This is awesome.
YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
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#12I'd like a back button, so the stream pause/resume isn't such a high cognitive load high-stakes high-regret "oh, that looks ... drat, too late" decision. Or perhaps a fade transition?
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#13A somewhat similar "sampling" experience is searching for a high-frequency term like "a", and filtering for an upload date of last hour or day[1]. Non-English terms and time of day bias on geography.
[1] "a"/"last hour": https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=a&sp=EgIIAQ%253...
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#14There's a subreddit dedicated to this sort of thing, check it out:
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#15This is the same search method I use to continuously play back YT videos on a dedicated small screen connected to a raspberry pi in my apartment. Definitely shows an amazing cross section through humanity. The great thing about the camera file name is it’s language and region agnostic. So you really get everything.
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#16Interdimensional cable, Morty.
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#17This is... fascinating on a very personal level. I've never been a "YouTube" guy; I'd rather skim/read an article than watch a video. I've never binged, never clicked-clicked-clicked my night away on Youtube, and generally when sent a 17 minute video tutorial, ask/search if there's a 30 seconds writeup. But this... this is mesmerizing. As cheesy as premise may be, you do feel a little like an outsider voyeur - not in…
It's sort of like channel surfing all the "local access" channels in the world
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#18STOP HIDING THE VIDEO CONTROLS
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#19Quoting astrocat from the previous thread: PSA: Watch in an private/incognito tab/window. If you are currently logged into your google account, this WILL pollute your watched history: https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
Or, just pause viewing history; YouTube has a control for that.
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#20I'd like a back button, so the stream pause/resume isn't such a high cognitive load high-stakes high-regret "oh, that looks ... drat, too late" decision. Or perhaps a fade transition?
Left-arrow key goes back to the previous video, right arrow key takes you forward. Not sure if there’s an option for mobile.