Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Upside-down YouTube

Well folks, it looks like there are some pretty strange things built into YouTube's core coding. For example, there is a simple way to completely flip any YouTube page upside-down, text and all! I was lucky enough to stumble upon this obscure and bizarre YouTube functionality while I was surfing through videos late at night. All you have to do is fix "&flip=1" (without the quotes) onto the end of any YouTube URL! It's that easy! Let's try it:

1.) Check out this video: Training at Home. The french Spiderman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_-UGZokOU
2.) Cool, huh? Now try viewing it upside down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM_-UGZokOU&flip=1
3.) Link to YouTube's explanation:
http://www.youtube.com/t/new_viewing_experience

Happy April 1st!