Very cool. I wish you could easily go to the original video.
The video ID shows up in the developer console. Not ideal, but a method you can use.
Click the YouTube logo on hover.
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#22Wonderful.
If you like this, you might like these other two pages which exist -- like this page -- to demonstrate the breadth of human experience:
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#23Really interesting concept here socially. I'm not sure this kind of discovery mechanism really exists with services like YouTube. Likely there are randomizers, but this is really scraping from the "every day" user, which is so different from what most of us are used to seeing on YouTube.
Not so much the "every day" user, but more specifically those people not savvy enough to title their videos or set them to private. I'll guess that 1/3 of these videos the author didn't even know they were public. The other 1/3 doesn't really care if they are or not, and the final 1/3 got as far as uploading the video from their mobile device and didn't even know it made it online for all of us to see.
I bet if you did an analysis of users leaving the default titles on their videos, it would be the same group of people that leave the default name on their home routers. Technology simply doesn't fuel these people, it is just a vessel they hop on and hop off when they want to accomplish something. We, on the other hand, live in it every day. This astronaut site is very interesting in that it shows you what a disparity there is between the savvy and the non.
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#25Everyone keeps saying they saw such beautiful things
I just got stuck watching a guy eat an entire jar of mayonnaise without stopping
[EDIT] Just realized that the websockets that fuel the video transitions are suffering the same 503s as the other assets — so the feed 503'd, and I got stuck on an unending, non-changing video of a guy looking into the camera as he ate so, so much mayonnaise.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Oddly the videos don't end up there for me. Which is somewhat disappointing because I would like to share some of them with others. This tool needs a "link to video" or "share video" button.
I had to disable uorigin adblock and use incognito.
Ah, you're right. Privacy Badger (which I love for exactly this reason) was breaking it.
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#27Wonderful. If you like this, you might like these other two pages which exist -- like this page -- to demonstrate the breadth of human experience: https://paperplanes.world/ http://radio.garden/
I've never seen/used the raido one before but I did see/use paperplanes.
While I enjoyed paper planes, it was quite brief. I played with it for 15-20m max before I stopped. I've been watching this (on another monitor) for probably half an hour. Way more engaging and deep. Love this.
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#28This is quite addictive. Spend a good 15 minutes watching this before "waking up" from this collective dream. There were video-snippets that disturbed me(dog fighting, voyeurism of sleeping people in transportation[not sure if there is a special category for that]), but otherwise it was a pleasant experience.
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#29Really interesting concept here socially. I'm not sure this kind of discovery mechanism really exists with services like YouTube. Likely there are randomizers, but this is really scraping from the "every day" user, which is so different from what most of us are used to seeing on YouTube.
Not so much the "every day" user, but more specifically those people not savvy enough to title their videos or set them to private. I'll guess that 1/3 of these videos the author didn't even know they were public. The other 1/3 doesn't really care if they are or not, and the final 1/3 got as far as uploading the video from their mobile device and didn't even know it made it online for all of us to see. I bet if you d…
Ah, you've put it in a much better light. "Every day" is clearly not the right description here. I think an interesting look anyway.
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#30All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.