YouTube Hidden Features
Amvona Blog 01 Aug, 2009 | by stephanieluz
Childhood feelings were awaken today after discovering I could add an image of asparagus to my favorite “cat jumps on ceiling fan” video. Those feeling were quickly crushed after finding out that it didn’t work.
On Collegehumor.com, a web video series called “CH Labs” features a geek-a-zoid named Patrick who uncovers the latest tech news; just yesterday he uncovered how the use of codewords like “sideoveggies” and “addascream” into the YouTube URL can create various video effects.
In the following instructional video, Patrick demonstrates how each of these codewords work:See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.
Here are my notes. Just enter these at the end of your YouTube URL:
— “/” and video time — Start viewing from that point in the video
— “/sideoveggies” — Asparagus appears in the middle of the video
— “/yaketysax” — Speeds up video and adds background song
— “/addascream” — Creepy girl and scream added at a random point in video
— “/vocoder” — Adds vocoder to audio
— “/japanesegameshow” - Small version of a Japanese game show on the left
— All of these codes can be added together to achieve these effects simultaneously
I was dismayed when I tried the technique myself. I giddily added “yaketysax” to watch “ceiling cat” spin in fast motion only to get an error message, “The URL contained a malformed video ID.” I even tried using my friend’s Mac, and still encountered the same problem. Trying other videos didn’t help either. Boy, Pat got us good.
