Absolutely no way my parents would have let me on a chat room with random people before maybe middle school or highschool because they’d be worried about their autistic son. So I never got to experience them since by the time I was old enough, chat rooms were dying to macrohard controlled skype.

Early yt was definitely a wild west from my hazy memories. Definitely a much more free and friendly time for the content you could make and language you could use.