TikTok followed, delivering short-form video in a never-ending feed. It also gave millions of users the ability to edit videos, allowing videos to finally become as malleable as images. Vine compressed our idea of a “perfect internet video” down to its bare essentials - six seconds. Worth noting: Dumb Internet Video changed with the birth of the short-form video app Vine. This is a list you could confidently show an alien who just landed on Earth and asked, “so what’s the internet like?” Ignoring nostalgia and their virality, it’s an attempt to carve out a Criterion Collection of completely stupid, but absolutely genius internet content. This list aims to define a canon of funny videos created for the vast expanse of the internet. There was a new video with millions of views every month, and they shifted culture. The emergence of Tosh.0 and video curation suddenly made viral videos became newsworthy. But you never knew when you’d find something else worth watching, so you really cherished the good stuff when it hit your screen.
After some clicking around you’d stumble across strange and inexplicable, but immediately compelling content, floating freely behind the gated world of mainstream television and movies. If you were a user passing the time online, every new discovery felt like a revelation. Maybe you’d email your video to your favorite blogger if you got really desperate.
Even with YouTube, there were no real feeds for your content to go into. If you were a video creator, you posted your content into the infinite void of cyberspace without any real expectation that anyone would see it. Then, suddenly, there were tons of videos on the internet, with no real way to find them other than via bloggers and other curators. For a long time, online videos were something special - uploaded to archaic file-sharing sites or hosted as Flash animations or passed around message boards as very early-stage YouTube links. The genre of “Dumb Internet Video” has evolved considerably since connection speeds became fast enough for file-sharing.
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