XKCD Idea Leads to New YouTube Feature

Posted by Miss Cellania in Blog & Internet on October 9, 2008 at 2:43 pm



YouTube comments are the butt of many jokes; read a few and you’ll know why. Randall Munroe created an XKCD comic in which a character invents a virus that reads YouTube comments back to the commenters before they post. Read the entire strip here. Now YouTube has installed an “audio preview” button that reads a comment aloud before its posted!

Whether “audio preview” will make any difference to someone whose entire comment reads “rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr” (actual comment from a featured video) is to be seen. I’m guessing most commenters will skip right past it in an effort to get their “first!” comments in there.

The placement of the button is interesting. It’s exactly where the post message button used to be, meaning quick commenters will discover it only when they accidentally click the new button. Hopefully they’ll do this with their speakers up at work.

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9 comments to "XKCD Idea Leads to New YouTube Feature"

  1. CheeseDuck
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:07 pm

    We should have that for Neatorama.

  2. andrew
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:13 pm

    hah this is brilliant. Thank you internet, you have made my day.

  3. Lydia
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:42 pm

    Does it yell if the comment is all in caps?

  4. corinne
    October 9th, 2008 at 3:48 pm

    I thought that was amazing. I discovered the tool like 2 hours after I'd set that comic as the background to my youtube channel.

  5. Mouserz
    October 9th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

    haha i was wondering when neatorama would mention this.

  6. Ha
    October 9th, 2008 at 8:20 pm

    Ha, I just tried that out by copy and pasting someone else's comment. It read "...I may not be gay, but damn..." as "...I may not be Georgia" and cut off the rest. Either there's a character limit, or they don't like the words gay and damn.

  7. Christophe
    October 9th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

    It doesn't work in French ;)

  8. Johnny Cat
    October 9th, 2008 at 11:19 pm

    Bugs aside, this is an example of the true nature of the 21st century imho. One entity influences another one with no money passed, just ideas. Awesome.

  9. Thomas
    October 10th, 2008 at 2:14 pm

    I've been trying to stump it since this morning. Its like they designed it knowing the kinds of tarded comments they get.


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