Today, you are an Astronaut. You are floating in inner space 100 miles above the surface of Earth. You peer through your window and this is what you see. You are people watching. These are fleeting…
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Amazing concept. This was an incredible thing to uncover during my few minutes on the site:
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.
This project is fantastic and has potential in bringing people closer together. I just watched a man propose to his girlfriend in another language. (I'm pretty sure she said yes!)
By elementalest 2019-07-1510:192 reply Then you get things like this: https://youtu.be/syiSYMPwFck
I couldn't even finish watching the video... once he said the letter "P" I switched off
By runjake 2019-07-1520:04 Apparently this is some poor attempt at parody.
What a discovery. I feel a bit intrusive getting to experience it. I hope her communication succeeds.
~1 kiloviews now with 152:3 thumbs ratio, why would someone dislike this!?
By icebraining 2019-07-157:452 reply I don't think I've ever seen a video with over 100 upvotes that didn't have any downvotes. That's just YouTube.
Clearly the OP knows this and is making a joke by adding a quintessential YouTube comment.
By mises 2019-07-1511:40 "Three people who *didn't make it off the streets disliked!!"
By cruano 2019-07-1622:54 I found some obscure music video that had like ~200 likes with no downvotes but it didn't lasted long... not idea if it's bots that downvote stuff or just weird people (hate the word "haters" but that's what I mean)
By systemtest 2019-07-158:161 reply Perhaps YouTube applies vote fuzzing similar to Reddit.
By brokenmachine 2019-07-161:021 reply What's vote fuzzing?
It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.
By salamander014 2019-07-1717:401 reply Why on earth would that be something a platform does?
By creatornator 2019-07-1720:26 >> but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.
I'd say that's why. To deter dislike bots
By Delameko 2019-07-158:41 I think some bots randomly upvote/downvote in an attempt to appear human.
Have you never been on youtube before? If you don't get the down votes don't read the comments.
By genericacct 2019-07-1516:17 Who of us has never clicked the wrong button? Touch UI interfaces make it even easier
By PhasmaFelis 2019-07-1513:12 Pohl's Law: "Nothing is so good that someone somewhere won’t hate it."
By herpes 2019-07-1513:43 I'm going to dislike it to spite you. Did you just fall off a cabbage truck?
By acangiano 2019-07-1515:25 This is a great find and a very somber video. It brings me a smile to know that this lady will wake up to her video having thousands of views and hundreds of likes, as well as many lovely comments.
By marapuru 2019-07-159:50 Wow, very touching. I wonder if her son has seen this already.
By NikolaNovak 2019-07-151:303 reply 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 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
It's sort of like channel surfing all the "local access" channels in the world
By rjbwork 2019-07-1516:28 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.
Absolutely brilliant point.
In the same vein of avoiding bubbles, I browse reddit by 'Top Of The Hour'. Filtrated enough to be decent quality, very fresh content, and not yet subverted by bubble affiliation or mind hiveing.
By chronogram 2019-07-1513:322 reply I tried that just now and it shows lots of memes. How do you do that and have it show regular content?
By Loughla 2019-07-1515:45 Based on my experience at Reddit, memes are the regular content at this point if you're looking at r/all.
By ddalex 2019-07-1521:57 I don't browse r/all, I use the front page with a curated selection of subreddits (programmer humor, aviation, android, various other interests)
By Causality1 2019-07-152:52 Reminds me of a Youtube recreation of Vine's original incarnation, VinePeek.
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. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s almost nostalgic at this juncture.
So many of the videos it was pulling up had IMG/MOV/DCS in the title that I wondered if that was the strategy for finding unwatched videos, but I don’t think so, it must just be a consequence of many people uploading videos directly from camera files.
One remark I do have is that it seems to not be picking the most recent videos. There might be good reason for that (maybe waiting filters out bad content, or content that will have views?)
"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
By jonas21 2019-07-1518:37 It's probably a strategy to find videos that were recorded IRL by real people.
There's a ton of content on YouTube that's generated automatically, as well as marketing videos, screencasts, etc. but those are not going to be nearly as interesting as something that someone recorded and uploaded by hand.
By rjbwork 2019-07-1516:29 There are plenty of videos without that format. Those titles are just sequential file names of many cameras.
