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Comment by charcircuit

1. This API is convenient since it already exists and you don't have to find all of the clips yourself.

2. This API will likely be used by websites / bots hosted in some data center and not on your local machine. Also it would be possible to cache the video / audio locally.

3. I agree that as just an API it's not really something that can go viral. Something built on top of it could be. I also agree that it would be hard to generate income since most users probably only want to use it for a short amount of time as a joke. I think it is intended to just be a fun API that others can use.

parent charcircuit 4 years ago

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