The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
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Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#2If you type "awesome" the progress bar strobes and changes color.
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#3I wish they used something more than that stupid minimalist icon theme. I have again and again smashed the button only to unlike a video
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#4Just a YT developer Easter egg. It’s become such a cliche phrase on that platform in an effort to pump creator stats.
I think there’s a similar effect for the subscribe button. But I don’t remember which phrase triggers it
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#5Just a YT developer Easter egg. It’s become such a cliche phrase on that platform in an effort to pump creator stats. I think there’s a similar effect for the subscribe button. But I don’t remember which phrase triggers it
Why does it only work for some videos?
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#6I noticed a few weeks ago that when people said "subscribe" the subscribe button had a little light show that was kind of cool.
From a technical perspective I like the attention mechanism and that it's automated.
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Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#8Just a YT developer Easter egg. It’s become such a cliche phrase on that platform in an effort to pump creator stats. I think there’s a similar effect for the subscribe button. But I don’t remember which phrase triggers it
Why does it only work for some videos?
It is probably AI with suboptimal training, despite the massive dataset available to them.
It might even just be conventional speech-to-text, which can struggle with accents and poor acoustics, etc.
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#9This has been happening for at least a year, probably more. I always assumed it was something the creator had to manually mark, never considered that it might be automatic.
Re: The YouTube like button glows when you say "smash that like button" [video]
#10> Button doesn't glow when when you say "SLAP like NOW"
> Davie504 in pieces