# Thoughts on the fast-paced history of modern yoyo

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**Created:** [January 14, 2019, 5:16pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/thoughts-on-the-fast-paced-history-of-modern-yoyo/297522 "2019-01-14T17:16:33Z")\
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True, if the top-level sponsorship dies off, the forum generally will as well. However, I think that’s true of all fields of human endeavor though.

Those may have died off before Facebook (2011-ish) and Instagram (2014-ish) became big things. Still, the stats here [were quite dire](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/forums-vs-social-media-reddit/84707/20):

 ![old yye forum stats](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/5/4/2/54291614262d6dac05e487c8fea487e96c12374c.png)

I am actually sympathetic to the argument that Instagram is a pretty good fit for yo-yoing because it’s so lightweight, visual and supports short video clip upload natively, as well as pictures, of course. In my mind that’s the #1 competition as of the current date. Ask teenagers you know! :wink:

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