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"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."

One of these good examples of failed privacy, have fun...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 13 hours ago

How is this an example of failed privacy?

YouTube is a video sharing site. People pushed a button to share their videos. They wanted people to see these.

These videos aren't much different than what you find on Facebook or Instagram today, it's just that over the past decade people have gotten better at naming and categorizing what they post.

The real quirk here is that the app made it way too easy to upload the default filenames, so we can now search for them specifically like a little time capsule.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago

This is the equivalent of buying an old camcorder at the thrift store and finding some random family's tape still in it of some kid's birthday party from 1994.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (2 children)

Holy shit I got this one:

I'm trying to work out if it's real or not. It's from 2013, so I guess VFX wasn't so great back then, but then.... where? and when? and why?

Edit: I've been duped by mediocre graphics, don't worry I'm writing my will as we speak.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is the shittiest, fakest VFX I've ever seen.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

I wouldn't go that far, but yes. It's less than optimal.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I remember this app.

It was an app called “Action Movie” by the Bad Robot studios people. It overlaid effects on top of what you recorded with the camera and this was one of the free effects.

It’s 100% fake because nothing happens to the other cars. They don’t explode out of the way, they don’t anything. They all just sit there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Why is IMG_0036 a lot of golf?

[–] RagnarokOnline 3 points 14 hours ago

Found a funny one of an Eastern European kid in blue shorts spinning himself around to make himself dizzy. I remember doing the same thing when I was a kid.

Then YouTube started blocking the videos because it thought I was a bot:/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Found a really funny one with two kids doing a skit about a drink in their garden, then an Helicopter crashes in their yard

Edit: this is a montage and the helicopter is part of the skit but unexpected turn of events

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Why are you telling us and not showing us?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I didn't know how to link to the exact video :(