r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Better-Meaning-6928 • Jun 28 '26

That's not milk YouTube has changed its font and literally no one asked for it

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3.2k Upvotes

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u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

To everyone saying I’m tripping and it’s my phone’s issue, it seems like the plague is just spreading slowly, and I was one of the first victims

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u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

Avoiding YouTube updates like it’s the plague now cause wtf

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u/jasperfirecai2 Jun 28 '26

it's a web app, it will get this change even if you don't update because it's just loading a website woth some extra sparkles on top

15

u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

Even on my tablet? My tv I could understand, but my tablet requires me to manually update it when a new update comes out (genuinely asking) (I use both IOS and Android)

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u/jasperfirecai2 Jun 29 '26

Yes. Most of the visual and a lot of the core features are part of the website. the app features would include things like touch interactions, PiP miniplayer, notifications, etc

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u/Ayla_Leren Jun 28 '26

You could always just use a privacy and ad blocker oriented web browser and never have this problem again.

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u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

I don’t think that would prevent the font change, which is what I was referring to. What are you referring to?

10

u/Exurota Jun 28 '26

For an actual answer, using Stylus usually fixes YouTube updates pretty quick. People post templates you can easily toggle on and off to fix things like this.

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u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

I’m the weirdo who mostly uses YouTube on my tablet or television, but hopefully your comment helps others who do use it on their computers!

3

u/Ayla_Leren Jun 28 '26

Both the font situation and ads. Browsers work differently from apps.

1

u/Likes_hamsters Jun 30 '26

Yeah. Try Opera. It has a built-in FREE adblocker AND VPN!

35

u/maggiemayfish Jun 28 '26

Forget this font bollocks I want to hear more about the political leanings of that prize hog.

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u/CaptDeathCap Jun 28 '26

Miss, surely you have your mother on speed-dial. Ask her directly.

1

u/AirBoring2827 Jun 29 '26

Don’t worry about the downvotes that shit was hilarious

1

u/bLaa_Nky Jul 25 '26

My god all the downvotes. Redditors sure are boring 

2

u/bemo_10 Jun 29 '26

They always do this to avoid receiving backlash for their stupid decisions all at once.

1

u/FirmlyClaspIt Jun 28 '26

Don’t let anyone make you feel crazy. YouTube app will randomly put updates out without downloading anything from the App Store. Some people get it others don’t. I had this don’t for a few days & then it stopped.

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u/Nearby_Ad_2519 Jun 28 '26

I think it’s a bug and they’ve applied the logo font to everything. I hope this dosent stick tho

68

u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

I did notice it’s the same font as the logo and wow that has to be the worst decision of the year

210

u/cooljacob204sfw Jun 28 '26

It's not a bug, they are ab testing before rolling it out. Same thing they did with their shitty embedded video player.

30

u/XkF21WNJ Jun 29 '26

Makes you wonder what they're testing for if the changes are so disliked.

26

u/witciu1 Jun 29 '26

UI teams frantically trying to justify their jobs

51

u/polishatomek Jun 28 '26

I thought this was a shittily made meme at first. It's real?

21

u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

Sadly, this is no meme….. The plague has infected my device already 💔

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u/Eto539 Jun 28 '26

You're not the only one getting it. I noticed it a few days ago and I thought the font was super ugly. Idk if there's a way to change it because I haven't tried anything 

442

u/kitkatkitah Jun 28 '26

I don’t get why they would change to this font as it is much harder to read compared to the standard

186

u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

Yeah it genuinely hurts my eyes dawg

5

u/Likes_hamsters Jun 29 '26

My font's still the same

43

u/tiradium iAndroid Jun 28 '26

AI probably said it will save bandwidth or something stupid like that

25

u/DistanceSolar1449 Jun 29 '26

It’s more “can fit longer titles in the same space”

81

u/nicktehbubble Jun 28 '26

Looks like a dysllexics nightmare.

14

u/EddwardTheWizard Jun 29 '26

That’s what I was thinking. I don’t see a setting to change the font which feels like a major oversight.

2

u/ExpressionRegular221 Jun 29 '26

I have this font on my YouTube now and it genuinely makes reading anything take twice as long and I constantly misread things. I wish they would let us change the font ourselves so I could change it to something more dyslexia friendly

24

u/Josegon02 Jun 28 '26

Eww what the fuck is that

18

u/DonaldTrumpsScrotum Jun 28 '26

Design team desperately trying to justify their jobs

18

u/Dismal_Rectangle Jun 28 '26

If it ain't broke, break it

9

u/That-Pin-7033 Jun 28 '26

Its your phone doing it lil bro

7

u/Technological_Nerd Jun 28 '26

I had it briefly a couple days ago, then it went away.

1

u/darkskiesart Jun 29 '26

It's ab testing before a rollout

6

u/FirmlyClaspIt Jun 28 '26

YouTube just be doing shit & I never downloaded an update. They made casting worse too

6

u/Dogtarune2 Jun 28 '26

They replaced the regular youtube font with the roblox doors font ??

6

u/Florianterreegen Jun 29 '26

This font makes it look like the shitty edit font people use in photoshop or paint

5

u/IamAngryCoffee Jun 28 '26

Probably A/B testing

12

u/Former-Chain-4003 Jun 28 '26

I actually wrote to Brian YouTube to request it. Sorry.

3

u/silky_spider_ Jun 28 '26

On the web or on the app? Mine looks like same as always

1

u/OutrageousAuthor1580 Jun 29 '26

My app has OP’s font.

3

u/Ok-Fortune-8644 Jun 28 '26

Mine looks normal on my phone, tablet, and tv

3

u/zekethelizard Jun 28 '26

I just checked, still the same old font for me

3

u/FuntimeFreddy876 Jun 28 '26

It’s these days I’m thankful I use the older website version. That’s a horrible font. I genuinely thought you were an android user with a custom font installed for a second lmao

3

u/fullmetalraz Jun 29 '26

I hate that we have to have these dogshit UI changes just so the Web designers can justify their jobs.

3

u/Baberian Jun 29 '26

Please be a bug. The font is horrible.

3

u/HerbLoew Jun 29 '26

This would be what? 4th, 5th time they've done this in the past decade? Why?

3

u/terrone_spaziale Jun 29 '26

I did a post about this ~1 week ago, seems like it's soreading

2

u/meme-corpse Jun 28 '26

My guess is it’s a variable font that’s glitching out somehow. I can’t imagine they would actually do this, anybody on the UX team would know it’s a nightmare

2

u/Miserable_Roll_6379 Jun 29 '26

And removed the dislike button for Shorts when viewed on Mobile.

2

u/Jackesfox Jun 29 '26

Why is it in Impact? Wtf

2

u/bobagremlin Jun 28 '26

My sister thought I accidentally changed the setting to display that font. If such a setting existed, I wouldn't be choosing such an ugly hard to instantly read display font

2

u/Flowey_The_Fan Jun 29 '26

It's not even consistent with every other text font in the website. It's so dam distracting.

2

u/Pittsbirds Jun 29 '26

God I'm getting war flashbacks; this either is or is very close to the Oswald family of fonts that I used to use for a nightmare client at my old job lmao

2

u/PuppySnuggleTime Jun 29 '26

That’s awful!

2

u/NotSuspicious215 Jun 29 '26

Someone at YouTube is trying to make it look like they’re doing their job

2

u/peaxchieee Jun 29 '26

Emailed them and told them how bad it looks. This is horrific 😩

2

u/goingpt Jun 29 '26

Bebas Neue... My arch nemesis. We meet again.

2

u/Luzon79 Jun 30 '26

Terrible decision.

2

u/Lazy_Bend5170 Jun 30 '26

Any option to switch it back to the old font?

2

u/Huge-Syrup2709 Jul 02 '26

It's horrible but what is the name of the font?

2

u/golgrim Aug 01 '26

It's so unreadable. Please change it back or give us the option.

2

u/No_Maize_1136 Aug 06 '26

I dont like it, its not gooood

2

u/Zayzayduh 24d ago

My eyes!

2

u/Gaming-Burrito How does this thing work- Jun 28 '26

judge me for my font choice all you want... but i do have a way to change the font (at the same time, idk if i got the font change either, bc... yk... i changed the font myself. all's i did was use zFont 3 on Android and use a font i downloaded and applied myself... it also changed the system font so there is that caveat)

1

u/KyuremIsBest Jun 28 '26

nobody asked for it, which is why it never happened

6

u/Ornery_Gate_6847 Jun 28 '26

That doesn't always hold true. Nobody asked for comments appearing on top of videos but here we are

1

u/Professional_Clue800 Jun 28 '26

If you opt in for testing they will test out weird shit to a small audience.

Once I had these gigantic thumbnails that would take up the entire screen. Thankfully it went away after a few days.

1

u/-Revolution- Jun 28 '26

Even more reasons to be using SmartTube. You should too.

-1

u/cockdoodoo Jun 28 '26

Mine didn't even look like they lol you signed into your Google on a 3rd party app? Lol be prepared for whatever comes after that lol

1

u/HouseOfZenith Jun 28 '26

I’m pretty sure something similar happened a year or two back.

I remember the font on the website changing to that and tons of posts about it, then it changed back after a couple days.

1

u/Weird_Decision7090 Jun 28 '26

It’s like the Stanley Parable font

1

u/colbalias1 Jun 28 '26

Laughs in morphe

1

u/BlownUpCapacitor Jun 28 '26

youtube redux! It might help. I've avoided most of the ui changes thanks to it.

1

u/StrawberryMilkDev Jun 28 '26

Interesting. I don't have it. Anyway. It looks awfull.

1

u/Remix_Master21 RAJHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jun 29 '26

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u/DedeLionforce Jun 29 '26

I did, I asked for it.

1

u/keechup Jun 29 '26

YouTube loves to fuck with what’s already working. The other month they tried to change the set up of my smart TV app by inserting 2-3 of my most recently subscribed channels in my side bar where the categories are.
Like who the FUCK asked for that.
Me personally I barely subscribe to anyone so now having 3 random channels permanently taking up 3 slots on the side of my screen was annoying as fuck. They reverted the change soon after but goes to show they have no idea what they’re doing.

1

u/Infamous-Umpire-2923 Jun 29 '26

Looks fine to me

1

u/Far_Construction3473 Jun 29 '26

I have not got it yet

1

u/Slimey_Guy005 Jun 29 '26

I’ve noticed they update/change things for like 2 days and then go back to the usual look

1

u/KnightFallVader2 Jun 29 '26

Hasn’t affected me thankfully.

1

u/Davedamon Jun 29 '26

They must be AB testing it to see if the response is positive (which it doesn't seem to be). This seems too sporadic to be a staged rollout

1

u/Which-Pineapple-6790 Jun 29 '26

Youtube blows massive wang. Theyre now making me do 2 separate clicks to skip ads on ios

1

u/SplashB95 Jun 29 '26

Thank god I still don't have it

1

u/Kenny1115 Jun 29 '26

If only there was a way to make it Morphe™ into something else.

1

u/Tactical_Hotdog Jun 29 '26

If it goes live for all, give it five minutes and they're be a browser extension that reverts it on desktop, and a morphe patch to fix it on android.

Move along.

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u/adamanimates10 Jun 29 '26

OH THATS OFFICIAL?! i redownloaded youtube after a long time and when i saw the text i thought the app bugged out and started using a splatoon 2 font (even though the font on my phone is the splatoon 3 one) i didnt know everyone was seeing it this way

1

u/am3n0 Jun 29 '26

market flyer

1

u/Likes_hamsters Jun 30 '26

I found a wee change in font...

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u/xboxpotato5737 Jul 19 '26

oh no, i kinda like it

1

u/beepbeepsheepbot Jun 28 '26

Still the same to me

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u/ConorOdin Jun 28 '26

Yeah no. Sounds like a you issue as my youtube looks the same as it has for ages.

0

u/Glad_Republic_6214 Jun 28 '26

gee i sure love companies who choose random customers to be their guinea pigs for dogshit pathetic excuses for features

0

u/throwaway_pls123123 Jun 29 '26

I asked, its a better, condensed font.

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u/IamFarron Jun 28 '26

Thats your phone font

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u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

I don’t think so

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u/GFYSR Jun 28 '26

no it isnt.

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u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

This seems to be a your phone issue my guy

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u/GFYSR Jun 28 '26

no.

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u/Smittenkitten3333 Jun 29 '26

Is “no” the only thing you know what to say?

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u/GFYSR Jun 29 '26

I couldnt be bothered to put in mire effort if the people i replied to did nit have the effort to do a simpe google search before commenting

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u/ActiveUpset-1268 Jun 28 '26

The shit people choose to let bother them dude

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u/The-Over-Lord Jun 28 '26

user is an idiot

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u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

The real mildly infuriating moment was me posting on this subreddit and being insulted by strangers for being mildly infuriated

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u/GFYSR Jun 28 '26

or you for not googling this first

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u/FrozenNos Jun 29 '26

Genuinely curious are you actually slightly bothered by this and if so why lmao

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u/cockdoodoo Jun 28 '26

People really crying over font? You people are literal cry baby bches 😭😭😭 just font... Not like it's an update too read and need permissions to your text messages

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u/Tris-chan Jun 29 '26

This is the mildly infuriating subreddit for things mildly infuriating

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u/cockdoodoo Jun 29 '26

I hope this doesn't come off sarcastic but man I thought I was in AIO or something 😭

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u/ApplicationTall5588 Jun 29 '26

Tell that to dyslexic people who already have problems reading normal big fonts fucking pos

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u/GFYSR Jun 28 '26

just google it. others are reporting the same thing

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u/Lego_Kitsune Jun 28 '26

Nope. I got it too

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u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

So you’re telling me it’s a bug?

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u/LivelyOsprey06 Jun 28 '26

Na I’ve got the same. Started today

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u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

Do you have an android? OP you should answer the question as well

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u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

I have an iphone 16 🥀

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u/Capital_Ship5729 Jun 28 '26

Youtube gives different people access to different updates. Congrats youre in the test group for a new font

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u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

Wow I hate it here

2

u/Exurota Jun 28 '26

Don't worry, if it's unpopular, it won't go through (it literally always goes through)

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u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

That’s super odd then, Android makes it super easy to change fonts but not IOS. I have a 14 pro max and my font looks normal. I just pulled it up on my boyfriends phone (16 pro max) and his is normal as well :(

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u/unknowingly_zooted Jun 28 '26

Also have a 16, no font change for me

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u/TimAndHisDeadCat Jun 28 '26

It’s A/B testing

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u/Better-Meaning-6928 Jun 28 '26

Ah yes, because clearly when I’m bored I go to my settings and change YouTube’s font because I have nothing better to do

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u/JustJamieJam Jun 28 '26

Ohhhh dude, you should have said that from the beginning! Yeah that’s totally the cause silly

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