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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by dhmiller »

jchw wrote: post #203

The implementation here is somewhat interesting. - Video IDs are spit out onto a Socket.io connection. (Another person claims it’s synchronized, which seems likely.) - While one video plays, another player is in the background buffering the next video. Making it quite seemless. - The code is from 2011, apparently, and it feels like it. You have code in script tags and plain old unminified JS, not to mention jQuery. N…

"These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views."

That is from the initial page load. So it would seem that the title pattern that you observed is intentional

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Post by vcanales »

chias wrote: post #4

Quoting 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

Interesting, it didn't add anything to my watch history on Safari; is this a browser thing?

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Post by rjbwork »

m463 wrote: post #17
NikolaNovak wrote: post #10

This 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

It reminds me of the Adult Swim show "Robot Chicken". Not exactly in content but in format and style. Just random things, slices of life, from people across the world.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by rjbwork »

dhmiller wrote: post #211
jchw wrote: post #203

The implementation here is somewhat interesting. - Video IDs are spit out onto a Socket.io connection. (Another person claims it’s synchronized, which seems likely.) - While one video plays, another player is in the background buffering the next video. Making it quite seemless. - The code is from 2011, apparently, and it feels like it. You have code in script tags and plain old unminified JS, not to mention jQuery. N…

"These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views." That is from the initial page load. So it would seem that the title pattern that you observed is intentional

There are plenty of videos without that format. Those titles are just sequential file names of many cameras.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by JansjoFromIkea »

Really like this! I remember the musician Burial would sample covers on YouTube of songs he wanted to sample with next to 0 views. So you had this double whammy of getting the vibe of the original song and the intimacy of a bedroom recording wrapped into the sample. Feel like there's so much potential to get neat stuff outta the onslaught of personal footage on youtube.

I guess on one level it's invasive as hell but in an increasingly streamlined online experience it's nice to get glimpses at all the other stuff that's going on out there.

Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by [deleted] »

_2d30 wrote: post #49

Amazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site: https://youtu.be/1rvPbeHjzlk It's a video of a woman reciting a poem that she wrote for her eldest son that speaks of her love for her son and her wish that he would get "off the streets". Emotional, honest, real. YouTube like I've never experienced. Brilliant.

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Re: YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views

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Post by rmorey »

whiddershins wrote: post #219

I love this, what I really need is a back button or history though, what if i see something I love and then it switches before I think to hit the freeze button? It is gone forever? (As far as I'm concerned)

I think the videos are fleeting by design
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