Don't even click YouTube links anymore, it's depressing

This is a two-panel meme using the well-known "Hide the Pain Harold" stock photo of an older man sitting at a desk holding a mug while looking at a laptop. The first panel shows Harold with a small, genuine-looking smile, overlaid with text reading "A POST LINKING TO A YOUTUBE VID", representing a user's initial positive reaction to seeing a YouTube link they want to view. The second panel shows the same shot of Harold, but with a wider, forced smile that conveys hidden frustration, overlaid with text explaining the annoying experience that follows clicking the link: it bypasses the user's default browser, opens the native YouTube app directly, and immediately starts playing an advertisement. This aligns with the original post's sentiment that people no longer click these links because the experience is so disappointing.

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A POST LINKING TO A YOUTUBE VID; BYPASSES MY DEFAULT BROWSER, OPENS YOUTUBE APP, BEGINS SHOWING AD

Overview

This is a two-panel meme using the well-known "Hide the Pain Harold" stock photo of an older man sitting at a desk holding a mug while looking at a laptop. The first panel shows Harold with a small, genuine-looking smile, overlaid with text reading "A POST LINKING TO A YOUTUBE VID", representing a user's initial positive reaction to seeing a YouTube link they want to view. The second panel shows the same shot of Harold, but with a wider, forced smile that conveys hidden frustration, overlaid with text explaining the annoying experience that follows clicking the link: it bypasses the user's default browser, opens the native YouTube app directly, and immediately starts playing an advertisement. This aligns with the original post's sentiment that people no longer click these links because the experience is so disappointing.

Origin notes

This meme was sourced from an RSS feed of posts from the Reddit Meme community, with the original post title being "don't even click em anymore, it's depressing". It is a derivative work using the widely popular "Hide the Pain Harold" stock photo meme template, edited with text overlay via the Imgflip meme generator, as evidenced by the imgflip.com watermark, to joke about the common frustrating user experience of clicking YouTube links on mobile devices, which often force open the native YouTube app and immediately display unskippable advertisements.

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