20 years Timelapse: The Rise and Fall of Most Popular Social Media

This video shows the most popular social media/social network, such as the earliest sites like MySpace and Friendster, and the nowadays most popular like Facebook, YouTube, Threads, Twitter X, and many others, between the years 2003 and 2023. Numbers shows average monthly users.

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Data Source: Statista
Music: Scott Buckley - Chasing daylight, Icarus, Fate and Fortune

[Novusod]

The most dramatic collapse was Tumblr after 2018. Most of their users migrated to Tik-tok, Pinterest, and Instagram.

[felixrbx]

Crazy to think of when some of these social medias are populärer so long, while others didn’t even exist

[rizchannel]

IG, TikTok, WA were so epic on the last 30 seconds

[Cinemagix]

can you do "Most viewed music video 2000-2023" ?

[caab]

How is facebook still steadily growing?

[iqbalgenset]

there is no eternal glory, my friend.

[DiallityPatch]

How do I know what year or even month we are currently in?

[pchapmanus]

I didn’t know Facebook was still growing so fast like this lol

[ThanhTran-ht]

Twitter is great but I wouldn't use it because sexy images are recognized now.

[royconestoga]

We need to go back to before social media was invented.

[Plantboi-en]

This is how I learned about the parabolic curve

[DerekPK]

I remember in 2013 3:45
When my mom was in to FaceBook so much

[Vntilator]

In 1991 i remember IRC dominated social media on internet.
Would be more interesting if it were social media from 1990 until now.

[dom-romer]

Watching Google+ plummet was very satisfying lol

[uncredibledowble]

Friendster - 2003-2004
Orkut - 2004-2005
Myspace - 2005-starting 2007
Youtube - starting 2007-2010
Facebook - starting 2010-2023

[entgay]

im sorry but your telling me that more people use snapchat and telegram than reddit and twitter.

[HappyPlaysWasTaken]

Good job with not changing twitter to x

[khalidsuxx]

META will conquer the world by 2030 as they now all out in AI

[nuavecmoi]

Tumblr said no porn. People said good bye. 😂

[Kbxbigbro]

Seeing those numbers go down on Twitter at the end is the best thing ever, Elon musk deserves no successs on anything