• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      It’s an old meme that states the first 30% of every YouTube video is useless and can be skipped without consequence. It’s a constant because it doesn’t matter if the video is 3 or 300 seconds long; The first 30% can always be skipped without missing anything important.

      IIRC, it started on Reddit when a user named Wadsworth wrote about it in one of the AskReddit threads about life hacks.

      • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de
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        15 hours ago

        Correct. And for a while yt had an Easter egg where you could add wadsworth=1 to a url and it would skip to 30% of the video

        • P4ulin_Kbana
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          2 hours ago

          If you are using a keyboard you can press 3 and that will probably do it.