YouTube's New Hue • Hacker News Board

Re: YouTube's New Hue

#101

Post by rsktaker » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:01 AM UTC

This, staples "rebranding", openai's font change...

Is there really any benefit in these small changes? Certainly a good laugh out of it!

Re: YouTube's New Hue

#102

Post by calmbonsai » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:02 AM UTC

getnormality wrote: post #90

Reminds me of the infamous Pepsi logo redesign: https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Thanks for the flashback!

I forget when this was first leaked, but over the years, this has become my go-to example for premium artisanal marketing bullshit.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by skinkestek » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:04 AM UTC

CrimsonCape wrote: post #96

An ad interrupted my video today, it was Tom Hanks in a podcast talking about his prostate. The ad was (not so obviously) AI generated; both an AI clone of his voice and an AI-generated face-swap/ lip replacement. This seemed pretty surprising because it was fairly convincing. He looks like he is saying the dialog of the ad. It's surprising because there's no way the creator of the ad got Hanks' approval to use his l…

> I just scratch my head wondering if this massive company realizes the garbage they are forcing into our lives.

I know someone who works on the technical side of a national newspaper and he has been happy and encouraged me to continue when I pointed out scammy ads ("Japanese knives" and that sort of things).

Seems they don't vet ads individually but can take down ads they become aware of.

With Google however it seems to me money is all that matters.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

#104

Post by veridies » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:07 AM UTC

thomasfromcdnjs wrote: post #35

jsheard wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Non-sequitur aside, what specifically do you want to post on YouTube that's not allowed? To me it seems like you have to go pretty far off the rails before they'll step in.

I'll bite; - When I search for recent news e.g. "australian medical staff jewish" (current topic), all the results are left leaning responses. I would mostly prefer to see the original video without commentary and uncut, and also would like to see more right wing responses. (A lot of issues over the years that were right leaning would just surface late night comedians mocking the right wings perspective on such issue…

For the first example: that’s not censorship? It’s just a bad algorithm. Also, I don’t even know what “left-leaning” means in this context; the top result is from the Australian national broadcaster, and seems pretty straightforward. No one thinks nurses murdering Israelis is a good thing.

For the second example: Mullis is literally insane, and you can still find his opinions on YouTube, as you yourself found. Did you try uploading those lectures you found yourself? I’ll bet money that they won’t be take down (except maybe for copyright).

To be a little less charitable: this is a persecution fantasy. The right wing is not being silenced by YouTube.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

#105

Post by semiinfinitely » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:08 AM UTC

andersa wrote: post #78

I absolutely hate the gradient on the progress bar. When a video is full screened I'm no longer able to tell at a glance how far along the progress bar is because the gradient and the grey segment for buffering all fades together. This is so simple to not mess up. It worked before. Why did you change it??

some product manager promo packet, thats why

Re: YouTube's New Hue

#106

Post by Zanfa » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:16 AM UTC

Is this satire?

Re: YouTube's New Hue

#107

Post by wormslayer666 » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:18 AM UTC

josephg wrote: post #32

jsheard wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The least they could do is write up something as unhinged as that old Pepsi design strategy document. https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...

Thats amazing. Its in the uncanny valley where I can't tell if they're serious or if they're having a laugh. It immediately makes me think of the song "Redesign Your Logo" by Lemon Demon. Pure comedy.

That song is directly inspired by the Pepsi nonsense; the lyrics and backing video [1] have some direct quotes. Definitely the first thing that comes to mind each time a multi-billion company decides to change their logo and nobody likes it.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu3ETgAvQrw

Re: YouTube's New Hue

#108

Post by calmbonsai » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:19 AM UTC

userbinator wrote: post #73

Good thing I use Invidious instead.

It's a testament to its UX insanity that so many alternatives: FreeTube (Invidious), YT-DLP, and entire ecosystems of Selenium scrapers exist.

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by spondyl » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:21 AM UTC

CrimsonCape wrote: post #96

An ad interrupted my video today, it was Tom Hanks in a podcast talking about his prostate. The ad was (not so obviously) AI generated; both an AI clone of his voice and an AI-generated face-swap/ lip replacement. This seemed pretty surprising because it was fairly convincing. He looks like he is saying the dialog of the ad. It's surprising because there's no way the creator of the ad got Hanks' approval to use his l…

This is probably the type of ad you ran into: https://www.404media.co/deepfake-youtube-ads-of-celebrities-...

Re: YouTube's New Hue

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Post by TheDong » Thu, Feb 13, 2025, 5:25 AM UTC

cpeterso wrote: post #77

atonse wrote: post #16

I literally can’t read this blog post because it keeps jumping to the top of the page to play the video again and again. Maybe take 10% of the time you spent dreaming up new colors to just make your blog function like a regular page instead of adding a million weird animations?

Did no one at Google read this blog post on an iPhone before publishing?

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