What Does YouTube’s Logo Mean? [Updated]
by Arun
I know today is April Fools Day. I just don’t understand YouTube’s logo.
It is even called logo_april_fools-vfl157034.png
Does anyone know what this is about?
Update: It looks like some YouTube videos have an ASCII version in edition to the various resolutions like 420p and 720p. It is very similar to VLC’s ASCII filter.
i was just looking at that to… it like little Ls or something look at googles home page
YouTube ASCII video filter
The logo of YouTube was changed to an ASCII-style one made out of 1s.[17] The YouTube logo is a reference to some videos having a new quality setting, namely “TEXTp”. According to a notice underneath the videos, viewing the video with this quality setting enabled allows YouTube to save one US dollar ($1) per second on bandwidth costs. The notice also remarks on the source of this new “feature”, wishing the reader a happy April Fool’s Day.
However in accordance with the announcement, the video quality on some videos can indeed be set to ‘TEXTp’ and video output will be rendered through an ASCII filter.