IMG_0416

Between 2009 and 2012, Apple iPhones and iPod Touches included a feature called “Send to YouTube” that allowed users to upload videos directly to YouTube from the Photos app. Apple uses the ‘IMG_XXXX’ naming convention for all images and videos captured on iOS devices, where XXXX is a unique sequence number¹ Unwitting content creators would then upload their videos on a public site with a barely-searchable name. To this day, there are millions of these videos.

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