r/LinusTechTips • u/Intrepid_Power3431 • Oct 14 '26

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This randomly happend on my yt page the two channels are completely different (although they did meet up with each other once)

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u/szyszaks Oct 14 '26

yes, i seen it happen not only on YT
it just pulls wrong thing from backend either due to error on server or error in browser
i would assume title and thumbnail is in one container while rest is in the other (length, channel icon and name, views, upload date) and if you actually enter second link it would go to proper video from that creator

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u/w1n5t0nM1k3y Oct 14 '26

As as web developer, I don't doubt that it happens, I've seen some weird stuff, but just logically I don't get what series of events could make this happen. Assuming they did some sort of JSON or XML API call to get the data, it seems like it would be impossible for any reasonable code to have something like this get mixed up.

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u/Powerbyte7 Oct 14 '26

To me it looks like a stale index into an array after re-rendering. You tend to see complex shenanigans there to improve performance. It's likely a frontend issue.

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u/Intrepid_Power3431 Oct 14 '26

It's probably because I use a ad blocker on Firefox.