YouTubeCeption: I Uploaded this Short 15 TIMES
Added 2025-08-22 16:52:34 +0000 UTCI hope you enjoy my foray into what happens when you let YouTube do its weird upscaling thing over and over and over and... :)
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Rafael Hernández
2025-08-28 01:47:36 +0000 UTCNice 👍🏾
Rafael Hernández
2025-08-28 01:47:00 +0000 UTCTo me this looks more like standard video encode/decode quality loss
Jesse Thompson
2025-08-22 20:30:12 +0000 UTCIs the voice with the gravitas echo your "Mom" voice? All in all, I have to disagree, Jill. The dimples are still adorable in every version.
ClassicsLover
2025-08-22 18:53:51 +0000 UTCI’m gonna have to look at this on a desktop because on my phone it actually just looks worse as it goes ending in something looking kind of blurry.
GeekFilter
2025-08-22 18:20:34 +0000 UTCOn my phone, which is very much not 4K, this is barely noticeable. At least until the over-smoothing and audio desyncing starts happening, that's extremely noticeable.
Juan Borla
2025-08-22 18:15:06 +0000 UTCIs this a new glasses test? How many recursive uploads until you notice a difference? Cause I feel like I should have noticed earlier than 7 first time... I went back and watched and wow how did I miss the whatever that is during the transition between you moving and you being stationary?
Bill Cooper
2025-08-22 18:05:27 +0000 UTCYou're not the first person to notice this and I've been thinking a lot about why YouTube might be doing this. This could be YouTube poisoning the well against anyone (other than themselves) using YouTube videos to train AI. You've seen how bad an AI generated video gets when it is fed another AI generated video as input. I've heard a lot of Sysadmins complaining over the past year or so about AI companies are almost DDOSing the entire internet on a daily basis scouring every last corner of the Web for training data. One solution has been to poison their websites with stuff that most humans wouldn't notice but would render the content useless for AI training purposes.
Jon Payne
2025-08-22 17:23:15 +0000 UTCI really want this to be back-edited into a bunch of old movies/tv where they "enhance" an image, and it goes from being standard security camera footage into a wonky smoothed out, indecipherable beige.
Haldon Lindstrom
2025-08-22 17:09:26 +0000 UTCIn my head I hear the TV protagonist say to their pet techie, "can you enhance that?" and then six pixels become a Rembrandt.
Allan West
2025-08-22 17:05:29 +0000 UTCYeah, me too. I expected much worse.
Dragi Raos
2025-08-22 16:59:30 +0000 UTCThe compression is so horrible. V1 looks decent. V15 is weird.
Sandra OShields
2025-08-22 16:56:22 +0000 UTCInteresting experiment. To be honest, I'm quite impressed by how good the 15 iteration image looked.
Jim Sanderson
2025-08-22 16:55:56 +0000 UTCIt's like a car crash, you know you shouldn't look but somehow your neck turns your head anyway.
Ekij
2025-08-22 16:54:17 +0000 UTC
