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  • the star rating system
  • yellow subscribe button
  • you couldn't upload profile pictures - you had to choose a video thumbnail or upload a 5 second video of a photo and set that
  • video responses
  • no HD
  • grey video player
  • descriptions on the right side of the video
  • honours
  • couldn't rate comments
  • no unlisted videos
  • couldn't upload videos longer than 10 mins
  • no annotations
  • "broadcast yourself"
  • you could make your channel multi-coloured
  • no customizable thumbnails
  • messages
  • you could make yourself a 'director' etc
  • no vevo
  • low quality cameras
  • no tripods
  • windows movie maker to edit
  • subscription boxes were actually boxes (although this recently came back yay!)
  • HQ > HD
  • video player wasn't 1280 x 720 - it was a box size
  • candy mountain / lonelygirl15 / lip syncing / is this real life / ouch charlie / mysterious ticking noise / leave britney alone / "like birds are dying"
  • it was considered very weird & stupid to be a vlogger / you got made fun of at school (the total opposite of what it is now, nobody thought it was cool!)
mar 18 2016 ∞
apr 18 2016 +