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D'Snowth

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So . . . I'm assuming if you're a partner channel, or have more than a certain number of subscribers, you're allowed more than just three add-ons for your videos endscreen.
 

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Apparently YouTube's introduced something new that they're actually a little late to the punch with: if you hover your cursor over certain thumbnails, you'll see a brief 2-second animated gif of the video itself - this doesn't work for all thumbnails, but a lot of them.

However, other sites like Dailymotion have done this long ago, so as I said, YT's a little late with this one.
 

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Apparently YouTube's introduced something new that they're actually a little late to the punch with: if you hover your cursor over certain thumbnails, you'll see a brief 2-second animated gif of the video itself - this doesn't work for all thumbnails, but a lot of them.

However, other sites like Dailymotion have done this long ago, so as I said, YT's a little late with this one.
Oddly enough, I think that's one of those features Youtube used every so often but then if disappeared after a few days. Because, i'm fairly certain they briefly had that feature before.
 

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Certain features never seem to stick.

After all these years, I still take issue to the fact that one very useful feature they introduced years ago hardly lasted long at all, and that was the pop-out video player.
 

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Heh. Had one new subscriber for only an hour, then they unsubscribed. Lol.
 

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Anybody getting any comments from these certain kind of spammers lately?

"Hey,! I love your video and I hope you're having a fantastic day! I'm currently collecting money for poor people in *redacted*: https://*redacted* Even a small donation would be greatly appreciated! Anyways, I wish you the best. :smile: Peace & Love, *redacted*.

This came from a channel who got thankfully banned recently, but there are a few other identical channels spamming the same similar comment on tons of random videos. My channels unfortunately have been hit by this darn bot. :sympathy:
 

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I'm more annoyed with people who subscribe to my channel, then tell me, "Hey, I love your video! I just subscribed to your channel, now please subscribe to mine too!"

I need subscribers, but not ones who subscribe purely for the whole sub-for-sub scam.
 

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Here's one thing that annoys me about YouTube:

Those (obvious) annoying little kid comments where they just type one letter or spam a bunch of gibberish.

Or another instance where people feel the need to have to list the Muppet performers in every single Sesame Street skit (sorry, this kind of bugs me a little cause it's like we know who's performing who).
 

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Here's one thing that annoys me about YouTube:

Those (obvious) annoying little kid comments where they just type one letter or spam a bunch of gibberish.

Or another instance where people feel the need to have to list the Muppet performers in every single Sesame Street skit (sorry, this kind of bugs me a little cause it's like we know who's performing who).
YES!!! I hate those like a sickness! Or, when they reply by just simply repeating your name! Gets on my nerves!

But anyway, I suddenly remembered something . . . anybody else remember all the way back in YT's early days, there was a friends system that was separate from subscribers? People could be added to friends lists without necessarily subscribing to channels, or vice-versa. I don't think it served any real purpose, but I don't know why I suddenly remembered that. I also remember another oddity about early YouTube that made even less sense: it was possible to subscribe to other people's favorites.
 

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I remember the "friend" system. I think it pretty much went bye-bye once the current channel design came in in 2013. :rolleyes:
 
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