Google added sorting by color on Black History Month and the world just fuckin’ watched.
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Someone just got hired at my work and they organize their apps by color. I started disassociating.
I’ve got a folder called “apps with a white background” for shits and giggles. Still adhere to it to this day
I'd call the folder "don't open at night"
And then it'd be only a matter of time until I suspect it summons demons or something, and open it anyway
summons demons
Guess what, an F-Droid app already exists for that. And people still dare say they don't have one for everything!
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makes a program whose icon changes colors every few months explicitly to annoy people like this
I didn't used to sort mine by colour, but then I noticed when sorting by purpose, I'd usually end up with only one or two colours (often blue), and so now I sort by colour and purpose to I have a nice gradient
My apps are in an alphabetical list.
Damn those visual people. Remembering what things look like rather than what they're called. Bunch of idiots.
Please don't tell me they do the same with their books.
Oh no wait, they probably don't have any.
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Features for literal babies, I guess. "Little Elsa sleeps better when we put on the Blue right-wing propaganda disguised as children's shows."
“Little Elsa sleeps better when we put on the Blue right-wing propaganda disguised as children’s shows.”
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Bro this made me so mad, holy fuck. Just show me the channels I'm subscribed to and adjacent content, that's it. You haven't succeeded at that in years.
Not dumb, just useless. I'm sure some intern is very proud of this.
I’m going to generalise here but I have a strong suspicion I know the type of person/people who came up with this ‘brilliant’ idea.
Im guessing their homes and Stanley cups probably feature a pastel aesthetic.
The feature I really want is to be able to filter my suggested videos by length.
"Just because something can be built does not mean it should."
"Infuriating bookstore customer mode"
I once knew someone who organized their CD collection by colour to annoy her house mates.
i think it’s cute
Cute or not, it's wasting money and time that could be spent on actually improving the app. YouTube constantly pushes more ads more aggressively saying they don't make profit, while wasting money in such absurd way
prove that it’s wasting money.
advertisers have long understood the relationship between color and emotion. to me it seems downright reasonable that google have discovered (or are collecting) data that increases viewership, retention, and total ad revenue 🙂
If the purpose is to provide alternative recommendation feeds, it's not useless. Ever had that feeling when you go to the yt homepage and you don't see anything you want to watch?
But why would sorting by color solve that for me?
This feels more like an interesting solo hack together project on GitHub that one can take lessons from than an enterprise solution to any sort of issue or feature request.
It literally just filters by colors in the thumbnail
It just sends you to filters at the top for the color, there are tons of others already there that you can use to find new stuff, including a „new to me“ one that will only show things you actually haven’t seen before.
wouldn't the optimal way to deal with that just be a button that shows you progressively more different content the more you click it?
why would showing me green videos somehow be particularly helpful?
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yeah that happened to me an hour ago. I chose the middle one because that was my favorite color scheme of the three choices. Result: the associated video selections were nothing special But I wonder if they took into account my algorithms I already had going, plus the blue purple color scheme 🤔
Why would you even interact with a dumb promp like this?
because I was curious cuz I've always wanted to go to promp but nobody ever asked me.
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add black so it can recommend dan howell and mcr videos, cowards
Does it work?
For the most part yes, but yellow videos often end up in green and Red at the same time
That's pretty funny.
I choose black.
I haven't seen this but it doesn't seem like a big deal, unless they're spamming you with it. people seem to have a pathological need to be mad about youtube updates tbh
"Hey, you know that fancy AI we're developing? I just had a crazy cool idea to use it for!"
Idk this seems pretty good for like a reception or something.
Why would it be? It could easily do things like- purple video of jacaranda flowers in bloom with peaceful music, then purple video of a guy wearing all purple giving the camera the finger while death metal plays.
Color says absolutely nothing about a video's contents.
It's not just colour it's colour within what the algorithm already thinks is nice. If you only watch 4hour fish tank videos you'll only get 4 hour fish tank videos, just with purple fish. It's not like you have to just play this live either. Just generate the videos and add each non offensive one to a Playlist to run at the office. Sure it's not like a killer feature, I also doubt it took much effort at all to create.
The algorithm is far from perfect. And how would it know you were planning for a reception and wanted those kind of videos if you normally watched death metal videos?
Grayjay
Ngl, as a fan of green, this doesn't look that bad to me :P
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