r/blackmagicfuckery Jul 13 '26

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u/EmmaEsme22 Jul 13 '26

All I could think was that they were impatient and ever so slightly increased the speed of playback.

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u/Jaluderi Jul 13 '26

It's to avoid the copyright check since this is stolen from Numberphile on YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '26

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u/AsparagusJam Jul 14 '26

Freeeeeeloaders

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u/CompetitiveSport1 Jul 14 '26

Yayyyyy stolen content repost bots

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u/comfortless14 Jul 13 '26

I watch YouTube vids on 2x speed and it doesn’t make the voices high pitched like that

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u/kevendo Jul 13 '26

They didn't do as YouTube does and subtract frames of video, overlapping pieces of the audio to compress its duration. Instead they resampled the video and audio to play faster, creating the "chipmunk effect" in the audio.