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dub3's pixel tribute to Social Blade in 2008: a Web 2.0-era database
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page

dub3 card · socialblade.com

Social Blade (2008)

Add me to your top friends.

Cost
1 RAM
Power
1
Rarity
Rare
Family
Social
Era
Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
Collection
The Long Tail

What it does

When you play a card here: +1 Power to this card.

When you play a card here fires each time you add another card to that lane.

It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 1 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.

Social cards lift the cards around them, here and in the other lanes.

The site, in 2008

A website that tracks follower and subscriber counts for YouTube, Twitch, Instagram and other social media accounts.

In October 2018 it live-streamed the subscriber race between T-Series and PewDiePie, and by April 2019 the stream regularly drew 900 viewers.

In 2008: Launched in February by Jason Urgo, to track statistics for Digg.

Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.

The Long Tail: The niche, the local and the specialist. Most of the web, really.

Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2008 page.

Put it on your site

Run Social Blade, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:

Social Blade is a dub3 card

In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2008, then plays a short scene. Want Social Blade in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.

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