Comment by NikolaNovak

7 years ago

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

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m463  7 years ago

It's sort of like channel surfing all the "local access" channels in the world

  • rjbwork  7 years ago

    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.

ddalex  7 years ago

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.

  • chronogram  7 years ago

    I tried that just now and it shows lots of memes. How do you do that and have it show regular content?

    • Loughla  7 years ago

      Based on my experience at Reddit, memes are the regular content at this point if you're looking at r/all.

    • ddalex  7 years ago

      I don't browse r/all, I use the front page with a curated selection of subreddits (programmer humor, aviation, android, various other interests)