Gregory's Serveryoutube, what the actual fuck does this even MEAN???
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I want to find the Product Manager who approved this modal and violently shake them in Minecraft @ln @AmyZenunim after reading about this being why so little at Google gets fixed I kind of just gave up on modern software ever being good ever again  @AmyZenunim This sounds like an April Fools joke that got out either too late or too early @AmyZenunim oh thats not at all what i thought that feature did and so much worse than anything i could have imagined  @AmyZenunim I have no idea if this is what happened, but this very much feel like a "helpful" suggestion from some executive fungus that can't tell his own head from his arse but because he's in charge, they have to do what he says so he can feel like he contributed something.   @AmyZenunim for the record: not that it gives any reasoning as to why this is even a bloody thing. This is weird and stupid and I'm assuming something far more banally evil is afoot here and I hate it already.  @AmyZenunim remember when all movies from like 2000-2010 were orange and teal? This thing doesn't even support secondary colours soooo lol @AmyZenunim I actually kind of like this because it is such a completely nonsensical feature it's better than finding a new way to harvest our data anyway @AmyZenunim@unstable.systems the only plausible explanation is that project managers at Google get bonuses based on "innovation". That's why they introduce all this useless crap and constantly break products that are perfectly functional (I'm looking at you, Google Maps). @AmyZenunim users: stop making drastic changes to the UI @AmyZenunim idk what y'all are complaining about, i'm sick and tired of seeing blue on the TL. cursed. bad vibes. now, green, that... that is the color of dreams, of life itself. i don't want to see anything more than 50nm from the sacred wavelength or else i will fly into a rage and email YouTube 100 times  @AmyZenunim For the sort of person who chooses the contents of their bookshelves to match the colour of the room?  @AmyZenunim I mean, some features are a bit niche… but I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone would ever want this @AmyZenunim maybe this is YouTube's first step into creating a feeling for the consumer that they are an "artist" for simply curating the content they see. Spotify, for example, leans really heavily into that. filtering by color is an arbitrary restriction that feels artistic in a way.  @AmyZenunim He is too busy writing his promo packet as part of perf. Once he gets the level up, 6 months later it will disappear @AmyZenunim social media websites will do anything besides a chronological timeline @karen @AmyZenunim I wonder if this is 'I want to stop seeing pale purple lights and therefore, poor youtubers, women, and people of colour' @Talen_Lee @karen @AmyZenunim i'm 90% sure that the choice of red, green and blue with no other colors is just because it's very easy to code when you're in an RGB color space - this is a weekend project that becomes nontrivial as soon as you want purple   @AmyZenunim it's always telling to me when i look at something and my synesthesia does _nothing_ despite obvious openings. @AmyZenunim meanwhile filtering my sub feed by things like video length is still not a thing *>_>  🤣 what the fuck? Probably because it's super easy to implmement and :blobshrug: :catgooglyfingerguns: :blobcatgooglyshrug: Probably going after the trend of organizing your bookshelf by color for instagram likes... but like... how the fuck do you actually find the books then? Who am I kidding, influencers don't read...     @AmyZenunim it means someone is realllllly scraping the bottom of the barrel for ideas that will get them promoted @AmyZenunim could that be one of these new "are you human" things? Or is the "content suggestion AI" drifting into sleep? Who knows... 😁   @AmyZenunim Sounds better than “do you want a bunch of hateful pricks invading your random viewing of videos”, which is what they have now. This just sounds goofy and fun to be honest.  @AmyZenunim Well, my stuff probably plays well for Bouba Youtube but making Kiki Youtube content would result in *thousands of dollars* worth of damage.   @AmyZenunim this must be why you have to undergo 200 interviews and answer quantum physics questions on whiteboards infront of 12 Nobel winners before you can intern at Google. @AmyZenunim is this real?? surely this is a meme?? @AmyZenunim This is absolutely someone with investment control demanding Features Be Added for Number Go Up. @AmyZenunim I'm incredibly late to the party on this post, but after reading the responses I have a question. Why are so many people seemingly angry over this "feature?" On its face it does in fact seem useless, but still. Maybe some teams were having some fun, or it's a small piece from a more complex recognition engine? Who knows. There are many reason to be critical of, or even angry at Google, but for this? @AmyZenunim That's an interesting point. I agree that Google is 100% untrustworthy, and as I mentioned, I too think the filters may be part of a larger project. However, many of the responses seem angry over the "stupidity" of the filters and nothing else. @AmyZenunim It means "Hi, we're A-B-testing new ways to hijack your brain for monetization purpose, please cooperate. Resistance is futile." 🤖 @AmyZenunim trying to mess with content creators through forcing them to add more RGB hues to their stuff for the sake of The Algorithm?   @AmyZenunim This clip from StarTrek better be filed under "green": https://youtu.be/YQAG0JEb718 |
@AmyZenunim do you want a red youtube? a redtube so to speak?