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YouTube now suggests new content by colour (szmer.info)
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[–] 69 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I honestly cannot envision a scenario in which I would want something like this from YouTube.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Let me introduce you to some classics.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3pF2jkQ4vc

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLtgcSG08s

    https://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.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Sometimes the internet is weird

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I agree. I don't understand why these videos are watched either.

    There are other weird styles too. Eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rkUcw9INLI

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    Pretty sure the solid colors are for people who need to shine a specific color of light, and there's no simpler way to quickly do that. You either download a new app, or google image search and try to find something you can zoom in with.

    The sound effects one I have no idea, haha

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Remember in the very early days of the apple app store they had shit like a virtual beer so if you held the phone up to your lips it looked like you were drinking a mug of beer? Pointless but kind of showed off the phone's capabilities? There would have been an app for put whatever color you want on the screen" with a set of RGB sliders. But nowadays that thing would require file access, phone, SMS, camera and payment permissions and would ruin your life for installing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Install a "basic art program" on a cell phone and tell me what permissions it asks for.

    Or just do a google image search for "red." Is the real answer here.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    My Android phone has stock apps with the capability of coloring the screen to any color I desire. I'm sure Apple does too, and so do computer OSs.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Really? What stock apps? I'm struggling to think what built-in app on my Galaxy S10 will just paint the screen any hex value I want. The tool I'd reach for on my Linux desktop is the Drawing utility (basic raster editor similar to MS Paint).

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I'll take an F-droid recommendation as proof of my case. Not many people are doing even that amount of side loading even on Android and forget it on iJewelry. We certainly have arrived in a place, haven't we?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Why talk about anything with anyone at any time?

    I haven't bothered with F-Droid because at this point I either use apps that aren't in open source repos, like my credit union's app, the built-in apps like the camera, or I just use the web browser. Because the whole "app" ecosystem on any platform is more about exploiting me than being useful. "There's an app begrudgingly for that."

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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. https://youtu.be/lziFPKhsJ2A

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