Turning YouTube Comments Into Art | The New Yorker
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Chiara Amisola took a close look at the stories and revelations that people leave below online videos.
Save this story Save this story If written today, “ In Search of Lost Time ” might well be an Internet novel. The Web has become the first port of call in any search for what we’ve once seen or even felt. It’s our externalized memory—in the never-fading photographs on Instagram or Facebook, in the dangerously searchable chats, the indelible e-mails, or in our improbably granular Uber and Venmo histories. Our memory also lives, in part, on YouTube: every movie scene you’ve ever watched; every historical event you’ve ever (or never) witnessed; tours of every place you’ve ever visited; and record
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