For praticality's sake I am pitching this as your own three oldest favouritings, rather than the three oldest videos you have favourited.
Mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddPuhzt0F4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sarYH0z948
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8Nc8RCLy1s
Endless Caruso one liners feels faintly embarassing now, the He Man video also has some millenial cringe but overall I think I still like it? Ivor Cutler unimpeachable ofc.
― a ZX spectrum is haunting Europe (Daniel_Rf), Thursday, 23 April 2026 10:30 (three weeks ago)
SHOROFSKY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvIqaZt4Ea8
Boringly the other two are just music videos (The Knife's 'Like A Pen' and AnCo's 'My Girls')
― nashwan, Thursday, 23 April 2026 11:08 (three weeks ago)
why the fuck did I like this? it's horrible.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArMKLWaW5SIthis is still great of coursehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLGAHepMhbga friend messing around with drums, this is fun/shorthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BRX40j5W08
― Throw It Down Binman (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 23 April 2026 11:21 (three weeks ago)
Love this idea for a thread. I always used favourites fairly judiciously, so I'd say that these three are still present-day favourites of mine:
Hut sut rawlson on the rillerah!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kKU1S0lWxo
Bongwater - The Drumhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5asohoiR6E
The Wolfmanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3GJmkUZlyo
― emil.y, Thursday, 23 April 2026 11:40 (three weeks ago)
Two of mine are card tricks. The other? Welcome to Daxflame, if you're uninitiated...it beat out a lovely Arvo Part demonstration by 3 days lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9eXD74_QS4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4iu5FMaR2o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWvRorX0KhQ
I'm really happy a Ricky Jay video is the oldest. Here he is uncharacteristically wordless for 3 minutes; the eloquence is in the hands
― imago, Thursday, 23 April 2026 12:51 (three weeks ago)
Oh ffs I didn't read the OP - these are the three oldest videos I've favourited! To be fair, my three oldest likes are two songs and a golf prank. I don't know why I liked the golf prank. Here is the golf prank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9NX86ftqi0
― imago, Thursday, 23 April 2026 12:57 (three weeks ago)
Those wacky japesters.
― emil.y, Thursday, 23 April 2026 13:02 (three weeks ago)
I don't have a youtube account that's lasted that long, but that Ivor Cutler video was defintely something I played a lot when I got my first home computer around 2006/7. Also on heavy rotation back then and still up: the music videos for RES by Cardiacs (uploaded 19 years ago) and Primitive Painters by Felt (uploaded 18 years ago)
― Platinum Penguin Pavilion (soref), Thursday, 23 April 2026 13:12 (three weeks ago)