YouTube videos that have almost zero previous views
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#2this is an awesome idea, for a handful of different reasons. "A feed of the present". The post got my attention because of the domain name. Perhaps including your description "A feed of a present" would get more deserved attention
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#3Thread from 2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13413225
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#4Quoting 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
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#5This is a really weird premise for a site, but after a couple videos, all I could think was, this is an awesome glimpse at humanity.
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#6Upload videos to bitchute instead
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#7Interesting idea, but the “Go” button is not appearing for me on Safari mobile.
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#8This is a really weird premise for a site, but after a couple videos, all I could think was, this is an awesome glimpse at humanity.
I wasn't going to click the link but your comment prompted me to.
Wow. It's a fascinating look at what likely makes up a large majority of YouTube content that I would otherwise never come into contact with.
I also love how the creator packaged it up as a though an alien visitor was using YouTube to sample our civilization. This is the 99%.
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#9Does this respect the 'unlisted' setting for a video? I recently uploaded some videos and set them all to unlisted, and yet some of them received views despite me not viewing them or handing out a link. I meant to dig into that more but forgot after getting distracted. Can unlisted videos be found by a program like this, which I assume is using the API?
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#10This 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 a perverse sense, but in the having-no-expectations-or-context sense. Each video proves a gem, and timing is right. And knowing that you may be the only person who has ever seen it just adds to mystique... absolutely brilliant! :O