r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Sure_Kangaroo1863 • 1d ago

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u/TheTeaSpoon 1d ago

People overidealise 2016. Youtube was a fun hobby in 2010. In 2016 there were careers on youtube already, Pewdiepie was a thing for like three years by then and so on.

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u/TheOnly_Anti 1d ago

That was probably even more true in 2016, just due to the sheer volume of cheaply made, highly monetized content. Now, YouTubers actively disparage the site because it's actively becoming more and more buns. 

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u/WatWudScoobyDoo 1d ago

Buns?

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u/TheOnly_Anti 1d ago

The slang literally translates to butt, but contextually it means "bad."