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Has anyone else noticed the trend of weird background music on YouTube videos? (lemm.ee)

submitted 15 hours ago by Crumbgrabber@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Its like some influencer gave a hot tip to every YTer and they are all adopting it. The actual music sucks though. Some weird slowed down heavy reverb low bitrate crap. Maybe its just me. Get off my lawn, you damn kids.

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[–] lemmydripzdotz456@lemmy.world 21 points 14 hours ago

I assumed it was an attempt to mask videos from automatic copyright scanners. Like, the software couldn't recognize the video as being copyrighted material if the sound was very different from the original audio.