What Does a Video Look Like After 1000 YouTube Uploads?

The answer: PAIN. (Turn down your speakers.)

Or, a better description via Gawker (which contains links to the original video and others!):

Musician Patrick Liddell recorded a video of himself giving a short monologue and uploaded it to YouTube. He then downloaded the file from YouTube, and uploaded that file—repeating the process 1000 times. It got pretty weird.

Liddell, who records music as Ontologist, started the project as a tribute to avant-garde musician Alvin Lucier and his famous piece "I Am Sitting in a Room," wherein Lucier recorded, re-played, and re-recorded himself speaking in a room until only the room's resonant frequencies were left.

Liddell's project is a little different, as the degradation occurs thanks to the digital operations taking place—it's as though his "room" is YouTube. Or think of it like the YouTube version of photocopying photocopies until nothing is left but a big dark smudge.
jmdsays...

just as the video is compressed, so is the audio. When your a kid, have you copied an audio tape that was itself a copy of an audio tape? Ditto with VHS, theres a noticeable drop in quality after one copy. After several, the audio just gets warped and then mutates into the sound you hear here.

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