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Typing awesome turns the progress bar into a rainbow

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If you click on the video player and type “awesome” on desktop, the red progress bar instantly pulses in shifting rainbow colors. It remains one of the few original Easter eggs preserved through years of updates.

Typing a hidden word changes the playback scrubber into a cycling rainbow spectrum on desktop. It survives as one of the few whimsical developer easter eggs preserved through numerous complete redesigns of the video player.

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