Old YT

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30-year old here.

The ones I remember from 10-12 years ago (Golden Age of YouTube BTW) were mr1001nights, buddhagem, and napalmtube, plus all the Chomsky and Parenti lecture vids. NapalmTube ended up becoming a born-again Christfag and thereby rejected anarchism. mr1001 became an MRA after a bad relationship and then some kind of human extinctionist. Buddhagem is still a principled anarchist but I have no clue what he's up to today.

Forgot laughingman0x who went from an an-syn to a market socialist to "an"-cap to white supremacist neoliberal. His fall out saddened me the most TBH.

This. Jesus if you have to be 30 to remember this era of YT i really must be a fucking boomer

the era this anons talking about is about from 2008 -> 2011. Also brendanmcooney started around 08. the ROO was also there, but he was basically even more of a LARPer dressing up in soviet/Chinese military uniforms and camo. Wolff was making videos around 2010 onwards as well.

Mr1001nights is still anarchist, but hes a weird combination of anti-sjw/MRA/evolutionary psychology guy who still somehow believes in left-anarchism.

BTW you also forgot Chomskyan, the third part of the triumvirate along with mr1001nights and buddhagem, he was an asian-american guy who posted alot of chomsky vids

I forgot Brendan, you're right. His videos were very informative. I think he's in the Platypus Society now or something, he's basically a Hegelian Trot or some shit.


I actually know someone who knows Chomskyan. They said he was going through a lot of shit. He and Buddhagem were feuding for a while which is why the whole working together thing fell apart.

I remember watching Roo from that time too. All he did was read WSWS articles verbatim and dress up in a Canadian army uniform, which everyone thought was a Castro cosplay. At least he made decent content then, not the asinine "grrrr I hate SWJs, support Iran" crap he makes today.

Along the same line, I remember RedNickD. He was the one who got Roo started on YT.

Buddhagem and mr1001night also had a huge falling out when 1001 turned MRA/pua

it was a canadian uniform which he hoped to pass off as a castro cosplay because he was a minimal wage security guard who didnt have the money to buy a real thing not from the surplus store.

Now hes got that PRESSTV money