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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
Hello
Rafael Hernández
Nice 👍🏾
Jesse Thompson
To me this looks more like standard video encode/decode quality loss
ClassicsLover
Is 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.
GeekFilter
I’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.
Juan Borla
On 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.
Bill Cooper
Is 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?
Jon Payne
You'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.
Haldon Lindstrom
I 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.
Allan West
In my head I hear the TV protagonist say to their pet techie, "can you enhance that?" and then six pixels become a Rembrandt.
Dragi Raos
Yeah, me too. I expected much worse.
Sandra OShields
The compression is so horrible. V1 looks decent. V15 is weird.
Jim Sanderson
Interesting experiment. To be honest, I'm quite impressed by how good the 15 iteration image looked.
Ekij
It's like a car crash, you know you shouldn't look but somehow your neck turns your head anyway.
