Hi, I have been having a problem with youtube, when I am watching certain videos the mouse keeps moving around and sometimes my windows close. Also, sometimes my mouse click on other videos. Also sometimes when I try to type in something in the search bar the typing just doesn't work.
Once I was trying to watch a video and it kept closing over and over again.
Question by sonicisawesome123:
Man i can't watch my sonic vids! it keeps closing them! whenever i try to watch "sonic gangnam style" it closes it every time! this is getting me so mad! Is someone controling my laptop? is this a virus? pls help me youtubehelper!
Question by jaxtheman223:
I am having this problem too. It seems that when I try to search One Direction videos on youtube my browser keeps closing and my computer starts doing weird things. One time, my mouse started moving and clicked on another video. For one video, the page kept closing a lot of times. My mum thinks it's a virus but I told her I don't know of any viruses that I could have gotten because I am very careful when I use the computer.
Question by jamie23xoxo:
Do you think it's somebody pranking me!? I installed a program to let my best bud help me control my computer but it's not even on! The program is TeamViewer
ANSWER:
This is a common problem on YouTube. Right now there is no fix for this problem and a lot of people seem to have it specifically when looking up Tobuscus, Sonic the Hedgehog Videos, My Little Pony videos, Let's Play Halo, Garry's mod Vidoes, and a lot of other videos.
Until YouTube fixes this problem, there is no way to fix it besides to look up other videos that seem to work. Here's a list of videos that the bug has never happened to:
- Most Elder Scrolls Morrowind Videos
- Most Minecraft Videos
- Most Adventure Time Videos
- Disney Channel always works
- Most Strawberry Shortcake Videos
- Most Spongebob Videos
- Most Sports Videos (Baseball, basketball, etc. Sometimes, Hockey videos will have this bug though.)
- Some Mario Kart Videos
- Most Pirates of the Caribbean Videos
- Most Justin Bieber Videos
- About Half of the One Direction videos will work
- Most EVE Online Videos
- Most StarCraft ONLINE Videos
With Teamviewer or other controlling programs, it's not possible to control the computer while you are surfing the internet. It's also not possible to control somebody's computer without permission.
So, Jamie, you're not being pranked. It's just a bug with YouTube.
Hope the bug gets fixed soon, and remember to check out our other articles if you encounter any other bugs with YouTube!
- Art Spencer, writer for YouTubeHelper
