YouTube Adds Vuvuzela Button In Honor Of World Cup (PICTURE)

In honor of the World Cup's signature sound, YouTube has added a vuvuzela button to its online videos.

The circle-shaped button, which appears at the lower right hand corner of the video's frame, produces the characteristic vuvuzela buzz when clicked--just in case you want to add the drone to your favorite viral video. (Try it out here).

In case you really can't get enough of the vuvuzela's buzz--and the YouTube vuvuzela button doesn't go far enough--check out the website Vuvuzela Time, which lets you add the vuvuzela's hum to any page on the web.

Here's a screenshot of the new vuvuzela button:

Will you use it? When? Tell us in the comments below.

Comments

[formercon]

10:19 PM on 06/24/2010

Sweet!! My kind of humor. YouTube gets 10 stars from me for dreaming up that one. I suggest all TV manufacturers take note and install a similar button. That way I can chase the uninvited riff raff out of my house.

[abuja19]

08:48 PM on 06/24/2010

YES!!!!! Vuvuzela for the win!

[krone5]

08:44 PM on 06/24/2010

what a blast!

[ynp7]

08:33 PM on 06/24/2010

Love it! If you play this over a Deepak Chopra video while looking away from the monitor it almost makes him bearable.

[abuja19]

08:48 PM on 06/24/2010

:-D

[JimBozo]

07:42 PM on 06/24/2010

Anybody stupid enough to push that idiotic button should be forbidden to breed. Fanciers of any sport are morons, but fanciers of an idiotic plastic noisemaker deserve their permanent deafness.

[Longbaugh]

11:23 PM on 06/24/2010

Fanciers of any sport are morons?? What?

[JimBozo]

08:13 PM on 06/26/2010

Unless they play the sport themselves, instead of watching it on TV- yes they are morons and slackers.

I used to play tennis, when I could actually play the sport seriously. After that, I didn't bother watching it on TV.

[Charbovari]

01:06 PM on 06/24/2010

"Circle-shaped button"? It's a soccer ball, dear anonymous columnist. :)

[KCM7]

02:52 PM on 06/24/2010

It's a football.

[wearelegion]

07:30 PM on 06/24/2010

Hey Frenchie, Go back to France,

[Benjamin Fitzgerald]

08:51 PM on 06/24/2010

You're sooo stupid. Footballs aren't circle shaped.

[The ILLest One]

11:25 AM on 06/24/2010

although i support the fanfare, i'm not sure i can deal with the sound of the vuvuzela for hours at at time....perhaps i can deal with it for a second - so i'm with it.

[hagagaga]

11:19 AM on 06/24/2010

This is awesome.

[ynp7]

08:42 PM on 06/24/2010

And it gets even better. If you click the football button while a video is paused it'll still play the vuvuzela noise allowing you to easily play it over anything else you might be watching on your computer.

[MidtownGuy]

10:39 AM on 06/24/2010

never heard of the idiotic "vuvuzela" until this whole world cup madness.

next please.

[ItsAD]

09:59 AM on 06/24/2010

Great. I love that sound.

[c1605]

07:11 PM on 06/24/2010

Awesome. Me too.

[Tony Annechino]

09:43 AM on 06/24/2010

This is horrible. How many Gulf oil spill animals could have been saved with the money used to pay someone to develop this??? :-P

[Itsmyland2]

10:02 AM on 06/24/2010

Somebody probably coded this in 30 minutes. This isn't rocket science. And since when in Youtube responsible for the oil spill?

[ElBorba]

10:07 AM on 06/24/2010

OH WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!

[Tony Annechino]

10:20 AM on 06/24/2010

It was sarcasm. Hence the ":-P".

:-P

[75thRanger]

07:09 PM on 06/24/2010

It's not that difficult to write the code for that button. I'm thinking about 15 to 20 minutes.

[EatYourVeg]

09:25 AM on 06/24/2010

Geniuses.

[PiperWaters]

09:17 AM on 06/24/2010

LOL

[kitsinu]

09:16 AM on 06/24/2010

Shouldn't this be in the Comedy section? Then there should be news in another section telling how YouTube issued a cease and desist order.

[Ninure]

09:12 AM on 06/24/2010

They've got to be kidding!! No way am I gonna use that stupid thing!!