Remember when viral meant a grainy 3-minute video, not a 12-part series?

Honestly, I saw a clip from 2009 about a cat playing piano that had 4 million views and it got me thinking, back then nobody fact-checked anything and we all just believed it was real, so how much of that old stuff is still floating around as 'truth' today, has anyone else tried to track down where those original claims even started?

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evan_davis13d ago

Gracethomas nailed it, the blind trust part is the scary bit. We all just took grainy footage at face value because the internet felt like a big playground back then, not a place where people were trying to sell us something or push an agenda. It makes you wonder how many of those old "facts" we still repeat in casual conversation without ever checking the source, just because they're attached to a memory. Trying to trace one of those claims back now is like finding a needle in a haystack that's been on fire for a decade, half the original links are dead and the forums where it started are gone. So yeah, we're probably all carrying around a handful of pixelated truths that are really just polished lies from 2008.

gracethomas13d ago

That nostalgia hits different when you realize how much we blindly trusted back then, honestly.