YouTube is playing around with video thumbnails that move like GIFs

Did I simply see one thing transfer?

Tooling round YouTube — for work functions, I am positive — I observed slightly flash of movement within the right-hand column, that vertical stack of thumbnail pictures from the "up subsequent" movies that the algorithm chooses for us.

A couple of minutes later, as I went scrolling by means of the column, and ... it occurred once more! The "up subsequent" movies' show pictures moved briefly loops — identical to a GIF. 

It solely occurs if you mouse over the thumbnails, nevertheless it undoubtedly occurs:

Apparently, not everybody's seeing it but — proper now this tiny tweak to the interface is simply an experiment that is solely out to some choose customers.

We requested YouTube what the deal was, they usually performed it coy:

"With extra movies coming to YouTube each minute we're all the time experimenting with methods to assist individuals extra simply discover, watch and share the movies that matter most to them," YouTube stated in a press release. "We'll think about rolling options out extra broadly based mostly on suggestions on these experiments."

Our suggestions, for the document: Cool! Go for it.