It’s really staggering to see how deep the MP3 rabbit hole goes, but I think the predominance of DankPods points to a more glacial generational shift. Then you find people who have no idea what they have.” If I’m looking for a drum cymbal, I might type ‘drum symbol’. “When you get past all those results, you start misspelling things. Honestly, I just sit on the couch and just scroll,” says Nixon, who mentions that this was the method he used to a Bible MP3 player that was the subject of a recent video. “The way you find the really weird stuff is by doing a global search for the word ‘MP3’ and scrolling through the 30,000 results on eBay. He’s a natural artist: funny and lighthearted in the way YouTubers are generally technically fluent enough to roast the UI horrors of, say, an MTV brand MP3 player† (It has a small microphone in it for some reason! What were they thinking!) Nixon tells me he’s not at all afraid of running out of material and that there are literally hundreds of shoddy MP3 players he can play found in the bottom regions of the second-hand market.ĭankPods inaugurates the MP3 player in its own way Today, DankPods is primarily centered around Nixon’s deep dives into every bit of old-fashioned digital audio clutter that currently captures his imagination. In May 2020 he has put as many as 2,000 performances in an iPod Classic† The video was gobbled up by the algorithm, and his life hasn’t been the same since. In the earliest era, DankPods mainly showcased Nixon’s iPod modding skills. He says an experience with a extreme expensive headphones at school made him a lifelong audiophile. Nixon has spent his entire professional life around music he was a drummer by trade before his social media success and studied something called “jazz philosophy” in college. And, against all odds, millions of DankPods viewers feel the same way about it. ![]() No MP3 player has managed to overthrow the iPod, but Nixon believes the legacy of these failed experiments is worth preserving. The sunglasses are just the tip of the iceberg DankPods has covered a Batarang MP3 playera iCarly Mp3 playerand a Nerf MP3 Player - all of which are chintzy, glitchy, and most were found in old Kmart checkout aisles. Twenty years ago, during that brief respite between the demise of CDs and the cloud revolution, it seemed as if… everybody, even Oakley hunted for the elusive coolness the iPod silhouettes had left behind. Manufactured in 2004 at the blistering height of the iPod craze, they probably would have been lost to history if Nixon hadn’t snatched them from eBay as part of his quest to revive portable music’s many mind-boggling misfires. In a land of vinyl sickos, Spotify standards and Winamp elitists, Wade Nixon, the man behind the incredibly popular YouTube channel ‘DankPods’, stands alone in Oakley sunglasses playing MP3.
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