Wednesday 4 June 2014
Ultimate YouTube’s Hidden Secret Easter Eggs
Today in this topic we are going to share a few hidden secret Easter eggs present in YouTubewebsite. Almost all of us are aware of the popular video sharing website "YouTube" which is run by Google.
These hidden Easter eggs are present in YouTube video pages as well as search pages. If you want to reveal these Easter eggs, just check out following simple steps:
Credit to: AskVg
Credit to: AskVg
Open any video in YouTube and just start typing 1980 on the page. You don't need to type 1980 in comment box or search box. Just type the numbers while you are watching the video and it'll launch Missile Control game at the top of the video.
2. Snake Game
We have shared about this Easter egg long time back in following topic:
When this Easter egg was introduced, you needed to press and hold Left and Up arrow keys on your keyboard while watching a video to reveal this Easter egg. Later YouTube disabled this trick.
Now you can reveal this Easter egg by pressing Down arrow key on your keyboard while a video is buffering.
3. POW Button on Videos
Open any video and paste following string at the end of the video URL in your browser addressbar:
&pow=1&nohtml5=1
After pasting the above string at the end of the video URL, press Enter and now you'll get a newPOW button in video toolbar:
Click on it and the video will be shown in comic book style. To watch the video in normal style, click on the POW button again.
4. Tape Mode Button on Videos
Open any video and paste following string at the end of the video URL in your browser addressbar:
&vhs=1&nohtml5=1
After pasting the above string at the end of the video URL, press Enter and now you'll get a newTape Mode button in video toolbar:
Click on it and the video will be shown in classic videotape style. To watch the video in normal style, click on the Tape Mode button again.
5. Wadsworth's Constant
Open any video and paste following string at the end of the video URL in your browser addressbar:
&wadsworth=1
After pasting the above string at the end of the video URL, press Enter and the video will automatically skip the first 30% part.
This Wadsworth constant was created by a Reddit user and a YouTube employee because they thought that the first 30% part of a video is not worth to watch and doesn't contain any interesting information.
So you can use this Easter egg to load any video at 30%.
6. Fibonacci Numbers or Sequence
In mathematics, Fibonacci numbers or Fibonacci sequence is a set of numbers in following sequence:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, ...
In Fibonacci sequence, each subsequent number is the sum of previous two numbers.
Open YouTube and search for Fibonacci in search box and the search results page will show videos in a tile arrangement based on Fibonacci sequence and the golden ratio.
7. Webdriver Torso
Open YouTube and search for Webdriver Torso in search box. The search results page will have red background and will show a blue rectangle around some videos.
You'll also notice aqua.flv - Slide 0000 up to 0009 written at the bottom of the search results page.
8. Doge Meme
Open YouTube and search for Doge Meme in search box. The search results page's fonts will be automatically converted to Comic Sans and will show text in various colors.
9. Beam me up, Scotty
Open YouTube and search for Beam me up, Scotty in search box. The search results page will show the videos list using popular Star Trek effect which looks like YouTube is beaming the videos on search results page.
10. Use the force, Luke
Open YouTube and search for Use the force, Luke in search box. The search results page will show the videos using Star Wars effect. You'll notice a wavy effect on search results page and everything will fly on the screen.
11. Do the Harlem Shake
Open YouTube and search for Do the Harlem Shake in search box and the search results page will do the Harlem Shake. The song Harlem Shake will be automatically played on search results page which can be muted or paused by the user and videos will shake based on the beats.
That's all for now. There were a few more Easter eggs such as / Geek Week, Ponies or Bronies and 1337 (leet) which no longer work.
If you know about any other YouTube Easter egg, feel free to share it with us and we'll add it to the list.
