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Rewind Time
by Rewind Time
An unofficial YouTube history podcast covering the platform’s most iconic creators. Hosted by social media expert Lucy and YouTube-illiterate Max Eagles.
Episodes
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The history of charlieissocoollike
Rather than study for her exams, Charlotte McDonnell (formerly Charlie) started the YouTube channel charlieissocoollike in 2007. Posting a combination of vlogs, comedy videos and challenges, Charlotte’s channel broke out when her video How To Get Featured On YouTube was featured on the YouTube UK...
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The history of Dan and Phil (GAMES) | Dan and Phil Part 3
Dan and Phil. Phil and Dan. Dil. Phan? We reach the conclusion (for now) of our Dan and Phil series, focusing on the pair’s collaborative channel formerly known as Dan and Phil Games. What started as as a Let’s Play channel would develop with the boys, hosting collaborations, side projects, and...
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The history of danisnotonfire | Dan and Phil Part 2
Our second episode on Dan and Phil focuses on Daniel Howell’s personal YouTube channel, formerly known as danisnotonfire. Before launching his channel, Dan was a fan of Phil’s channel AmazingPhil, and the two became online friends. With encouragement from Phil, Dan uploaded his first video…
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The history of AmazingPhil | Dan and Phil Part 1
We begin our 3 episode Dan and Phil series with AmazingPhil, the main channel of Phil Lester. When Phil published his first YouTube video in 2006, shot using a camera from a cereal box, he couldn’t have know it would lead to online stardom, the creation of beloved comedy duo Dan and Phil, and...
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Reviewing YouTube Rewind 2011
YouTube Rewind 2011 was the second installment of YouTube’s end-of-year retrospective series. It repeated the format from the previous year, counting down the top 10 most viewed videos on the platform in 2011. However, it introduced an element that would become central to Rewind, a YouTuber…
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The history of Rebecca Black
Everyone know’s Rebecca Black’s Friday, but comparitively few are aware of her second YouTube life as a 2010 lifestyle creator. Friday became one of the defining YouTube memes when it released in 2011, drawing millions of viewers and launching Black to global prominence. Unfortunately, much of…
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The history of Epic Meal Time
The Jackass of food. That’s how everyone described Epic Meal Time, including the boys themselves. Led by ringleader Sauce Boss Harley Morenstein, these Canadian 20-somethings rose quickly to YouTube stardom in 2010 on the back of their monstrous, highly caloric food creations like the TurBacon...
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The history of Jenna Marbles
Throughout the 2010s, Jenna Marbles was one of the YouTube community’s most beloved and popular creators. Since releasing the canonical ‘How to Trick People Into Thinking You Are Good Looking’ in 2010, Jenna would use this format and other 2010 YouTube comedy staples like ‘Girls v Guys’ to grow…
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We watched A Very Potter Musical
This week, we return to that treasured 2000s YouTube genre, the Harry Potter parody. A Very Potter Musical (AVPM) was staged at the University of Michigan for a modest three night run in 2009. Two months later, the cast uploaded an amateur recording of the performance to YouTube. Harry Potter…
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How Felicia Day created a geek content empire
Felicia Day is an actress, writer, and presenter who starred in the web series The Guild and co-founded the YouTube channel Geek & Sundry. We discuss Felicia’s roles in Joss Whedon’s work and how The Guild differed from other depictions of nerd culture. Her channel Geek & Sundry was launched…
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The first YouTube Rewind - 2010 Year in Review
We explore YouTube Rewind’s humble beginning as a top 10 of 2010’s most popular videos. Rather than a cameo-filled remix of the year gone by, 2010 YouTube Rewind: Year in Review was a very matter-of-fact countdown more akin to Funniest Home Videos than later YouTube Rewind installments. It’s a...
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Schmoyoho: How The Gregory Brothers auto-tuned their way to YouTube fame
Musical quartet The Gregory Brothers rose to fame off the back of their YouTube channel Schmoyoho. The musical comedy channel would hosted long-running series series Auto-Tune the News, Songify the News, and Songify this, with the Gregory’s remixes of politics, viral videos, and memes often…
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The origins of Trisha Paytas
We chat YouTube icon and multi-hyphenate Trisha Paytas and her channel blndsundoll4mj. Trisha has a huge internet footprint so we focused only on her early YouTube career up until say 2013. This includes her Quentin Tarantino fandom (same), her fast-talking Guinness World Record attempts, various...
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The rise of Shane Dawson
Shane Dawson has loomed over many of our episodes, so we finally sit down and watch his content. Shane’s comedy videos propelled him to YouTube stardom, although at the expense of his and his families jobs at Jenny Craig. We discuss Shane’s comedic style, the since-apologised for use of blackface...
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Why was YouTube Live cancelled?
The spectre of 2008’s YouTube Live has loomed over most Rewind Time episodes, so we decided to watch the ceremony in full. YouTube abandoned the concept after its inaugural run, and it’s not hard to see why between the awkward celebrity cameos, stilted live performances and the limitations of…
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Bethany Mota, the OG lifestyle influencer
This week we chat beauty YouTuber Bethany Mota, formerly known as Macbarbie07. Bethany started uploading her makeup hauls as a teenager and by 2013 was YouTube’s most subscribed beauty creator. We discuss how Bethany leveraged her success into a clothing line, appearances at global YouTube fan...
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Bo Burnham’s YouTube origin story
Before Inside and Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham was a humble YouTuber. We chat the comedy superstar YouTuber origins - from recording original music in his childhood bedroom, to performing at YouTube Live, signing a record deal and eventually leaving the platform. We cover how Bo’s comedy changed as…
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Where is Community Channel, Australia’s OG YouTuber?
We chat Australian YouTube pioneer and fellow Sydneysider Natalie Tran of Community Channel fame. Natalie’s observational comedy propelled her to become the most popular Australian YouTuber and led to a career in Australian media. But in 2016, Natalie left YouTube, only having uploaded twice…
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Why did The Key of Awesome end?
We dig into The Key of Awesome (KoA), the musical comedy/parody series on the channel of the same name. We examine how KoA began life as Barely Political, with their viral hit Crush on Obama establishing the channel’s winning formula - topical comedy and hot babes. This ethos was carried over to...
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Why is The Annoying Orange scary now?
The Annoying Orange is Dane Boedigheimer’s YouTube comedy series starring the titular anthropomorphic fruit and their talking food friends. We discuss the series’ heyday in the early 2010s, the Cartoon Network show and the expanded Annoying Orange channel network. We touch on the channel’s…
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How Hank and John Green created a content empire
We chat Vlogbrothers - the vlog, commentary and general hijinks channel that kickstarted the Hank and John Green YouTube empire. These millennial nerd kings founded VidCon, met the president, and cosigned Charli XCX, all while John became One of the Best Selling Authors of All Time. Max’s...
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Charlie the Unicorn, Filmcow, and indie YouTube animation
This week, we're chatting about FilmCow, the animation-focused channel run by Jason Steele and made famous by Charlie the Unicorn. We touch on how Charlie the Unicorn is one of the enduring viral videos, FilmCow’s vast and varied body of work, and how changes to YouTube’s algorithm affected...
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Tay Zonday, Chocolate Rain and YouTube 1 hit wonders
We chat OG YouTuber Tay Zonday, best known for his viral song “Chocolate Rain”. Tay would follow up his biggest hit with commercial spins on it, new original music, and covers of everything from Christmas classics to Carly Rae Jepsen. What we’re subscribing to Max - The Pitt, HBO Max. Lucy -...
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How YouTube forgot VenetianPrincess
We yap about VenetianPrincess, the late 2000s parody music queen. Neither of us was familiar with VP before this episode, so listen to us track her content journey from the early Disclosure series, to her breakthrough with a Hillary Clinton friendship song, to her highly popular parodies of pop...
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FRED: Lucas Cruikshank's YouTube legacy
This week we chat Fred, the high-pitched, hyperactive, and arguably highly annoying character created by Lucas Cruikshank. We touch on how the channel became incredibly popular on early YouTube, how Lucas used his online popularity to launch a mainstream acting career on Nickelodeon, and the...
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The Lonely Island's top 10 songs
This week’s topic is the iconic 2000s musical comedy trio The Lonely Island, consisting of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer. Are The Lonely Island YouTubers? Should we cover them on this podcast? These are valid questions, but instead, we spent this episode compiling our respective...
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Philip DeFranco...hmm
Content warnings: This episode touches on some heavier topics as part of discussing the channel’s coverage of news - discussion of sexual assault between 23:15 and 29:10, during the Late 2000s Philip DeFranco Show chapter. Discussion of child abuse between 41:00 to 55:00, during the chapter The...
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What happened to Michelle Phan?
In this episode, we look back over the career of Michelle Phan, one of YouTube's original beauty gurus. Starting in 2005, Michelle transitioned from makeup blogs and short video tutorials to becoming a YouTube sensation. We discuss her rise to fame, notable collaborations, including her early...
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Potter Puppet Pals - Neil Cicierega's enduring creation
This week we talk Neil Cicierega, the artist and musician behind the iconic Potter Puppet Pals. Uploaded during 2000s Harry Potter mania, the series became one of YouTube’s earliest viral hits. We explore Neil's early work on Newgrounds, pioneering Animutation, his other eclectic comedic and...
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The history of iJustine
This week we discuss YouTuber Justine Ezarik aka iJustine. Her content ranges across Apple fandom, tech commentary, music parodies and public dance videos. We discuss her continued success, mainstream media opportunities and collaborations with other creators and celebrities. We also highlight…
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What happened to Nigahiga?
This week we are discussing the former most subscribed YouTuber and unfortunately named nigahiga. The channel’s founders, classmates Ryan Higa and Sean Fujiyoshi, started out posting short comedy videos filmed around their Hawaiian homes. Ryan took control of the channel and became one of OG...
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The mystery of lonelygirl15
This week, we delve into the mysterious world of lonelygirl15, which began in 2006 as a vlog by a teenage girl named Bree but turned out to be a groundbreaking web series. We recount the channel’s rise to the most subscribed on YouTube, the eventual reveal of its fictional nature, and the...
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The history of Smosh
Welcome to Rewind Time, an unofficial YouTube history podcast. This week we are chatting the iconic early YouTube channel Smosh, created by Anthony Padilla and Ian Hecox. We talk the major milestones, including Smosh's rise to become the most subscribed YouTube channel, their acquisition by Defy...
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An unofficial YouTube history podcast covering the platform’s most iconic creators. Hosted by social media expert Lucy and YouTube-illiterate Max Eagles.
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