YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button (Seriously)

teh31337one writes "YouTube always has had a way with pranks. Some time in the last hour, the world's largest video portal activated a new button on some videos that looks like a tiny soccer ball. Clicking it will activate an endless, incredibly annoying sound that sounds vaguely like a swarm of insects. Or, for anyone who has been watching the World Cup, like the dreaded vuvuzela — an instrument commonly played in South Africa at football (soccer) games. South Africa is, of course, the host country for this year's World Cup, and fans watching the games have been subjected to the vuvuzela's mindless drone for hours on end. The noise is so annoying that television networks have taken measures to filter it out, and guides have popped up showing viewers how to block it from their TV sets and computers. I'm not seeing the button show up on all videos, but it is definitely appearing on some clips that aren't soccer-related."

Comments

Re:dreaded?

[wampus]

Uh, I think you'll find the bible says bad things about trumpets in the book of revelation...

The loop is awful

[Robadob]

Seriously the track they chose to loop when i heard it this morning was awful, it was too clear where it was looping. Moot did a much better job with the 4chan one a few weeks ago.