Hey y'all,
I don't know if it's okay to do this (I'm new here, so apologies in advance if it's inappropriate), but I thought I should try.
There's this one Chinese guy I'm obsessed with, so I'm now trying to find all media pieces he's involved with. I've affectionately nicknamed him "Natsumi" because of how handsome he is (among other reasons...If you know about Camp Buddy, you know what I'm talking about)
Now I don't speak Chinese, but I do have Google Translate and a dream (which is to "catch 'em all"), so hopefully you guys can help with that!
I'm attaching two kinds of files: pictures (thumbnails) from videos I haven't found yet (that's where you come in), and all the videos I've found so far (apparently there's an attachment limit per post, so I guess I'll need to make separate posts). In both cases the filenames start with the video duration, and include the URL of where the video was found or is supposed to be. In many cases the videos I haven't found haven't been deleted, but they're not readily accessible.
Other than that, I know his usernames on Douyin/抖音 (the Chinese TikTok) are 阿Geng ( https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjA...IK2jOFw8H4sYfQdJAo7m2fEdTN5aJRnksd9vu-MUAgqJc ) and 爱的运动 ( https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjA...7pxJ5s9YKUxoAJ8dXyqoJM6E7WzdPVE77OfpS2P1r4yd5 ), on GBLive it is (or was) 大鸟主播, and on WeChat/微信 it's zg91415. Now I don't have access to any of these Chinese apps, but I was able at least to confirm the Douyin ones since they have a web version that doesn't require login (his secound Douyin account - 爱的运动 - is oddly empty, so I suspect it might have age-restricted videos). As far as I understand GBLive might not exist anymore, but apparently WeChat/微信 does (so that might have more content as well).
As general tools, for image similarity search I've been using image-search.org (especially with Yandex and Google), and for translation Google Translate and Translate text from photos from English and other languages – Yandex.Translate (for translating text from images/screenshots). Google Cache and Web Archive searches (Google Cache Search: View Cached Pages & Websites) have been occasionally helpful.
I was kinda hoping Web Archive would be more helpful (and less daunting) than it actually is, but it's been tough. Probably the most relevant datasets are xvideos.com : Free Web : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive are pornhub.com : Free Web : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive (you'll quickly realize that seeing the URLs from the thumbnails which videos I haven't found), but their internal IDs are based a timestamp of when the video retrieved (which has absolutely nothing to do with the original video IDs used by those websites, which makes this a cross-referecing nightmare).
Also, I believe a few people of interest are the ones who posted some of those videos on Twitter (all Chinese speakers, so I have no idea if they know English or not). They are Max帝师 (@Max66888) , 虎鲸与海 (@lovebig_106969) , and jnj1995 (@jnj19951) . There's also one person who bragged about "having several of his videos" (幽鹤 (@HM7XLHMiFTVgdFF) - paste that link in Google Translate and it translates the whole page), but I don't think they're willing to share.
Finally (trying to understand the comments on 【肌肉帅哥】这一笑,有点小清新的感觉。_哔哩哔哩_bilibili ), someone there (angelCK-) said that the "Rainbow World (彩虹世界) still has resources of him", but I haven't made sense of that yet (maybe Rainbow World/彩虹世界 is another Chinese app I won't be able to access - I think that's the case, since someone else asked if there was any software they could download for Rainbow World -, or maybe that's just a generic term for "gay internet" or something like that).
Whew! That's it, sorry for the long post and thanks for reading. If you join the search, good luck (and please share the methods/results with the rest of the class, if you would be so kind)!
I don't know if it's okay to do this (I'm new here, so apologies in advance if it's inappropriate), but I thought I should try.
There's this one Chinese guy I'm obsessed with, so I'm now trying to find all media pieces he's involved with. I've affectionately nicknamed him "Natsumi" because of how handsome he is (among other reasons...If you know about Camp Buddy, you know what I'm talking about)
I'm attaching two kinds of files: pictures (thumbnails) from videos I haven't found yet (that's where you come in), and all the videos I've found so far (apparently there's an attachment limit per post, so I guess I'll need to make separate posts). In both cases the filenames start with the video duration, and include the URL of where the video was found or is supposed to be. In many cases the videos I haven't found haven't been deleted, but they're not readily accessible.
Other than that, I know his usernames on Douyin/抖音 (the Chinese TikTok) are 阿Geng ( https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjA...IK2jOFw8H4sYfQdJAo7m2fEdTN5aJRnksd9vu-MUAgqJc ) and 爱的运动 ( https://www.douyin.com/user/MS4wLjA...7pxJ5s9YKUxoAJ8dXyqoJM6E7WzdPVE77OfpS2P1r4yd5 ), on GBLive it is (or was) 大鸟主播, and on WeChat/微信 it's zg91415. Now I don't have access to any of these Chinese apps, but I was able at least to confirm the Douyin ones since they have a web version that doesn't require login (his secound Douyin account - 爱的运动 - is oddly empty, so I suspect it might have age-restricted videos). As far as I understand GBLive might not exist anymore, but apparently WeChat/微信 does (so that might have more content as well).
As general tools, for image similarity search I've been using image-search.org (especially with Yandex and Google), and for translation Google Translate and Translate text from photos from English and other languages – Yandex.Translate (for translating text from images/screenshots). Google Cache and Web Archive searches (Google Cache Search: View Cached Pages & Websites) have been occasionally helpful.
I was kinda hoping Web Archive would be more helpful (and less daunting) than it actually is, but it's been tough. Probably the most relevant datasets are xvideos.com : Free Web : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive are pornhub.com : Free Web : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive (you'll quickly realize that seeing the URLs from the thumbnails which videos I haven't found), but their internal IDs are based a timestamp of when the video retrieved (which has absolutely nothing to do with the original video IDs used by those websites, which makes this a cross-referecing nightmare).
Also, I believe a few people of interest are the ones who posted some of those videos on Twitter (all Chinese speakers, so I have no idea if they know English or not). They are Max帝师 (@Max66888) , 虎鲸与海 (@lovebig_106969) , and jnj1995 (@jnj19951) . There's also one person who bragged about "having several of his videos" (幽鹤 (@HM7XLHMiFTVgdFF) - paste that link in Google Translate and it translates the whole page), but I don't think they're willing to share.
Finally (trying to understand the comments on 【肌肉帅哥】这一笑,有点小清新的感觉。_哔哩哔哩_bilibili ), someone there (angelCK-) said that the "Rainbow World (彩虹世界) still has resources of him", but I haven't made sense of that yet (maybe Rainbow World/彩虹世界 is another Chinese app I won't be able to access - I think that's the case, since someone else asked if there was any software they could download for Rainbow World -, or maybe that's just a generic term for "gay internet" or something like that).
Whew! That's it, sorry for the long post and thanks for reading. If you join the search, good luck (and please share the methods/results with the rest of the class, if you would be so kind)!