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YouTube Lets You Sort Videos by Color Now, for Some Reason

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"Hey, can I see all of this channel's videos, oldest-to-newest?"

"Nope. Best I can do is ROYGBIV"

"What?"

"ummm... I need your location"

That's Googlewang!

This was my first thought as well.

How about search by language? At least don't translate my query if I am already entering it in a foreign language.

They re-added the oldest-to-newest sort option, at least for channels I watch

Yeah, I see that on the desktop. Unfortunately (for me) my main interface to YT is through the AppleTV app, which doesn't let me sort by anything at all. When viewing a channel, I see several horizontal lists. The first one ("Uploads") is sorted newest-first. The rest of them are either playlists the channel owner has created, or Shorts, or other related channels.

You can use the YouTube app on your phone as a remote for YT on the Apple TV it’s super nifty.

Love the Mitchell and webb reference

This is such a bizarre feature it didn't even occur to me that the intent was to filter on predominant color.

I had assumed it was a way to build AI-honed categories without having to define explicit labels for them.

I cannot think of any use for this. It must have been a fair bit of effort to create too. What a strange idea.

Google is definitely pushing ML or content aware search result categories as well.

Gone of the days of searching a product and hitting "News" to see news about it. It now generates search query specific headings like "Price", "Reddit", "Sale" for "4080 RTX" for example.

Not necessarily a bad thing but.

I've always wanted this feature for my bookmark manager. I've found myself saying like I remember a website that was x color on the header.

I actually really want to try this out but it’s not showing up for me yet. I just checked that the client was up to date too, so I guess I’ll have to check back in later or tomorrow when it propagates out to me.

What a neat little idea though! Might be cool if they could add some kind of color wheel option instead of just three primary colors.

Honestly curious... how would this be useful to you? I cannot think of a use case for this at all.

It probably won’t be useful and I don’t really think it’ll matter if it is; but it probably will be fun for a bit. I just checked and it still hasn’t propagated to me, but knowing the types of videos I’m watching I can imagine somewhat how it will filter through the home page and present them under the umbrella of “Red”, “Green” and “Blue”. I want to see that I’m right, but since the most common type of video I play on YouTube since I leave it on in the background is “music” and I can somewhat see where the genres will line up. I’m guessing a lot of phonk music videos will rise to the top of “red” and maybe ones I’ve never seen before.

But… if it’s useful to anybody, it will probably be by drawing attention to that top bar you have to scroll through according to the article which applies different filters to your home page according to video type, genre or media type.

I’m looking at mine and I’m seeing “music”, “mixes” which are at the front and the most regularly used by me. There’s different games, or other topics, there’s “Live” and “soundtracks”, “Podcasts” which I don’t use and so is usually at the end, and way at the end right now is “Recently Uploaded” and “New to you”. I know about all of this, but how many people have no idea any of that is there? Well, some of them might pick up on it if they hear about the color filter thing and play with that. Mostly I think it will just be fun and maybe a bit of a meme.

Imagine we could search the already available transcripts for content.

You can use https://filmot.com/ for that

This actually makes a lot of sense...how many video titles do you remember off the top off your head, versus some background imagery or color that predominates the video?

Surely you can find it more effectively in your watch history. This feature is to discover videos, not rediscover.

Unless the colour was quite strange, like eye blinding fluorescent pink or purple, I cannot imagine referencing colour. Or some background image. It wouldn't even register.

Am I unusual here?

Except you can't rely on that. Youtubers can and do update the thumbnail to A/B test which gets more views.

For me? Almost none.

I would like to be able to sort by mostly-balck-and-white vs. mostly-talking-heads vs. mostly-other-stuff-in-color.

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