The most-watched YouTube video of all time is Psy’s “Gangam Style.” With more than 2.5 billion views, it’s been seen by more people than you will ever meet; more people than you can even really comprehend. “IMG 0629” on the other hand, only has around 12 views. It features a blonde boy in the woods holding a toy chainsaw. “IMG 0594” (a view of a spiral staircase inside what is presumably a church tower) has only four views.

I found these unlabeled, unpopular videos through Astronaut.io, a website created by engineers Andrew Wong and James Thompson this past November, that recently surfaced on Hacker News. The site pulls random YouTube videos with only a handful of views, creating an unending stream of mundane, strange, intimate, and…

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