You Tube Upside Down For April Fools’ Day

YouTube has turned a few (and we mean three) videos upside down on their home page today in honor of April Fools. Unfortch they didn’t turn our videos upside down cuz then everyone would become legal. Ho!

If you go to the homepage, you’ll find three featured videos, all with an upside down theme. Click on those and you’ll see an image like the one above. Click on ‘tips for viewing the new layout’ and you get the following explanation:

Your New Viewing Experience
At YouTube, we’re always looking to improve the way you watch videos online. As part of that, today we’re excited to introduce our new page layout. Here are some tips for getting the most out of your new YouTube viewing experience: 

1. Turn your monitor upside-down
Our internal tests have shown that modern computer monitors give a higher quality picture when flipped upside down—kind of like how it’s best to rotate your mattress every six months. You might find that YouTube videos look better this way.

2. Tilt your head to the side
Imagine you’ve got water in your ear and need to get it out. Tilt your head toward one shoulder and watch the video (gentle head-smacking on the opposite side is optional).

3. Move to Australia
As you probably know, everything in Australia is upside-down, so moving to Australia may provide you with a more natural YouTube viewing experience. (Note: If you live Down Under, and the page is still upside-down for you, then we recommended moving to the northern hemisphere.)

If you embed the video elsewhere it appears right-side-up, so you have to go there to see the joke. Brilliant marketing. First John Mayer going gay then YouTube going upside down. What’s next? Elvis Crespo taking the train?

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