Congratulations Brian. VideoSift is the real deal, and even though I can't get YouTube embeds to function properly, I still keep coming back. [edit] the embed problemt isn't a VS issue - it happens to me wherever I see YT embeds. [/edit]

btw, does the comment up vote count include the mission to make siftbot a gold star?

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Thanks Jonny - yes, I think it does include Siftbot. >> ^jonny:

Congratulations Brian. VideoSift is the real deal, and even though I can't get YouTube embeds to function properly, I still keep coming back.
btw, does the comment up vote count include the mission to make siftbot a gold star?

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You've come a long way Siftbot baby. *frontpage

Printing this post atop the VideoSift homepage - frontpage requested by dag.

Brian?? wtf I thought your name was Doug Sheehan! 5 yrs??? is that awesome or terrifying or what! We always said at 5 years the site would go completely hardcore porno!

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I only wish I had the raw talent and sexual charisma of a Doug Sheehan, or even a Danny Ferguson.

>> ^deathcow:

Brian?? wtf I thought your name was Doug Sheehan! 5 yrs??? is that awesome or terrifying or what! We always said at 5 years the site would go completely hardcore porno!

Congrats Dag!

This is still my number one go-to page every day.
It has provided me with countless hours of entertainment, and it has a great community.

Hip Hip Hurray!

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Thanks EMPIRE - you're an old school Sifter - glad you're still here. >> ^EMPIRE:

Congrats Dag!
This is still my number one go-to page every day.
It has provided me with countless hours of entertainment, and it has a great community.
Hip Hip Hurray!

Demand Media. I remember reading about those guys in Wired. Great article here;

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1

Well done for keeping the site pure.

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After doing a little research, we came to the conclusion that they're destroying the Internet. >> ^Deano:

Demand Media. I remember reading about those guys in Wired. Great article here;
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1
Well done for keeping the site pure.

5 years old? Hmmm... VideoSift is starting to get too old to satisfy me sexually.

Seriously though, Congratulations! This place is the dogs bollocks!

*quality

Awarding dag with one star point for this contribution to VideoSift - declared quality by Hybrid.

I say we let Graterbot out of his gilded cage to take up some of siftbot's responsibilities. He's a political prisoner, just like mandela!

Thanks for being here for 5 years, I've spent many, many hours here and the community is really ace.

Awesome site. Definatley part of my daily routine. Tell your friends about it!!!

It seems like VideoSift has been around a lot longer than 5 years. I showed up in early 2007 and lurked for a few months before joining. That seems like ages ago, and the only other websites I can think of that I've been visiting consistently for that long are wikipedia and google, and I've learned more by visiting VideoSift than either of those.

It hasn't always followed the direction I'd hoped it would (almost certainly a good thing), but I'm happy I've been here to see it grow and yet maintain its roots.

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Thanks for reminding me. I need to go pay my traditional Siftiversary respects to @graterbot.

You are very welcome gwiz, at least as welcome as a giant crowned cock can be.
>> ^gwiz665:




I say we let Graterbot out of his gilded cage to take up some of siftbot's responsibilities. He's a political prisoner, just like mandela!
Thanks doe being here for 5 years, I've spent many, many hours here and the community is really ace.

"the people who care about the details and put in the time to keep this place tidy, vibrant and very, very human. You know who you are. Big wet kiss to you."

That's assault, @dag.

Congrats Dag, James, Lucky and all the other devs who ever worked on this.

Hello everyone. I used to have a Videosift Problem.

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I know I haunt your homoerotic dreams Blankfist. I know it.>> ^blankfist:

"the people who care about the details and put in the time to keep this place tidy, vibrant and very, very human. You know who you are. Big wet kiss to you."
That's assault, @dag.

GROUP HUG!

I remember having a surge of motivation to participate in the site hit me when you (@dag) came "hat in hand" and asked the community for money. I suddenly realized how important both the site and the community is to me and opened my wallet accordingly. I couldn't bear to see it leave at this point. What would I be left to for witty commentary? Youtube comments? fml if I'm ever reduced to that again.

I've got the kind of personality that likes to share things. If I find a food/resteraunt/game/song/VIDEO that I like a lot one of the first things I do is spam link it to my friends (or shove a sandwich in someone's face if it's not virtual). As such, Videosift was a fantastic fit from the start.

Cheers to the 5 years mate!

Consiftulations, everybody! Nevermind VideoSift - anyone else just as amazed that they themselves are still alive 5 years later? I feel like a tired meme!

Congrats on 5 years! I have been viewing for probably 3, contributing for maybe 6 months. It seems like it started yesterday. Time flies. Well done, all, well done.

5 years?!? That means I've been here for half the time Videosift has been up, not counting the year and a half I lurked before signing up. It seemed such a cohesive and including community at that time that I imagined it to have existed for a much longer time. It was certainly the main reason I finally joined.

Big thanks to @Fedquip for pointing the way here from his now discontinued AOL blog. I always enjoyed reading it.

GROUP SEX!

yippee! now back to work everyone, those videos aren't going to sift themselves

4/5 years and still only 15 star points... I guess on the 7th anniversary I might have 25...
Still visit this site everyday (more than once a day tbh) Always manages to provide me with entertainment one way or another.
Been a pleasure to use this place!

Strangely enough that means you guys have helped me procrastinate for five years. Videosift is the first page i visit every time i open a browser and usually it's the last page i see before going to bed (yes, i do spent an awful lot of time on my computer, "comes with the job" is what i keep telling myself). About a year ago even my wife accepted Videosift as some sort of mistress beside her... There'll come the time i succeed in convincing her that she needs a VS account ;-) It's been a great time, let's hope we'll have some more years together.

>> ^dag:

After doing a little research, we came to the conclusion that they're destroying the Internet. >> ^Deano:
Demand Media. I remember reading about those guys in Wired. Great article here;
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1
Well done for keeping the site pure.


I'd love to hear the story some time about what transpired between Demand Media and VideoSift. Did they approach you with an offer? You don't have to answer if you don't want to, of course.

Many, many congrats to Videosift. This is one of my very favorite destinations on the web. The community is fantastic, the site is extremely well designed and of course the videos are always great.

Here's to another 5 years!

congratulations, dag! sift is still #1 in my book(marks)
live long and prosper sifty

>> ^dag:

After doing a little research, we came to the conclusion that they're destroying the Internet. >> ^Deano:
Demand Media. I remember reading about those guys in Wired. Great article here;
http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/10/ff_demandmedia/all/1
Well done for keeping the site pure.



I wonder if there's another company that relies on aggregation of vast amounts of data as their core business model that we should worry about

>> ^jonny:

It seems like VideoSift has been around a lot longer than 5 years. I showed up in early 2007 and lurked for a few months before joining. That seems like ages ago, and the only other websites I can think of that I've been visiting consistently for that long are wikipedia and google, and I've learned more by visiting VideoSift than either of those.
It hasn't always followed the direction I'd hoped it would (almost certainly a good thing), but I'm happy I've been here to see it grow and yet maintain its roots.


I thought it would be six by now.

Where's my cake?

I'll bring the vaseline!>> ^kronosposeidon:

GROUP SEX!

VideoSift, You're the BEST!!

You know I've got mad love for you.

Happy Birtday Sifty! You haven't lost a bit of your galvanized luster.

happy fifth-i-versary!

Wow, has it been that long? It seems only yesterday that on the LiveJournal community of ROFLCL this post was shared. I started rummaging around the site for a week or so before signing up.
I've seen SO many things change in my time here.

• I remember the Army Green color scheme. I remember 3 votes got you sifted (or more during the day, PST).
  
• I remember having to check and * save/requeue posts that weren't getting enough exposure to sift.
  
• I remember the time of the siftquisitions. Most notably Quantum Mushroom and Choggie.
  

• I've had the pleasure of meeting, in person: @youdiejoe, @lucky760, @charms, @poolcleaner, @volumptuous @dystopianfuturetoday, @Issykitty, @blankfist, @Grimm, @firefly . All amazing people. (this accounts for both So Cal Siftmeets. read below why I mention this)
  
• With the advent of PQueue I've seen many great documentaries make their way through. Getting these out before, such long videos, was nearly impossible.
  
• Overall I've seen the quality of what we bring to the table, we sifters, increase. We're no longer just full of cat videos. Now we have cats and Rabbits in Prison! How can you hate that?

Hello my name is Zifnab and I'm a siftaholic.

It's hard to believe that Siftbot has been supplying my fix for almost five years now. Thanks for all the hard work @dag and @lucky760, I look forward to another five years.

Thanks dag and lucky for creating, maintaining and constantly improving my favorite site. Thanks videosift for a near encyclopedic knowledge of internet videos and memes. Good times.

Congratulations on 5 years, and thank you for giving me something to do, over the last couple years I've been here, when:

- I am at work
- I am at school or in class
- I am visiting the mother
- I am having a nice bout of insomnia
- I am stuck in traffic or on the bus
- I am waiting for a date that doesn't show up
- I am waiting for a taxi on the street corner drunk as a skunk

Good times all around.

Yaaaaay! I thought I wouldn't have an excuse to indulge my alcoholism today.

Congratulations on keeping the ship afloat for half a decade. I unfortunately had to dive off a while back, but I still circle in my dinghy on a regular basis.

(Something else nautical, etc. Where's Choggie? Etc, etc.)

I love every last one of you.

I like VideoSift. A lot. Thanks @dag and @lucky760 for giving me my biggest time suck.

Haha, we know who really rules the Sift, and it ain't siftbot.

http://i55.tinypic.com/2a6mik4.png

I suggested a few yrs ago using same frame work and channels but embed images instead of videos... You could have been the canhazcheezburger empire.


Surprisingly this place was way ahead or a reddit or many other daily CHECK THIS OUT sites. It isn't trivial to keep a community going for a few months, let alone years.

Anyways, graterbot was the best.

Congrats; rad community dag and lucky.

This is embarrassing, but... I've been here for a while (and lurked before that)... I just now noticed that those are glasses and a nose on siftbot, from looking at graterbot.

... maybe I should mention I thought the handicapped sign was just a random symbol until I was 21 years old ('oh my God, its a stick man sitting in a wheel chair...!')

I feel old now.

Gotta say being part of VideoSift has been one of the single most gratifying things I'll have done in my life. Building (and to a lesser degree, maintaining) the website is a joy.

The community is undoubtedly the most enjoyable to be part of anywhere online. @dag really created a beautiful thing.

Most of all, for what seems like years, one member in particular has always made this place the best, most enjoyable it can be for me and everyone else. I don't even have to say your name. You know who you are. Thanks for Sifting.

Woohooooooo! PARTY!

You're gonna need a bigger jar. >> ^Fusionaut:

I'll bring the vaseline!>> ^kronosposeidon:
GROUP SEX!

I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies
I saw boys, toys, electric irons, and TVs
My brain hurt like a warehouse
It had no room to spare
I had to cram so many things
To store everything in there

We got five years, stuck on my eyes
We got five years, what a surprise
We got five years, my brain hurts a lot
We got five years, that's all we've got

>> ^deputydog:

Congratulations on keeping the ship afloat for half a decade. I unfortunately had to dive off a while back, but I still circle in my dinghy on a regular basis.
(Something else nautical, etc. Where's Choggie? Etc, etc.)
I love every last one of you.

*Gasp* When did you start to capitalize your sentences?

Huge congrats!! How awesome. I sometimes forget just how long I've been enjoying Videosift.

FWIW. This is the only online community I have ever really cared about, or felt a part of. (And I'm not even really a serious part of it, at all. I just slink about and watch a ton of videos and comment on stuff...)

I was actually wearing my Videosift t-shirt today, neat coincidence.

Okay, finally off work, no drive-by comment this time.

I've been a member of a number of online communities over the years, of almost every stripe and size. Political, film, celebrity gossip, astronomy, feminism, books - you name it. Some I've enjoyed more than others, but this by far is my favorite. I've been active here longer than any other URL in the world, so I guess I've found my home. Even when I take vacations, I always come back. This place feels like an old pair of shoes - lived in, comfortable, and fits just right. But with no putrid stench.

I'm guessing it's the people who make me feel at home that matters more than anything else. There are so many funny people, intelligent people, creative people, and just plain interesting people that I could literally name scores and scores of members who have caught my attention and enriched my life, even in a small way. I was even tempted to name as many as I could, but I knew I'd inevitably forget some and I didn't want to do that, and I also didn't want to turn this into an Academy Award speech.

It would be so freaking cool if we could have like a class reunion with hundreds of members, old and new. Seriously. But I know that's seriously impossible. So I hope more long lost members show up today or tomorrow, just to say hi, if nothing else.

Congrats and thank you everyone for making this such a great community. I don't remember how I found the Sift but it has definitely been better than that time I found Jesus

Wow 5 years that's awesome,Congrats!!!

>> ^dingens:

Woohooooooo! PARTY!


You mean *woohoo

Aside from the sifting itself, it's been fun meeting up with sifters from Vancouver to Toronto to Montrealand the UK was cool. Shoot, technically we had a siftup in Turkey when we visited @messenger but that was part of a much larger adventure which has taken up a good chunk of my sparetime.

I recall trying to check out every vid on the sift by following it in my RSS feed. The amount of time spent here isn't the same as back then, but it's still a fantastic place to come back to.

Among so many other things, like the community, it's been a great way to tell telemarketers for cable companies why I don't need their overpriced services.

Adding post to channels (Woohoo) - requested by Krupo.

Wow I always assumed that the sift was like, fifty years old or something. In this case, I'm honored to be a three-year member, the discussions, the videos and the level-headed people here on the sift really have had a huge impact on my life in more ways than one. Ofcourse, anyone outside the community reading this might think I'm laying it on a bit thick, I mean honestly, can a couple of youtube videos and comments really change a person's life?

Three years ago, I had only just graduated highschool and was still very much woefully ignorant in terms of politics, philosophy, science, you name it (for the record, not much has changed) And whats more I found myself within a great deal of spiritual/emotional turmoil. I was trying to reconcile the biblical teachings and practices I learned in the Church (I went to a Catholic high school) the teachings of the longhouse, the 7 grandfathers, as well as this deep cerebral yearning for more.

My mind was exposed to so many intellectually stimulating figures here on the sift. Carl Sagan, Richard Dawkins, Bertrand Russel, Christopher Hitchens, the list goes on and on. Whats more, aside from the occasional bursts of hysteria, I found myself much more politically aware and far more comfortable with all those little skepticisms haunting the back of my mind all those years in highschool. Never before had I encountered so many learned and witty, like-minded individuals.

Happy Anniversary Dag, awesome work. Let's keep the good times rolling.

Glad to be a part of VS as it all ends December 2012.

^ ^ ^ Here's to 4 1/2 years of a worthy troll adversary. I didn't realize until today we joined almost the same time.

How many fools will you have pitied by then?>> ^quantumushroom:

Glad to be a part of VS as it all ends December 2012.

Time flies when you're having fun.
If I added up all the time I was being properly educated on the Sift it would be substantial.
Long live the Sift.

I can't help but wonder who the oldest active member is, excluding "staff", of course.

From a quick glance just over this thread, it seems to be @deathcow, though @ant, @Deano, @darkrowan, @Zifnab, @joedirt, @Krupo, and @quantumushroom were all within 3-4 months.

Damn, you get used to hearing people complain about the people who have moved on and you forget just how many of the "First Class" are still here.

Happy 5th VS. Thanks to the staff for having the guts to put this together and stick with it, and thanks to all the ass-kicking members who are so great at scouring the net for worthwhile content.

>> ^siftbot:

Where's my cake?


"Cake is a lie."

>> ^xxovercastxx:

I can't help but wonder who the oldest active member is, excluding "staff", of course.
From a quick glance just over this thread, it seems to be @deathcow, though @ant, @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://woohoo.videosift.com/member/Deano" title="member since April 30th, 2006" class="profilelink">Deano, @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://woohoo.videosift.com/member/darkrowan" title="member since May 4th, 2006" class="profilelink">darkrowan, @Zifnab, @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://woohoo.videosift.com/member/joedirt" title="member since June 18th, 2006" class="profilelink">joedirt, @Krupo, and @<a rel="nofollow" href="http://woohoo.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom" title="member since June 22nd, 2006" class="profilelink">quantumushroom were all within 3-4 months.
Damn, you get used to hearing people complain about the people who have moved on and you forget just how many of the "First Class" are still here.


Call us, old farts. I am an old fart in real life too.

> From a quick glance just over this thread, it seems to be @deathcow,

I was actually discovered to be here when it was constructed. I can remember back (though quite foggy) to somewhere when the last pieces of code were starting to come together.

Actually, according to my records, @dio1 is the oldest member. Who knew?! Not only was he a code nerdlinger, but also the the father of the devil horns.

And though he can't be with us today, he still lives on in all of us, every time we offer our prayers to Satan. Dio1 may have been the first, but he'll also be the last.


>> ^deathcow:

> From a quick glance just over this thread, it seems to be @deathcow,
I was actually discovered to be here when it was constructed. I can remember back (though quite foggy) to somewhere when the last pieces of code were starting to come together.

Don't we get a diploma or something?

Keep on Siftin' . . .

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Yeah, Ronnie helped out with the beta testing and some design work. Originally he chose a very dark color scheme ... with rainbows.

>> ^kronosposeidon:

Actually, according to my records, @dio1 is the oldest member. Who knew?! Not only was he a code nerdlinger, but also the the father of the devil horns.
And though he can't be with us today, he still lives on in all of us, every time we offer our prayers to Satan. Dio1 may have been the first, but he'll also be the last.

>> ^deathcow:
> From a quick glance just over this thread, it seems to be @deathcow,
I was actually discovered to be here when it was constructed. I can remember back (though quite foggy) to somewhere when the last pieces of code were starting to come together.

They grow up so fast. Soon she'll be a teenager and start dating punkrockers like MySpace...

That hoodlum should get of our lawn!

Well done all round.

I love VideoSift so much, I want to shoot it in the face.

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No higher praise than that, Dick.>> ^thinker247:

I love VideoSift so much, I want to shoot it in the face.

*sip*

>> ^dag:

No higher praise than that, Dick.>> ^thinker247:
I love VideoSift so much, I want to shoot it in the face.



Oh yes there is:

fap fap fap

Happy 5, VS!

There's no time for lubricant!
>> ^Fusionaut:

I'll bring the vaseline!>> ^kronosposeidon:
GROUP SEX!

I've been more or less a silent lurker for a long time now, after having really invested a lot of time in being a part of this really great community. If I had found this place first before my main online hangout, I'd probably still be on here as much as I was during that (surprisingly long) period after I first discovered the Sift: a place with great videos of a truly wide variety with a (almost completely) fun, friendly, and intelligent community that actually saw themselves as a community and treated each other as individuals rather than just some faceless internet persona.

Seeing all the familiar names every time I come back, plus new ones who bring new tastes, new senses of humor, and new insight to the site really makes this place a unique site, and the fact that it's been able to stay that way for so many years is a testament to both the quality of the members and the amazing amount of work that Dag et al have put into making this place what it is. Thanks for more than just procrastination, VideoSift. I've made some great friends and learned a lot about all sorts of things from the videos and discussion here. Here's to 5 more years.

Hurray for the sift! Hurray for everyone!

@paul4dirt stole my comment before I even knew about all of this. Kudos to him.

but anyway..congrats.

A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit
To satisfy, insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not forget
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to

Congrats on hitting 5 years Videosift! I forgot how I discovered the site, but thanks to videosift, I have been able to watch a great variety of videos (and some that I would have been better off not seeing...) Still, I can't wait to see what happens from here going forward.

Jesus, I go away on one little houseboating holiday and when I come back I find you've gone and turned 5! I'll never leave home again you little scamp... kids... they grow up so fast!

*frontpage

Printing this post atop the VideoSift homepage - frontpage requested by kronosposeidon.

5 years?!
Whoa, gg.
We could celebrate giving a sidekick to siftbot: he's so alone being the only bot here!

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There's always his estranged brother @graterbot - though they generally don't get along since the attempted coup d'sift.

Remember remember - the 1st of Aprilvember.

>> ^looris:

5 years?!
Whoa, gg.
We could celebrate giving a sidekick to siftbot: he's so alone being the only bot here!

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Post updated. Congrats @Hybrid!

Lol cool, I didn't know him!
>> ^dag:

There's always his estranged brother @graterbot - though they generally don't get along since the attempted coup d'sift.
Remember remember - the 1st of Aprilvember.
>> ^looris:
5 years?!
Whoa, gg.
We could celebrate giving a sidekick to siftbot: he's so alone being the only bot here!

*quality

I'm obsessed with Videosift. Thanks Lucky & Dag, I can't express how much I value VideoSift.

dag has already been awarded a star point for this post - ignoring quality request by doogle.

Happy anniversary! Today marks year number 5 since you first became the Sift and the internet community is better for having you. Thanks for your contributions!

Congratulations! VideoSift keeps getting better.

I have been on VS five years according to Siftbot: http://videosift.com/member/ant?loadcomm=1#comment-1162446 ... ! Woohoo! Wait, VS was only a couple weeks ago when I joined? Wow.

I'm late to the party, but congrats to all. And Dag, I do expect and Oz Siftup prior to your departure, whenever that may be... (preferably in Melbs).

Even though I'm still a probie (god I am such a slacker in certain regards. I've found many a video over the years I thought would be worthy of posting but never motivated enough to do so), I want to say that I deeply appreciate all the other less slacking members of Videosift who contribute to making this site so informative, entertaining and insert third adjective for proper sentence harmony.

I am late, late, late.. But congrats and happy anniversary! VS has, and will always have a special place in my heart!

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I just re-read this whole thread again. It was lovely.