I Miss The Old Toby
Darkness. Redness. Whiteness.
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do you like my sword? my diamond sword!
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I don't know who that is but I will say that 20 years on the internet is a long ass time, anyone still making content at that point has very likely lost his passion or got burned out. Look at AVGN for example; he's still putting out videos which are pretty good, but the amount of effort going into each video has declined compared to his old stuff.
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Never got into that wave of YouTubers.
Even in my very early teens I thought that these kinds of videos were too childish for me. Probably because I've always hated nearly everything mainstream for being too popular, and being like "Oh that channel has more than 100,000 subscribers, must cater too much to the lowest common denominator for me" then intentionally avoiding whatever channel it was that had that many subs.
Never got into Markiplier, Tobuscus, Jacksepticeye, Pewdiepie, Yogscast or any of 'em. Don't think I've watched a single video between 'em, even back when I had a bit of minor success streaming Minecraft with some internet friends on Twitch in 2010/2011 (stop playing soon after full release). We had a pretty populated server, always had about a dozen players on if not more. However I know who all of those YouTubers are because they were pretty popular back in the day.
As for my streaming career, that ended abruptly when my friend group had a major falling out. =/
Even in my very early teens I thought that these kinds of videos were too childish for me. Probably because I've always hated nearly everything mainstream for being too popular, and being like "Oh that channel has more than 100,000 subscribers, must cater too much to the lowest common denominator for me" then intentionally avoiding whatever channel it was that had that many subs.
Never got into Markiplier, Tobuscus, Jacksepticeye, Pewdiepie, Yogscast or any of 'em. Don't think I've watched a single video between 'em, even back when I had a bit of minor success streaming Minecraft with some internet friends on Twitch in 2010/2011 (stop playing soon after full release). We had a pretty populated server, always had about a dozen players on if not more. However I know who all of those YouTubers are because they were pretty popular back in the day.
As for my streaming career, that ended abruptly when my friend group had a major falling out. =/
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Back in the day some people was thinking that Toby was gonna be more succesful than Pewdiepie...
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I never gave much of a shit about Tobuscus, but it seems to me like he's a classic case of not choosing to either not convert into an "influencer" (what we would previopusly refer to as a TV personality or vlogger) or trend chase.
Old gaming videos, old trends and song parodies don't age well, with the latter being manchild behavior if it's kept up without trying to stay relevant with new things. The weird opossum video you showed is a perfect example of that. If there was some opossum meme going around, it wouldn't be viewed as weird, just as the old song parodies that fit with his audience at the time weren't viewed as weird. But without it, it's just childish and stupid. You could keep doing songs about trends and improving your stuff. The Living Tombstone still makes very popular music despite doing it for over a decade for this reason.
Seems like he just didn't maintain himself and his career. Everything in life, including people, rots without maintenance.
Your best video yet.
Old gaming videos, old trends and song parodies don't age well, with the latter being manchild behavior if it's kept up without trying to stay relevant with new things. The weird opossum video you showed is a perfect example of that. If there was some opossum meme going around, it wouldn't be viewed as weird, just as the old song parodies that fit with his audience at the time weren't viewed as weird. But without it, it's just childish and stupid. You could keep doing songs about trends and improving your stuff. The Living Tombstone still makes very popular music despite doing it for over a decade for this reason.
Seems like he just didn't maintain himself and his career. Everything in life, including people, rots without maintenance.
Your best video yet.
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song at the end goes hard asf
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Mans got lost in the sauce. It must have been a crazy experience hitting it big on YouTube in the early 2010s and thinking that you would have a lifelong career, financial security, and fame. Things have changed massively even in the rest of the 2010s. Now we’re at the point where a “YouTube career” is barely viable unless you shovel brainrot AI slop onto shorts.
I’m not an expert on Toby’s controversies but just enough to know that he’s got in some pretty serious trouble and has been a huge dick about owning up to it. Brings to mind the way Lowtax acted about some of the things he did.
Funnily enough ending the vid with a Kanye parody is pretty fitting. In both Toby and Kanye’s case, I see a very talented person who after enjoying fame was unable to stay humble and cope properly with ego and underlying mental illness.
I’m not an expert on Toby’s controversies but just enough to know that he’s got in some pretty serious trouble and has been a huge dick about owning up to it. Brings to mind the way Lowtax acted about some of the things he did.
Funnily enough ending the vid with a Kanye parody is pretty fitting. In both Toby and Kanye’s case, I see a very talented person who after enjoying fame was unable to stay humble and cope properly with ego and underlying mental illness.
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@shingo Very true. I think that happened to Alex Jones, he eventually became a flanderized version of his public access persona. In videos you can choose at least a little bit how the world will perceive you and when you end up gaining an audience I think that can definitely mutate your sense of self. I think the antithesis of this is James Rolfe, he has ALWAYS stayed true to himself and handled internet fame extremely gracefully by never picking fights and always just being an amicable person.
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@voodu
"ending the vid with a Kanye parody is pretty fitting"
I expected teh whole video to be that when i clicked lol.
"ending the vid with a Kanye parody is pretty fitting"
I expected teh whole video to be that when i clicked lol.
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I remember this individual from his happy wheel videos, they were fun to watch.
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im too much of a newfag to know who toby is. i only started watching youtube in 2014 at the age of 5
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@shingo idk i was born in 2009 but like atleast i remember the mid 2010s. a really really new fag cant remember anything before covid or even cant remember covid
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