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Original Unnamed Series

The “original unnamed series” consists of over 48,000 videos uploaded to the first YouTube channel between April 5, 2015 and February 25, 2016. It includes the first known video posted to the channel (♐980708) as well as the last (♐612831). All titles in this series consist of the Sagittarius symbol (♐) followed by a seemingly randomly generated number ranging from 23 to 999997. Many videos share the same titles. 26 distinct sub-series (seasons) have been identified within the original unnamed series. The audio and visual content of these videos has been the subject of much analysis.

48258 videos from this series have been archived, though it is unknown if this constitutes the full extent of the series.






Video and Audio Analysis

All videos in this series have a resolution of 50 x 50 and play at 30 fps. The vast majority are 4 seconds long, though some are considerably longer. Videos feature a solid background color with a single black pixel (dot) at a seemingly random location. A compression artifact is typically seen around the dot, and in some videos the dot is obscured or absent entirely. Both the background color and dot location remain static throughout the video duration.

Many videos feature readings by the unknown voice. Audio heard in this series includes:

Extracted data for each archived video can be found here!

Seasons

Reddit user u/McSweepyPants first noted in a post on the subreddit the existence of several sub-series within the original unnanmed series, which he dubbed “seasons”. Further analysis of upload dates, composites, and transcripts has led to the identification of 26 distinct seasons within the original unnamed series.

Number Upload Date Number of Videos Composite Audio Notes
1 April 5, 2015 1247 Silence  
2 April 7, 2015 150 Letters, digits  
3 April 7, 2015 565 Letters, digits  
4 April 8-9, 2015 6135 Letters, digits There is a 1 hour gap in the uploading of this season.
5 April 9-10, 2015 5301 Letters, digits This season was uploaded less than 4 hours after the previous season’s conclusion.
6 April 13, 2015 4102 1s and 0s  
7 April 17-20, 2015 7382 1s and 0s (first 270), letters, digits There are multi-hour gaps in the uploading of this series.
8 April 22, 2015 261 Letters, digits  
9 May 27-28, 2015 1424 1s and 0s. There are small gaps in the uploading of this series.
10 May 28 - June 10, 2015 5897 1s and 0s  
11 June 12, 2015 411 Letters, digits This season has not been fully transcribed.
12 June 12, 2015 302 Thumping, scraping, long silences, 3 Auto-hashing identifies a spoken “3” in some videos, but this may be a transcription error.
13 June 17, 2015 807 Letters, digits This season has not been fully transcribed.
14 June 18, 2015 596 Letters, digits This season has not been fully transcribed.
15 August 10, 2015 396 Distorted sounds, tones  
16 August 11, 2015 7507 Letters, digits This season has not been fully transcribed.
17 August 12, 2015 5367 Digits  
18 August 14, 2015 3 Letters, digits  
19 December 25, 2015 5 Letters, digits  
20 December 26, 2015 173 Odd music, letters, digits  
21 December 28, 2015 23 Loud tones All videos in this season feature similar audio, possibly the exact same.
22 December 28, 2015 75 Silence  
23 January 6, 2016 100 Silence  
24 February 5, 2016 6 NA This season has not been fully transcribed.
25 February 5, 2016 9 NA This season has not been fully transcribed.
26 February 20-25, 2016 15 NA This season has not been fully transcribed.

Audio composite

In July 2024, user N25_CT13 found and colorized this audio composite from ♐970558:

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