The default file name reads uploaded YouTube videos directly from the camera without changes.

In 2006, YouTube was a radically different place from the site we know today, which offers videos in an aggressive way, based on a recommendation algorithm that knows every square inch of our viewing habits. The default TV filename, created by the Everest Pipkin artist, aims to get us closer to YouTube's beginnings by "offering videos downloaded from the camera without changing the file name" .

With titles like "DSC 1197" and "IMG 3356", the videos offer a pure and authentic insight into life beyond our own bubbles and even our own continents. Most of the videos I watched were filled with voices that spoke foreign languages, in places I could not begin to locate from a distance. These are videos that people have uploaded to YouTube, probably for their own purposes, and are not explicitly shared with an audience in mind.

"I started creating this search feature as a tool for myself, to find the kind of videos I like, as this no longer happens in the browser," says Pipkin. "I was pretty happy with the videos he was serving and I thought I just had to put it away and let others use it the same way." They launched the site yesterday.

Another goal of the project is to completely destroy the idea of ​​YouTube that interests what interests you, as a spectator. "I was also hoping that by letting this program run while connected, and radically transforming my view history into noise, I might do it." able to change the type of videos that reach my recommendations while navigating ambient, "says Pipkin. If you really like YouTube recommended videos, you might want to look at the default file name when you're offline or in a browser-only browser, just in case.

The default file name TV "has a very unique energy and somewhat threatening, but also soothing," wrote a viewer. on Twitter, which nails my experience on the site. Most of the videos were perfectly enjoyable (waves crashing on a beach for five seconds) and pleasantly disturbing (a woman pulled on a carriage by five dogs, below), but some viewers have seen videos of fetishism softcore feet. Pipkin indicates that Strict SafeSearch is enabled, but some videos may still pass, as they tend to do on YouTube.

Videos are not limited in length, but most of the videos viewed last less than a minute and the longest movie I have ever shot is five minutes. So far, I have not seen any ads, probably because video downloaders have not enabled monetization. After all, if the downloaders did not bother to change the name of the file, they most likely downloaded a video for themselves, which would be a big advertising revenue.

Similar projects like youhole.tv (which has no security filter and can potentially serve NSFW videos) and Randomly Inspired (which serves videos without views) exist, but each aggregator has its own mood and it It's never worthless to have more leads. to enjoy these quieter corners of the internet. Before thumbnails clickbait and the concept of vloggers, YouTube was little more than a website to watch videos downloaded from a compact camera. The default file name brings us back there.