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Probably taken with a phone that wasn't set to keep them straight. I found the option on mine once!!

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What I want to know is why so many videos on YouTube have the picture reversed.

 

I'll be watching a short. It lasts maybe 45 seconds. It's got a uniform cop in it. And in that 45 second video the picture will flip four or five times. The cop will have the badge on the left side of his shirt then it'll be on the right side then it'll be back on the left side then I'll be on the right side. Or they'll be somebody shooting and he's shooting with his right hand then he's shooting with his left hand but he didn't switch hands because his badge is on the other side of his shirt.

 

But that just seems to be in the shorts. If you're looking at an actual video, it's set correctly.

 

 

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I think a lot of YT shorts are from movies where they don't want to pay royalties, so the images are reversed, or the audio sounds like the Chipmunks talking. 

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ALLLVIN!

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Reversed YouTube videos are super easy to identify.

They play from End to Start when you click the button.

😁

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If the poster is not the original owner it can lead to copyright problems, so they steal the video, reverse the presentation and now it becomes a “new” video to sidestep the issue. Same for the split screen version of videos where the one you want to see is put together with a second video of somebody working out in a gym or something. Or at least that’s what I was told. 
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Like Alpo, I have noticed a huge number of video presentations on You Tube are reversed.  Really annoying.  Of course, so are the "Click Bait" pieces with CGI/AI "Bait Pictures" of things (like cars) that don't actually exist.  Just as annoying as Faque intro headers that have no actual content in the piece being presented.  Caveat Emptor absolutely. 

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Come to think of it, my ex-wife watched the entire run of EMERGENCY! on YT, and the video was set inside a video of water rippling, quite annoying. But she liked it. 

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On 7/29/2025 at 7:05 AM, Dapper Dave said:

I think a lot of YT shorts are from movies where they don't want to pay royalties, so the images are reversed, or the audio sounds like the Chipmunks talking. 

 

THIS^^^^

 

I'm also seeing videos with multi-colored snow flakes moving across the screen. Before that it was videos with a horizontal line across them.

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Pretty sure that the video in this thread

 

has not been messed with in order to prevent being sued for copyright infringement. The guy appears to have made a video of himself and posted it. But unless the Marine Corps has started doing something seriously strange with their uniform, it's been flipped.

 

Why?

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28 minutes ago, Alpo said:

... The guy appears to have made a video of himself and posted it. But unless the Marine Corps has started doing something seriously strange with their uniform, it's been flipped.

 

Why?

He is using the front camera on his phone. Try it on your phone. Bring up the camera app and change to the lens facing you. Look close, the image is flipped left to right. Like a hand held mirror.

 

Copyright infringement is another reason to flip the image, probably just a matter of time until tools can detect it.

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Been happening for quite some time now. Picture manipulation has been going on for years.

 

William Bonney picture anyone?

 

William H. Bonney aka William H. McCarty aka Billy the Kid. Harvey ...

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16 minutes ago, Cypress Sun said:

Been happening for quite some time now. Picture manipulation has been going on for years.

 

William Bonney picture anyone?

 

William H. Bonney aka William H. McCarty aka Billy the Kid. Harvey ...


 Only took 100 years for people to realize it was a mirror image. 
 

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Everybody, 100 years ago, knew that was a reverse picture. It's a tin type. All tin types are reversed. It's part of the way the pictures were made.

 

As to the facing camera - maybe iPhones are different. But with my Android, if I put it on the facing camera and I hold it up to my face, it's like I'm looking in a mirror. I hold up my right hand and the guy I'm looking at is holding up his left hand. But I take the picture and the picture shows me holding up my right hand.

 

I tried it with video to see if that did it differently. When I had the video on I just raised my right hand and waved at myself. It looks like I was waving with my left hand. Then I stopped recording and just opened the video. And I was waving with my right hand.

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1 hour ago, John Kloehr said:

He is using the front camera on his phone. Try it on your phone. Bring up the camera app and change to the lens facing you. Look close, the image is flipped left to right. Like a hand held mirror.

 

Copyright infringement is another reason to flip the image, probably just a matter of time until tools can detect it.

There's a setting on mine to make it normal!

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9 minutes ago, Eyesa Horg said:

There's a setting on mine to make it normal!

 

Or as close to normal as you, or any other denizens of The Saloon, can get.  :D

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Normal is boring, that's why Alpo is such a valued member. 

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11 hours ago, Dapper Dave said:

Normal is boring, that's why Alpo is such a valued member. 

Thanks.

 

I think.

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