YouTube is Full of Old, Unseen Home Videos. Now You Can Watch Them at Random (yahoo.com)
(Saturday November 30, 2024 @11:34AM (EditorDavid)
from the home-movies-for-the-holidays dept.)
- Reference: 0175566377
- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/24/11/30/0411217/youtube-is-full-of-old-unseen-home-videos-now-you-can-watch-them-at-random
- Source link: https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/youtube-full-old-unseen-home-165322378.html
From [1]a new web project called IMG_0001 :
> Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by [2]Ben Wallace , I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.
[3]The Washington Post reports that it's the same 22-year-old software engineer who created [4]Bop Spotter — that phone on a telephone pole [5]using the Shazam app to identify songs people play in public .
And his new site includes only videos "posted before 2015, with fewer than 150 views each and durations shorter than 150 seconds."
> In about 12 hours total, Walz said, he coded a website that takes millions of these unedited, raw videos from more than nine years ago and serves them to viewers at random. The resulting project, titled IMG_0001 and hosted on his personal website, plays out like a glimpse into different worlds: Hit play and your first video may show teenagers practicing a dance in a high school hallway. That wraps up, and it rolls into footage of a dog frolicking in a snowy backyard...
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> Viewers were gripped by the videos' unfiltered nature, a contrast to the heavily produced and camera-aware content found on TikTok and YouTube today. Writer Ryan Broderick [6]wrote in his newsletter Garbage Day that the project is "beautiful, haunting, funny, and sort of magical. Like staring into a security camera of the past." Mashable's Tim Marcin [7]called it "the kind of authenticity that's all too rare online these days."
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> The website has more than 280,000 views and millions of video plays, Walz said — meaning plenty of viewers are sticking around to watch many of the videos.
The article includes an intesting observation from Christian Sandvig, a digital media professor at the University of Michigan. "The people who made the video might not even remember that they shared them!"
[1] https://walzr.com/IMG_0001
[2] https://ben-mini.github.io/2024/img-0416
[3] https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/youtube-full-old-unseen-home-165322378.html
[4] https://walzr.com/bop-spotter
[5] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/10/02/0310226/hidden-bopspotter-microphone-is-constantly-surveilling-san-francisco-for-good
[6] https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-internet-s-most-vocal-freaks
[7] https://mashable.com/article/candid-youtube-video-random-generator
> Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by [2]Ben Wallace , I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.
[3]The Washington Post reports that it's the same 22-year-old software engineer who created [4]Bop Spotter — that phone on a telephone pole [5]using the Shazam app to identify songs people play in public .
And his new site includes only videos "posted before 2015, with fewer than 150 views each and durations shorter than 150 seconds."
> In about 12 hours total, Walz said, he coded a website that takes millions of these unedited, raw videos from more than nine years ago and serves them to viewers at random. The resulting project, titled IMG_0001 and hosted on his personal website, plays out like a glimpse into different worlds: Hit play and your first video may show teenagers practicing a dance in a high school hallway. That wraps up, and it rolls into footage of a dog frolicking in a snowy backyard...
>
> Viewers were gripped by the videos' unfiltered nature, a contrast to the heavily produced and camera-aware content found on TikTok and YouTube today. Writer Ryan Broderick [6]wrote in his newsletter Garbage Day that the project is "beautiful, haunting, funny, and sort of magical. Like staring into a security camera of the past." Mashable's Tim Marcin [7]called it "the kind of authenticity that's all too rare online these days."
>
> The website has more than 280,000 views and millions of video plays, Walz said — meaning plenty of viewers are sticking around to watch many of the videos.
The article includes an intesting observation from Christian Sandvig, a digital media professor at the University of Michigan. "The people who made the video might not even remember that they shared them!"
[1] https://walzr.com/IMG_0001
[2] https://ben-mini.github.io/2024/img-0416
[3] https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/youtube-full-old-unseen-home-165322378.html
[4] https://walzr.com/bop-spotter
[5] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/24/10/02/0310226/hidden-bopspotter-microphone-is-constantly-surveilling-san-francisco-for-good
[6] https://www.garbageday.email/p/the-internet-s-most-vocal-freaks
[7] https://mashable.com/article/candid-youtube-video-random-generator