YouTube Is Testing a Weird New Feature

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1. I was able to test this feature also. It was very dumb and useless. Maybe it’s something subconscious they are trying to tap into.

2. When you say “like button” in the video the actual like button is animated in the app (iOS) O_o

3. Ive had this feature for about a week. Used it once. No need for it

4. Its so weird and so useless

5. I got this feature. I checked out the red section for like a minute or so cuz it's my favorite color, and I immediately went back to the regular feed. It did have videos from people I like and videos that were in the same area topics that I like, but I just felt like I could be missing out on the most exciting great thing that would be there is all the colors were shown.

6. Never knew Marquez did a podcast with Mac McClung

7. They should give you an option for "channels youve watched before but havnt watched recently" or something less wordy than that. But basically yeah, the concept would be channels you at some point watched a ton of videos on in a row, but recently having watched any.

8. I have the feature too but that’s useless, I’d better refresh my home page 🤷‍♂️

9. 9:00 that's why it's on them to push down videos with low watch-through rate in the algorithm. makes the app a better experience for watchers. creators aren't incentivised to use clickbait, because it hurts their video's circulation. back in the day we had the dislike button, but this implementation would solve all of these problems now. ‹(the implementation being making the the algorithm less likely to recommend videos with a low watch-though rate)

10. I enjoy these inside baseball stuff so much

11. When i saw that in my feed, i was very confused as to why the heck i would want to, youtube already pisses me off when they refresh the mobile feed when i leave a video and i lose a video i wanted to watch. i actually specifically avoided it because i didn't know if i could undo it.

    I care about actual content not some lame color based sorting.

12. 2:41 ok thus explains why only certain ppl get banned and others dont lmao

13. You can use this with one of those clickbait thumbnail removing extensions for absolutely no reason

14. That’s why I’m seeing more thumbnails recently in red, green, and blue colors

15. The thumbnail A/B metric should be: watch time / times thumbnail shown to people

16. You all totally don’t get it, red, green, blue. Pure genius.

17. Talking about weird experiments? For how long has the Like/Dislike buttons been flashing when the video mentions "Like button"?

18. I thought it was gonna be a political thing, optimize for echo chamber

19. I have that

20. Rather than colours have different sections where you could watch different things. For me it could be languages, comedy and other stuff. Actually languages separately would be ideal, or whatever hobbies you have. Now everything is in the same feed which isn’t always great.

21. it seems pointless, bowever i think its some maniacal human experiment they are conducting.
    colored thumbnails?
    sounds sketchy.

22. i was pretty flabberghasted when I realised the colors literally ment the colors of the thumbnails 😂

23. Was really interesting to follow this discussion. Yeah, I got this feature, too. At first I thought it’s not the raw colour but the association of the corresponding colour, because the pop-up does show a stylised symbol for each colour. Now it lives in the top bar on my home feed and I didn’t really use it. But also it does only show algorithmically selected suggestions it the colours tab..

    Interesting to hear, that more and more people got this AB testing feature – but I didn’t know about the data implications you mentioned, yet. Maybe what could be a good metric would be the ratio between both the CTR and watch time. Then it might allow you to get a better picture of which Thumbnail actually performs better.

24. I just got access to this feature a week or so ago. It's so bizarre, but I guess it doesn't harm anything 🤷‍♀️

25. This just screams "We hired a new intern and pressured them to ship a new feature to prove themself."

26. Is it a new feature, that the like button gets colourful when Marquess mentioned it?

27. I had a „random video“ button in the feed. I liked that, but I don’t see it anymore

28. Youtube is braindead

29. Just realized like button flashes when like button mentioned. 3:12

30. i saw this a few months ago and had no idea why

31. I saw this on my feed and immediately laughed and kept scrolling i didn't interact with it at all

32. Late much

33. I guess I was a user selected. I’ve noticed that for a minute.

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