I'm in That Weird Part of YouTube

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“I’m in that weird part of YouTube” (a.k.a “How did I get here?” / “what did I just watch?”) is an expression used to describe a video post that may be deemed wtf or disturbing. Similar to “my brain is full of f**k” or “I’m twelve and what is this,” the expression can be seen as a viewer’s lament upon watching an unrelated video that had been arbitrarily suggested by YouTube as similar content. The snowclone concept “that weird part of (x)” has since spread to other communities like Tumblr and Reddit among others.

Origin

The phrase first surfaced on YouTube’s comments section sometime in 2011. The “weird part of YouTube” refers to cognitive dissonance that occurs as a result of watching a “related video” which turns out to be completely unrelated. On YouTube, comments like “I’m in that weird part of YouTube again” can be found in over 24,700 pages^[7] as of January 2012. The “related video” feature on YouTube was first introduced in June 2007.

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According to the Urban Dictionary definition^[1] submitted on November 8th, 2011, “That Weird Part of YouTube” is described as:

“an area full of video irrelevant to what you were originally watching.”

The phrase is also associated with the common experience of watching unrelated content that had been arbitrarily suggested at the end of YouTube videos, according to several Yahoo Answer^[3] threads on the topic. When used in proper context, the comment will often rise to the top as more viewers arrive through the same route of “related videos” that turns out to be completely unrelated or irrelevant.

Similar types of comments can be found on a number of other major online communities, including Reddit^[2], Facebook^[5] and Tumblr^[6], as well as the generic “that weird of part of the Internet.” There are numerous YouTube videos titled “that weird part of the Internet,”^[4] mostly tied to to gross-out videos, WTF humor and YouTube Poop.

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