History Main / FunForSome

** Back before the digital switchover, the BBC used to broadcast a loop of "Pages from [[UsefulNotes/{{Teletext}} Ceefax]]" between midnight and 6AM, with assorted soothing library music on in the background. It was oddly relaxing for anyone having trouble sleeping.

** Even more so, some broadcast companies will stream train journeys - from one hour to several long, with just ambient sound. These videos are also mildly popular on Website/YouTube, mainly filmed in England and around New York City.

* Sirens. Plenty of Website/YouTube videos of outdoor warning sirens, fire truck sirens, and also many kinds of horns and whistles. Many comments about the [[SugarWiki/MostWonderfulSound beautiful sound]] of the siren in the video, and sometimes references to ''Franchise/SilentHill''.
* The Web as a whole has given enthusiasts of obscure subject matter a platform to share their unusual hobbies and interests with the world. And sometimes, the world notices. Website/YouTube in particular is full of this stuff. Home movies of people's pets, demonstrations of obscure pieces of technology in action, copied-off-videotape footage of TV production company logos, even old radio newscasts and other radio broadcasts from across America and possibly around the world... It's never been easier to find yourself returning from your lunch break with a brand-new obsession.

* {{Emergency Broadcast}}s are also of particular interest to some. The fact that the United States's Emergency Alert System has a wiki viewable [[http://emergencyalertsystem.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System_Wiki here]] should be enough to clue you in on this. Fan-made emergency alerts are quite common on Website/YouTube as well. There's also a nostalgic appeal for Americans who watched TV before 1997, when the Emergency Broadcast System was replaced with the Emergency Alert System; as well as those who grew up watching cable television in the 20th century, when emergency override broadcasts (nicknamed "local access alerts" due to [=EASyPLUS=] EAS equipment giving it that name when used to relay them) done by local authorities served a similar function. There are many old EBS tests and occasional actual activations available on Website/YouTube.

* The ''WebVideo/WebdriverTorso'' videos were made by Google to test Website/YouTube's compression algorithm, and thus aren't intended as entertainment. However, before they revealed this, some people got enjoyment out of watching the videos, finding patterns, and speculating on the history of the channel.

* myNoise is a website with a variety of white noise and soundscape generators, usually intended for blocking out distracting noises for study, work, relaxation, sleep, or other meditative purposes. Most of these generators are of nature sounds like rain, oceans, flowing creeks, birds, and wind, with some others using tonal sounds and yet others being what's effectively user-adjustable music. The [[https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/openOfficeNoiseGenerator.php "Calm Office"]] generator was intended as a joke, but ended up actually being a hit [[https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/free-noise-app-makes-working-at-home-easier/ as explained in this CBS article]]. During the early years of the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, when workers had to work from home, this generator actually helped many listeners get in the headspace for work, as the sound of a typical office is often associated with productivity. This lead to a sequel generator, [[https://mynoise.net/NoiseMachines/vintageOfficeNoiseGenerator.php "Vintage Office"]], which is noisier and thus better intended for blocking out unwanted noise, and also explains the story behind "Calm Office"'s unexpected popularity in its description.

* The United Kingdom has the Shipping Forecast, a specialist weather forecast broadcast at odd hours on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]], which gives the wind conditions in obscurely named areas of sea like "[=FitzRoy=]", "North Utsire" and "German Bight" in extremely condensed terminology "Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, south veering southwest 6 or 7, turning gale 8 for a time, moderate or good". Sound like fun? Well, tens of thousands of landlubbers listen to it every day for its soothing rhythmic diction. The daddy of shipping forecasts is the 0048 bulletin, which gives a full forecast of all the shipping areas as well as conditions measured at the various coastal and inshore stations (and thus extending the list of interesting-sounding names to include the likes of "Machrihanish Automatic" and "Selsey Bill") and is preceded by the jaunty theme tune ''Sailing By''. It is then followed by the Radio 4 closedown, which consists of the continuity announcer giving a pleasant sign-off before the British national anthem is played.

* The Web as a whole has given enthusiasts of obscure subject matter a platform to share their unusual hobbies and interests with the world. And sometimes, the world notices. Website/YouTube in particular is full of this stuff. Home movies of people's pets, demonstrations of obscure pieces of technology in action, copied-off-videotape footage of TV production company logos... It's never been easier to find yourself returning from your lunch break with a brand-new obsession.

* In a word: vintage!! Pretty much vintage ''anything'' will have a devoted fanbase, but special note can probably go for vintage advertisements. Whilst people back in the day probably saw advertisement to be just as annoying as people do today, the entertainment factor may lie in the artwork and/or outdated slang.

* [[NewsBroadcast Television news]] is meant to inform and not to entertain. However, people, especially in the United States, have found enjoyment in the graphics and music used by news programs.

* The [[VanityPlate opening and closing logo]] fandom is probably one of the most well-known examples, with compilations of television and film companies' animated logos throughout the years being all too common on [=YouTube=] despite their only primary purpose being to tell you what the name of the film or TV show's production company is. There is also a wiki dedicated to them, known as the Audiovisual Identity Database (formerly the Closing Logos Group). A few particularly popular television logos actually got prominent enough online, often because of their NightmareFuel factor, that professional companies took notice - Creator/KlaskyCsupo took the construction paper face from their 1998 vanity plate and made him into a developed character named Splaat, even giving him [[WebAnimation/RoboSplaat his very own webtoon]], while the classic Creator/ScreenGems logo received a mockumentary short titled ''The S from Hell'' that capitalizes on its perceived creepiness.

* The [[VanityPlate opening and closing logo]] fandom is probably one of the most well-known examples, with compilations of television and film companies' animated logos throughout the years being all too common on [=YouTube=]. There is also a wiki dedicated to them, known as the Audiovisual Identity Database (formerly the Closing Logos Group). A few particularly popular television logos actually got prominent enough online, often because of their NightmareFuel factor, that professional companies took notice - Creator/KlaskyCsupo took the construction paper face from their 1998 vanity plate and made him into a developed character named Splaat, even giving him [[WebAnimation/RoboSplaat his very own webtoon]], while the classic Creator/ScreenGems logo received a mockumentary short titled ''The S from Hell'' that capitalizes on its perceived creepiness.

* The United Kingdom has the Radio/ShippingForecast, a specialist weather forecast broadcast at odd hours on [[Creator/TheBBC BBC Radio 4]], which gives the wind conditions in obscurely named areas of sea like "[=FitzRoy=]", "North Utsire" and "German Bight" in extremely condensed terminology "Lundy, Fastnet, Irish Sea, south veering southwest 6 or 7, turning gale 8 for a time, moderate or good". Sound like fun? Well, tens of thousands of landlubbers listen to it every day for its soothing rhythmic diction. The daddy of shipping forecasts is the 0048 bulletin, which gives a full forecast of all the shipping areas as well as conditions measured at the various coastal and inshore stations (and thus extending the list of interesting-sounding names to include the likes of "Machrihanish Automatic" and "Selsey Bill") and is preceded by the jaunty theme tune ''Sailing By''. It is then followed by the Radio 4 closedown, which consists of the continuity announcer giving a pleasant sign-off before the British national anthem is played.

* Believe it or not, ''[[{{Bowdlerise}} censorship]]'' (in certain scenarios). Those familiar with the original content can have fun with watching and/or comparing the odd, clumsy, [[{{Narm}} unintentionally hilarious,]] or otherwise unfitting efforts at censorship (case in point, the made-for-TV version of ''Film/{{Showgirls}}'' featuring heavily edited scenes and dialogue, mismatched voices and most infamously, digitally-added clothing).

* {{Emergency Broadcast}}s are also of particular interest to some. The fact that the United States's Emergency Alert System has a wiki viewable [[http://emergencyalertsystem.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System_Wiki here]] should be enough to clue you in on this. Fan-made emergency alerts are quite common on Website/YouTube as well. There's also a nostalgic appeal for Americans who watched TV before 1997, when the Emergency Broadcast System was replaced with the Emergency Alert System; as well as those who grew up watching cable television in the 20th century, when
emergency override broadcasts (nicknamed "local access alerts" due to [=EASyPLUS=] EAS equipment giving it that name when used to relay them) done by local authorities served a similar function. There are many old EBS tests and occasional actual activations available on Website/YouTube.

* {{Emergency Broadcast}}s are also of particular interest to some. The fact that the United States's Emergency Alert System has a wiki viewable [[http://emergencyalertsystem.wikia.com/wiki/Emergency_Alert_System_Wiki here]] should be enough to clue you in on this. Fan-made emergency alerts are quite common on Website/YouTube as well. There's also a nostalgic appeal for Americans who watched TV before 1997, when the Emergency Broadcast System was replaced with the Emergency Alert System. There are many old EBS tests and occasional actual activations available on Website/YouTube.