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It captures the background noise of your life at that exact moment. The Digital Archaeology Challenge

Maybe it’s a shaky, 10-second video of a concert where the audio is peaking so hard you can’t hear the lyrics. Maybe it’s your dog doing absolutely nothing but looking cute in a specific patch of sunlight. Or maybe it’s a "pocket dial" video—thirty seconds of black screen and the muffled sound of you laughing with a friend you haven't called in six months. Why These Files Matter IMG 6594 mp4

Our lives aren't lived in the "Top Nine" photos of the year; they’re lived in the thousands of IMG files in between. It captures the background noise of your life

Most of the time, we delete them without looking. But every once in a while, you tap on one—like —and you’re suddenly hit with a memory you didn’t know you were losing. The Anatomy of a Random Clip Or maybe it’s a "pocket dial" video—thirty seconds

We’ve all been there. You’re scrolling through your phone’s storage, trying to make room for a system update, when you run into them: the nameless files. A sea of IMG_6593 , IMG_6594 , and IMG_6595 .