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To contrast with some actual and manually created video content: in the early 2010s I came upon a video by a Brazilian man filming himself with his webcam as he

To contrast with some actual and manually created video content: in the early 2010s I came upon a video by a Brazilian man filming himself with his webcam as he lounged in a bed while intensively and hurriedly puffing tobacco in a pipe. I don't know why I clicked his username to check out his other videos, but I found that he had uploaded over 7000 videos. From what I could see, every single one of them depicted him smoking a pipe somewhere in his home for a few minutes.

daneel_w 4y ago
Argentinian. Found him: https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES/videos
- everly 4y ago
  Thanks for sharing - I scrolled and scrolled and eventually noticed a video called ‘My Dog’ and one called ‘Remember at my wife Ana María, with photo’ both from 9 years ago. Fascinating.
petercooper 4y ago
One of my pastimes is to find and look through genuine accounts that post consistently with next to no attention. There are so many. Folks who livestream for hours every day, folks who sing or play guitar every day.. One of my favorites is a woman called "movie reviewer" who posts 5-20 second videos every day which never feature movie reviews but are instead basic observations or questions about the world or replies to Reddit threads she doesn't link to. I originally found this entertaining, but now I'm more in awe of these people's consistency and demonstration of how much the platform means to them in the face of not achieving any traditional type of success on it. YouTube is hugely valuable and one of the best libraries of human experience I can think of – it's absolutely essential, to me, that it stays running for evermore.
Handytinge 4y ago
Oh man, Aldolfo Mateo, great channel. Another great one was Jon Eats Carrots, which was a fisheye lens of a man eating carrots for 10-20 minutes at a time. He did hundreds. He also did a series on him counting to 100,000. Also Bryan Ropar has a channel where he talks about his favourite plastic outdoor chairs - he has over 600 of them now (videos that is, probably more chairs). Youtube is a wonderful place.

daneel_w 4y ago

Argentinian. Found him: https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/SMOKERSOFCIGARSPIPES/videos

everly 4y ago
Thanks for sharing - I scrolled and scrolled and eventually noticed a video called ‘My Dog’ and one called ‘Remember at my wife Ana María, with photo’ both from 9 years ago. Fascinating.

petercooper 4y ago

One of my pastimes is to find and look through genuine accounts that post consistently with next to no attention. There are so many. Folks who livestream for hours every day, folks who sing or play guitar every day.. One of my favorites is a woman called "movie reviewer" who posts 5-20 second videos every day which never feature movie reviews but are instead basic observations or questions about the world or replies to Reddit threads she doesn't link to. I originally found this entertaining, but now I'm more in awe of these people's consistency and demonstration of how much the platform means to them in the face of not achieving any traditional type of success on it. YouTube is hugely valuable and one of the best libraries of human experience I can think of – it's absolutely essential, to me, that it stays running for evermore.

Handytinge 4y ago

Oh man, Aldolfo Mateo, great channel. Another great one was Jon Eats Carrots, which was a fisheye lens of a man eating carrots for 10-20 minutes at a time. He did hundreds. He also did a series on him counting to 100,000. Also Bryan Ropar has a channel where he talks about his favourite plastic outdoor chairs - he has over 600 of them now (videos that is, probably more chairs). Youtube is a wonderful place.