YouTube’s Ridiculously Awkward Live Show 

Gonna keep my 2008 hair permanently and there’s nothing you can do about it

this takes me back. welcome to youtube is a banger, katy perry was awkward, but i'm just impressed you pulled together all those references to 2008

Man… 2008. What a year. That was the year I was born, died, got married, had 6 children, graduated college AND high school, and discovered the Knights Templar treasure. Good times :’)

Gotta love that after Katie Perry sexualised Bo Burnham, he immediately answered by reminding her that she was married. «Thanks Mrs. Perry» lol

My favorite part of Bo's performance was right after Katy Perry awkwardly tried flirting with a teenager( Bo) his first words were Thank you MRS Perry. Absolute roast. Bo was and is the best. 2008 YT was so interesting... Daxflame, Bo Burnham, Smosh, Nigahiga, FRED, Rhett and Link... crazy

It's an honor to have my reupload featured. You're the man, BTW!

Cup stacking was so huge that we literally had to do it in gym class. This was a buried memory until this video

I forgot how big a deal the whole cup stacking thing was until this moment. Like everyone was so into it. And then it bled so smoothly into that stupid cup song that every girl learned like, overnight I guess.

Props to Lucas for getting himself basically set for life from taking Nickelodeon's money, personally I don't watch his current content and I didn't really watch Fred in the day either but he seems genuinely happy with his life from what I've seen of him currently and I can't put him down for that

It's almost disturbing just how vast the gap between every performance is to Bo Burnham's. Dude was the only person there who seemed to understand exactly where he was and where the platform was going.

“You might not be my cheese cat, but you are my hero” so touching

Scott saying "In 2008" is like a 80 year old saying "Back in my day".

Losing it at Bo sitting like a gargoyle in the middle of the show

God bless this struggling king with his original ideas. Like honestly hes not just churning out copies of other commentary RU-vidrs like some do but actually giving us such original videos. GET THIS MAN TO ONE MIL

11:13 "There is no way this man is just playing Guitar Hero right now" dude that's Freddie Wong and he's shredding

“A whole damn group of ukes?!?! Something about that is just unsettling.” Oh if you think that small group is unsettling, I have your nightmare scenario. Two weekends ago I went to a nearby ukulele carnival and strummed along with around 100 other ukulele players. I really enjoyed it, but I could see how that’s a bit much.

Bo Burnham did not give a shit and it’s hilarious

Scott confirming he is a man of culture by acknowledging that Will it Blend was peak RU-vid

YT events where they mash genres together reminds me of when teachers would force you to hang out w/ other kids because "everyone needs to get along" but it just ends up being awkward, boring, and cringey because nobody likes the same thing

bo burnham's character development makes sense, like the progression of 2008 bo to 2021 bo make you go like, yeah that's about right

No joke. I just heard "Welcome to RU-vid" for the first time this past week because I was on Bo Burnham's Spotify listening to "Welcome to the Internet" for the five billionth time and stumbled across it. I could tell it was dated. I'm 22 so I am old enough to remember certain things about 2008. I remember Fred(Lucas Cruikshank) and Nigahiga's videos so fondly but my access to the internet was spotty at best. I didn't always have it so that's probably why I missed out on things like RU-vid Live. I would have been all over that shit if I had known about it as a 9 year old. 😂

Oh, wow, those bits with bo burnham really show how jaded he already was. I’m surprised that this event wasn’t brought up in CJ’s video, but it’s true - he really was patient zero, and he already knew it by the time he was 18.

This makes me think how crazy it is that Bo Burnham, Issa Rae, and Justin Bieber became so popular that they basically transcended RU-vid. I mean, they got their starts here, but they're hardly associated with the website anymore.

"Good thing there's no censorship on youtube" ... meme of the century

man you don't get a lot of people talking about this era nowadays. it's hard to find people to share the nostalgia with, i feel alone. thank you for the video

“you may not be my cheese cat, but you are my hero” is a phrase i desperately want to use on a daily basis

Did anyone else notice Rhett and Link in the crowd at 9:48? So weird seeing them in the audience of something like this knowing how massive they are now!

This is like the Star Wars: Christmas special but everyone has bowl cuts

Tay Zonday is an icon Additionally: The memory that is cup stacking was one I completely forgot about, but oh boy was I obsessed with cup stacking. I tried to learn how to be good at stacking cups, but I literally have no coordination.

You know, Adam has said that he and Jamie never really got along and Jamie wasn’t all that comfortable performing, and you can tell

It's crazy to see how people viewed RU-vid back in the day, they saw it as more of a trendy reality show and less as a website that would change the entertainment industry forever

That wasn't just anyone playing guitar hero, that was the GOAT Freddie Wong.

"What the Buck, a man who can only be described as the original Keemstar." Holy shit, that's so accurate. And Miley is his Ethan.

i'v never seen this live show, but I can feel the pure iconic energy it holds just from hearing you describe it and showing clips. Thanks for bringing it to my attention!

I haven't thought about those flip cameras since 2008 and I have just unlocked so many memories. What a bizarre era.

I didn’t know RU-vid Live was a thing! Despite that, I was 100% the demographic that they were going for. I recognized every featured creator, and the nostalgia hit like a ton of bricks. RU-vid Live today would be so hard to do, because, as you said, even millions of followers nowadays doesn’t mean nearly as much. The “most followed” RU-vidrs aren’t even on my radar, and I’m sure that’s true for a lot of other viewers. Thanks for covering this! The Wild West of RU-vid is always fun to look back on.

My favorite recurring bit is Scott referring to will.i.am's Bigheads history

I go back to Bo Burnham’s performance so often I completely forgot about the rest of the show

The ukulele bit really aged well, watching this post colleen

I think the reason ‘The Mythbusters’ act was kind of mid, was that it was originally designed as an exemplar tool for showing graphical power differences between a CPU and a GPU for Nvidia when ‘The Mythbusters’ hosted one of their Cons. They showed a single paintball gun on an articulating arm draw a smiley face and then used the big machine to make a rough image of the mona Lisa by sticking different colored paintballs in the various barrels and shooting them out at once. This showed the graphical advantage of Nvidia’s multiple Cuda cores vs the much less powerful CPU graphics. I think that video is still up on YT somewhere.

Bo Burnham, Lisa Nova, Dax Flame, Smosh, Alphacat, FreddieW, Tay Zonday, Will It Blend, Fred... TRULY ICONIC

as someone who had never heard of youtube live since i was way too young to be on yt in 2008, this was an absolute treat

Matt Sloan of the Chad Vader Star Wars series has actually voiced Darth Vader in many of the Lego Star Wars shows/games… so Disney couldn’t have been too mad haha. What a wild ride back to 2008 this was though.

that "thank god he's at least 18" made me feel so uncomfortable omg

17:17 In defense of the cup-stacking bit of the show, cup-stacking was HUGE on youtube in 2008. A massive community of people trying to beat each other’s records. It makes waaaaay more sense for the sports segment to be about cup-stacking than something like soccer/football because the cup-stacking community found a unique place on youtube whereas (like you said) soccer/football was something already universal that appealed to a wide international audience. I know this vid is 2 years old now, but to anyone reading this now, I highly recommend Jordy McNeill’s cup-stacking video! She goes over a bit of history as well as her own experiences in that youtube niche :)

I really like the feel of this channel. "OH WAIT I JUST REMEMBERED A THING AND I NEED TO TELL PEOPLE!" And I love it

6:45 "Ukes" feels like a derogatory term against ukulele players and i cant wait to use it

FLIP cameras being used for school English projects is so specific and so true 🤣🤣 brought back all the memories

I remember watching the his live for the sole reason of hearing bo's new song because I was 13 and had a huge crush on him. and I was also just proud of myself for knowing nearly every single act in the show. Crazy.

Cup stacking was definitely the most exciting sport they could have showcased

Matpat and his wife did a really good job with their live show a few months ago raising 3 times their goal amount for charity

Scott Torture Pack: Group of Ukuleles and An infinite loop of a person beatboxing

I really appreciate that you put chapters in your video's timeline!

6:37 last year, because of Covid we weren’t allowed to sing in choir and as an alternative, the choir director had us learn to play ukulele and then at the end of the year we did a concert with the ukuleles. Choir was made up of a decent chunk of the 7th and 8th graders so if that RU-vid live group was too much, I guess ours was insanity

That Chad Vader cameo had me in tears, I completely buried that series in my memory 😂 about to go binge watch it now

Ohhh I’ve been WAITING FOR THIS ONE!!! I skipped out on a party in 2008 to watch this event aired live on RU-vid. I still have Bo’s song memorized. There was a new Charlie the Unicorn animation. I truly thought it was the best day ever. This is the trip down memory lane I NEEDED

When scott references 2008 you know its going to be a good video.

Bro, you are so underrated. Like you should be at least to Danny and Drew's number of subs. You make quality content that's always so good

as someone who lived through the times where speed stacks were the hottest thing, before scott even said the name of the sport, i was already screaming "speed stacking!!!" at the screen. simpler times... i remember half of the people in my class owned that shit (myself included lmao). a banger video as usual!!!

Holy shit, that kid acting out the Dark Knight scene... that is some difficult watching. He is putting forward such a sincere effort and that makes it hurt so much more. Instant second-hand embarrassment.

As soon as you asked what sport they would be featuring I immediately thought "cup stacking" 🤣 that shit was EVERYWHERE in 2008

there are 37 million channels on youtube so being in the top 50k is an incredible feat!

Quite the weird event. I missed this completely, but it's like a wild time capsule. I'm writing a fiction book in that time frame of 2000s, and it can be tricky to research things sometimes. Still, thank you man. MVP.

Early RU-vid was great, had a much stronger community. Back when most "big’ RU-vidrs knew each other a least a bit. Back when you could post video responses directly to a specific video. You had the Vlogbrothers taking over RU-vid’s front page yearly (back when RU-vid had a real trending system) and most RU-vidrs in support making P4A videos of their favorite charity. Also in 2009 when Vlogbrothers used its community the Nerdfighters to compete in the DARPA Network Challenge, a challenge with 10 balloons across the US for a chance at $40,000 for charity. I got a call in the morning of the event from Pogobat/Dan Brown (creator of one of the first popular interactive videos Who Wants to be a YouTubBllionaire), he asked me to search around Houston since a balloon had been rumored to be there. Was a ton of fun searching for it that day. We lost to MIT but we put up a good fight. I could go on and on about little nuggets of early RU-vid history, it had an Impact on me too.

Duuuuude I'm 25 and that screenshot of old youtube is a blast from the past! I grew up watching smosh, nigahiga, whatthebuck hahahaaha . woah.

A guy furiously playing Guitar Hero during RU-vid live is probably the most 2008 thing ever

Thank you, Scott. This almost seeped out of the deepest corners of my long-term memory and then you jammed it right back in.

I love how Scott always manages sneak in a Big Heads reference

22:35 that is one goddamn legendary quote. the world pre 2014 was nearly perfect, the world pre 2016 was good. the world past 2016 is quite depressing more often than not

We don't deserve you Scott Cramer; Please keep feeding us this fire content for years to come.

It’s so VIOLENTLY 2008! I can’t believe I’ve never heard of this before

9:30 the way Katy Perry is holding that microphone looks engineered to be the least comfortable way to hold something meant to be held.

I wish they still did the RU-vid Live shows so we can see the Among Us musical perform up on stage in front of everybody. *chef kiss* 🤌

Never watched Lucas when he was Fred. But he's so incredibly funny now!

11:05 WAIT, that was from youtube live?! I've seen the clip many times but never knew where that came from. Scott, you've left out what was arguably the best performance that night! Joe Satriani x Funtwo was awesome!

Scott saying "like a Jon Bellion type of thing." Caught me super off guard, I forgot that other people listen to him.

There is one thing missing in that show to encapsulate that time on YT, Notepad tutorial for anything techwise, with either Bring me to life, Numb, or Paralyzer playing in background

Can I just say that cup stacking is definitely the best sport they could have picked. There's no way I could have done that.

22:00 it was really trippy hearing legend of Zelda music in the background because I always play BOTW while watching his videos

can't belive you just sat there as freddy fucking wong played the guitar and with the most disrespect said "this man" shame on you scott shame

His like to dislike ratio is insane. Scott Cramer is doing everything right. 1 mil is easily right down the road!

"So do you wanna see somebody get shot?" *scott secretly hoping its the beatboxer*

Ayyy, I love to see some love for Jon Bellion. Idk if he's "famous" by now. But I've always love his vocal percussion, and production in general. Haha, just cool to hear you shout him out.

Every time Scott reveals his camera set up, I’m reminded that’s all I am to him and I appreciate his humor and stage presence so much more for it

Ugh the Dave Days cover of Love Story in the credits has me SOBBING the nostalgia of it all

Review / rewatch the RU-vid awards that happened in the 2010’s. I’m pretty sure that aged terribly.

Omg saaaame with beatboxing! I can understand that it's a talent. But omg it just rubs me the complete wrong way

Weezer did a better job bringing RU-vid together with "Pork And Beans" than this monstrosity ever did.

I remember watching this at 16 thinking this was such a big deal then falling asleep half through it

I do believe bo channeled everything emotion of this show writing “welcome to the internet”

I haven’t thought about WhatTheBuck in over a decade and I’m now angry that you had the audacity to remind me of him.

I feel like you should do a video with Lucas [ Fred] . You guys have some overlap in topics! He's not that character anymore haha

He was talking about beat boxing being slipped into music and I was thinking “oh like jon Bellion” and then he goes “like a jon Bellion kinda thing” 😂

Woah! I totally forgot about that Sick Puppies free hugs music video. That's a trip to the past right there

With every 2008 reference Scott brings up the more my brain keeps remembering random things from around that time, the last time he mentioned 2008 I remembered The Naked Brothers Band; idk what they're doing now but I remembered them....i'll see what it unlocks this time

My goodness! I haven’t thought about RU-vid live since it came out. Wow you opened a box of repressed memories. I miss the RU-vid of my teens.

"A GRUKE?!" glad I'm not the only one horrified by a group of ukes

Brandon Hardesty (Dark Knight reenactment guy) was my favorite back in the day, he did a lot of other stuff but his main bread & butter was recreating movie scenes. He actually ended up in a few movies and an episode of South Park as Live Action Cartman

finishing off with a dave days cover was cherry on top of the 2008 youtube cake

you have no earthly idea how long I have been looking for the full show, thank you so fucking much for linking it in the description