IS SAM OK?

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It has become almost impossible to find the mundane footage on YouTube these days. The recommendation algorithm keeps you on the rails so you can no longer drift out into the desert. When you finally do and begin to settle down to watch a lizard sitting on a rock it will look up and tell you to like and subscribe before it unboxes something and makes a top 10 list. The soft fascinations are gone. 

So much of what I was trying to describe in the last paragraph is now becoming cliché if not lost to us forever. At the very worst it has become a cloying cliché. The reality is that the internet just continues to do better and better and it isn't going anywhere. I don't have a clue what 'likes' means. I don't even know what 'subscribed' means. That doesn't mean I don't think they're meaningful though. My favorite YouTube video is the one where a kid is riding his bike all over a busy road, and a woman looks up from her phone and says 'I really like this kid'.

In my mind, I’m like ‘I bet she’d go insane if she saw that kid, that dog, and the other drivers in the video doing it all for her. Maybe I would (also go insane), but I don’t think the kids would want to be that kid, that dog, the drivers. They don’t really want to deal with all this stuff or be like that dog and that kid all the time. I’m sure they probably think about the consequences a lot, (as I would) if it were me.
— Me in the shoes of Car Driver Lady
 

This is what happens when you get lost in Wellington.

Sometimes I'll look at a map and pick a random small town and search for it on YT by name. Wellington, Oklahoma. Very few videos from Wellington except for a tornado and a "Wheat Squared" initiative. 

I did find Sam Upritchard's 2012 upload: "Is Sam Ok?" It has 2 views (4 now that I've watched it twice), 2 subscribers, 0 likes, 0 comments. In the description it says "This is what happens when you get lost in Wellington." I think in this case it’s Wellington Australia, because they say “g’day” a lot like Crocodile Dundee. Australians love Crocodile Dundee as a hallmark of their culture. They believe the movie is the reason for their country's success, and as far as they are concerned, the "Crocodile Dundee" is a movie about being able to walk through the streets of the Sydney suburbs. It is their culture's biggest money-maker, so their entire lives are made up of a daily reminder of their beloved croc.

 
 
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Authors Note: The text in this post is AI generated (Adam King's GPT-2 iteration). Apologies to Australia and Paul Hogan. I do not think that Crocodile Dundee represents a "hallmark of their culture" and understand there are likely complex cultural histories at work on the continent both indigenous and colonial. I'm also not trying to be cheeky or smart by letting AI write the blog. I just like it honestly, and it's relaxing to let something else write and allow me to ignore my personal experience and feelings. I do add context here and there that's usually parenthetical "(also go insane)" when the bot is loosing touch. -z 
 
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Prompt: I also search for content related to the auto-generated text and then re-prompt based on where it is leading. 

So, it looks like an extremely simple way to automate a task that can be done at any moment. I did not do any research and I am not really in the know of how this works. If anyone can help out with these, I would be more than happy.

Now, I need to try it out before I can really take notice of its potential, but I plan on trying it out this weekend.