Unfavorable semicircle

Unfavorable Semicircle was the name of a channel on YouTube which garnered attention for the huge number of videos it published and the unusual nature of the videos over the course of a year. The account went live on March 30, 2015 and began posting videos extremely frequently, with two or three videos being published every two minutes.

Tens of thousands of videos were posted on the channel while it was active, some only a few seconds long, some as long as eleven hours long, and all featured abstract images and were either silent or with distorted voices and unusual sounds.[1]

Speculation as to what the channel might be includes the work of a highly-focused individual, a test of the YouTube platform itself (similar to Webdriver Torso, although that theory is unlikely as Google themselves suspended the account) and an online numbers station.[2]

The channel garnered much attention and curiosity after one of its videos was posted to Reddit and soon hit the mainstream news on February 22. As of February 25 2016, the channel has been terminated by YouTube. A number of channels bearing the name Unfavorable Semicircle were discovered and debunked in the following weeks, as well as some copycat channels.

In March, Unfavorable Semicircle resurfaced on Twitter[3] where the account has posted over ten thousand videos in the very same style as the videos posted to YouTube.

A few days later, some of the same new content began appearing on a new YouTube account, that is mentioned as well on Twitter.

References

  1. ↑ "The Unsettling Mystery of the Creepiest Channel on YouTube". Atlas Obscura.
  2. ↑ ""Basic Observations" by reddit user KnotNotNaught". Reddit.
  3. ↑ ""UFSC IS BACK" by reddit user its_safer_indoors". Reddit.

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