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       Author : walz
       Score  : 1517 points
       Date   : 2024-12-04 04:46 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
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       | dang wrote:
       | Recent and related:
       | 
       |  _IMG_0416_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42102506 - Nov
       | 2024 (324 comments)
        
         | password4321 wrote:
         | Not recent (http only): http://astronaut.io
         | 
         |  _YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views_
         | 
         | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20432772 - Jul 2019 (239
         | comments)
         | 
         | - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225 - Jan 2017 (140
         | comments)
        
       | password4321 wrote:
       | I'd like to learn more about crawling YouTube, I don't think they
       | appreciate that.
        
         | serf wrote:
         | same here, id be more interested in the list gathering
         | technique than the list itself..
        
       | peterldowns wrote:
       | This 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 wrote:
         | I 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 wrote:
           | Sold to CNN in 2016 for $US25M
        
           | pearjuice wrote:
           | Was 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 wrote:
             | That'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 wrote:
               | Are you still in touch with Casey? I've watched him for
               | 10+ years now so always fascinating to hear about his
               | work.
        
             | dewey wrote:
             | You are just describing a regular startup, that's not a
             | pump & dump which makes it sound like a scam.
        
         | pbhjpbhj wrote:
         | The keming got me, I totally read that as Berne and wondered
         | what you were admining in Berne with video streams. Nvm.
        
       | xxr wrote:
       | First pull was a surreptitiously recorded conversation that
       | sounds like it was being held as blackmail.
        
         | sim7c00 wrote:
         | haha creepy. i was lucky and got a cute cat video =)
        
         | __turbobrew__ wrote:
         | I got one that seemed to involve child soldiers in Africa, zero
         | views. This is wild.
        
           | topherclay wrote:
           | "Between 2009 and 2012" fits with the Kony 2012 documentary.
        
       | superkuh wrote:
       | A lot of babies, horses, dancing/singing, and sports but also
       | plenty of fascinating stuff.
        
         | dybber wrote:
         | The first video I got was from some KKK ritual.
        
           | dyauspitr wrote:
           | Those people are probably elected officials now
        
             | block_dagger wrote:
             | I laughed. Thank you.
        
       | babyent wrote:
       | Love 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 wrote:
         | This 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 wrote:
       | IMG_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 wrote:
         | I think it's special that we're collectively ensuring that all
         | these videos are watched at least once :)
        
       | lelandfe wrote:
       | It's like TikTok sans algorithm. I got a protest in Vietnam, a
       | rally for French politician Francois 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 wrote:
         | I 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
        
         | richardlblair wrote:
         | I got a dude beating a horse with a stick!
        
           | lelandfe wrote:
           | Far Side caption: Terry was never any good with idioms
        
         | someone7x wrote:
         | Same 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
        
       | ChrisArchitect wrote:
       | Nice 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 wrote:
         | It's from this:
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_rule_for_Camera_File_sy...
        
         | Twisell wrote:
         | It'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 wrote:
           | I 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 wrote:
             | One 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.
        
       | ivolimmen wrote:
       | First video felt like an awkward ad with two teachers. Second a
       | high school party playing YMCA... I approve.
        
       | mastazi wrote:
       | Check out 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)
        
       | sarpdag wrote:
       | Authentic and nostalgic, I am enjoying watching.
        
       | shenbomo wrote:
       | https://ytch.xyz/
        
         | password4321 wrote:
         | A bit more context:
         | 
         |  _Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels_ -
         | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41247023 - Sep 2024 (532
         | comments)
        
       | paxys wrote:
       | The 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 wrote:
         | Automated filtering surely is not across the main competitive
         | advantages of youtube.
        
         | ffsm8 wrote:
         | Doubtful, 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 wrote:
           | For 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 wrote:
             | Not 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
        
               | bertylicious wrote:
               | The idea itself is so regressive and shaming, I don't
               | find it surprising at all that the political right is
               | drawn to it.
        
               | aprilthird2021 wrote:
               | The idea of being a horny guy online and content existing
               | for horny guys online is regressive and shaming?
        
               | kelnos wrote:
               | I think GP meant that stigmatizing the idea of a coomer
               | is regressive and shaming, in that it's sex-negative --
               | if someone wants to masturbate excessively, there's
               | nothing wrong with that, as long as it's not negatively
               | impacting other aspects of their life. Not sure I agree
               | with that take, but I think that's what they were talking
               | about.
        
               | kridsdale1 wrote:
               | Many people still believe that 4chan et al are Alt Right.
               | 
               | They're just what 14-28 year old boys are up to, sans
               | filter algorithms. It's the whole spectrum.
        
             | aprilthird2021 wrote:
             | It's so strange because that must be what people who don't
             | know about the term think, but those who do all know it's
             | not really an alt-right meme at all even if it's technical
             | origins are as such.
             | 
             | It's like if someone moved to America and said "Oh
             | Thanksgiving? Never heard of it but I looked into it now,
             | and it's a weird holiday based on whitewashing the murder
             | of Native Americans". Technically it's true but you aren't
             | a supporter of that or blind to that fact when you
             | celebrate it with your family, and the insinuations about
             | you from that are likely incorrect.
        
         | femto wrote:
         | I just got what looked like an accident scene from a South East
         | Asian country. A body with a head injury lying on a road with
         | police standing around and a crowd of onlookers behind tape.
        
         | pelorat wrote:
         | My second video was from a strip club
        
         | semperdark wrote:
         | Not sure it's quite so clean. My first was a a girl in
         | underwear standing in front of a wall and turning while
         | introducing herself "My name is __ and I am 19 years old..."
        
       | stefanpie wrote:
       | While 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 wrote:
         | I did the same thing! Haha
        
       | boredtofears wrote:
       | Absolutely mesmerized by this, thank you.
        
       | password4321 wrote:
       | PSA: This will fubar your YouTube watch history /
       | recommendations, you might want to incognito.
        
         | debo_ wrote:
         | I'll take this as a benefit; an algorithm palate cleanser
        
           | 0_____0 wrote:
           | If 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 wrote:
         | I was wondering why YouTube suddenly thought I only wanted to
         | watch sub 1000 view videos
        
         | masto wrote:
         | Videos embedded in other pages don't show up in my
         | https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
        
       | macintux wrote:
       | I 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 wrote:
         | Here's a video of him performing it live that I found with a
         | YouTube search:
         | 
         | 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/1/0/4/7/10473...
        
           | MrMcCall wrote:
           | Thanks for sharing that riveting performance. And, Borges is
           | always intersting.
        
       | kannonboy wrote:
       | I 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 wrote:
         | I'm really anxious Google will also kill this aspect of Youtube
         | one day.
        
           | supermatt wrote:
           | As 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 wrote:
             | AFAIK youtube is profitable now. It was not for years, but
             | is now.
        
               | eru wrote:
               | Yes, but it could perhaps be more profitable, if they cut
               | spending on this aspect?
        
               | whereismyacc wrote:
               | For 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.
        
               | eru wrote:
               | Interestingly, if storage cost decreases geometrically
               | over time, then the total storage cost of storing a video
               | for all eternity is finite.
               | 
               | Though what I was commenting on here wasn't so much the
               | cost of storing a video at all, but storing it in 'warm'
               | enough storage that you can load it really quickly.
        
               | iamgopal wrote:
               | What could be cost of total storage of YouTube ? Edit :
               | About billion USD per year.
        
               | b3lvedere wrote:
               | Since when did that stop shareholders to make even more
               | money?
        
               | dnissley wrote:
               | Can you post your source? Last time I checked (and
               | quickly checking around now) I didn't see any
               | announcement from Google about Youtube being profitable.
        
           | joelkoen wrote:
           | Anyone aware of public archives of videos like this? These
           | are so cool and I imagine that in the future this would be an
           | incredibly valuable peek into history given how raw it is.
        
             | thesuitonym wrote:
             | https://archive.org/details/movies?tab=collection
        
           | kristopolous wrote:
           | Google: if you like it, it's going away.
        
             | supportengineer wrote:
             | Once you live to a certain age, you realize this is true
             | about everything in your life.
        
               | kristopolous wrote:
               | I'm increasingly thinking of customer product relations
               | in terms of giving treats to your users.
               | 
               | The moat and stickiness concepts are ok, but "candy
               | store" is more fruitful.
               | 
               | Of course what constitutes candy is different for every
               | product and you need to understand your customers to know
               | what "flavors" they want
        
             | seanw265 wrote:
             | I got charged by Squarespace the other day, and it
             | immediately raised red flags--I've never done business with
             | them before.
             | 
             | Then it clicked: this was for an old domain I'd purchased
             | through Google Domains. I knew Google had sold its domain
             | business to Squarespace, but in the moment, I'd completely
             | forgotten about it.
             | 
             | Oh well.
        
           | ThrowawayTestr wrote:
           | You should get YouTube Premium so they can pay for all those
           | servers.
        
           | pohuing wrote:
           | They've already announced deleting videos from unused
           | channels. So it's only a matter of time
        
             | lelandfe wrote:
             | https://techcrunch.com/2023/05/18/youtube-will-no-longer-
             | be-...
             | 
             | > _Google updated the post to read, "We do not have plans
             | to delete accounts with YouTube videos at this time."_
        
               | pohuing wrote:
               | Thanks, finally some good news from them for once
        
           | BlueTemplar wrote:
           | It was already partially killed when in 2017 YouTube switched
           | all unlisted videos to private.
           | 
           | Which I now just realize why they did that : a lot of people
           | didn't understand the difference.
           | 
           | Sadly, a lot of other people _did_ understand the difference,
           | and did _not_ expect this kind of switcheroo, and now there
           | 's a bunch of effectively dead links covering more than a
           | decade of videos.
        
         | gear54rus wrote:
         | View count is nice but I'd like to be able to share a video
         | that I got with someone else, I think that would be a great
         | function.
        
           | rkagerer wrote:
           | Clicking the date opens it in YouTube.
        
             | jonny_eh wrote:
             | That's a shame, I like the ephemeral nature of these.
        
               | rkagerer wrote:
               | I just hope viewers who stumble upon any that seem as
               | though they were not intended to be uploaded respect the
               | privacy of the subjects and use discretion in what they
               | share.
        
         | mattlondon wrote:
         | I felt slightly uneasy myself - the first thing I saw was a mum
         | laying on her bed doing a selfie-video with two small kids
         | (probably between 2 and 4 years old) singing a song to daddy.
         | 
         | That felt like a total invasion of their private lives.
         | 
         | I've had the same videos from my own kids, and while there is
         | nothing embarrassing or shameful about it, it's not something
         | I'd want broadcasted. Maybe it hit a nerve for me as it is so
         | very very similar to my own life right now. Sure yeah they
         | uploaded it to YouTube and it's public but it still felt wrong
         | to watch that.
         | 
         | Kinda ruined my day a bit - feel kinda bad for viewing it.
        
           | arethuza wrote:
           | Thanks - that's exactly how I felt after watching a view
           | videos - I came away feeling a bit disturbed - largely
           | because the things I watched were very wholesome but also
           | very private.
        
             | stronglikedan wrote:
             | > very private
             | 
             | very explicitly uploaded with the intent that others would
             | see it
        
               | latexr wrote:
               | We don't know that. As per the webpage, this could've
               | been uploaded directly from the Photos app on an iPhone,
               | by people who didn't really understand the consequences.
               | Maybe they uploaded it and thought they'd get a private
               | link to share with one specific person. Most people are
               | not tech savvy and don't fully understand the possible
               | ramifications of their sharing.
        
               | dan353hehe wrote:
               | Yeah I just got a video of an infant taking a bath. I
               | have small kids my self so nothing new, but not something
               | I would want on the internet for everyone to see. And I
               | doubt that the mom, and now the teenager who was the kid,
               | would want broadcast everywhere.
        
               | steve_adams_86 wrote:
               | I can imagine people thinking "YouTube" was a video
               | service for You, indicating that you'd be uploading
               | something private for You to share as desired.
               | 
               | It sounds crazy now, but having worked with people a lot
               | to make software that makes sense to them, this... Is not
               | far fetched in the slightest.
        
               | dimator wrote:
               | The fact that many of these have exactly 0 views makes it
               | totally plausible that the uploaders had no idea that
               | this video existed.
        
               | supplied_demand wrote:
               | The world was a lot different 15 years ago, both YouTube
               | and iPhones were new and not full understood by the
               | average person. Anyone who has designed a UI knows that
               | not all actions are explicit.
        
               | efdee wrote:
               | More likely: uploaded with the intent that a very limited
               | audience would see it, thinking it would drown in the
               | pool of videos uploaded to YouTube or maybe not even
               | aware that other people could stumble upon it.
        
               | ivanjermakov wrote:
               | I wonder what percentage of iPhone users in 2009 knew
               | what "upload to YouTube" means. I doubt that there was a
               | huge alert disclosing that this makes video publicly
               | available.
        
               | wholinator2 wrote:
               | In addition to the other replies, I've seen a few videos
               | that we obviously created by very young children playing
               | with a relatives phone. I can't easily imagine an
               | informed adult choosing to send these nonsense random
               | videos to YouTube but i can easily imagine a 5 year old
               | poking around and just following the prompts. Some had 0
               | views as well so likely no one knows these were uploaded
               | at all
        
               | kelnos wrote:
               | The entire point of this webpage (and the article that
               | inspired it) was to wonder and suggest that many of the
               | people posting these things may not have realized they
               | were posting it publicly, thinking that "Post to YouTube"
               | meant that they were putting it somewhere online where it
               | would be easier to -- privately -- share with specific
               | people they wanted to share it with.
               | 
               | Given the time frame and the newness of the iPhone and
               | that entire model of interacting with media and the
               | internet, I think it's pretty likely that many of those
               | videos were published without the understanding that
               | anyone would be able to view them.
               | 
               | Regardless of my guess on this, you can't assume to know
               | what anyone's intent is, especially someone you don't
               | know who posted something on the internet over a decade
               | ago.
        
           | jnovek wrote:
           | I think it's also a reminder that the internet felt so much
           | safer in 2010.
           | 
           | My sister (who is apparently wiser than most of us) has
           | always refused to sharing pictures and videos of her kids on
           | the internet and in 2010 that felt very old-fashioned. Now,
           | because the internet feels so much more dangerous, it's
           | become a completely normal take.
        
             | vel0city wrote:
             | My wife and I have been pretty mindful about what we share
             | on even quasi-public social networks when it relates to our
             | kids. Luckily there's a decent number of platforms/apps out
             | there which make it easy to share with family without
             | making stuff public.
             | 
             | Sadly that doesn't stop family from reposting from those
             | more private platforms to public social media...
        
           | manmal wrote:
           | I think, back then, many people didn't realize their videos
           | are going to be available to the whole world. They might have
           | uploaded them just to send a link to relatives, and fumbled
           | or missed the privacy toggle. Lots of very private videos on
           | there.
        
             | johnisgood wrote:
             | I have seen recently uploaded videos (or reels, or
             | "tiktoks") which were intentional... Shit's wild. People
             | now know, yet... They sometimes do the most disgusting shit
             | ever for the attention (likes, views).
        
           | mdanger007 wrote:
           | Ruined your day? Although it is undoubtedly tech voyeurism
           | the fact that these observations occur in every day life and
           | don't violate people's privacy I would just like to invite
           | you to get out more.
        
             | lukan wrote:
             | "don't violate people's privacy"
             | 
             | Did you asked the kids in the videos (who are grownups or
             | teenagers now) if they are ok with random strangers
             | watching their kids life?
             | 
             | Also I would doubt, that most people were aware, that they
             | were uploading the video to the general public.
             | 
             | So there are surely worse things going on, but I also felt
             | uneasy after watching such private videos.
        
               | fluoridation wrote:
               | >Did you asked the kids in the videos (who are grownups
               | or teenagers now) if they are ok with random strangers
               | watching their kids life?
               | 
               | >Also I would doubt, that most people were aware, that
               | they were uploading the video to the general public.
               | 
               | Those sentences are working against each other. You don't
               | need to ask for permission to observe something in
               | public. That's what makes the public sphere public; that
               | there are restrictions and expectations in the private
               | sphere that don't exist in the public sphere. If someone
               | mistakenly believes they're in private when they're not,
               | that's unfortunate for them. It's _their_ responsibility
               | to know where they are, not your responsibility to act
               | according to their expectation. You 're not obligated to
               | avert your gaze if someone walks out in public not
               | wearing pants by mistake. Is it polite to do it? Sure. Is
               | it wrong not to do it? No.
        
               | lukan wrote:
               | "Those sentences are working against each other. "
               | 
               | Not when the topic is privacy. This is not someone
               | walking in public, those are videos out of private homes.
               | Just because someone uploaded something, does not mean he
               | had
               | 
               | a) the rights to do so (I saw a clip where a women asked
               | a bit angry, are you making a movie?)
               | 
               | B) was aware what he is doing
               | 
               | (Google and co do have a incentive to mislead people
               | about who will be able to access data)
               | 
               | So it might be technical legal. It if is moral, is up to
               | yourself to decide.
        
               | fluoridation wrote:
               | >This is not someone walking in public, those are videos
               | out of private homes.
               | 
               | Yes, it's like someone watching a private video on their
               | phone while on the train. You don't have a right to not
               | have someone looking over your shoulder if you do that.
               | While out in public you have implicit permission to look
               | over someone else's shoulder _because that 's what
               | "public" means_. Public means the absence of privacy.
               | 
               | >a) the rights to do so (I saw a clip where a women asked
               | a bit angry, are you making a movie?)
               | 
               | >B) was aware what he is doing
               | 
               | Both are the problem of whoever took the video and/or
               | uploaded it, not of the person watching it later.
        
               | lukan wrote:
               | Erm, it depends. If you have to go out of your way, to
               | look into my screen, than no, not ok.
               | 
               | But if I have my screen careless in the open, that is on
               | me.
        
               | mdanger007 wrote:
               | If your issue is the unwitting use of people's images for
               | corporate profit I think we can agree that especially
               | irksome when it's children. But does it ruin your day or
               | seeing especially exploitative to see a child at a
               | petting zoo or celebrating their birthday like maybe one
               | in a dozen clip show or is there room for nuance?
        
             | mattlondon wrote:
             | I don't think it is invading their privacy-with-a-big-P
             | (after all I have no idea who these people are or where the
             | lived etc), it is more just socially it felt inappropriate.
             | 
             | I think if a young family was sat on a park bench doing
             | this and you went and sat on the bench between the mother
             | and the father it would be considered at the least
             | incredibly rude and inappropriate. Even if they are in a
             | public place and you are not technically violating any
             | laws, you'd still be acting in a way that most people would
             | disagree with.
             | 
             | This is what it felt like to me.
        
               | hoten wrote:
               | If I can tweak the metaphor, it's more like sitting on a
               | vantage point within the park and peering at them with
               | binoculars, far enough away that they can't see. It's
               | still ick but definitely intrudes on them far less.
        
               | fluoridation wrote:
               | No, it's more like someone took a photo of themselves to
               | show to their family, and after they were done with it
               | they left it on a bench in a park (perhaps not realizing
               | that the photo wouldn't magically go away on its own),
               | and a long long time afterwards someone happened to
               | stumble upon it and look at it.
        
               | mdanger007 wrote:
               | Yes! This is the nuance I'm looking for. There are issues
               | with corporations exploiting our private lives and data
               | but if one were to find someone's family photo album left
               | sitting around it doesn't seem horrible to me to take a
               | look.
        
             | supplied_demand wrote:
             | ==occur in every day life and don't violate people's
             | privacy==
             | 
             | Plenty of things happen in every day life, but are private
             | (sex, break-ups, proposals, Dr. visits, etc.). I also
             | noticed lots of these videos have people in the background.
             | I doubt they were they notified that a video was being
             | taken and uploaded publicly.
             | 
             | ==I would just like to invite you to get out more.==
             | 
             | Maybe an alternative is to invite yourself to ask questions
             | about why there are multiple comments with the same
             | sentiment rather than reflexively telling them how to
             | feel/act?
        
               | Dylan16807 wrote:
               | > multiple comments with the same sentiment
               | 
               | Multiple comments saying it felt creepy or multiple
               | comments saying it ruined their day to any extent? Those
               | aren't the same thing.
        
               | supplied_demand wrote:
               | There is literally a comment thanking the person who made
               | the original comment because they felt the exact same
               | way.
               | 
               | ==Thanks - that's exactly how I felt after watching a
               | view videos==
               | 
               | The original comment was a long explanation that ended
               | with: ==Kinda ruined my day a bit==
               | 
               | Seems like pretty tame language to get worked up about, I
               | see two qualifiers in merely 6 words.
        
               | Dylan16807 wrote:
               | Without more clarification, I am unsure about whether
               | feeling the same applies to the day ruining or just the
               | direct reaction.
               | 
               | > Seems like pretty tame language to get worked up about,
               | I see two qualifiers in merely 6 words.
               | 
               | I don't think anyone here is worked up.
        
               | kelnos wrote:
               | I suppose the person upthread could have been
               | exaggerating or using hyperbole for effect, but it seems
               | a bit much for something like this to "ruin your day".
               | 
               | Having said that, it also seems like a bit much for that
               | other commenter to find it worth policing their feelings
               | like that.
        
               | mdanger007 wrote:
               | Are we watching the same YouTube clips?
        
               | supplied_demand wrote:
               | I think by definition, we are not watching the same
               | Youtube clips. Isn't that how the app works?
        
               | mdanger007 wrote:
               | I don't know if you intentionally take my point out of
               | context, but the man was arguing that it ruined his day
               | because there were such things as sex in these random
               | clips.
        
               | supplied_demand wrote:
               | It's possible you got lost in the comment thread. I said
               | one of those things and the original commentor said the
               | other.
               | 
               | --The original commentor said that it "kinda ruined their
               | day a bit" and felt a little intrusive.
               | 
               | --Then someone responded by saying that is was just
               | things that occur in every day life and doesn't violate
               | anyone's privacy.
               | 
               | --Then I responded to clarify that things which occur in
               | every day life can still be intrusive to privacy i.e.
               | sex, breakups, drug use, etc.
               | 
               | I did not say that people were having sex in these clips,
               | nor did the original commentor.
        
           | theodric wrote:
           | First video I got was some happy people (families, by the
           | sound of it) popping off a few rounds at the range with
           | AR-15s. My day has been improved!
        
           | stronglikedan wrote:
           | > That felt like a total invasion of their private lives.
           | 
           | Except they literally explicitly uploaded it to YT.
        
             | rescripting wrote:
             | At the time this was probably the one of the most
             | convenient ways to share videos with loved ones. It
             | wouldn't cross your mind that these videos were "public"
             | because no one had the link but you.
             | 
             | I'm sure it never crossed their mind that 15 years later an
             | aggregator would be resurfacing them.
        
               | recursive wrote:
               | Is there a more convenient way now? Not being sarcastic,
               | but it's still pretty damn convenient.
        
               | 85392_school wrote:
               | These days you can unlist the video.
        
               | throwawayq3423 wrote:
               | YOu think people know how to do that? Or even remember
               | their content is there for all to see?
        
               | jonny_eh wrote:
               | That was possible then too, but took an extra step.
               | Defaults are important.
        
               | jonny_eh wrote:
               | I use Google Photos. Apple Photos would work too. Or any
               | of the messaging apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.
        
             | kelnos wrote:
             | Who says it was explicit? They may have done so without
             | understanding the implications.
             | 
             | Your insistence that people did this intentionally, fully
             | understanding what they were doing, is pretty weird. You
             | have no idea why people uploaded these, what their level of
             | technical proficiency was when they did so, or what they
             | understood about the availability of the videos they
             | posted.
             | 
             | Maybe don't claim to read people's minds, and be open to
             | the idea that people do things for a variety of reasons,
             | and often don't consider (or even know that they should
             | consider) the implications of everything they do.
        
           | kevinsync wrote:
           | That slight unease used to permeate the entire internet (and
           | made it exciting and genuinely thrilling!), and now that
           | you've articulated it out loud it makes me think it's a
           | critical missing part to all those "nostalgia for the old
           | web" thinkpieces people love to write these days. Granted, I
           | was a teenager in the 90's literally growing up into the
           | world as the web grew up around me, so there was slight
           | unease in all aspects of life, but that feeling of the
           | unknown, of not totally being sure what you're going to
           | discover (good or bad) when you surf from link to link, maybe
           | that's really what's missing in the sanitized, commodified
           | 2024 internet.
           | 
           | Or maybe I'm just overthinking it lol
        
             | wholinator2 wrote:
             | Nah, i agree. I'm a little younger but i distinctly
             | remember adults around me heavily warning about using the
             | internet and especially putting anything about yourself
             | into it. There was a great distrust between people and the
             | internet in the early 2000's, but then kids got ipods that
             | could text and call, and network effects meant that you
             | _had_ to be on Facebook, and slowly over time Facebook and
             | MySpace started to not feel like the danger zone, like it
             | was separate from all those warnings cause it was just you
             | and your friends chatting at 2:00a.m., nobody was gonna
             | bother to look at you. Then the social media empires grew
             | and expanded and it kinda became the entire internet (that
             | people use) started to feel like not the danger zone. You
             | could do anything there, and huge company's would create
             | walled gardens that would hide the worst aspects and let
             | you pretend it was a safe and open place, to their benefit
             | of course. Adults stopped warning, kids became adults, and
             | now to hear a warning about the internet is incredibly
             | rare. We also just think that there's so much shit there,
             | nobody would take the time to notice us, and everyone else
             | is posting their entire lives anyways so why not? Strange
             | times
        
               | johnisgood wrote:
               | I wonder if the no warning part is a consequence of too
               | much moderation, so people think everything or most thing
               | is so moderated it no longer warrants a warning?
        
             | BlueTemplar wrote:
             | Hmmm, YouTube is clearly part of the new web though... and
             | this seems to be very similar to TikTok ?
        
             | fsflover wrote:
             | > but that feeling of the unknown, of not totally being
             | sure what you're going to discover (good or bad) when you
             | surf from link to link, maybe that's really what's missing
             | in the sanitized, commodified 2024 internet.
             | 
             | https://wiby.me search engine brings that feelings back.
        
             | mannycalavera42 wrote:
             | this.
             | 
             | this site felt like browsing the small web - just in video
             | mode for someone like me that got derailed by into all the
             | walled garden hubs of the modern enterprise-web felt
             | refreshing and, yeh, 90' nostalgic
        
           | jonny_eh wrote:
           | Link? :P
        
         | giancarlostoro wrote:
         | I know a video from roughly 11+ years ago where the audio got
         | messed up, not sure how to even begin to report that. Was some
         | niche "inside joke" type of meme. I have to wonder how many
         | videos got re-encoded by YouTube that got screwed up
         | inadvertently.
        
         | dheera wrote:
         | I don't think they are being served _from_ Youtube (?)
        
           | kahirsch wrote:
           | There's an iframe with a link to the youtube api. When I
           | watched a video, it was being streamed from a server named
           | rr4---sn-p5qlsny6.googlevideo.com
        
         | Sateeshm wrote:
         | The first video I got was of a really cute baby making baby
         | noises. Made me very happy. It had 0 views.
        
       | nomilk wrote:
       | Lots 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 wrote:
         | YouTube 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).
        
       | jacinda wrote:
       | Warning - 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
       | 
       | Also got some cute things like a dad giving a piggyback ride,
       | some weightlifting, an amazing dance rehearsal - so very human.
        
         | system2 wrote:
         | Damn, it was brutal.
        
       | arookery wrote:
       | THANK 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 wrote:
       | I got tons of babies/kids, and pets.
        
       | system2 wrote:
       | This is cool as hell. I spent 30 minutes browsing random videos I
       | will likely never watch again.
        
       | NooneAtAll3 wrote:
       | I get only static, even if I refresh
       | 
       | did it break?
        
         | primozk wrote:
         | Use the remote.
        
           | yohannesk wrote:
           | How? Which ever button I press, I only get static. Am I
           | region blocked? I have tried all the keys on my keyboard as
           | well
           | 
           | Edit: It works on Firefox for some reason. Maybe extensions?
           | I am not sure
        
       | apexalpha wrote:
       | The hell, the first one I got was two people dissecting a cat.
       | 
       | I guess it did say random
        
       | michaelsshaw wrote:
       | Here's my favorite one so far:
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jggYnez6gQ0
        
       | paulluuk wrote:
       | The 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 wrote:
         | Yes 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
        
       | drooopy wrote:
       | I hope this gets archived in case YT decides to purge videos like
       | these in the future.
        
       | tpoacher wrote:
       | Note 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 wrote:
         | Doesn't work in waterfox either.
        
           | encom wrote:
           | Broken on Vivaldi as well.
        
         | dwroberts wrote:
         | It works fine in Firefox on a desktop
        
           | probably_wrong wrote:
           | Firefox on mobile works too.
        
             | wongarsu wrote:
             | Edge on desktop works too
        
       | dudefeliciano wrote:
       | Noooo! 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 wrote:
         | Theres nothing wrong with more choice. Please post a link!
        
         | rob wrote:
         | As 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
        
           | echelon_musk wrote:
           | Here's to hoping we get the Premier album for Christmas!
        
           | stcg wrote:
           | Ecclesiastes 1:9                   What has been will be
           | again,         what has been done will be done again;
           | there is nothing new under the sun.
        
             | quesera wrote:
             | Pretty sure Nas was first though. I can't even find
             | Ecclesiastes on Tidal.
        
               | wrkta wrote:
               | Whoever said it first was lying.
        
               | phatfish wrote:
               | Score:5, Funny
        
               | jabroni_salad wrote:
               | the joke lands a lot better in the original Cylon.
        
         | jerrre wrote:
         | there's room on the internet for multiple sites, finishing it
         | is nice
        
         | chamomeal wrote:
         | Finish and post it please, I still want the Simpsons style TV!!
        
         | venusenvy47 wrote:
         | In case you need inspiration, I've had this site bookmarked for
         | many years. I don't know anything about the Web design, but it
         | has the appearance you describe. https://www.myretrotvs.com/
        
         | 63936473 wrote:
         | To be fair it's all just astronaut.io with a different scope
        
         | johtso wrote:
         | We should be collaborating, open sourcing the scraping code,
         | and sharing the scraped datasets IMO.
         | 
         | I was working on a similar idea a couple of years ago but got
         | hung up on the scraping step after realising google api
         | restrictions were too onerous.
         | 
         | I was trying to come up with a way that would have the videos
         | scraped by the user and then randomised, entirely client side.
        
       | einpoklum wrote:
       | I 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" :-\
        
       | kshitij_libra wrote:
       | IMG_0163 - Gold
        
       | n0vella wrote:
       | Simple but crazy good idea. There is something in those simple
       | non pretencious videos that makes it better than TikTok thought
       | XD.
        
       | VanTodi wrote:
       | The 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 wrote:
         | Mine was a horse f*cking another horse. Reminder to not browse
         | HN while at work. Closed the site pretty fast after that.
        
           | mensetmanusman wrote:
           | Nature channel stuff is sfw
        
           | recursive wrote:
           | > another horse
           | 
           | Thank goodness
        
       | CM30 wrote:
       | You 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 wrote:
         | It feels too intimate, I had to close it. Cool concept though
        
         | miunau wrote:
         | A 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 wrote:
           | Seems to bizarre to me that the "zero streams" playlist isn't
           | a feature actually.
        
             | wholinator2 wrote:
             | Yeah, it seems like it could be a great feature for helping
             | level the playing field a bit and discover some hidden gems
             | that no one would have ever heard. But I imagine that at
             | some point 'no streams' would have to turn into 'low
             | streams' but that's fine.
        
             | datadrivenangel wrote:
             | Most things with low popularity are rated appropriately.
             | There are definitely some hidden gems, but most media that
             | is created is simply bad.
        
               | miunau wrote:
               | This is a lazy take. The reason is that there is money
               | involved in picking who is at the top of the playlists.
               | It's no big secret the big record labels own large parts
               | of the music streaming industry. They are simply getting
               | their investment back. There is no incentive giving money
               | to any small third parties in terms of promotion. Spotify
               | doesn't even pay out for songs that get under 1000
               | streams per year anymore.
               | 
               | This is not even getting into the investment companies
               | that buy artist catalogues wholesale, and therefore have
               | a major interest in keeping old songs in constant
               | rotation for the decades to come.
               | 
               | Saying any of it is a meritocracy is pure ignorance.
        
               | lelandbatey wrote:
               | I don't think they're saying it's a meritocracy, I think
               | they're uncontroversialy saying that a playlist of songs
               | with up-till-now zero plays would be a huge amount of
               | garbage, e.g. poorly made FL Studio/Garage Band
               | experiments, not even interesting music just kinda bad
               | music.
        
         | smitelli wrote:
         | I would imagine a sizable portion of these old (15+ years ago)
         | accounts are abandoned. Forgotten password, email address tied
         | to an ISP that only serves a region where the person no longer
         | lives, that kind of thing.
         | 
         | YouTube wasn't always tied so strongly to a Google account, and
         | overall fewer people had Google accounts in the first place.
        
           | climb_stealth wrote:
           | I wonder if that is actually tru. Because interestingly
           | enough my youtube account is the only remaining link I have
           | to the internet of the past. Created in 2006 and I'm still
           | using it.
           | 
           | I'm not aware of anything else that has persisted since then.
           | Old email accounts, forums, games - everything is gone now
           | and inaccessible for me.
        
       | dmezzetti wrote:
       | It'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 wrote:
       | How 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 wrote:
         | especially 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 wrote:
         | This 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 wrote:
           | The 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.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | Why is there vignetting at the edges of the videos?
       | 
       | Is that a known iPhone defect?
        
         | thinkingemote wrote:
         | CSS over the player box
         | 
         | boxshadow: 0 0 200px rgba(0,0,0,0.9) inset
        
       | riow wrote:
       | Very cool
        
       | csmpltn wrote:
       | Many 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 wrote:
         | The 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 wrote:
       | I 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 wrote:
       | Please beware, some very strange films can be encountered
       | there... Including naked
        
       | buro9 wrote:
       | TIL: Americans really like firing guns, and videoing their
       | friends firing guns.
        
       | coreyhn wrote:
       | This reminded me of the scene in Amelie where she makes a video
       | montage for the glass man. Really interesting and random topics.
        
       | mensetmanusman wrote:
       | It's beautiful. Reminds me of a post Armageddon montage.
        
       | kalli wrote:
       | Got to give a shout out to 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 wrote:
       | Seems 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 wrote:
         | YouTube view counts are known to be tricky. There are in depth
         | videos on that topic.
        
       | JanneVee wrote:
       | Watching 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 wrote:
         | Yea, 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 wrote:
         | I 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.
        
       | pimlottc wrote:
       | One 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 wrote:
       | If only the arrow keys allowed you to skip a video....
        
       | tr3ntg wrote:
       | Well 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 wrote:
       | > Sign in to confirm you're not a bot
        
       | bloomingeek wrote:
       | One 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 wrote:
       | reposts. every day a new one.
        
       | shriracha wrote:
       | Weirdly poignant and beautiful, but also feels a bit wrong to
       | watch.
        
       | cryptozeus wrote:
       | Content world before ai , pure and organic !
        
       | quartz wrote:
       | This 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 wrote:
       | Simple, effective and enjoyable UX. Nicely done.
        
       | albertojacini wrote:
       | Watching a cat failing to open a jar, I noticed that my brain
       | expects cats to succeed at all they do.
        
       | yuters wrote:
       | When 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 wrote:
         | Same! 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 wrote:
       | I'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 wrote:
       | Nice 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 wrote:
         | Click on one of the green numbers to get the link.
        
       | lbrito wrote:
       | After 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 wrote:
       | What 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 wrote:
         | I believe Youtube just serves the video with a Shorts UI,
         | nothing special besides the formatting of the page.
        
         | CM30 wrote:
         | Unfortunately 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 wrote:
         | Early YouTube limited videos to a few minutes. Also early
         | phones didn't have a lot of memory to make long videos.
        
       | robotmachine wrote:
       | Many 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
        
       | MortyWaves wrote:
       | Every 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 wrote:
       | if 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 wrote:
       | Damn, I got Gangnam styled on video #3.
        
       | upmind wrote:
       | How did you crawl so many videos on YouTube?
        
       | nwatson wrote:
       | I 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 wrote:
         | I'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 wrote:
       | I 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
        
       | nefrix wrote:
       | It 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
        
       | yup_sto wrote:
       | Baader-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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