YouTube Get Silly With Sepia
With many people around the world getting ready to don their joker’s hat for April Fool’s Day today, websites are also getting in on the act, and with Google so often the forerunners of this, it is no surprise that YouTube (owned by Google) have a fun theme for the day. When the clock struck midnight earlier today, the video sharing website ‘turned it back’ by 100 years.
The highlight of the ‘YouTube 1911′ celebrations feature a mockup collection of the best ‘viral’ clips from the era, with 5 silent movie-style 
videos in the compliation, all of which designed to replicate a modern-day viral phenomenom.
The clips seen are ‘The Irksome Citrus’ (Annoying Orange series), ‘Buggy Intruder’ (Bed Intruder Song), ‘Swing Flummox’ (Failblog series), ‘Horse & Buggy Crash’ (Rick Roll’d series), and ‘Flugelhorn Feline’ (Charlie Schmidt’s Keyboard Cat).
The video is being proudly displayed as a featured video on the homepage, while a new option for existing videos is the option to switch the video to ’1911 view’ which produces a sepia-tinged, silent movie look at any video on the popular website, with the option to revert to ‘regular’ YouTube if wanted.
The Top 5 Viral Pictures of 1911 video can be seen below, so will the joke go down well, or will YouTube’s self-proclaimed ’100th birthday’ celebrations turn sour?
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