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I honestly cannot envision a scenario in which I would want something like this from YouTube.
this is for people who arrange their bookshelves by spine color.
you know, idiots.
Let me introduce you to some classics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3pF2jkQ4vc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpLtgcSG08s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJLwidSohO8
Before you ask, no, I don't watch these. I discovered these types of videos only a few months ago and was shocked at the viewer counts.
Sometimes the internet is weird
I agree. I don't understand why these videos are watched either.
There are other weird styles too. Eg. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rkUcw9INLI
Pretty sure the solid colors are for people who need to shine a specific color of light, and there's no simpler way to quickly do that. You either download a new app, or google image search and try to find something you can zoom in with.
The sound effects one I have no idea, haha
If you need to shine a particular color why use a video though?
The simpler method is to load whatever stock application that came on your mobile device/computer OS that allows you to color the screen exactly as you desire. They're offline too.
what app is that?
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I agree, I have seen at least a dozen weird things on the internet
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Why not? Not you, I mean but why not have it as an option?
Frankly I wouldn't use it either, but I can absolutely see the appeal. Sometimes you want some warm tones, sometimes you want cool tones. Maybe you're having a Green party for 4/20 and you're playing Green Day and watching green videos idk.
Lol dumbness aside, my immediate thought was "this seems like it could be nice for those who sleep to videos" - I know that I don't always want a white-blue heavy video but something darker and red
Okay, but what if your darker and redder video is super loud and obnoxious and your blue-white video is quiet and calm? Or the dark red one is strobing and the blue-white one is calm and soft? That's the problem with just sorting them by color. Color doesn't really tell you anything about the content of the video. I mean I supposed this very out-there idea of a 'green party' could be a weird usage case, but I think that's a very unusual event and doesn't really justify the feature.
The only people I could see this feature helpful for is those with synesthesia.
The ASMR and meditation community sometimes embrace a specific colour aesthetic for videos. They're also all pretty similar in terms of audio level etc so I can see this working well in that niche.
E.g. https://youtu.be/lziFPKhsJ2A
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