The good old Youtube days - Discuss anything!

[Freebies_come2me]

I can remember watching Zoella when she was bearable. I can remember her cake making and decorating videos, her hauls from primark and her vlogs with the old “YouTube gang” (Marcus butler, Naomi, Caspar Lee, joe sugg, zoe sugg, Alfie deyes, Louise pentland and evening jacksgap!!). They aren’t so likeable anymore, money has gone to their heads and they’ve become boring. Time changes everyone :/ I miss the days where people had fun and everything wasn’t about money.

Gleam kinda ruin Youtube for us lol

 

[CheshireLove]

Thank you @Freebies_come2me !

I’ve realised that the good old YouTube days for me seem to be around 2012 (I think). At this point the Youtubers I was watching still made their own recommendations rather than being sent gifted makeup like they are today. I remember wanting to have every shade of the Revlon lip butters like FleurdeForce. So glad I didn’t because the shade selection really was awful still, I miss the days when the beauty gurus genuinely talked about products they personally liked, not just because Jo Malone or Charlotte Tilbury are launching a new collection and sent then everything

 

[hrh89]

I used to avidly watch ViviannaDoesMakeup, Lily Pebbles, Lily Melrose and I bought so much shit because they banged on about it so much
I remember spending like £40 on some limited edition Nars blush palette which was pretty small for the price. I would never ever spend that much on make up now! Same with stuff like Bumble and Bumble salt spray. Load of crap and really pricey!
Also who remembers the Zara city bag??? Hands up who hand one too!

 

[Lauren1994]

I can remember watching Zoella when she was bearable. I can remember her cake making and decorating videos, her hauls from primark and her vlogs with the old “YouTube gang” (Marcus butler, Naomi, Caspar Lee, joe sugg, zoe sugg, Alfie deyes, Louise pentland and evening jacksgap!!). They aren’t so likeable anymore, money has gone to their heads and they’ve become boring. Time changes everyone :/ I miss the days where people had fun and everything wasn’t about money.

 

[CheshireLove]

Who remembers all the Youtubers using the original Naked Palette? And all the videos on how to depot the old style bottle primer potion?

 

[chocolate choux]

I was never really into beauty YouTube except for Bubzbeauty, but I mainly watched her non-beauty videos. I loved her comedy channel but would probably cringe if I tried watching again!

I miss YouTube being more raw, less fake and polished. Now it’s just like watching TV (which I rarely do) with scripted ‘reality’ videos, ads everywhere, product placements, usage of professional filming equipment, people living unattainable lifestyles (no real jobs, etc), everyone being rich and unrelatable. The handful of YouTubers I regularly watch and enjoy now are nothing like that

I’d love to go back to the days of filming on crappy webcams, terrible editing, people using their own money(!) to buy affordable goods in hauls. It was so much more entertaining and endearing

 

[Lolly505]

I kinda miss the OG British YouTubers sometimes i.e. the ones that featured in Ben Cook's 'Becoming YouTube' docu-series (Charlieissocoollike, Alex Day, Dan and Phil, Carrie Fletcher, Jack Howard, Emma Blackery, etc). Sucks that a few of them turned out to be real creeps and most of the others either abandoned YouTube entirely or kept at it long enough to become pretty unbearable I can only think of one or two channels from that era that make videos I've actually watched in 2020.

Everyone always acts like the Gleam lot were 'British YouTube' when they were very much the second wave of it.

 

[Bexlouell]

Products I was 'influenced' to buy -
Maybelline The Falsies mascara
Bonjois chocolate bronzer
Rimmel wake me up foundation
Collection concealer
Essie mint candy apple nail varnish

 

[Freebies_come2me]

The ladies at Lily Pebbles have started a small discussions about the good old Youtube days, so I thought I should create a new thread.

What do you miss? What have you personally bought based on their genuine recommendations (before influencer is even a thing)....Freestyle really!

I shall start first - Back in 2012, every Youtubers had the rose/ flowery pattern duvet set

And I got mine too!

 

[under the ivy]

I remember watching Panacea81 (Lauren Luke) for make-up - that seems like a lifetime ago! Pixiwoo (when they were likeable), Lily Pebbles, ViviannaDoesMakeup, Lily Melrose & Pearls & Poodles (Milly Naomi) were also ones that I watched/read blogs. They seemed so into what they were talking about which made me want to go to Boots/Superdrug to buy the make-up they talked about. Now I can’t relate to them talking about a £25 cream eyeshadow.
I bought the UD eyeshadow primer potion because everyone raved about it. I bought it & it flaked off my eyelids.

 

[ElChanguito]

I logged back into an old YT account after about ten years the other day…it was like a time machine! Michelle Phan, Dulce Candy, JLovesMac, the Cassandra Banks severe acne makeup tutorial. It was recommending me videos from 2014 saying they were “new”

 

[PennyLane321]

Aw this thread is making me feel nostalgic! Memories of bourjois chocolate bronzer and when life was simpler lol. My personal faves back in the day were pixiwoo, fleurdeforce, beautycrush, gemsmaquillage and lily melrose. There was also a Northern girl called Sarah I really like but I can’t remember the name of her channel.

 

[Dogtanian]

Youtube was definitely better when it wasn't full of crap pewdiepie wannabes. Every time I want to see a review video, I get some bellend popping up with "Hi guys, welcome to my channel, hit the subscribe button blah, blah, blah". Just show me the goods and stop waffling!
Oh, and fake reactions videos and fake prank channels can get to f*** too

 

[Readread]

I bought a set of Sigma brushes because of YouTube

LaurenLuke was the first beauty channel I watched. Lollypop26, Richie Nickel, dazzledust25

there were a few whose names escape me, such a shame as I’d like to see if they’re still tubing


Just remembered one - Meme Molly

Richie Nickel blocked me for telling him it’s espresso not expresso

 

[CDoop102]

I loved youtube back in the day. So many good recommendations and even the high end things were more attainable. Now it's all "whistles is cheaper and bags are over £1,000". I loved the revlon lip butters and am cross theyre discontinued. Is Mac Patisserie lipstick discontinued too?

 

[Gold_7]

Great thread!

I used to watch/Read Lollypop26 aka Buynowbloglater. She was so great. And those American sisters, Elle and Blair. This is back in 2011 onwards. I bought Mac eyeshadow All that glitters. Gosh Darling lipstick. Rimmel Cherries in the snow lipstick. Mac mineralise skinfinish natural. It was so fun to see them use or wear something then go and look for it in the shop to check it out.
Lollypop had this faux Alexander Wang bag with studs on the bottom from eBay and I bought one. Loved it!

I actually really miss when recommendations where natural and these bloggers had real lives I could relate to - before everything was monetises. There’s not one I actually trust any more tbh.

 

[Orange2green]

Those Revlon Lip Butters! Loved them. I think I still have a couple floating around. The Pink Truffle was the perfect "your lips but better" remember that phrase?!

I never got into Lily Pebbles till later in life. When she was first "what I heart today" I genuinely thought she was so monotonous and depressed and lacked complete personality.
Loved Anna (Viviannadoesmakeup) - still really like her. Super harmless.
Went through a phase where I hated Fleur because she just sold out but since having a kid..she's become more tolerable

 

[LaurieLaurie]

I had a Zara City Bag.
They act too busy and important to film and upload now. Ok hun.. I’ll just go watch another YouTuber that has multiple kids AND a job outside of the internet upload 4 times a week while you are single and childless and can’t manage one video a month.

 

[PreciousVenus]

I blame Lollipop26 for my makeup obsession! I bought everything...gosh darling, cherries in the snow, elf warm bronzer, greige nails, all that glitters etc

 

[totallytaz]

My first YouTube beauty guru was Michelle Phan. A search for Lady Gaga Poker Face brought me to her channel. She used to do a lot of DIY skincare videos too. I remember her soothing voice and soft background music.

I think she disappeared for a long time. I don’t know what she’s up to now.

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