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Re: IMG_0416 (2024)

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Post by popcornricecake »

I recently stumbled upon a small channel called KVN AUST, who's been making videos about what he calls "YouTube's Recycle Bin". It's about this and SO many other search terms (over a hundred), that turn up videos that have been public for over a decade often without a single view. It's so fascinating to see the random things people have uploaded.

It's stupid that my YT front page is simply empty, because "Your watch history is off", when it could simply be filled with a random selection of videos.

Re: IMG_0416 (2024)

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Post by tombert »

gonzalohm wrote: post #35
tombert wrote: post #6

I read this article when it was new and I've shared it with a bunch of people because it it unbelievably fascinating to me. There's something borderline "voyeuristic" (for want of a better term) about it. There are all these videos that are public, I'm allowed to watch them, but they were clearly not meant for me to watch. It's like when you see a family photo at a Goodwill or something. It's definitely worth trying…

There are also creepy videos. I just searched for IMG_ date of my birthday and there is a video of someone recording a dead pig. Nice way to start my day

Sorry you saw that. I have tried a bunch of numbers and everything I saw was pretty innocuous, but I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that there’s gross or disturbing stuff.

Re: IMG_0416 (2024)

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Post by ggggffggggg »

popcornricecake wrote: post #41

I recently stumbled upon a small channel called KVN AUST, who's been making videos about what he calls "YouTube's Recycle Bin". It's about this and SO many other search terms (over a hundred), that turn up videos that have been public for over a decade often without a single view. It's so fascinating to see the random things people have uploaded. It's stupid that my YT front page is simply empty, because "Your watch…

Stupid for us, but I bet people enable it just to get the empty page to go away.

Re: IMG_0416 (2024)

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Post by [deleted] »

bonoboTP wrote: post #20
VladVladikoff wrote: post #3

It’s wild how antique the iPhone interface design looks. It’s not THAT old.

It's 19 years since the iPhone came out, that's almost two decades. 19 years before the iPhone was 1988. Things from 1988 definitely seemed dated in 2007. In fact I think style/aesthetics change is now getting slower and slower. Anything within the last 10 years looks like it could have been made today, since the image resolution / quality doesn't significantly change in such an obvious way. Throughout the 90s and 00…

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Re: IMG_0416 (2024)

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Post by nunez »

VladVladikoff wrote: post #3

It’s wild how antique the iPhone interface design looks. It’s not THAT old.

iOS 7 really changed the game on the iOS aesthetic. We probably would've had more refined skeuomorphism had that re-design not been as aggressive as it was.

Re: IMG_0416 (2024)

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Post by derefr »

mid-kid wrote: post #12

It's worth noting that while these videos may have been unintentional, this was also an era when youtube was still inventing itself. Sure, there was real content creation, but the structures of sponsors and ad revenue that can be a real income today weren't there. Let's plays were just starting to dominate the platform, and people were still figuring out how to make money off of that. As a result, there was a lot of…

One might say that early Youtube was mainly thought of as a video pastebin that allowed (JS-assisted) hotlink-embedding into other pages. Youtube was to video as image-hosting sites like Imgur were to images. Which was important, in both cases, because not just video but even (HQ) images were hard to host yourself at the time, and also hard to send to other people without hosting them somewhere.

With both video and image-sharing sites, you didn't really expect the site itself to function as a social network that was worth "browsing." Rather, you expected the "front page view" to be an upload view; and from there, to take your uploaded assets and embed them onto a page to put them into proper context. And it's these webpages-that-contextualize-image/video-assets that you'd share links to, on forums and on early social bookmarking platforms (Fark, StumbleUpon, etc.)

Re: IMG_0416 (2024)

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Post by mid-kid »

Razengan wrote: post #13
mid-kid wrote: post #12

It's worth noting that while these videos may have been unintentional, this was also an era when youtube was still inventing itself. Sure, there was real content creation, but the structures of sponsors and ad revenue that can be a real income today weren't there. Let's plays were just starting to dominate the platform, and people were still figuring out how to make money off of that. As a result, there was a lot of…

I love wondering if and how this kind of "Wild West frontier" in technology and communication and social interaction will ever come again: Say we colonize Mars. Streaming anything from Earth takes hours (well 3-22 light minutes). Martians may invent their own planetary social network and share their own weird Martian memes for a while. Or interstellar colony ships traveling for decades between the stars, and then pra…

This happened for a while with VRChat, though I don't know what it's like now.
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