Not really. I moved into my first Manhattan apartment in 1994, and I spent more hours than I’d care to recall watching shows that looked and felt exactly like this on Time Warner Cable’s FOUR public access channels.

(There is a fifth, “leased-time access” channel that showed porn clips and ads for phone sex services, and is best know as home to the Robyn Byrd show.)

All of it was shot on home equipment, and edited linearly and cheaply via coupled VHS decks (or maybe 3/4″ video decks).

One of the more notable (though by no means best) shows was SQUiRT TV, whose host went on to a brief career at MTV. The show included occasional celeb interviews, but was mostly Jake and his friends in his bedroom. The opening of this clip on YouTube gives a little of the flavor:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vGg5oAf3WbM

The more introspective and/or ranting moments of SQUiRT and similar shows played exactly like the Karina clip.

isn’t that the point? She’s making the video as if youtube existsed in 1994. It’s allowed to be youtube informed because she’s positing “what if youtube existed in 1994″

I feel like that point is more obvious if you read her post and not just the youtube description: http://www.dollarshort.org/ds/2008/04/wasted-on-the-young.html

Not sure that’s necessarily true. Home video cameras were popular since the 1980s so it’s not inconceivable that by the mid 90s kids would acquire a comfort level with filming themselves on video to the point that it could substitute for a diary (much in the way this video clip fashions itself). David Friedman’s stark video confessions in CAPTURING THE FRIEDMANS date back to the mid 80s – granted he was a young adult at the time, but it’s not hard to see a kid doing what he does.

Having said that, I agree that the video, at least in its making, is informed by the spectre of YouTube – like the creator is reimagining what her teen life would be like if such an apparatus was available to her at the time…