You’re welcome haha

I don't understand what they were referencing though. Could you explain?

@@wb8695 cracked and many other small media/comedy companies boards were duped into believing that everyone was moving to Facebook video. So everyone moved there to get that sweet sweet ad money. Which actually wasn’t there. So when your entire platform converts its algorithm to post somewhere with zero actual revenue you lose money. So their parent company probably fired a whole bunch of the staff to try and push a buyout (layoffs always make a company look cash positive because of all the money that isn’t being spent on labor). Which didn’t work and so now companies like cracked and college humor are niche humor sites when they were on track to being humor website juggernauts (hypothetically, since we are in the future and know that everyone decided 15sec-3 minute clips make the brain go brrrr.

@@wb8695 also look at the fact that they have nearly 3million subscribers but only 85k views in 24hours. Much of that is from 2015-2017 when they were hyper focused on the KZfaq algorithm.

@@wb8695 I think what happened was this: Facebook published stats that *vastly* exaggerated the popularity of video content in general by counting people scrolling past videos as views. This displaced a lot of print content that had consistent but not overstated popularity, as content production moved toward video and away from print because the ad revenue was perceived to be there. This was especially true in the case of Cracked. When Facebook’s lie was revealed, ad revenue for video content dropped off dramatically. Cracked basically went broke, with the incredible talent pool that had been built up over many years fired and scattered across the podscape and with the site itself, having lost both its video and print momentum, needing to be effectively rebuilt, albeit with the advantage of a sleeping subscriber base who could still perk up if given a reason (e.g. Roger).

If you were going to give the internet an enema, you'd stick the tube in Social Media.

​@@TheeGlocktopusWhy there are one month old comments only in this video.. is not this video suppose to be a year ago ?

@@BitByBitMyHeartIsFalling I didn't know there was some arbitrary point in time set by yourself for everyone to get comments in by, and one second past that point the comment become irrelevant for some unknown reason. "If it's not new to me, it shouldn't be new to you!"

@@TheeGlocktopus is that really a feature for KZfaq user ? Do you see any comment here 3 month ago

Well the difference there is that the spoiled kid might eventually get what he wants, albeit undeservingly. There's at least a point to it. Here, people will keep shouting at each other indefinitely over an unwinnable argument for no reward, it's not like either side is going to change their worldview because of some angry comments littered with grammar mistakes and cherry picked (if any) sources.

YT is the weed of social media: not too bad to get into, encourages (or in the worst cases, pressures) obtaining knowledge and care in order to properly use it, and still possible to avoid and get away from the worst parts. Twitter is the black tar heroin cut with fentanyl of social media: causes nothing but irreparable damage to your life that you need to stay as far away as possible from - and if you are ob it, you had better cut it completely out of your life immediately.

Here's your dopamine shot! 😜

I only use it for the art I find and do my best to stay from anything to insane

I don't count KZfaq comments as social media.

@@joshuaharris3039 Ikr. Social media has something for everyone. Its the distractions that draw the most attention.

Yummy yummy

@@cracked that hits the spot, EVERY SINGLE TIME! Woooooooo! 👌 Where's mine? I'm feeding off the crumbs of his rush! Darn! 😅🙃😆💀

@@Livingdgurl haha not the 'crumbs of his rush'! This just made me fully giggle like a toddler and I thank you. 10/10 🤣👌

Well to be fair it only takes them like 5 minutes now.

aarghhh ughhh dopamine release😂😂

Oh. We know.

Yeah I was surprised about that too.

You like it that way, don't you, yeah you do.

Oh we are very aware

ONLY AMERICA EXISTS!!!

What about KZfaq

@@kaoutarrachdi4574 Next to impossible

@Jakem1872 so when did you get back on?

You’re on KZfaq

i farted

Liking this because I am also old and I feel the need to add to engagement on this post... probably because I am old.

👋 me!!!! I had a decent stack of Cracked and Mad magazines. The "Sabatures" I'm not sure if im spelling that right, were a nice touch also. I had forgotten about the secret images on the cover

Spy vs Spy

@@Raelven that was Mad magazine and i liked it a lot too

@@Raelven that was Mad magazine

Lately I only use KZfaq. I deleted my twitter, I barely use Facebook or Instagram (I don't usually post, I just use it when I need to speak to someone I don't have their cell number) and I never had a Tiktok because I know how addictive that s**t is and I don't need that. I have a reddit but only so I can see the answers for some very specific questions (like "how do you beat level __ on videogame ________") every once in a while, but just like Facebook I don't post. Edit: and I feel so much better now that I limited my social media usage. Just leaving twitter alone made me feel much better.

Does KZfaq count 🤨 cuz that’s what i mostly be on this & Pinterest 🥴

You say on one of the world's largest social media platforms...oh the irony.

@@NankitaBR holy shit, same. I've been trying for YEARS to pry my very sweet mother from the grips of Facebook. She really wants to see the good in everyone so I have to continually check in on her feed to show her that even seemingly innocuous memes can actually be the FARTHEST things from it. She's almost 70 and as liberal as it gets but doesn't understand that when a page with a name like Patriots for America posts: "I miss the old days" that it's not "I miss the time before Trump created Alternative Facts" and actually more like "I miss being able to say r3t4rd, f4g and N***3r whenever I wanted!" Facebook has a serious chokehold on the boomers and it suuuucks. Smh.

@@Xo.Telisa god, I hope not because YT and Pinterest are all I got left out here, girl! 🤣

I get my dopamine when when ever I see you. Come find me at the nearest McDonald’s drive-through

Discount not the importance of adrenaline also?

Well, they tried with Trump, who wasn't their darling (even though he made them a lkot of money).

Facebook and KZfaq got busted for approving ads that messed with Brazil's last election too@@testthewest123

Man how i miss the internet when it was just a space for nerds talking about their hobbies. Now it's hijacked by corporations and politicians

Like After Hours and People Watching?

He's the best! Glad they got him back.

@@JumpingTunaAfter Hours for sure, perhaps the Noob vs Leet video game series, and the office segments with random topics that featured the whole cast at one point or another.

Yeah, I miss obsessive pop culture disorder

I tried watching After Hours with the new class, but it just wasn't the same.

What happened after 2017?

Thanks! 😆

Cracked did that to themselves by posting less funny great fact filled articles to read (seriously who cares about another Marvel DC Superhero crap article) and being too left wing woke political. Now TikTok video facts on KZfaq has pretty much replaced Cracked articles as interesting information to know!

I've never held a fb account, and I don't need that to influence me. Cracked has some good stuff (mostly roger) but quite a bit of garbage. If Roger wasn't a thing I would have 0 reason to view anything from cracked, much less subscribe.

@@jamesjames6601 that was a result of Facebook publishing fake data about engagement to convince sites to pivot to them for video content. They started doing bad and fired a lot of people hence the loss of quality.

Who is this "everyone" you speak of? 🤔

Omg, THIS has nailed it. 🤣🤣

Read Hannah Arendt. Key concept: _the banality of evil._ In other words, a Bond villian is too easy to identify and thus resistible. It's the otherwise normal-looking evil-doers who do the damage in real life.

Nope. Read my reply to the same guy you replied to.

That or people narcissistically posting every detail of their life.

​@@yellowblanka6058I feel like I've been found out

And ignorance. And hypocrisy.

Plenty of adults don't, either.

Bro I'm 34 and I don't have the metal capacity. My life has been 10x better since I deleted all that shit (unless you count yt).

Adults abuse those, with worse consequences for both themselves and their family.

Disagreed. You can never see enough cats

@@amberd.883No one can ever see enough cat videos l

social media didn't exist 20 years ago but ok

But your lying when you say oh well. Because you actually want your friends and family to visit or send a letter. Everyone needs friends.

Back in like 2008-2012 social media was alright because not everyone had a smart phone to use it with (at least in my country). Back then people would briefly visit Myspace or Facebook after work on their desktop computers, maybe share a funny picture or post a comment or two. But when everyone got smart phones in the early 2010s, people started to overuse social media because it became so easy; You could do it anywhere, any time. And that's when it all went wrong.

​@@ba_charlesyou don't think there was social media 20 years ago? Lol. Facebook founded 2004. Myspace before that. AOL and ICQ and Yahoo before that.

@@ba_charlesmyspace was launch in 2003

For real I'm constantly going through an emotional roller coaster

@@PraiseTheFSMonster you think you are? Try being me.

Currently trying to get out of this death spiral and doing a shit job of it due to my dopamine system failing.

@@blockedjuser1272 I would argue it’s working as intended it’s just our rains weren’t designed for the digital world.

Yeah I wouldn’t brag that’s the point.

Maybe that was intended as a shot at KZfaq, but I took it more as a shot at Facebook. Famously, it was when Facebook started pushing video, and both CH and Cracked started relying on metrics from Facebook video (which were, they later found out, complete lies), that CH and Cracked both took huge financial hits which ended up killing both sites' video production teams.

@@JimCullen Could be. I feel like the KZfaq ad revenue implosion after Elsagate played a roll as well. It would be really interesting to see a deep dive on what happened at Cracked... though NDAs have a chilling effect on everything now. =/

Beat me by 15s

This episode my friend is everything I been seeing for years as fake and why I never had IG or FB etc. Great vid as always. ✌️

That social media affecting a popular website comment really got me in the feels, since I've been following Cracked for...quite some time now.

Show the bloody aftermath of these murders, show that classroom after all the bodies were removed, all the gore and used sponges and gauzes, all the blood soaked clothing and belongings, and bloody shoe prints, rub Americas face in it until they change this shit because now we only get to see as much as a blind person listening to n-p-r!

Can you do "If crytocurrency was Honest" video? Call it "Rogecoin".

I also stopped using facebook, the only social media I use is KZfaq. I could make my wife to quit and delete tiktok from her phone, I called that a win. Life is much better without all that crap, quitting social media is as good to your mental health as quit drinking/smoking to your physical health.

​@@mikerowave1986same! Congrats ;)

Get lost Putin!

How old are you now?

Same here.

Thanks so much for giving us a shot!

Totally relatable. Social media is the cancer of our society

I've deleted everything a year and a half ago too, and i've never been better, best decision i've ever made

What does "Mta" mean? I just now did reseach about this acronym but could find no immediate answer.

Mail transfer agent.

Been suspended by Mta so I suspended them back, F-O-R-E-V-E-R. No FB, no insta, no tok doc. Best thing I ever did. Lots of time to do stuff now - my way.

YUP. Entire video team fired in a single day.

@@cracked Oh! That's why that happened! I thought it was just the previous owners being idiots. Damn. So Facebook killed Dorkly, CollegeHumor AND After Hours, Obsessive Pop Culture and all those other great shows.. Bastards! Mind you...Your Brain On Cracked is pretty good... 😁

@@lawrencechesneau Ha thank you. I like it.

Hiya, Freya :) I am totally on board with you regarding social media. I do have a Twitter account, but it's totally private. I use it like a diary, noting down when I take my meds and how I am feeling at the time. I'm physically disabled, but that also affects my mental health. I learned some years ago that having an active Twitter account was not good for that. I still have the "public" one, but only in case I feel like I have to share some news. I don't even go to the account, I just use the "share with" option, hit send or whatever it is, and go back to what I was doing. As an aside, you said exercise doesn't raise your spirits, as it were, but have you tried singing? Either belting out favourite tunes at home or joining a choir (preferably a large one because it works better amongst others feeling the same way. It's a "the more the merrier" thing). It's always been something that I love to do, though choirs are no longer possible for me (I used to perform solos back in the day, but I developed crippling stage fright. Another reason for singing with a lot of people!). I find it gives the ultimate "clean high", so to speak. The longer and louder you do it, the better you feel. I know many others who joined choirs as much for the friendship as the music, but everyone has said how they "fly" back home after practice or a concert. I promise I am not trying to patronise you in any way (my youngest has ADD and the next one up is on the Asperger's spectrum, so I get it. I know very well that treatments - medical or otherwise - are completely personal), or even saying this *will* be good for your dopamine, it just works for me and those I've ever spoken to about it. It _might_ help, and it's a lot more fun than hitting the gym! Even if it's in the shower, sing a favourite song as loud as you can. It could help you get that buzz that is missing from so many of our lives. Best wishes to you. I hope you are happy, and if so, you stay that way. If not, you find something that makes you happy (there are lots of possible hobbies, for example, that can affect your mood positively). Take care :D

@@y_fam_goeglyd Thank you for your kind words. I do actually like singing although more often than not just listening to some good tunes moves the needle a little. I didn't mean to imply nothing brings me dopamine just that it's usually not much or for very long. But I'm 30, I'm pretty used to it by this point. Anyway just wanted to say thanks because of how long and thoughtful your comment was. Hope you have a lovely day/night 😄

I feel the same way :p though i can doom scroll facebook because of bordom but i use it just to find books to read mostly now. And yea ive always wondered why people feel good at doing things that seem so boring and just .. hard to do like excersize or dishes or ect. Adhd is a hell of a brain chemistry!

@@y_fam_goeglyd holy crap someone really polite! Sorry i just had to call you out because polite is so rare these days. Thabk you! And i ttoally sgrre with whatcha said. I like singing to myself if noone can hear me but am too embarrassed to sing infront of others. For me reading ( i understand being able to read novels is hard for a lot of people woth adhd) gives me that happy feels and video games

Yeah - I've never done Instagram, FaceBook, nor Tik Tok. I used Twitter for a bit many, many years ago for about a year during the Obama administration. Mostly, it's just KZfaq nowadays. Honestly, the ONLY thing most social media platforms are good for is sharing pictures of your kids and pets to your family. Anything past that gets toxic in a heartbeat.

Key word think own thoughts and awareness :] i feel this is greatly lacking

@@ilenastarbreeze4978 You fool! You've fallen into the insipid, social response of "keyword being [blank]". Your attempt to think individually has only dragged you further into the social media hellscape. 🦀🗑

Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks so much!

Yup haha

I have opinions on that

😂

I have lost track of how often I get Joe rogan forced down my throat despite specifically requesting otherwise.

I make intellectual content with pictures and easy/fun/learnfull topics, man, not a lot of people are interested in that. Our brain size is becoming smaller, from 1400cc to 1200cc I believe. We're a 200,000 year old species and here we're. I can't wait to die, fking jesus.

You're welcome!

Please give us all some tips on how you did it! Help us PLEEEEEASE!

@@zantas-handle easy. Post something against community standards and they’ll do it for you.

Most of what they said is common knowledge, not some special insight on your part.

@@PraiseTheFSMonster Common knowledge by who, Moslems, Buddhists, etc.? Hey, how about forgetting about common knowledge and actually practicing what Jesus preached!

@@johncipolletti5611I’d rather not waste my life on that sort of rubbish.

@@matthewdilks2677 Close-minded much?

@@MetaKnight964 it’s just that I don’t know if there’s an afterlife so I don’t want to waste this life