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YouTube Randomizer and YouTube Time Machine are essentially the same thing (except Randomizer has more features). The reason both exist is so the core tool can be more easily found by people looking for different things.
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Is your YouTube feed getting stagnant? Want some nostalgia with videos from the past? Looking for something new and different to watch? Give this a try!
It's easy: Hit the "Let's go!" button to instantly get random YouTube videos. Or, try the options if you want more control.
Either way, it's like the YouTube version of channel surfing, or like StumbleUpon for YouTube!
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YouTube Randomizer and YouTube Time Machine show you YouTube searches based on one of ~7,000 keywords and a random month, from YouTube's launch in 2005 to today.
Because these tools don't rely on a list of curated or self-indexed videos, the pool of videos that can be found is all publicly available videos on YouTube. That's billions of videos.
These tools utilize YouTube's existing infrastructure and features without getting in the way. They're basically user-friendly URL generators. They're simple and that's what makes them great.
(The fact that I don't have to maintain a video database or anything like that also makes this project great for me personally.)
If you set Min. Year and Max Year to the same year, you will get YouTube results from a period within the range of January 1 to December 31 of that year.
So, for example, if you enter 2010 in Min. Year and 2010 in Max Year, you will only see videos that were uploaded to YouTube in 2010.
All Easy Mode does is hide some features. It doesn't turn these features off: Search Term, Min. Year, and Max Year aren't visible on the page in Easy Mode, but they are still active.
So, for example, if you entered a Search Term and entered a Max Year before turning on Easy Mode, those options will still be applied to the YouTube results you get when using Easy Mode.
This tool does not have any AI-powered functionality, but it was created with help from ChatGPT.
Random word sources: ef.edu, frequencylist.com, ssa.gov, Wikipedia, ChatGPT
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