More than 2,000 people are currently watching a livestream from a webcam located at a traffic intersection in the small town of Jackson Hole, Wyoming – and nobody knows why, least of all the viewers themselves. 
 
 The live feed was set up about six weeks ago as part of a drive to draw more visitors to the town, a popular tourist retreat for outdoorsy types, at the base of the Teton Mountains close to Teton National Park. 
 
 The town set up several webcams, but while the scenic vista at Spring Creek had just one viewer – me – at the time of writing, thousands have been tuning in to the town square crossroads since Sunday, for no apparent reason. 
 
 Reports suggest the surge in viewer traffic began when a user on the web bulletin board 4chan posted a link to the feed and said he would travel to Jackson Hole to do something in front of the camera. 
 
 Users on Reddit spread the now-deleted post, which got hundreds watching the video, at which point it ended up on YouTube’s homepage due to its growing popularity. At this point, many people appear to be watching as part of a collective absurdist joke. 
 
 
 
 
 
 The fast-scrolling comments on the video consist mostly of observations as to the vehicles passing through the intersection: bus, coach, truck and so on. Perhaps it’s the first American example of “Slow TV”? ||||| In Chunky, Miss., a small town of about 325 tucked into a crook of the Chunky River outside Meridian, several adults and children were enjoying a classic Halloween tradition: a hayride in the crisp October air. 
 
 After donning Halloween costumes, the kids and their parents piled onto the back of a hay-lined flatbed truck towed by a Jeep. They were driving along Highway 80, a two-lane, pine-tree-lined road through the rural town, when the night took a tragic turn. 
 
 At about 7:45 p.m. Central Time, a Ford F-150 driving down Highway 80 rear-ended the trailer during the hayride, Mississippi Highway Patrol Sgt. Andy West told WLBT. 
 
 MHP confirms multiple deaths after a Ford F-150 rear-ended a trailer carrying adults and children in Chunky, MS https://t.co/FOcnzMcEpO pic.twitter.com/fm2NyybPun — WLBT 3 On Your Side (@WLBT) November 1, 2016 
 
 It is unclear what caused the crash, and no arrests have been reported. 
 
 Three helicopters and several ambulances rushed to the scene and took the injured to three hospitals. 
 
 Two died at the scene, and a third person died while waiting for a helicopter. Two of the dead were adults, and one was a child. They were all related, but their names have not been released at this time. 
 
 It is unclear how many people were injured. 
 
 “It was just chaos,” Newton County Coroner Danny Shoemaker told the Associated Press, speaking of the scene on Highway 80. 
 
 “It’s a small community,” West told WTOK. “This is a bad thing to happen anywhere, but when it’s local, it really hits home. These are good people, and our hearts go out to them.” 
 
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– Could a livestream of a street in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, replace cat videos as the latest online time waste? Probably not, but for whatever reason, thousands of viewers have been clicking on webcam footage of the town’s central intersection since “See Jackson Hole” went live. While picturesque Jackson Hole, nestled in the Grand Tetons, boasts stunning views, the intersection is, well, an intersection. There are pedestrians, and cars and trucks braking at a stoplight, Time notes. The chat section offers a real-time commentary on “events” as they happen. A red truck has been repeatedly ogled and appraised on Twitter, inspiring a Red Truck Twitter account and tweets like this one: "TOO MUCH HAPPINESS FOR #redtruck CAN'T HELP BUT JUMP #JacksonHole." In an effort to boost tourism, officials in the popular mountain town set up a YouTube channel six weeks ago linking to several webcams. But it was the town square on Broadway that went viral this week. Is this a case of people with way too much time on their hands? One of them mused on Twitter: “theres a live feed of a town square on yt with 1400+ WATCHING NOBODY KNOWS WHY THEYRE HERE.” The Independent reports that the origin of the craze was likely a now-deleted post on web bulletin board 4chan that was picked up by Reddit users and spread. “At this point, many people appear to be watching as part of a collective absurdist joke,” notes the paper. (The world's slowest TV show is coming to Netflix.)