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- nefrix 2y agoIt is amazing what you have created; and the fact that you can not share the video, and you are the only one who can see it it is even more valuable; such a simple and smart idea; bravo
- coreyhn 2y agoThis reminded me of the scene in Amelie where she makes a video montage for the glass man. Really interesting and random topics.
- dang 2y agoRecent and related: IMG_0416 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506 - Nov 2024 (324 comments)
- password4321 2y agoNot recent (http only): http://astronaut.io http://astronaut.io YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772 - Jul 2019 (239 comments) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225 - Jan 2017 (140 comments)
- password4321 2y agoI'd like to learn more about crawling YouTube, I don't think they appreciate that.
- serf 2y agosame here, id be more interested in the list gathering technique than the list itself..
- sneed_chucker 2y agoCheck out NewPipe and yt-dlp
- peterldowns 2y agoThis is wonderful. The effect of switching between videos from all over the world of people doing all sorts of things sounds like it could be dehumanizing — I find it anything but. It reminds me a little of our admin view at Beme, where we had a live feed into videos people were sharing publicly all around the world in real time. Really cool to see the sunset and the sun rise at the same time. These videos are wonderful, great execution on the project.
- pmarreck 2y agoI never heard of Beme before now, interesting concept, but it looks like it had a fiery beginning (a million uploads in the first week) and then... ?
- itsjustjordan 2y agoSold to CNN in 2016 for $US25M
- pearjuice 2y agoWas a pump & dump by Casey Neistat. Lacked true popularity and network effects as it turned out people don't want to share unedited, raw footage. Social media is about looking good. So Casey just used his YouTube/influencer popularity at the time to pump metrics and then managed to sell it to CNN. No idea what CNN did with the tech or people but not much later they shut it down entirely.
- peterldowns 2y agoThat’s an extremely unfair characterization. It was an honest attempt to make a product; the product didn’t catch on; CNN acquihired the team.
- rd 2y agoAre you still in touch with Casey? I’ve watched him for 10+ years now so always fascinating to hear about his work.
- xxr 2y agoFirst pull was a surreptitiously recorded conversation that sounds like it was being held as blackmail.
- sim7c00 2y agohaha creepy. i was lucky and got a cute cat video =)
- __turbobrew__ 2y agoI got one that seemed to involve child soldiers in Africa, zero views. This is wild.
- topherclay 2y ago"Between 2009 and 2012" fits with the Kony 2012 documentary.
- superkuh 2y agoA lot of babies, horses, dancing/singing, and sports but also plenty of fascinating stuff.
- dybber 2y agoThe first video I got was from some KKK ritual.
- dyauspitr 2y agoThose people are probably elected officials now
- block_dagger 2y agoI laughed. Thank you.
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- babyent 2y agoLove this :) How awesome A little off topic.. As I watch these, I have a overwhelming nostalgic feeling for those times. I almost never feel nostalgic for the past, but these videos evoke many personal memories from that time period.
- voidfunc 2y agoThis hits nostalgia for me too but really I just miss the period 5-10 years before YT too... the 90s computing world was special.
- tigerlily 2y agoIMG_5049 is a monster truck. I enjoyed the views counter with the low numbers. It made me feel like me and four other people have shared this moment. When the view counter was zero, that felt very special.
- Aeolun 2y agoI think it’s special that we’re collectively ensuring that all these videos are watched at least once :)
- lelandfe 2y agoIt's like TikTok sans algorithm. I got a protest in Vietnam, a rally for French politician François Hollande, a dad making his daughter laugh, hockey practice, a farmer driving a truck, a guy impressing his girlfriend with his new subwoofer. This is so raw and human, I love it.
- raverbashing 2y agoI got a dude cutting a higher branch off a tree and it kinda bouncing off, some family stuff and some things that could have been on AFHV
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- richardlblair 2y agoI got a dude beating a horse with a stick!
- lelandfe 2y agoFar Side caption: Terry was never any good with idioms
- someone7x 2y agoSame reaction here, I just watched a bunch guys playing with crabs in the kitchen sink to the soundtrack of riotous laughter. 10/10 I saw something real online
- fellowniusmonk 2y agoReally triggers Sonder in a way curated content never can. The back to back viewing of things going on everywhere around the world, seeing what is important to people moment by moment really makes you appreciate how big the world really is, a reminder that my perspective is quite narrow.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoNice and all, but aside: just reminds of the ridiculous/lame design choice from the great Apple to use that filename. How many shared photos sent in emails to me from iPhones with subject IMG_0001. Classic Apple removing any kind of useful functionality because the users wouldn't need to interact with files or know more about the system. A date in the filename would have killed them? IMG_20070629 or whatever..sigh.
- jannyfer 2y agoIt's from this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...
- Twisell 2y agoIt's pretty standard practice for all cameras manufacturers to use a basic incremental filename. Many more useful data are embedded in jpeg exif metadata. On the contrary including a date in the filename could be perceived as user hostile because none of the multiple iso representations (or non iso) is universally used and understood by the general public. Eg : 20241112, 1112024, 1211024, 131208, 081213 and so on...
- bux93 2y agoI think the issue is more that the battery runs out and now it's 2007 again and you start overwriting img_20070101_01.jpg ; last-directory-entry++ is a bit more robust.
- Twisell 2y agoOne upside is that it hopefully prevented developer to ship half-baked software that rely on filename and can't handle duplicate name gracefully. You can't prevent collisions (multiples sources/counter reset/date reset, etc). So it's actually nice to have an unforgiving standard that will bite you if you make unfounded assumptions.
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- ivolimmen 2y agoFirst video felt like an awkward ad with two teachers. Second a high school party playing YMCA... I approve.
- mastazi 2y agoCheck out http://astronaut.io/ http://astronaut.io/ for a similar vibe but recent videos as opposed to old ones (also, it's not limited to iPhones which translates to more variety in terms of geography)
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- sarpdag 2y agoAuthentic and nostalgic, I am enjoying watching.
- shenbomo 2y agohttps://ytch.xyz/ https://ytch.xyz/
- password4321 2y agoA bit more context: Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023 - Sep 2024 (532 comments)
- paxys 2y agoThe craziest thing to me is how...clean these results are. No nudity. No porn. No gore. Nothing overly sensitive. There is no doubt that so much of that stuff would have been initially uploaded but blocked by YouTube's filters. There are a million hours of video uploaded to the service every day, and they have built the infrastructure to analyze every single frame. When people ask why there are no viable competitors to YouTube – this is your answer.
- beernet 2y agoAutomated filtering surely is not across the main competitive advantages of youtube.
- ffsm8 2y agoDoubtful, it's likely just a game of numbers. There is endless amounts of coomer content on YouTube like * Nude yoga * Body painting * Nude massages * Transparent x haul / try on You're just a million times more likely to get non-coomer content when it's been uploaded via iPhones upload to YouTube button during 2009-2014. Heck, that was a time before onlyfans etc, so the primary coomer stuff on Reddit etc was produced by exhibitionists vs people just milking simps
- rblatz 2y agoFor those like me who had no idea what coomer means, it’s a weird meme about men that failed no nut November. It seems popular in alt-right circles.
- ffsm8 2y agoNot sure where you're getting that alt-right circle from, it's just regular Internet lingo. Unless you consider people like Hasan alt-right too? Would be mind-blowing for sure, but hey, to reach their own. Got popular during the pandemic, though it predates it https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coomer https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Coomer
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- stefanpie 2y agoWhile watching, I started playing a fun game where I try to guess the location of the video, GeoGuessr style. Very interesting when it comes to the odd handheld angles and low quality of some of the video clips. Would recommend.
- mparnisari 2y agoI did the same thing! Haha
- boredtofears 2y agoAbsolutely mesmerized by this, thank you.
- password4321 2y agoPSA: This will fubar your YouTube watch history / recommendations, you might want to incognito.
- debo_ 2y agoI'll take this as a benefit; an algorithm palate cleanser
- 0_____0 2y agoIf you turn off watch history YouTube refuses to show you anything at all on its landing page. Not even the stuff it would show to someone not logged in. I think they consider it punishment for not letting them hold your data, but I find it nice to have to search to get anything.
- rajamaka 2y agoI was wondering why YouTube suddenly thought I only wanted to watch sub 1000 view videos
- tobyhinloopen 2y agoI'm happy with videos that have few views. I'll always be sure to leave a comment and a like. Sometimes there's really good videos in there
- rockbruno 2y agoThe same happened to me. Now I get it...
- masto 2y agoVideos embedded in other pages don't show up in my https://www.youtube.com/feed/history https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
- macintux 2y agoI hit the jackpot: someone recorded Ralph Stanley performing O Death in concert. I caught him several years ago (on my second attempt: he was supposed to perform at the Grand Ol’ Opry, and I drove 5 hours to see him, but he canceled) but he was clearly running on fumes. Definitely something I wish I’d understood when I was younger: find musical giants and see them live before they’re gone.
- schoen 2y agoHere's a video of him performing it live that I found with a YouTube search: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmRWj7gJEU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xmRWj7gJEU But it's presumably not the same one that you saw, since it doesn't show any signs of being an amateur or mobile device recording, and wouldn't have been crawled for the IMG_0001 site. Speaking of the theme of that song, and since we were just talking about Borges here in in another thread, compare his story "The Secret Miracle"! http://secondarylaresources.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/4/7/10473434/the_secret_miracle_by_jorge_luis_borges.pdf http://secondarylaresources.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/4/7/10473...
- MrMcCall 2y agoThanks for sharing that riveting performance. And, Borges is always intersting.
- kannonboy 2y agoI love that the view count is included in the minimalist UI. I came across one with zero views, and there's something so intimate and exciting about being the first person to watch an ancient home video (even if it's shaky handycam footage of a horse, narrated in Russian). As an aside, hats off to Google to being able to serve an 11 year old video with no noticeable delay from what must be the coldest of caches.
- hoseja 2y agoI'm really anxious Google will also kill this aspect of Youtube one day.
- supermatt 2y agoAs soon as it gets split off from google and they no longer have the money machine to fund them and have to fight on a level regulatory-monitored ground for ad revenue you can bet your ass it will.
- Mashimo 2y agoAFAIK youtube is profitable now. It was not for years, but is now.
- eru 2y agoYes, but it could perhaps be more profitable, if they cut spending on this aspect?
- whereismyacc 2y agoFor every year that passes, storage becomes cheaper, but the total size of youtube's video repository grows. I wonder what the net effect of all that is in the end. Ever increasing costs? Or maybe it kinda evens out.
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- nomilk 2y agoLots of baby videos. Wonder if that's because 15 years ago phone storage was at a premium so only relatively important stuff got videoed. I'd image baby videos would be diluted amongst less important stuff in a 2024 sample.
- jacinda 2y agoYouTube was also one of the easiest ways to share family videos back then (the files were too large to be emailed, Google Photos didn't exist yet, pretty sure Facebook could share videos but the quality wasn't as good, etc).
- apexalpha 2y agoThe hell, the first one I got was two people dissecting a cat. I guess it did say random
- jacinda 2y agoWarning - some of these can be reasonably graphic. I came across this which is live footage of a hammerhead shark being caught and killed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHEsOPIr28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isHEsOPIr28 Also got some cute things like a dad giving a piggyback ride, some weightlifting, an amazing dance rehearsal - so very human.
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- system2 2y agoDamn, it was brutal.
- arookery 2y agoTHANK YOU! Random snapshots of life from a completely different internet era—no filters, no algorithms, just raw, unedited moments. This feels like opening a digital time capsule.
- mparnisari 2y agoI got tons of babies/kids, and pets.
- system2 2y agoThis is cool as hell. I spent 30 minutes browsing random videos I will likely never watch again.
- NooneAtAll3 2y agoI get only static, even if I refresh did it break?
- michaelsshaw 2y agoHere's my favorite one so far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggYnez6gQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggYnez6gQ0
- paulluuk 2y agoThe first vide I see is two neo-nazi guys naked in the shower and singing a punk song.. I can't help but feel like watching these videos is some kind of breach of privacy, I don't think all these videos were supposed to go to youtube. But then again, someone did press "upload to youtube" on these videos, so I'm torn.
- zigman1 2y agoYes same, my first video was a dad recording his two young sons on sofa just playing around. Very up-close to their faces, I felt very uneasy having a feeling of breaching someone's privacy of their own home
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- drooopy 2y agoI hope this gets archived in case YT decides to purge videos like these in the future.
- tpoacher 2y agoNote to the author: the website is broken and seems to rely on some "works best on chrome" shenanigans to work. On my phone, youtube thumbnail gets pressed but nothing happens (duckduckgo browser).
- shrx 2y agoDoesn't work in waterfox either.
- encom 2y agoBroken on Vivaldi as well.
- dwroberts 2y agoIt works fine in Firefox on a desktop
- probably_wrong 2y agoFirefox on mobile works too.
- wongarsu 2y agoEdge on desktop works too
- kshitij_libra 2y agoIMG_0163 - Gold
- dudefeliciano 2y agoNoooo! I was working on the exact same web app inspired by the same article seen here, you just beat me to the punch (Issue: I ended up overengineering the UI, trying to make a css-only simpsons-style TV around the iframe, the rest is basically the same as this app). Good Job :)
- supermatt 2y agoTheres nothing wrong with more choice. Please post a link!
- rob 2y agoAs the great Nas has rapped: No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun It's never what you do, but how it's done
- stcg 2y agoEcclesiastes 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
- quesera 2y agoPretty sure Nas was first though. I can't even find Ecclesiastes on Tidal.
- wrkta 2y agoWhoever said it first was lying.
- phatfish 2y agoScore:5, Funny
- jabroni_salad 2y agothe joke lands a lot better in the original Cylon.
- einpoklum 2y agoI liked the one with the toddler trying to convince a cat to come down the stairs :-) But honestly - another contender for the "Least informative title on HN" :-\
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- n0vella 2y agoSimple but crazy good idea. There is something in those simple non pretencious videos that makes it better than TikTok thought XD.
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- VanTodi 2y agoThe very first video was of a toddler doing their first steps. I don't know any of them and had no clue where they are from. Someone just wanted to share their magic moment and after 15 years, I was involved. The internet truly can be a marvelous place.
- mimsee 2y agoMine was a horse f*cking another horse. Reminder to not browse HN while at work. Closed the site pretty fast after that.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoNature channel stuff is sfw
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- recursive 2y ago> another horse Thank goodness
- CM30 2y agoYou know, whenever I see stuff like this or the Deep Into YouTube subreddits, it always makes me wonder what it must be like for the person that posted the original video. There they are with a video they randomly threw online without any intention of it becoming popular, only to see their mostly abandoned channel blow up overnight as their random clips get thousands of views. Depending on the user, it must be either the coolest thing ever or the creepiest thing ever, with little in between. Kudos to anyone that takes the opportunity and uses it as a reason to kickstart a YouTube career or something. Regardless, it's always interesting to see, since: 1. It shows you just how big YouTube is, and how few of the videos posted there get any attention at all. The fact there's a huge percentage of the platform viewed by no one is just mind boggling to me. 2. It illustrates how little marketing skill correlates to video editing skill, since there are interesting videos going ignored due to their creator's inability to add a good title or thumbnail or metadata, or which were uploaded on a whim without any of that stuff being taken into account.
- preciousoo 2y agoIt feels too intimate, I had to close it. Cool concept though
- miunau 2y agoA substantial amount (20% already back in 2014, I would imagine more now) of songs available on streaming never get streamed either. Kind of why that market has steered towards flat-fee upload distributors. 29 bucks a year is better than 10% of 0 bucks.
- XorNot 2y agoSeems to bizarre to me that the "zero streams" playlist isn't a feature actually.
- datadrivenangel 2y agoMost things with low popularity are rated appropriately. There are definitely some hidden gems, but most media that is created is simply bad.
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- dmezzetti 2y agoIt's like a time capsule of ordinary life. All the little moments when not many are watching and ironically now people are watching. Very fascinating!
- Netcob 2y agoHow many of these people didn't understand that anyone could see their videos? It might be a bit difficult for the highly technical HN crowd to grasp how little many people understand technology. Not changing the title is already a big clue. Since it was a feature built-in to a native app, people might have thought their videos would not be public or only shared with friends, and lots of them might not even have understood what they were doing at all.
- dwayne_dibley 2y agoespecially given the low view counts. I've just watched two videos with 1 view. One would assume if they were being uploaded to be shared they'd have more views.
- xnorswap 2y agoThis is my take too. This is more like finding an unsecured s3 bucket and delving through it. It might have been "published" to YouTube, but was it really done so with informed consent? This is unlikely to be a popular opinion here, but mass downloading of IMG_0001 videos is essentially trawling for private data by looking for an identifier of accidentally unsecured private data, akin to searching for "{ apiKey: " in github.
- lblume 2y agoThe apiKey thing is actually scary though, so many firebase keys... With that said, I don't really find this metaphor to be applicable though. If these videos don't have sensitive content — and some may of course do — this is something deeply human, the ability to share experiences with others, which has been lacking in the last years with attention-grabbing social media.
- hombre_fatal 2y ago"Share to Youtube" should at least make the video Unlisted by default which is probably what most people expect: They get to share the url with their friends/family, but you can't find their videos in search. And the security model makes sense: anyone with the url can view it. Public by default is just so bad. Youtube playlists used to default to public and it's ridiculous to realize some personal playlist you've been accumulating is right there on your profile. I think they finally fixed it. Facebook also bungled massively in this space where just commenting on some embarrassing Facebook group ended up broadcasting it to all of your friends' walls. And you had no way of knowing that until one of your friends told you that your question on "Foreskin restoration support group" showed up on their wall. You're probably in the top 1% of product/UX designers if you spend just 10 seconds pondering the level of privacy the average user expects as they do things in an app.
- riow 2y agoVery cool
- amelius 2y agoWhy is there vignetting at the edges of the videos? Is that a known iPhone defect?
- thinkingemote 2y agoCSS over the player box boxshadow: 0 0 200px rgba(0,0,0,0.9) inset
- khana 2y ago[dead]
- csmpltn 2y agoMany of these videos aren't even 10 years old (was just watching a clip from 2015), but they look like they were shot in the 80s. What's up with that?
- logicallee 2y agoThe video player on the site adds a vignetting effect (darkening the edges of the screen) to make the videos feel older, I think. If you click the date on a video you see the original on YouTube, without this effect.
- graeber_28927 2y agoI was thinking there will probably be nothing from my home country (HU) since it's a small country, and iPhones aren't as popular anyway. People are comparatively price sensitive. And then in the 5th video that got recommended to me, the language seemed familiar, and sure enough, it's hungarian. IMG 0397, with 18 views.
- p0w3n3d 2y agoPlease beware, some very strange films can be encountered there... Including naked
- buro9 2y agoTIL: Americans really like firing guns, and videoing their friends firing guns.
- mensetmanusman 2y agoIt’s beautiful. Reminds me of a post Armageddon montage.
- kalli 2y agoGot to give a shout out to https://youhole.tv https://youhole.tv on a similar note. Gives you similarly obscure videos, but without any context or links which makes it feel more ephemeral and random in my view. Have spent many hours down that rabbit hole, makes me feel like I'm watching the interdimensional cable from Rick and Morty
- GNOMES 2y agoSeems that views through this site don't seem to reflect? Found a video that had zero views, watched to completion, then hit back on next video to return to it. Video still had 0 views.
- danhau 2y agoYouTube view counts are known to be tricky. There are in depth videos on that topic.
- JanneVee 2y agoWatching this only a few videos and it made me profoundly sad. It is a loss of authenticity, everything online now feels fake compared to this.
- ryandrake 2y agoYea, the Internet has slowly lost something as every online video has slowly evolved to start with the same obnoxious "WHATS UP GUYS! Check out my sponsors who have some great stuff to show you. I've got some great content for you so watch it to the end and remember to hit like and subscribe with the bell!" in that fake "90s Radio DJ" voice.
- capital_guy 2y agoI completely agree. There's something really jarring about watching videos from this time, where things were just more candid in a way that's hard to describe. I only clicked through a few videos and I was smiling from ear to ear. People dancing in a club, a guy riding a homemade little dirtbike in the countryside, babies playing and kids riding bikes. They feel like home videos. It's beautiful.
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- pimlottc 2y agoOne suggestion, add controls for rotating the video. Cameras in this era didn't always have the ability to rotate a video after it was shot, so some of these are in the wrong orientation. Now, it's just a simple CSS transform: document.querySelector("#player").style.webkitTransform = "rotate(90deg)"
- JKCalhoun 2y agoIf only the arrow keys allowed you to skip a video....
- tr3ntg 2y agoWell I clicked one too many times. Came across a funeral procession with 0 views. Couldn't see any faces or identifying information, thankfully. But sad nonetheless.
- ezfe 2y ago> Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot
- bloomingeek 2y agoOne of the vids I looked at was some guys warming up for a league basketball game, pretty cool. Another was of a small child riding a scooter, I can think of a lot of ways that might be uncool. My take away is this: I took a video of my grandson's birthday party recently using my cellphone. I haven't uploaded or sent it to anyone yet. Has my cell carrier already captured the video without my knowing it? In the corporate world the only privacy that matters to them is their own, not ours. I've read that digi-cams were making somewhat of a comeback, maybe that's good.
- m0n01d 2y agoreposts. every day a new one.
- shriracha 2y agoWeirdly poignant and beautiful, but also feels a bit wrong to watch.
- cryptozeus 2y agoContent world before ai , pure and organic !
- quartz 2y agoThis is the web2 internet I remember and love. People sharing their lives. I watched a blurry video of a family at the zoo, a father tickling his toddler (who is having an absolute blast), a middle school play rehearsal, some guy's high school class presentation in south africa (I think?), a random indie country band at a bar, lots of terrible dancing... all joyful, no agendas. There was a thread yesterday about Facebook's little red book and a lot of nostalgia from folks who were there at the time about the optimism across builders then. This was the kind of content that drove that feeling.
- duckkg5 2y agoSimple, effective and enjoyable UX. Nicely done.
- albertojacini 2y agoWatching a cat failing to open a jar, I noticed that my brain expects cats to succeed at all they do.
- yuters 2y agoWhen the original post about this was on HN, I searched IMG_[XXXX] on YouTube and the videos I found... let's say most of them were really boring. The ones I see here are the complete opposite, they are so interesting, this might be a total coincidence or maybe the simpler interface changes my perception. You didn't curate them?
- BobAliceInATree 2y agoSame! I watched a few on youtube and got bored quickly, but I find a bunch of these a least somewhat interesting. Though having it just automatically go to the next one, and a skip button, are a big help. Maybe youtube search is just bad.
- nickdothutton 2y agoI've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Lasagne on fire on the top of an oven. I've watched a family BBQ from 2009. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to close the browser.
- soulclap 2y agoNice project. Would be cool if there was an easy way to obtain the link to the actual video and maybe show the original title, description and username.
- 85392_school 2y agoClick on one of the green numbers to get the link.
- lbrito 2y agoAfter a few clicks I got a guy heating the tip of a screwdriver-like thing on a gas range and apparently attempting to de-solder some component off a PCB. Genius!
- nrvn 2y agoWhat I find weird is searching IMG_XXXX directly on youtube returns you a number of videos with such title and half of the results are 10+ year old youtube SHORTS. There was no such thing back then. Just bloody videos! Does Youtube auto-convert short old videos to vertical shorts on users’ behalf?
- drvladb 2y agoI believe Youtube just serves the video with a Shorts UI, nothing special besides the formatting of the page.
- CM30 2y agoUnfortunately the answer is yes. If a video has a vertical resolution and is under 3 minutes (previously 1 minute), YouTube will automatically treat it as a short now. This basically means every video related to a DS or 3DS game, or recorded on a phone in general, is now treated like a short by their system. This has likely screwed up all manner of videos, since a vertical resolution doesn't equate to it being designed for a TikTok or Instagram style feed...
- SoftTalker 2y agoEarly YouTube limited videos to a few minutes. Also early phones didn't have a lot of memory to make long videos.
- robotmachine 2y agoMany moons ago an acquaintance did a somewhat similar project finding default title "mic in track.mp3" files on music sharing services that were created using MusicMatch Jukebox. > https://www.stark-effect.com/mit.html https://www.stark-effect.com/mit.html
- MortyWaves 2y agoEvery video says “sign in to make sure you’re not a bot” but there’s no sign in button. Amazing product design from YouTube.
- diimdeep 2y agoif you let users watch two videos and pick which one is more interesting, this will go very bad in no time as it did with early Zuckerberg site Hot-or-Not
- Aeroi 2y agoDamn, I got Gangnam styled on video #3.
- upmind 2y agoHow did you crawl so many videos on YouTube?
- nwatson 2y agoI watched a few, but if the wrong video pops up and hasn't been filtered / redacted by YouTube then I might accidentally have legally compromising material on my phone through no fault of my own, other than curiosity. At least with the YouTube UI I can go to my "History" tab and see/prove the video came through YouTube UI action. But random videos from unknown sites are too risky.
- aprilthird2021 2y agoI'm not really sure what the worry is here. Legally compromising material? From watching a YouTube video? Also wouldn't you have this site in your browser history to prove it came from there? And the video has the same title which matches the format of all the videos on this site? Hard to think of a scenario where this site can get you in trouble tbh
- 24Todd54 2y agoI love stories like this where no one is really aware of what is happening at the time and only later you can see that many puzzle pieces came together to create some funny effect
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- yup_sto 2y agoBaader-Meinhof strikes again - checked this out in the morning and just caught your Citibike tweet. You're on a roll today!
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- tempodox 2y agoI love archaeology, digital or otherwise. Great project!
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- tempodox 2y agoI wonder, could this be a time-shifted TikTok?
- xkbarkar 2y agoThis is amazing.
- beretguy 2y agoMeh. It tells me to sign in. I'm not doing that.
- sdwrj 2y agoThis reminds me of that Webcam video controversy a few years back