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Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by dylan604 » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:00 AM UTC

netsharc wrote: post #5

Klathmon wrote: post #2

How many of these images are there? I cycled through a few and ended up hitting at least one duplicate [1] that I do actually enjoy (but I can't find the name of it now that I refreshed the page, I know it had the verrazzano narrows bridge in the title) Is there a chance a site like this could ruin their metric by inflating all the views for these lowest viewed items? Or do these not count? [1] https://www.artic.edu/…

The site calls the API directly (www.artic.edu), so yeah, probably it will ruin^W change the metric. It's probably the creator's idea? Some, ahem, video sites, have "Popular videos". Of course the videos that end up there get more views and get even more popular...

There's no real way to know that they really are that popular or just what the streamer wants viewers to think they are

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by dofm » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:01 AM UTC

Boss0565 wrote: post #4

Wow, some of these are super cool

Gauguin, Manet, Rembrandt and Whistler sketches, Weston nudes, Harry Callahan photos, amazing things indeed.

People generally seem quite uninterested in preparatory sketches/studies/maquettes by famous artists, which is absolute madness, to my mind. Unfinished and transitory work is much more interesting to me. Photographers' contact sheets especially.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by jofzar » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:02 AM UTC

xmcp123 wrote: post #14

jofzar wrote: post #6

Cool project, it's actually a shame if it gets popular enough then it won't return anything

A shame but maybe also the point? If the under appreciated art is being viewed, that sounds great.

It's more that they then go to the "low view" threshold then are no longer viewed and because the date is hard coded then it will never show any more.

I agree it's the point of the project but it's a bit of a shame someone could go to the site and see no art.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by cindyllm » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:21 AM UTC

dofm wrote: post #22

Boss0565 wrote: post #4

Wow, some of these are super cool

Gauguin, Manet, Rembrandt and Whistler sketches, Weston nudes, Harry Callahan photos, amazing things indeed. People generally seem quite uninterested in preparatory sketches/studies/maquettes by famous artists, which is absolute madness, to my mind. Unfinished and transitory work is much more interesting to me. Photographers' contact sheets especially.

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Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by appplication » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:24 AM UTC

I enjoyed this one. Their other work was quite somber and then this title threw me for a loop https://www.artic.edu/artworks/151439/uranus-8

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by andai » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:37 AM UTC

Ogre wrote: post #19

There used to be a site called Forgotify that would only play songs from Spotify that had zero listens. So each song played, of course, removed that song from the set that could ever be played by Forgotify. Doesn't look like it's around any more, sadly.

There's a couple of those for YouTube.

https://vid404.com/ is for videos with zero views. It generates search queries for finding them.

For videos with low views there's https://petittube.com/ (loads a random video with low view count) and http://astronaut.io/ (which has an "automatic stream" of videos).

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by kreelman » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:53 AM UTC

appplication wrote: post #25

I enjoyed this one. Their other work was quite somber and then this title threw me for a loop https://www.artic.edu/artworks/151439/uranus-8

...I can't work out what this is.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by kreelman » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

ggm wrote: post #16

I used to borrow the books which had "to be disposed if not lent in the next 3 months" slip in them. Never regretted reading them. The best one included a very odd short story by Flann OBrien about a carpenter who walls himself inside the oak panelling of a build he is working on, and a woman convinced Sago farming will cure Ireland's famine.

This site is vaguely addictive in a dopamine feeding sense. What will the next image be? ...One more click won't hurt... :-)

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by djsavvy » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 3:04 AM UTC

This is awesome. It's interesting to me how it messes with my incentives. At first I was just pulling the lever on the slot machine, then I went back and clicked on the pieces I really liked (to mark them as "viewed" for the Art Institute and show some love), but finally realized that I was systematically working to remove my favorites from the pool of images people would see.

In the end I just clicked on the "refresh" button a few more times.

Re: Has_not_been_viewed_much

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Post by DanielVZ » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 3:26 AM UTC

My first art work was a drawing of a bunch of couches flying. I loved it. I came back here to comment about it without noticing I’d lose track of it. I tried searching in the collection but I couldn’t find it, so if anyone finds a sketch of a bunch of couches, I’d appreciate a link.

Somehow this made this experience even more wonderful.