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Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by shmeeed »

mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote: post #38
johnnymorgan wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you never see content that has no connection to your viewing habits? It happens all the time and I got hit with the warts and pimples a few months back, just a counter point, I watch YT daily. It's mostly shorts where you will see it

I mostly see content that similar to the things I watch(lot of sci-com, some gaming stuff, some sports stuff, a fair share of chess content) The only offputting stuff I get recommended is these AI generated video essays with nonsense claims masquerading as scicom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ-pztYXH8k Depresses me that this channel has over 100k subscribers... But I've never been recommended gross-out stuff. I…

Disabling autoplay is paramount.

I've once tuned into my Chromecast to find my tablet had been autoplaying for a week and was in the middle of a long streak of middle-eastern folk music with guys playing the flute and dancing in a tent. Thankfully, the tablet has its own YT account, so my main never gut spammed with the corresponding recommendations.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#102

Post by remus »

gwern wrote: post #49

I wonder how many of these are https://www.hyrumslaw.com/ in action? Like the long-channel name seems like something you'd lock down as soon as you notice you made the classic error of trusting client-side validation of limits, but then you might decide to not truncate the offender's name.

Most of them I imagine. To be honest the list is shorter than I expected for something as big and old as youtube!

Re: YouTube Oddities

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Post by bayindirh »

chch wrote: post #82
nonethewiser wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is fascinating. Wonder why that video in particular (or any single video that in theory) would need its text style changed.

Less a need, more an easter egg. The short itself is based on the stereotypical American family sitcom;s opening credits, which would tend to show a character doing something 'representative' of their character, while showing the actor's name on screen that played that character. Without too much spoilers for the video itself, the names popping up is a pretty key aspect of the video itself. It gained a pretty good fo…

Also, YouTube implemented Randall Munroe's "Listen to Yourself"[0] at one point, however it's sadly removed later.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/481/

Re: YouTube Oddities

#104

Post by mathieuh »

twisteriffic wrote: post #10

Least favourite behavior of YouTube these days is the mass of pimple popping and wart removal videos that show up near the top of search results for damn near anything. "Fluke 87v power on options"? Pimple popping. "Generator repair"? Wart removal. And it isn't just one, it's dozens of them, to the point where there might only be one or two relevant results and the rest are basically gore/grossout videos. It's still…

It keeps recommending me far-right political videos for some reason. I think it's because I like watching Forgotten Weapons and InRangeTV, even though Forgotten Weapons has essentially zero politics in it and InRangeTV is run by a left-libertarian.

Even after doing the "never recommend me this channel" thing it keeps recommending me this Jordan Peterson-type shit about "leftist woke idiots getting owned".

Plus, no matter how many times I tap "Not interested" on the Shorts section every week it's back.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#105

Post by geoelectric »

joe_hills wrote: post #92
015a wrote: post #91

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Watch the video; its definitely just 'someone at YouTube really liked this video'. The styling of the title is attempting to mirror the actor nameplates in the video.

Wow, I was wondering at first how good a video had to be for a YouTube engineer to add css like this—and after watching this twice now, I'm deeply startled by how many brilliant and resonant choices were made by the folks who created it. A piece this artistic deserves a curative touch.

Next Christmas, or next time you’re feeling Christmas-minded, find the Adult Swim Yule Log movie, aka The Fireplace. It’s on Max, among other places.

It’s Casper Kelly’s (the creator of Too Many Cooks) first full length feature—a 90 minute horror-comedy film that Adult Swim stealth-released a couple of years ago disguised as an airing of a Christmas fireplace video. It actually has very little to do with Christmas, though a surprising lot to do with Yule logs.

Max also has an Adult Swim series called “Infomercials,” which is where Too Many Cooks originally debuted a decade or two ago.

The series consists of a bunch of other very creative short films in a similar vein that aired very late at night. The TV guide block Adult Swim created for them just said Infomercials, much like what every other basic cable station scheduled after hours, except these were all designed to go off the rails partway through and mess with your head.

Too Many Cooks is the only one with a catchy theme song though!

Re: YouTube Oddities

#106

Post by INTPenis »

Interesting but I was hoping this was about bugs. Because youtube has some bugs.

I use it a lot, it's my primary source of entertainment. Here is a list of issues;

    1. Casting disconnects after smartphone has been charging for 1+ hour.
    2. Small player window covers playlists.
    3. In profile tab of Youtube Android app Watch Later and Liked Videos will randomly switch places.
    4. Shorts are the worst thing ever for people who cast a lot.
    5. On desktop the "Add to watch later" and "Add to queue" buttons will switch locations depending on where you are in the feed.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#107

Post by alpaca128 »

INTPenis wrote: post #106

Interesting but I was hoping this was about bugs. Because youtube has some bugs. I use it a lot, it's my primary source of entertainment. Here is a list of issues; 1. Casting disconnects after smartphone has been charging for 1+ hour. 2. Small player window covers playlists. 3. In profile tab of Youtube Android app Watch Later and Liked Videos will randomly switch places. 4. Shorts are the worst thing ever for people…

My favorite: if you have a Short video opened and look at comments in the notification window in the top right, a click on any "load more comments" button will instantly teleport you to a random other Short video and close the notifications. This bug exists since Shorts as far as I can tell.

And after at least 5+ years the newline cursor bug in the comment text fields still exists.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#108

Post by pests »

chch wrote: post #82
nonethewiser wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is fascinating. Wonder why that video in particular (or any single video that in theory) would need its text style changed.

Less a need, more an easter egg. The short itself is based on the stereotypical American family sitcom;s opening credits, which would tend to show a character doing something 'representative' of their character, while showing the actor's name on screen that played that character. Without too much spoilers for the video itself, the names popping up is a pretty key aspect of the video itself. It gained a pretty good fo…

There is another video, that I can't find right now, where YouTube has paused the views in the <100s. It's part of the joke or title but I always thought that was neat too. Not sure if it was just cosmetic or they did something in the backend.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#109

Post by pests »

INTPenis wrote: post #106

Interesting but I was hoping this was about bugs. Because youtube has some bugs. I use it a lot, it's my primary source of entertainment. Here is a list of issues; 1. Casting disconnects after smartphone has been charging for 1+ hour. 2. Small player window covers playlists. 3. In profile tab of Youtube Android app Watch Later and Liked Videos will randomly switch places. 4. Shorts are the worst thing ever for people…

Android YouTube really needs to allow you to continue using the app and watching videos while casting.

Its a modern thing to have something playing while also maybe scrolling your phone. You can't even view comments or video descriptions without playing the video on the cast device.

Just let me browse and build my playlists or, god forbid, watch two videos at the same time.

Re: YouTube Oddities

#110

Post by micael_dias »

smashah wrote: post #85

Did you all notice that when the video says "like and subscribe", the subscribe button is highlighted with a rainbow border? must be new. Example: https://youtu.be/z815XfakQCE?t=26

Since October so relatively new, the like button also gets animations: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-67137492.amp
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