Stranger Video is a website that wants to access your webcam. Grant it access and it will show you a close-up of your own face, with the background around you cut out. Close your eyes to tell it you're ready, and open them again when you hear a chime. It will then connect you to a stranger doing the same thing: the first person to blink loses.
You can play it here.
I play it right away and no one else in the world is. Let's all play it together.
Stranger Video is the work of Eieio, who makes “stuff for the 2000s internet.” It has this old school, lofi, 2000s vibe, like a vestige of the personal web. It’s also from the same creator as One Million Checkboxes, which Edwin wrote about back in June.
Both sites are nominated for the Tiny Awards, which aim to celebrate “the other web, the one that’s small and handmade and not trying to sell you anything or monetize anything, but instead is about people using the digital tools we all have access to to create the kind of small, personal experiences that you tend not to see ‘in the newsfeed.’ It’s a treasure trove of beautiful websites.”
In short. Put your eyes where your mouth is, dear RPS readers.