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cramjabsyn | 2 years ago

?t=4m20s

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w-ll|2 years ago

I may be mandela effecting, but was there a time you could do ?t=wadsworth or some other param to skip the first 30%.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-wadsworth-constant

lcnPylGDnU4H9OF|2 years ago

Yeah, I remember that. Specifically what I remember is a discussion on reddit about how a lot of youtube videos have useless stuff in the first ~30% and someone who joined the comments -- wadsworth -- also happened to work at youtube. Apparently with enough freedom to have an extra parameter check deployed to production. Probably around 2012. The parameter I remember was wadsworth=1.

Edit: Got the story wrong. Wadsworth was just a commenter with an opinion and someone who worked at youtube had a sense of humor.

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/kxfxy/and_so_ends_20_...

https://old.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/kxfxy/and_so_ends_20_...

karlshea|2 years ago

What a coincidence I was thinking about this feature just a couple of days ago and couldn’t remember the name of the Wadsworth Constant.

wilkystyle|2 years ago

Slight nitpick: &t=4m20s

YouTube will have ?v=[SOME ID] so you can't reuse the question mark.