Coder created a site to recreate MTV's music videos era. It's worth checking out. https://wantmymtv.xyz/player.html

Videos play in a center frame and the site offers no method to fullscreen (but pressing F gives YT Fullscreen, as noted below).

There are a 8 huge playlists (27k videos total), separated by decade. There are no veejays, original ads or other period content. We can choose a decade (or rap or headbangers ball) or mix all.

Videos are all YT hosted, pulled from 1000s of YT channels. There are no YT ads (interesting and welcome). I assume there's no curation in the play order but am not certain.

There's nothing to indicate which song or artist is playing, either by the site or by YT. To ID a song, I had to get the vid url and paste it in another tab.

Video frame has a large BUY ME A COFFEE overlay that appears whenever you mouse over it. Pieces of the overlay obscure some YT controls (like fullscreen) but there's still access to YT's right-click options. The YT key-shortcuts still work (F=fullscreen).

There's no overlay in fullscreen and videos continue to progress.

The overlay has it's own volume control and Next/Last buttons so it's not only for tip begging. The controls are welcome. They'd be more useful on the sidebar but perhaps this makes the overlay useful (and dissuades attempts to block the it).

I didn't spend any time trying to source the videos so IDK if the author put a TON of time into amassing urls or if they found some repository to work from. Same for handling of offline vids and new additions - I've no idea.

Removed, alternate link?

Vibecoded in 48 hrs using Anthropic. Brilliant (which means someone is going to pull it down somehow, natch) https://xcancel.com/rexflexasaurus