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A website that randomly displays YouTube videos with zero views

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  1. joplin
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    This is similar to Forgotify which will let you listen to songs with 0 listens on Spotify. A very clever idea! This is also how I went through my iTunes library and rated my songs. I made a...

    This is similar to Forgotify which will let you listen to songs with 0 listens on Spotify. A very clever idea!

    This is also how I went through my iTunes library and rated my songs. I made a playlist of "unrated songs" and just pressed play whenever I was bored. When I song was playing, I'd give it a rating.

    9 votes
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    Atvelonis
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    I like this a lot. It reminds me a little bit of Vine, except that any humor produced by these videos is usually accidental. It feels like they're supposed to be funny while watching them—why else...

    I like this a lot. It reminds me a little bit of Vine, except that any humor produced by these videos is usually accidental. It feels like they're supposed to be funny while watching them—why else would I be there?—but it's just a kid kicking a ball or a drill punching a hole in a piece of wood or someone muttering to themselves in a language I can't recognize. Somehow I still find it endlessly entertaining, often because the transitions between videos sometimes line up in amusing ways.

    5 votes
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      teaearlgraycold
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      Reminds me of a game a friend and I would play growing up. He had a TV setup where there were two tuners. We’d tune one to something intense, like an action movie and hook that into the speakers....

      Reminds me of a game a friend and I would play growing up. He had a TV setup where there were two tuners. We’d tune one to something intense, like an action movie and hook that into the speakers. Then the screen would get tuned to something innocent like Arthur. It probably wouldn’t pass for great entertainment today, but it was fun as kids waiting for serendipity to momentarily align the audio and video into a barely cohesive unit.

      8 votes
      1. Pistos
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        That reminds me of a time once where I was driving in a remote area. My original post:

        That reminds me of a time once where I was driving in a remote area. My original post:

        I happened to be driving around in distant areas this weekend, and a most peculiar fortuity occurred. I had the radio tuned to a certain frequency which was some particular classical radio station. Playing at the time was a duet with Luciano Pavarotti and some lady. Nothing remarkable about that, sure. But then the radio started picking up a different radio station. Presumably, I was somewhere in the middle of two distant radio stations that were broadcasting on the same frequency. So, along the car went, and along the radio went, waxing and waning from one radio station’s programming to the other’s, and back again. Nothing too extraordinary about that either. But: it just so happened that the song on the second radio station was Bryan Adams’ “I Do It For You” … and … Pavarotti and his duet partner were singing in the same key! 

        It was surreal yet delightful. It was like I caught just the right cosmic wave while surfing along in Life and the Universe. Bryan Adams sang a phrase… Pavarotti sang some harmony… Adams sings another phrase… Pavarotti sings counterpoint.

        “You know it’s true…” “AAaaa….” “Everything I do…” “AAAAaaaa!” “I do it for you.” “(non-English words)”

        5 votes
  3. yellow
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    I first saw this the last time it was posted. Certainly a strange experience.

    I first saw this the last time it was posted. Certainly a strange experience.

    1 vote