YouTube Now Moving at 3,600 Times the Speed of Real Life

Video site puts uploads in perspective

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YouTube prides itself on its girth—on the sheer volume of cat videos and other ephemera (along with a handful of legitimately interesting clips) that are being uploaded to the site every day. Recently, the Google-owned site reached a very marketable milestone, as one hour of video is now being uploaded to YouTube every second. This calls for celebration, in the form of the video below, which in turn links to OneHourPerSecond.com, where lots of cute animations visualize just how far YouTube time is outpacing real time.

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