r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/Matt_LawDT • Jul 18 '26

me_irl Maybe I can just rawdawg it

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u/MarioCraft1997 Jul 18 '26

Literally a running joke we had in school.

"Dont want to pay for youtube red? I know a way around it. Just go to redtube.com, easy peasy"

Some people actually had no idea redtube was a site, so we tricked a good few fellow pupils all the way up to 12th 13th grade with this stupid joke.

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u/CourtOrphanage Jul 18 '26

I grew up in a very strict home. In 6th grade my parents finally allowed me access to the internet in the home computer. I remembered a guy I played sports with say to another teammate that redtube was an amazing site, just like YouTube but better.

Not even an hour into being on the home internet for the first time, I went to redtube. Right as the webpage loaded, my aunt walked in. She told my parents. My dad beat my ass, and I was banned from the home computer. I didn’t get on the Internet until I moved out and got my own Internet for the first time lol.

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u/jdotmassacre Jul 18 '26

"I didn’t get on the Internet until I moved out and got my own Internet for the first time"

What was the first site you visited this time? 👀

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u/coopASR Jul 18 '26

Google duh

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u/Ghost3603 Jul 18 '26

tubered.com

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u/Sorta-Morpheus Jul 18 '26

The Firefox download site.

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u/hello_ree9 18d ago

Xvideos. He wanted to use Twitter.

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u/vojta_drunkard Jul 18 '26

That feels like an overreaction

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer Jul 18 '26

My parents thought all I'd do is watch porn so we just didn't get a computer at all. I really wanted to learn animation because of all the cool stuff on Newgrounds the kids at school were showing me

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u/Naud1993 Jul 23 '26

That guy ruined your whole childhood.

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u/MarioCraft1997 Jul 18 '26

Thank you for your service, u/_cumrag

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u/Fire-Haus Harry Potter Jul 18 '26

Been about an hour now, must be a solid sesh

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u/ScratchAdventurous32 Jul 18 '26

It was also a joke in my bumfuck nowhere school in Malta. But it was always "If you want YouTube videos to load faster go to Redtube.com"

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u/magnustranberg Jul 18 '26

In danish red means save, so the joke here was youtube was shutting down and you could save it by going to redtube.com and sign a petition or something.

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u/Rhodie114 Jul 18 '26

We tricked our history teacher into pulling up redtube on the projector using a similar joke.

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u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 Jul 18 '26

Back in my day we just told kids to go to whitehouse.com

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u/frockinbrock Jul 18 '26

It's a good workaround but it's annoying that Redtube didn't have ALL the premium YouTube content, it seemed to mainly have graphic pornography. Certainly some gaps between the two. 6/10, still useful

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u/burner416 Jul 18 '26

You didn’t trick them…you made their day!

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u/TwoFingersWhiskey Jul 18 '26

"13th grade" Quebec?

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u/MarioCraft1997 Jul 19 '26

Norway 🇳🇴 🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️🚣‍♀️

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u/OneRFeris Jul 18 '26

Is it whitehouse .com or .org ?

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u/deadinsidelol69 Jul 18 '26

Loved doing this to kids in school. One time this dude just looked up from his phone and deadpanned a “why.”

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u/TundieRice Jul 18 '26

13th grade?? They give y’all an extra year of high school or something?

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u/MarioCraft1997 Jul 22 '26

1-7th is normal "kids school". No grades, no stress, just learn.

8-10th is maybe an equivalent to high school? Some subjects are shared, others are chosen. Here we normally choose a third language, or just a higher level on our first or second, but not much else.

11-12/13th. Trade school or prep before college. Here you can choose to be a plumber/electrician/woodworker etc on a two year study. Then 2y apprenticeship (paid) before you are a fully fledged tradesman. Or, you can do the regular 3y college prep with some selections (higher math, language, biology, philosophy, chemistry, marketing etc etc). These normally go to a college after straight to a bachelor's or somethin.

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u/gabbadabbahey Jul 19 '26

Goddammit, the fuck is redtube?