Speaking of silly YouTube videos, I ran across this ridiculous short (not a video). The claims are all in the brief text shown. I’m reasonably familiar with traditional organs and tube-powered electric organs since my sister was an organist and had her own church organ at home. The amount of work and knowledge required to pull this off is staggering. Any 1924 organ is going to be just keys opening valves to allow air from the air chests into each pipe. And the insides of an older, tube-type console are, shall we say, complicated and absolutely stuffed with wires. There ain’t no simple way to hook up a light switch to B flat.
More so: several of the notes are repeated, meaning more than one switch is hooked up to the same note. Not a believer.
“Amazing Grace” has 37 notes.
A quick bit of Goggling reveals that player pianos date back to the late 19th century.
So it seems entirely plausible to me that by the 1920s, the, someone could have made a player organ that is activated by switching on a light. In fact, the technology to make a, organ that plays just one canned piece, triggered by a simple electrical signal, could be simpler than that required to make a player piano that allows for different rolls to play different pieces.
Do we know why it is only a six second clip?
I’m not even sure why it’s a video. It’s just a still image.
FYI, change “shorts” to “video” in the URL and it’ll behave like a normal video.
It is a video: a still picture superimposed over a waving flag with birdsong in the background. I tried putting “video” in the URL and it went right to the clip.
That’s the entire video. I was just saying that if you substitute video for shorts, it behaves like a normal youtube video as opposed to a youtube short. So you get your controls and timeline back.
Is that linked to an actual church somewhere? Or just "some church, somewhere? Because it’s a fun idea.
If you had to choose an organ to do this to, “Pipe organ with electric keyboard” is the obvious candidate, because those organs were built for “remote electrical operation” – the console is a separate instrument to the sound system, there may even be two consoles.
Given that it’s an actual real pipe organ, turning the lights on or off isn’t going to have any effect unless the blower is running. And you wouldn’t want random notes while playing, so you sort of think there might be additional control for disabling the system.
I think that now, normal direct electrical action pipe organs run at 10-20V, not 110, so this makes me curious about early systems – in 1924 anything was possible, it could be wired to the mains, the mains could have been different, it could have had a rotary converter, whatever. Or the system could have been put in place later when the console was replaced. And the lighting system itself could run on contactors – in a large buidling, the lighting system can take a lot of power.
I’m pretty sure that’s just Facebook-quality glurg. I challenge anyone to find a link to an actual article about it.
I searched for the church name and didn’t come up with any leads pertaining to any of them.
If you go to that youtuber’s page, there’s 1100 more 5 second ‘videos’ with the same format. I’ll give you that one of them, taken on it’s own, at face value, feels plausible enough that you might be willing to believe it. But add in 1000+ more of them, and they’re clearly bullshit.
They all have at least one thing that make it not make sense. So this church was wired, who knows when, and whoever did it knew exactly the order the lights were turned on?
Another story involves a delivery driver that follows his GPS through a car wash seventeen times in a row. Sure.
A runner’s reflective vests causes street lights to shut off, one after another, every single night he goes running. Maybe, probably not.
Multiple stories that involve drones and birds, one of which claims the drone’s video went viral with 9 million hits in a few days.
A 4th grade class that was accidentally enrolled into a community college and the college let one of said fourth graders make something in their welding class.
9 year old girl’s dad dies, so she tracks down the man who saved his life years earlier and he adopts her. Right.
Also, I picked these stories because, oddly enough, every one of them includes someone named “Marcus”.
Other things that lean towards bullshit are the fact that all 1100+ videos have been uploaded in the past 16 months and the videos get an incredible amount of views in a short time. I’m seeing videos uploaded less than half a day ago with 10s of thousands of views. I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that five second videos with a static image and one paragraph story aren’t gaining this many views, this quickly and this consistently without a bot farm doing a lot of the watching, which wouldn’t take long since they’re only 5 seconds long. On the other hand, doing some back of the envelope math, you wouldn’t even need to hire a bot farm to do this. A single device could play a 5 second video over 40,000 times in 12 hours. A few devices running these on repeat could pull off these numbers. But I’d still call that bot-farm adjacent. I still have a hard time believing these view numbers are organic.
Oh, and the last one I clicked on is about a dog that figured out how to open gate latches and started stealing food from back yard grills so the county issued an ordinance requiring carabiner on gates. Cite!
Six seconds is generally the limit on most free AI video generators.
Wouldn’t a single device watching the same video repeatedly not affect the view count? All of the views would be from the same IP address. Unless there’s some hack to change one’s IP address every time?
I guess that would explain why the few notes we get also don’t sound like they’re in any way recognizable as Amazing Grace. AI slop it is!
That, I don’t know. However, I’d always wondered if content creators put their own videos on repeat when they upload them so the view counter starts climbing. Then when I watched Liver King on netflix, he mentioned that he does just that. Looking around it seems there’s an algorithm at play where it only counts a limited number of views per 24 hours (and possibly even less if it’s your own video).
In any case, I still wouldn’t be surprised if they were using a bot farm to increase the numbers.
Every video on their page is the identical, including the music. The only thing that changes is the text.