Comment on YouTube now suggests new content *by colour*
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I honestly cannot envision a scenario in which I would want something like this from YouTube.
Let me introduce you to some classics.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3pF2jkQ4vc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLtgcSG08s
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLwidSohO8
Before you ask, no, I don’t watch these. I discovered these types of videos only a few months ago and was shocked at the viewer counts.
Sometimes the internet is weird
I agree. I don’t understand why these videos are watched either.
There are other weird styles too. Eg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rkUcw9INLI
Pretty sure the solid colors are for people who need so shine a specific color of light, and there’s no simpler way to quickly do that.
The sound effects one I have no idea, haha
I agree, I have seen at least a dozen weird things on the internet
Why not? Not you, I mean but why not have it as an option?
Frankly I wouldn’t use it either, but I can absolutely see the appeal. Sometimes you want some warm tones, sometimes you want cool tones. Maybe you’re having a Green party for 4/20 and you’re playing Green Day and watching green videos idk.
Lol dumbness aside, my immediate thought was “this seems like it could be nice for those who sleep to videos” - I know that I don’t always want a white-blue heavy video but something darker and red
Okay, but what if your darker and redder video is super loud and obnoxious and your blue-white video is quiet and calm? Or the dark red one is strobing and the blue-white one is calm and soft? That’s the problem with just sorting them by color. Color doesn’t really tell you anything about the content of the video. I mean I supposed this very out-there idea of a ‘green party’ could be a weird usage case, but I think that’s a very unusual event and doesn’t really justify the feature.
The only people I could see this feature helpful for is those with synesthesia.
The ASMR and meditation community sometimes embrace a specific colour aesthetic for videos. They’re also all pretty similar in terms of audio level etc so I can see this working well in that niche.
E.g. youtu.be/lziFPKhsJ2A
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
this is for people who arrange their bookshelves by spine color.
you know, idiots.