15 AWESOME YouTube Tricks

Vsauce. Today we're gonna be covering a topic that is very close to my heart. Clever uses of YouTube's technologies. Now, I've always had a lot of fun messing around with stuff like the loading c... circle and annotations.

But, let's take a safari today through things other YouTubers have done. Other creative ways they've come up with using what YouTube offers. Now obviously in this one video we can't cover everything, so please, leave in the comments below other cool things you found other YouTubers doing.

We're gonna start things off with Skittles' touch. These videos are pretty new, but they let you physically get involved, or at least with your finger. I won't ruin the ending to that one, but I also like the cage cop version. Your finger helps fight crime. By the way, there are links to all of these videos for your own enjoyment in the description.

Back when YouTube first supported widescreen, freddiew celebrated by interacting with the site itself. He fought and murdered the very letterboxing surrounding him. Joe Sabia has built a lot of really awesome clever things. He's the guy who made the Oscar's 'Spot the difference' video where you have to have an eye and find the differences and click the answer to keep moving on and on and on.

Joe also made this brilliant slot machine where you have to click each wheel at just the right time to complete a character. MysteryGuitarMan was behind this super creative interactive piano, where you could make him play a song, but I think the first person to explore this fun idea was kokokaka and play the piano.

In videos like these you have to let the whole thing load and then you click on the actual piano keys and they move you to the time code where that note is played. I'm also a huge fan of this interactive bass guitar because you can play the notes by just typing the numbers on your keyboard. For instance, here I am using this sequence to play a little song.

But let's stop playing around and get narrative. There are a lot of great choose your own adventure stories on YouTube, but one of my favorites is Lego Spider, where you help get a spider off of your friend's head. The music, by the way, is just incredible.

But if music and dancing is all you want, go with the mixable dancer. It's simple, but something about the costume and the dark background makes it just crazy enough. If you prefer magic, be sure to check out the old classic YouTube magic card trick, if you haven't already.

It was made back when YouTube first implemented annotations. The famous street fighter stop-motion game from Patrick Boivin was actually the inspiration behind my Chris Brown punch out game. You have to give it a try. All of those ideas used a lot of annotations, but MysteryGuitarMan took it in a different direction by including hidden annotations in his videos that viewers had to scavenger hunt to find to get secret words.

Boone Oakley took it one step even further. They're an ad agency whose actual website is a YouTube video. The links on the side here navigate you around and they even have arrows hard-wired into the video that show you where to drag the play-head to see specific things.

Now it's your turn. Remember any fun tricks or cool ideas that some other YouTuber did that wasn't covered here? Well, let us know in the comments below or post those videos to Facebook.com/vsaucegaming. I'm talking cool contests, nifty ways to get guys involved or just other surprising uses of the technology.

I wanna see more of these things, so let us know. And as always, thanks for watching.