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by tlarkworthy 2226 days ago
I made a script on ObservableHQ to surf YouTube psuedo-randomly https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/random-place-on-yout...

I do a random city + documentary as the search term, it's taken me all over the world and seen some very strange things.

One of my favourites was Aarhus, which had a Danish language rapper proclaiming he was putting Aarhus on the global map (I have never heard of the city of Aarhus). https://youtu.be/WSZxuzgImLo They dis Copenhagen a lot too, lol. You get a more intimate YouTube experience with the low view videos

But I also seen amazing religious rituals. An excellent documentary on Karachi.

Because it's observable hq you can fork it and figure out your own algorithm for biasing the random.