Tom Scott did a recent meta-video-trick where the title of the video said how many views the video has, and u/Fheuef/ on reddit noticed that he hid a link to another video in the source shown on screen...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/fwko0u/tom_scott_you_cheeky_boi/">https://www.reddit.com/r/Program...
the video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxV14h0kFs0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
it& #39;s also amusing to link to this on other platforms, because you see that they cache their little link cards, so the count is out of date, compared to youtube.
personally I& #39;m still annoyed that I spent years memorizing the youtube ID of oHg5SJYRHA0 but then this "vevo" shit came along and the canonically rickroll URL has changed.
this is the "original" video everyone linked to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
then a few years later Vevo came along, and I think that one got disabled for a while, and now everyone uses the official one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
speaking of Tom Scott, he once made an emoji keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AtBE9BOvvk">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
but that was back in 2015 and emoji has changed a lot in the last 5 years.
I kinda want to redo that project someday, and include all the new emojis. emojii? emojipodes? I don& #39;t know what the plural is. emojix.
The current count of emoji (in unicode v13.0) is apparently 3,304, but that includes a lot that are variants.
1,317 is closer to the base count, then you could set up modifier keys for skin color/hair/gender/etc.
can& #39;t wait to have to build a keyboard with gender-shift keys.
my gender is ctrl-alt-shift-meta-super-open apple-option-feature-function-altgr-DELETE
that reminds me that I still need to build that stupid idea I had where I make the moddifier buttons on a keyboard into toggle switches. like in this artistic rendering.
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