YouTube Glitches

YouTube is known for having a lot of glitches. This article will be talking about most of them. As more glitches on YouTube are found, this page will keep having information added to it over time. Many of these glitches are usually minor but sometimes there are glitches that could potentially be damaging to the platform itself. 
==Glitches==
*If a video, for example, is 30 seconds long, it will instead be either 29 seconds long or 31 seconds. This is mainly because it's been rounded to 29 or 31 seconds as YouTube doesn't display decimal numbers.https://youtube.com/watch?v=VmpQRVX-tdE?t=8
*Sometimes, if you make a comment and post it, it will appear duplicated.
*You can't reply to comments that have at least 400 replies despite the limit being 500. This doesn't happen all the time, but the chances of this happening increase slightly as more comments are added.
*You can save videos for kids to your playlist and watch later by clicking/tapping on the small three dots, and then clicking/tapping on either watch later, playlist, or both. This can be done with the three dots only.
*In mobile, if an advertisement pops up and you watch a short at the video page then close the video with the advertisement and reopen it, the advertisement will get skipped entirely. This glitch has been fixed.
*Despite the reply limit being 500, it is possible for a comment to have more than 500 replies. This is caused if replies are posted at the same time.
*The report doesn't work. It temporarily removes a comment, reply, post, or poll.
*On the desktop version, you can't scroll when your notifications are open. Using the scroll bar on the right will cause scrolling to get glitchy and laggy.
*It was possible for a comment to be posted blank. This was because when you shared a video on , it made you post a comment. If you posted it without text, it would show a blank comment.https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/2nh2bu/eli5_why_do_youtubers_comment_a_blank_comment/ A post on a r/explainlikeimfive post saying "ELI5: Why do youtubers comment a blank comment under their own videos?"
*There was a glitch that a video was stuck at 301 views or 1 view. It stops there for about 12 hours or a day (24 hours). The problem is that when you make a request on a video, it goes to a server, and writes a log. When someone watches the video at the same time, the view count stops at 301 views.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI Eventually, the glitch was fixed in August 2015.
*When a video is recently uploaded, it won't appear in the video section of a channel because it will take a few seconds or minutes for the video to go in the video section.
*The video history search and the video search can be a bit broken at times.
*Sometimes, a video will start at the end and the time marker will extend past the video's actual length. The extended length could be from a previous video a viewer has watched.
*If you're verified, and change your name, your verification mark goes away. You can get it back by simply reapplying to get the verification mark again.
*Some videos are published on December 31, 1969 or January 1, 1970 due to Unix time.
**The official channel of YouTube had its creation date as December 31, 1969/January 1, 1970 for a long time. Recently the creation date has vanished completely.
*Some YouTube channels were made after they uploaded their first video. For example, YouTube Creators, who joined in 2013, but uploaded their first video in 2010. The reason why is because YouTube transferred their old channel to their new channel.
*In September 2019, if you go to YouTube Studio and go to comments, you can see channels with more than one million subscribers, even though they don't have a million subscribers. For example, a YouTube channel has 65 subscribers, but displays 65.0M subscribers instead.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIKFK72Dm0s
*In October 2014, there's a glitch that the notification bell doesn't show the number of new messages or comments. The glitch was fixed on October 16th, 2014.
* On mobile, you can't tap on timestamps that say "0:00". It depends on the brand of the device.
*During 2021, a glitch has appeared in which the like counter on a video's watch page will not display the full number of likes, which need to be accessed by YouTube Studio instead.YOUTUBE LIKES DISAPPEARING: Why Likes Are Not Showing On YouTube? YouTube Removing Likes? - Yes To Tech on YouTube{Question} YouTube Likes Not Showing up on Video (getting removed) - Redditlikes disappearing? - RedditLikes disappearing after a couple of hours - Reddit It is sometimes possible to temporarily fix this issue by liking your own video, refreshing the page, removing your like and refreshing the page again - however, this fix is usually temporary and the glitch will often reappear.
*In 2021, it is possible to get negative likes and dislikes. To do it, you have to spam the like and dislike button, which results the counter to go down or into the negatives.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRuPZiWRBTo The glitch has been patched a few weeks later.
* In 2020, this glitch only happens in phone and sometimes it happens. When you scroll down while watching a video it scrolls back up and its struggling to scroll. To fix this glitch just close the app and open it again.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q0y9mdYXs4s Or Just go to settings>Applications>YouTube>About And Click Clear Cache.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQuIHJFLc8A 
*This date is unknown and only happens in laptop/desktop. Some videos' timestamp is bigger but the bar ends some seconds. For Ex: This video named "traveler radio ep I" timestamp says 2:00, but it stops at 0:08https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SVhL7TSbTE because the audio stops at 0:08 and the video stops working at 0:11.
*On the mobile web version of YouTube (specifically Safari), it is impossible to edit and/or delete comments. The latter can be solved by going into "Google - My Activity" through YouTube and clicking X on the comment you want to delete.
*In February 2017, there was a glitch where unsubscribing from a channel counts as 2 unsubs. It was fixed on February 8, 2017.
* On October 16, 2018, The entire YouTube website went down as was rendered completely bugged when accessed. It was eventually fixed a few hours later.
*During March 2015, there was a bug that tricked the system into deleting any video without channel or moderator privileges. If this bug was known to the public prior before fixing, it would do a number on YouTube as many channels would be sabotaged. Fortunately for YouTube, the person who discovered this bug reported.
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* On mobile, there is a bug where when you watch a video and then want to look at another video, the video will show the old video and will be glitching out. Nowadays, The glitch has since been fixed.
*On mobile, Sometimes, when you click on a video a big green bar will appear. The glitch has since been fixed nowadays.
*Sometimes when you watch a video and go to the comments section, the number of comments will appear different (for example: a comment section has 2 comments but displays 1 comment instead).
*On mobile, if you use the app for a long time, it will start to lag. To fix it, you need to close it and open it again.
*When removing certain letters in the "watch" URL while watching a video, it will redirect you to certain videos, mainly being a 666 video and a Hypixels Christmas video. This is mainly due to certain YouTubers who make their channel URL into "watch", which in turn will redirect users to videos connected to these users.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMZt2PHv3fk&t
*As on May 3, 2023, when you click on anything, the URL gets stuck and the left arrow is still grey.
*At an unknown date in 2023, when viewing the playlist section, it will show irrelevant results regardless of what you searched for.
*As of 2023, when you click on a next video while video is being played in the playlist, then the playlist layout changes back to the normal layout with the playlist disappearing, this glitch wasn't fixed as of 2024.
*Sometimes, auto-generated captions will not show swear words at all. For example, instead of showing "shut the [ __ ] up", for example, they will show "shut the up" instead. The cause of this is unknown.
*As every time seen in posts and videos, when you look up the comments, the comments number will show up "O comments", but then the comments appear, the glitch hasn't been fixed.
*Youtube shorts copying itself into top left corner (example shown)
*As of June 2024, when you click the search bar engine, in international versions, the "remove" text in international version changes into the english version sometimes, it's not fixed at all.
==References==
Category:History of YouTube