{"id":251780,"date":"2025-10-31T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251780\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T07:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T07:00:12","slug":"youtube-now-rewards-your-likes-with-fun-animations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/251780\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube now rewards your likes with fun animations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">YouTube has introduced a new like button on select videos that rewards your engagement with a brief animation. The feature was first announced in mid-October as part of a slate of updates that included UI changes to make the platform easier to navigate,<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">There are currently 20 different animations that are customized to the genre of the video you\u2019re watching. If it\u2019s a video about cars or auto racing, YouTube\u2019s like button will briefly change to a spinning, smoking tire animation when clicked. If you\u2019re watching something educational, the like button will instead turn into a shining lightbulb.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">If you\u2019re curious what all 20 animations look like and would rather not scour YouTube for videos across 20 different genres, Andreas Storm has shared two short videos on X featuring them all, as spotted by Android Authority. Yes, there are animations for dog and cat videos, but unfortunately none for cute baby clips yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"YouTube has introduced a new like button on select videos that rewards your engagement with a brief animation.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,356,44,5131,61,4718],"class_list":{"0":"post-251780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-streaming","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-youtube"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251780\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}