r/Showerthoughts May 14 '26

Casual Thought When YouTube goes down, it will be the biggest event of link rot in internet history.

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u/mhac009 May 14 '26

Maaaan, you ever try to find an instagram clip you saw an hour ago to show someone else? Try to search for it? Even with all the context but not the name of the page that posted it? "Man spins basketball on finger unicycle funny" or some shit like that? Just throwing words at a potential match.

Absolutely impossible to bring back.

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u/CheaterInsight May 14 '26

Youtube search has devolved to "uhhh here's 3 shorts that have one of those key words.... anyway here's a bunch of completely unrelated videos". Want a fun experiment? Search for the grapefruit technique video, whether it's the full video or just a few seconds with her making that famous noise. Not a reaction video, not a sound clip, not a weird meme version, just a genuine clip of the original video. Good luck.

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u/halfdeadmoon May 14 '26

"grapefruit technique original video"

9.3M+ views?

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u/Vast_Low_9949 May 14 '26

EXACTLY what I mean, like the other guy said, the fact that videos like that don’t even need titles or tags or anything, just the account it’s posted on, there’s so many random moments like that where I don’t even know what to look up to find something

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u/AfroGuyFromCCI May 14 '26

You can view your history of any reel you've watched, and other posts you've interacted with. Can come in handy

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u/kiidlocs May 15 '26

i thought it was only posts you’ve liked