEllins Bro spoke like he did the animation

@@quackyboi5130 He literally made a video about art and talked about how his artists work for him and wtv. James mainly writes and records now

I actually don't like. Lost what made it special and pure. It feels over done and hollow now.

just commenting to break the bot chain

dude I have so many memories of that game. Played it so much on the family's old computer, a windows ME one that lasted us 9 years before we replaced it. Good times

I played it too! Even read the instructions on the points system!!!

I still remember the day we got the family computer with windows xp on it!

The show didn’t seem like it was targeting us but also seemed like it was imo

Not really long videos, but shorts are something at least

both of them are in the kids section when his channel is not for kids.

Yep

and a videogame

he has an animation team

I thibk you mean *their* animation

ratio

He’s got a team doing it for him now

That’s cause it’s not all his

He mostly does it alone I think

it looks the same

@@Theducknextdoor ? his animators do like 80 percent of it lol that would be a fuckton of animation for one person

@@Theducknextdoor he basically just does voiceover other people do everything else (animation,editing,compositing, etc)

Ehhh I like his old video/animation better.

just commenting to break the bot chain

Yuh yeah

Hello

Yeah and back before bots were a thing

yes

Same, as a 2005 kid I fondly look back on the pinball game

As someone from 04,that pinball game was literally my life. Me and my brother would play on that game for ages Including purple place

@@NullCantHandleFreddie I think about purple place from time to time and wonder about it, and that game I think was called Destroy, where you would literally just screw up the desktop screen...good times

Before wide scale use of the internet, dial-up bulletin board systems (BBS's) were the only option other than running a program on your computer. RU-vid has some videos about them. I grew up long before personal computers or home use of the internet or smartphones, or wireless phones. I'm basically a fossil. Any questions?

#2009 kid

Nope

Yes!!!

Yes sir

Dang, half these replies are bots. Impressive

No, they wouldn’t put that much effort in if people didn’t enjoy it

Me too but...I was born 2008 and I don't know what's wrong 😭😭😭

no because according to James you've experienced none of it, you inferior Gen Z

@@starlord9272 I was born in '96 but I know that feeling well (virtual comfort hugs)

@Seeing Star askers?

I can relate

Ouch, that must've been awful

The internet is uh.. double edged sword you could say? I guess it's also kinda like handling any addiction, and just use it carefully and don't use it for 10 hours a day ( which I totally don't do). Have you guys had a nice day?

Yeah I’ve been through same thing

Same...

Fr

i didn’t even realize he animated hands until you pointed it out haha

james doesnt even animate his own videos anymore

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@@coin4246 exactly

Ya same here

FINALLY SOMEONE WHO GETS ME

SAME!!!

@@Pokemanmon That makes them even better IMO

I agree his newer stuff is more for younger children but I still watch these videos because there are genuinely jokes that will go over kids heads such as the crocodile joke and joking about “weirdos” on the internet. But I think it’s weird that his content on RU-vid is for more 10 to 14 year olds but his book and Netflix show is targeted towards 7 year olds.

Same my dude, I also had Petz 4 and og farmville (although that requited internet)

Me too! When James showed the paint ball game I got hit with nostalgia.

literally

Crazy thing is, I was born in 93, and I don't remember the start of RU-vid. I was to into Myspace, that a video sharing site meant nothing to me at the time. Crazy thinking back on it now. Middle school when youtube came out and I was on Runescape, WoW and Myspace only.

4:11 was amazing

he has an animation team now

Yes we can

Definitely. He's super creative.

Eh. It's still not fully animated, which is kind of sad for someone who claims to be a RU-vid Animator.

Sameee idk why he thinks we didn’t have it

PINBALL FOREVER (even if mother cuts the wifi)

Same I love playing that game when I was younger

I miss playing so I downloaded it. Now I get to play it offline whenever I feel like.

me too

People born after 2011 or so are considered Generation Alpha, if I remember correctly.

*Me raised by a gen x AND millennial parent

my parents are boomers and I'm 22

1996-2010 is the span of Gen Z already... did you mean to write 2000? But if you're 18, weren't you born after 2000?

Same here, I'm 19 and totally relate. I was raised by gen-X so that could have something to do with it. Love the idea of a sub-gen, that would be cool.

Here

Yep 😭

Especially about typing in p 😈

Bro the video has been up for 5 minutes. You commented this before even finishing the 9 minute video in hopes of farming likes off of children that like any comment that sucks James off.

Ha

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@@Usernsj8383 Wow! It's the real TheNormal0937sIn! omg!!!😮😮😀😮☺😯!!!

I used to watch RU-vid and search stuff on a ds

Remeber th cake baking game?

@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ shut up You ruin the moment

Nah I discovered exactly why some 2000s kids are basically 90s kids while some aren't. It had to do with how much money your family had lol if you were lower middle class or lower, you got 90s stuff in the 2000s and lived the same childhood as 90s kids lol if your family made good money, you got all the newest 2000s tech

@@GlorifiedGremlin that makes sense actually, I was raised by my grandparents and they didn’t get the newest stuff

@@GlorifiedGremlin😳 That actually makes so much sense

@@GlorifiedGremlin exactlyy i def agree i technically had the same experience as the 90s kids

@@GlorifiedGremlin yeah that exactly make sense. Especially if you're born in a developing country where ADSL didn't exist in affordable manner till 2010 lmao

I noticed that it hit me with lots of nostalgia:(

Same!!!😅

Yeah me too. I remember those annoying RU-vid captions haha. I'm becoming old.

Same here. I wasn’t allowed to use the internet though so I mainly kept playing old games like Fate, Dungeon Siege II, Morrowind, etc. either that, or I would watch my dad play them before I went to bed.

It's not even his animation anymore

He has animators yk

I personally don't like the hands.

@Idot. fr

It's going so fast😰 I'm not used to it

old

@@jaisonn25 ur probs a late 2010s kid

100%, I'm a '97 kid and my partner is a '95 kid, and neither of us can relate to the struggles of millenials OR gen Zs

'94 and still honestly relate quite a bit

@@MAnt-ng7uf I am 2010

As far as I remember you could customize it Like you could select what you want, wizard, boy or cat

If that brought you to tears, please seek help lmao

@@GlorifiedGremlin I need a nostalgia psychiatrist xDD

I remember accidently finding the games files on my computer when i was younger. Man, that's all i every player growing up, and some cd games my parents bought for us once

@@oopsitried6174 Windows XP: "All entertainment and the simplicity you can have at home with or without internet~ You want games? We have a lot pre-installed like Pinball!" Windows 8: "Pinball? What's that? Can I eat it?" Windows 10 and above: "Games? Go to the Internet you noob! Download them there!"

🤨📸

@@highroll1607 that’s for James isn’t it.

hmmmmmm...

😶

Me pintring

Or maybe it's skin over clothes over skin over more clothes

@@StephenDurnan my brain cannot comprehend what u just said-

maybe he ripped off a layer of his skin and under the skin was a shirt

Wha~

Nah, he just likes stuff tight and white.