YouTube Oddities

My favorite YouTube oddity: If you hunt over the CSS the site downloads on, IIRC, every page; you&#x27;ll eventually come across this selector:<p><pre><code> ytd-watch-metadata[video-id=QrGrOK8oZG8] h1.ytd-watch-metadata { color:#e6d140; font-family:Georgia,serif; font-size:250%; font-variant:small-caps; font-weight:normal; transform:skew(-5deg,0deg); text-shadow:1px 1px #000,1px 1px .1px #000 } </code></pre> A selector that appears to be referencing a very specific video ID; as far as I can tell, the only video in the billions of videos on YouTube to receive this treatment (at least, in terms of a &quot;css selector with video-id in it&quot;).<p>The video: Adult Swim&#x27;s &quot;Too Many Cooks&quot; skit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=QrGrOK8oZG8</a>)

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. &quot;Fluke 87v power on options&quot;? Pimple popping. &quot;Generator repair&quot;? Wart removal. And it isn&#x27;t just one, it&#x27;s dozens of them, to the point where there might only be one or two relevant results and the rest are basically gore&#x2F;grossout videos.<p>It&#x27;s still better than when it was constantly recommending the daily wire.

&gt; Roel Van de Paar, at this current time has 2,035,484 videos uploaded. &gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCPF-oYb2-xN5FbCXy0167Gg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;channel&#x2F;UCPF-oYb2-xN5FbCXy0167Gg</a><p>What the hell. It doesn&#x27;t seems to be autogenerated video.

Okay just in case someone who knows reads this. Why doesn’t Youtube Premium background play work with members-only videos?<p>Became a member of a channel with spoken content and can’t even lock my phone when playing a member’s only video.<p>Posts and complaints on this go back years, with zero explanation from Youtube as to why this is, if it’s intentional or a bug, etc.

Let me recommend this song: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;wach" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;wach</a>

Did you all notice that when the video says &quot;like and subscribe&quot;, the subscribe button is highlighted with a rainbow border? must be new.<p>Example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;z815XfakQCE?t=26" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;z815XfakQCE?t=26</a>

This appears to me to be just a compilation of rejected bug bounty reports that were marked as &quot;informational &#x2F; NA&quot; and are now being disclosed by the author.

Interesting but I was hoping this was about bugs. Because youtube has some bugs.<p>I use it a lot, it&#x27;s my primary source of entertainment. Here is a list of issues;<p><pre><code> 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 &quot;Add to watch later&quot; and &quot;Add to queue&quot; buttons will switch locations depending on where you are in the feed.</code></pre>

&gt; &quot;Interacting with any video from the old channel in the YouTube interface will redirect you back to the new one. The old channel name and reference will never display except in the API.&quot;<p>On Windows, if you use your the volume keys or the play&#x2F;pause button on your keyboard during one of these videos, you will receive a media status pop-up in the corner of your screen containing the old channel name along with the video title and thumbnail. I&#x27;ve noticed this with a lot of music videos.

I wonder how many of these are <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hyrumslaw.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.hyrumslaw.com&#x2F;</a> in action? Like the long-channel name seems like something you&#x27;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&#x27;s name.

&gt; However, it is possible for 249 countries to appear in the allowed list. It&#x27;s not clear why this happens as it is the same has having no restriction at all. It seems to occur most frequently with music videos, potentially they had actual blocks at one point and the only way it can be undone is to move everything to allowed?<p>Most likely this is the list sent by the rights holder.

I remember the 666 video by removing c or h from &quot;watch&quot; from the URL of whatever video you were watching. Actually kinda eerie.

&gt;Video without a title<p>nice, this one breaks one of my userscripts<p>&gt;Knowledge Base, at this current time has 1,054,762 videos uploaded.<p>Randomly GPT generated clickbait titles to 3-5 minute clips form some livestreams. If I was in control of YT such channels would be dropped for violating policy.

Youtube Movies is such a wonderful product, it&#x27;s crazy how I can&#x27;t pay them $10&#x2F;month and watch whatever I want in their ubiquitous apps. Even the comments come into play when watching a movie, it&#x27;s fun to read jokes or some detail I missed. Like look, I can quickly watch The 6th Day a perfect Saturday 10AM movie while the kids are about to wake up. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NdnX-qQIulw" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=NdnX-qQIulw</a><p>But because of greed all the content is spread across many many services, each with their own warty app. What a shame!

Can someone tell me how @Seed has so many subs but no videos and odd content &#x2F; comments?<p>Buying &#x2F; deleting videos &#x2F; etc?<p>He has people in his comments accusing him of commenting on their private videos &#x2F; videos in private playlists.

Are there not more videos that got corrupted? With this amount of data, youtube must have lost several videos statistically.

A friend told me that the third video in the recommended list (the one that you see on the side when playing a video) often seems to be a (sometimes) barely related one from a small channel you&#x27;ve never watched. I can confirm the same happens to me.

LOL 3 month long videos ...