IMG_0416 - From 2009 to 2012, iPhones had a "Send to YouTube" button that let people upload videos directly to the site, given titles of the form IMG_XXXX. A search for, e.g. "IMG_0416" will yield obscure and old videos
ben-mini.github.ioHere's a video with 6 views, one of which is mine, from 11 years ago, of a person riding a horse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp3d8M5Yyg4
Here's a video with 28 views, one of which is mine, also from 11 years ago... Of another person riding a horse? What the fuck? Why are there so many horses? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVQ4FJIKDag
Okay, post break-- why are all these example videos I'm finding horses? Surely YouTube is not dynamically ranking these videos by recognition of a horse. There's no way they indexed and classified all the videos on their platform to target me as a horse lover.
Okay, one more number, one more video... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqJ4L6S0FQ0 No horses. Whew