It's great being able to access YouTube on your phone. Having access to a plethora of funny videos, songs or mash-ups of UFC fighters getting knocked out makes any train journey more exciting, and is the perfect form of procrastination.
However, there is the odd niggle when you might miss a part of the video, or not catch it properly, meaning you have to go back a few seconds to watch it again. When you try to go back ever so slightly though, it'll chuck you back two minutes, so then you have to drag it forward again and somehow you end up half-an-hour into a video about the evolution of dance.
It's a piss take, and one that has seemingly had no easy remedy. Until now.
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According to Mashable, YouTube are rolling out a feature that allows you to skip backwards and forwards in ten second intervals, making it easy to rewind the clip. To do so, you can double tap the right and left hand sides of the video.
If you're seeking for a place in the video longer than ten seconds before, a triple or quadruple tap will send you back 20 or 30 seconds, Mashable reports via Android Authority.
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The function was reportedly rolled out to a select few users recently, but now it seems it's widely available on both iOS and Android.
While this is a welcome feature, there's another thing that annoys me and I always thought needs sorting.
When you're listening to a song on YouTube, you're getting really into it, but then, you get a text. You want to read the text and reply to it, but that means having to close the app and ruin the vibe you're getting from the song.
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However, apparently there is a way around this issue too.
Rather than going into the app, go to Safari and open up the mobile webpage. Once there, pick whatever song you fancy listening to and then press your home button.
This will kill the music, but fear not. Simply swipe up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Centre.Give the play button a whack in the middle of the media section and it recognises it as a song in your library.
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Apologies if you're having trouble seeing the above picture - that's expected. All you need to know is that it's the greatest song ever written, recorded and produced.
Both of these features can help you watch some of the biggest videos and listen to some of the biggest songs out there.
Last year was a huge year for viral videos, with the top ten accumulating millions of views.
Clinching the top spot of the sought after list was Adele and James Corden singing on Carpool Karaoke. It doesn't come as a surprise as the segment of The Late Late Show became a viral phenomenon at the arse-end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016.
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From January, the pair managed to amass 135million views on the video, giving it its rightful place as the biggest video of 2016.
In a worthy second place was a man who changed the Japanese pop music scene forever. Piko-Taro's instant classic, Pen-Pineapple-Apple-Pen, often referred to as 'the oriental Bohemian Rhapsody', garnered enough views and attention to sit nicely behind Adele and Corden. It's odd, because we owe Justin Bieber a huge thanks for bestowing this video on us, because it was him who gave it the first real push.
Completing the top three was a video titled What's Inside a Rattlesnake Rattle?, by a channel called 'What's Inside?'. The video was majorly underwhelming as the answer to 'what's inside a rattlesnake's rattle?' is 'the square root of Jack shit'.
Nike's advert The Switch, which featured Cristiano Ronaldo, Grace VanderWaal, a 12-year-old contestant on America's Got Talent getting a golden buzzer, Dude Perfect's 'Water Bottle Flip Edition' and Channing Tatum performing with Beyoncé on Lip Sync Battle took up the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh places, respectively.
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Donald Trump's appearance on Last Week Tonight With John Oliver landed in eighth place, whereas Casey Neistat's video of a $21,000 first-class airplane seat was in ninth.
Cracking into the top ten, and deservedly so, was a video uploaded by Cabot Phillips, which showed two brothers convincing their sister there was a zombie apocalypse. Following their kid sister's wisdom teeth surgery they played fake news reports of zombies taking over their town - it was absolutely amazing.
It's was a half-decent year for viral videos, even if it was the year Harambe passed.
This year is shaping up to be just as good for viral content, with the likes of Salt Bae racking up an insane amount of views for cutting up a steak and seasoning it.
'Cash Me Ousside' girl Danielle Bregoli is already doing numbers, tipping the scales with over 2,000,000 views in just one day on a video of her fighting on a plane.
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Since it was shown during the Super Bowl on Sunday night, the new advert for Stranger Things, uploaded by Netflix, has amassed nearly 11 and a half million views, showing just how highly anticipated the return of the show is.
In the same fashion, Lady Gaga's halftime performance at this year's NFL championship game is a sought after clip. The songstress' pyrotechnic filled performance has been watched a further 18,000,000 times, and is certainly one you'd need to skip back ten seconds or so a few times.
We could literally go on for ages chatting bollocks about which videos have been watched the most, or which ones are the most popular at any given time, but let's be honest, it doesn't get any better than David Bowie and Mick Jagger's music video for 'Dancing in the Street'. It's the most ridiculous thing to ever be let loose upon the world.
Happy YouTubeing.
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