Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Youtube easter eggs "snow", "playing snake", "wadsworth constant"

Youtube being a google product also has its own kind of easter eggs which can are similar to that of google search based easter eggs and just as many youtube tricks were shared in the blog before now 3 different youtube easter eggs are explained in brief here.

1) Playing Snake in Youtube : Snake game can be played while watching videos on youtube asusually. While watching a video hold the left key and then press the up key while still holding the left key which makes the snake game to be launched.The process of the game loading happens in 2 steps basically, holding the left arrow key makes the video to rewind and load momentarily and pressing the up arrow key while the video is loading makes the player to launch the snake game.



The trick basically works for youtube's new player only and for those videos only without annotations and ads in the video, also the trick is limited to videos played on youtube only and doesn't work on embedded videos. Here is a example video of how the thing works basically.




2) Snowfall effects in youtube : The youtube player has a new button of a snowflake clicking which while playing a video provides a snowfall effect in the video being watched similar to that of google search's let it snow. The search queries for things like snow and christmas gets a simplified snow animation on the search query.




search for snow



search for christmas




3) Wadsworth Skip : In Youtube adding &wadsworth=1 to the URL will apply Wadsworth's constant (skip 30%). Basically Wadsworth Constant is a fundamental idea that the true meaning of a video, conversation, or comment approaches importance after approximately 30% of it has been skipped over. so applying wadsworth constant to youtube videos make the video to skip approx 30% of the video.
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