If you enjoyed the ‘let it snow’ Easter Egg in Google search, you should probably check out a similar effect on YouTube videos: some have an extra, snowflake-shaped button in the action bar – for the Flash player at least. When you click it, snow starts falling from the top, amassing over time – even after hitting ‘replay’ – at the bottom edge. The virtual snow reacts to your mouse movements, by trying to avoid the cursor, and continues to fall even if you pause the video. As far as I can tell, this Easter Egg appears on recently uploaded videos, like the one linked below. 
22 December 2011
YouTube’s “let it snow” Easter Egg
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any idea what the javascript argument is to start the snow automatically?
ReplyDeleteNo, no idea, sorry! I'm not even sure that can be done, since this will almost certainly be a time-limited feature.
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