Thread:CirUmeUela/@comment-27496405-20180307074410/@comment-26838855-20180425000050

When Peter watches YouTube in class in Spider-Man: Homecoming, there's a list of recommended videos on the right hand side. They are all real YouTube videos.

Obviously, a YouTube video's view count goes up over time. On a certain date, a video has a certain number of views.

So, for example, if, in Avengers: Infinity War, Tony Stark sat down at his laptop and went on YouTube, and on the side it said under recommended videos, "PSY - GANGNAM STYLE(강남스타일) M/V - 3,141,866,493 views", then that's evidence for that scene being set April 24, 2017 23:44 UTC - the exact moment in time when Psy's Gangnam Style had that many views on YouTube.

So, because all the videos on the side when Peter's looking at YouTube are real, I thought I'd try to find roughly the date and time at which each video had the given number of views, for evidence. So I was trying to find:
 * The exact moment in time that "hack 2TB harddrive mod, brother trick, glow in dark" by alantutorial had "100,394 views".
 * The exact moment in time that "Birdtown" by waverlyflams had "161,296 views".
 * The exact moment in time that "BMX tricks" by lazycat619 had "6,633 views".
 * The exact moment in time that "Lost in the City" by waverlyflams had "210,807 views".
 * The exact moment in time that "Floating Head" by waverlyflams had "1,321,513 views".
 * The exact moment in time that "Rainy Day" by waverlyflams had "184,714 views".

However, it's hard to pinpoint the exact moment each video had the given number of views. So I went through the web archive of each video to collect data for how many views each video had on different dates in the past. From that data, I used a website to find an equation for the curve for how many views each video would have on different dates, and then from that curve, it would predict for me on which date each video would have reached the given number of views. Then, once I had an approximate date for when each video would have reached its number of views, I took an average to find out which date is overall suggested by the YouTube videos. And the YouTube videos' number of views would suggest that the date on which Peter is watching YouTube is March 12, 2017. Now, obviously that doesn't work, because it should be September 2016, and even if not, September 2017. But it's something worth adding to the evidence list.