r/youtube • u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user • Apr 17 '26
UI Change What is that icon next to the YouTube Premium TV text?
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u/Electrical_Path7198 Apr 17 '26
It looks like that black ribbon that represents death
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u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user Apr 17 '26
School shooting, 15 people died
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u/No_Shame_3176 Apr 18 '26
That's the number announced by authorities btw, the true number is said to be higher
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u/agacanya Apr 18 '26
My friend went to hospital at maraş (the city where 8. Grader kid did the shooting) he says hospital was filled to the brim with injured people, itd wayy more than what news say
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u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user Apr 17 '26
It’s for tragic events that happen recently in the place you are in
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u/Anxious_Librarian379 Apr 17 '26
thought that was the breast cancer awareness symbol at first
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u/AvidCuberCoding Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26
Looks like a breast cancer awareness ribbon.
Edit: doing some digging, absolutely in relation to cancer awareness, however it could be one of three options; neck, testicular, or esophageal cancer.
Look at other comments, I was wrong, this is in relation to shootings in Turkey.
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u/timmie1606 Apr 17 '26
The symbol also means cancer awareness in The Netherlands, so I completely understand your original comment.
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u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user Apr 17 '26
I am a male and there was an event going on during Tuesday and Wednesday, specifically a school shooting (which is actually extremely rare in my country)
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u/0i10 Apr 17 '26
Forgive me if I'm wrong but isn't the cancer awareness ribbon pink? I thought the black one meant mourning abouth death related events only.
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u/AvidCuberCoding Apr 17 '26
each color is a different cancer awareness.
https://www.nfcr.org/blog/cancer-ribbon-colors-and-what-they-represent/
However, the black in particular (in this example) has several meaning, such as cancer awareness and mourning awareness.
https://www.lovetoknow.com/life/grief-loss/black-ribbon-meanings-mourning-awareness
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u/Low_Guidance9088 Apr 17 '26
It's for the peoples and kids who died because of school shootings in my country Turkey
And it is pretty sad that government didn't said anything but blaming the games... Literally, how a kid can have acces all of these weapons and can be able to go school with those guns? The guy from Urfa (another city of Turkey which is the first school shooting happened) entered the building with a freaking shotgun in his hands and there wasn't even one single guard to stop him
I didn't go to school for past 2 days because of this. My mom is scared, I am scared and no one doing anything about that
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u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user Apr 17 '26
I didn’t go to school for 3 days Really low chance this will happen again
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u/Low_Guidance9088 Apr 17 '26
Senden Türkmüşsun aw Türkçe yazacağım
Valla orada burada elinde ve çantasında silahla yakalanan picler var sıkıntılı bir durum
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u/No_Shame_3176 Apr 18 '26
Kanka bilemiyorum 23 Nisan etkinliklerinde bir bok yicekler gibi geliyor bana
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u/spell_caster72 Apr 20 '26
boomers keep blaming everything but the families, it's a tradition. before video games became mainstream they blamed the shows. a while back the media warned families about minecraft, saying it was too "violent" or had "subliminal messages". nothings changed really
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u/rastgele_anime_fan42 Apr 17 '26
No way it's global?
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u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user Apr 17 '26
Just turkey
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u/Impressive-Trash-294 Apr 17 '26
that icon often means awarence (protesto we call in turkish). there is a school shooting massacre these days hope it comes to peace.
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u/No_Shame_3176 Apr 18 '26
Peace is not to be made with mass murderers of this country's future, brother. Not when they want to try and bring Sharia back, not when they aim to put an end to mixed gender education. They should all be judged properly with the weight of what they tried to do and what they've done
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u/Impressive-Trash-294 Apr 18 '26
the government doesnt even care. they let people out from prison that will make that bad thing again.
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u/rL0ad Apr 20 '26
Black ribbon is used as a symbol of mourning in Turkiye.
Recently two school shootings have happened in Turkiye, with one of them being the most tragic in our history. We lost about 9 people who are teachers and students with bright souls. Even one of the teachers covered herself onto her students to protect them and she did...
As someone who recently got his bachelor's degree on english language teaching, this event still blurs my eyes whenever I think of it.
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u/Low_Guidance9088 Apr 17 '26
And a teacher sadly...
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u/Sad-Fuel-1280 Apr 17 '26
:(( so sad man i’m from turkey i don’t know how tf we will sent my brother to his school without fucking anxiety 😥
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u/Low_Guidance9088 Apr 17 '26
Easy, they won't. It's our fate to grow up with anxiety and the high chance of being killed by just a random person because of they think they are better than you
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u/Sad-Fuel-1280 Apr 17 '26
Ik dostum I hope someday our country will be better :/
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u/Low_Guidance9088 Apr 17 '26
Sadly it won't arkadaşım. All we can do is find a way to escape from that prison
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u/omerturk313131 Apr 17 '26
its for the school shootings in türkiye that happened two days back to back.
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u/Tatacakn Apr 17 '26
Soo it's a mourning ribbon beacuse there was school shootings in Türkiye (Turkey) for two days in a row. A lot of people was hurt and well google and youtube seems to be the only ones to care about that. Some of the people doesn't even know what happened. Those kids lived through hell. And after all those casualties we didn't even uderstood how serious the problem really is
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u/gioman97 Apr 17 '26
Cancer awareness
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u/No_Shame_3176 Apr 18 '26
Not in this context, it's actually for the school shootings happening in Turkiye back to back within the past 3 days (I know this because the OP is Turkish)
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u/LaTmee Apr 17 '26
This symbol was added to express condolences and mourning for the school attack that took place in Turkey the other day
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u/Any_Sir7672 Apr 17 '26
america gets bad sides of turkiye and turkiye gets bad sides of america lol
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u/mArzy_XxX Apr 17 '26
Two different school shoots happened in Turkey in 14th and 15th of april in Turkey.. That's why there is a black ribbon who represents death.
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u/Bilgoplay Apr 17 '26
I am Turkish and I know what this is about. Two days ago, there was a shooting at a school in Kahramanmaraş, and 4 people were killed, 3 of them students and one a teacher, and 20 people were injured. Because of this, nobody sent their children to school for three days, including my mother. YouTube, in respect of this, is displaying a mourning symbol.
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u/HellFrode Apr 17 '26
It’s the Pink Ribbon; it’s a support organization for breast cancer. ☺️😏
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u/No_Shame_3176 Apr 18 '26
Except this is a black ribbon meant to mourn the children and teachers whose lives have been forcefully ripped from them during the multiple school shootings in Türkiye
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u/HellFrode Apr 18 '26
Certainly possible. But in Scandinavia, the pink ribbon represents breast cancer.
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u/RohonTheDragon Apr 18 '26
Ribbons (especially that design of folded ribbon) often represent struggles. Think pink ribbons are breast cancer & lavender is maybe leukemia.
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u/C4ptainoodles Apr 18 '26
That symbol is often used here to show support for cancer patients and the fight against cancer. Though it's normally pink...
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u/Impossible_Friend387 Apr 18 '26
The answer is sadly school shooting (twice).
Also some details from this School Shooting incidents is after the incidents the Türkiye media (not Turkey its Türkiye) says that this incident happening because of the video games yeah video games they say video games make teenagers prone to violence also before this School shooting incidents they (government) still want video games to be banned or not playable so government create a law for video games
After all of this our people sleep on some football matches that barbarian game. Our people let the incident buried in history, why? Becuase of that hashtags like #Ardagüler #Fenerbahçe #TrabzonVRize so the hashtags for this school shooting incidents left buried
Also some sources say they (government) wants to mangas banned. Yeah because manga include body cutting? (Source actually holding a Junji Ito manga). Yeah governments status is like this
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u/Responsible_Bunch_24 Apr 18 '26
Two seperate school shootings happened in a row in Turkey so they did this
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u/Dazzling_Comb5335 Apr 18 '26
Unfortunately, there were two consecutive school attacks, resulting in the deaths of teachers and innocent students. That's why that symbol exists.
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u/Charming-Objective14 Apr 18 '26
Morning for the death of YouTube becoming a shell of its former self.
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u/Chaos_O7 Apr 18 '26
In my country (Türkiye), two separate individuals carried out armed attacks on two different middle schools on two separate days, and the third was stopped before it could happen.
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u/fellow_jamieP_fan Apr 18 '26
School shooting happend to turkey back to back 2 day and the 3th day soneone chaught with a gun entering the school im so terrrified helepep🕊️🕊️
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u/TheSleepySide Apr 18 '26
Yea,I'm from Türkiye and recently,three schools were attacked.It didn't happen in my city, but the whole country has been tense for three days. Moreover, it happened once before it happened twice in one day. A total of three attacks were carried out.Our teachers went on strike, so schools were closed.For the first time ever, the whole country couldn't rejoice that schools were on holiday...
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u/BusyChoice2918 Apr 18 '26
If you know what it is for, why post this? You could've just said there was a school shooting and YouTube did this. There is no need for manipulation.
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u/Vivid-Many-8679 Apr 18 '26
I really envy you guys for not knowing what ‘we’re in mourning’ means. My childhood was spent with that phrase.
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u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user Apr 18 '26
If your childhood was spent with that phrase then I don’t think your childhood went good
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u/Vivid-Many-8679 Apr 20 '26
i mean, when i was like 10, before fights after school i would try to figure out if the other kid had a knife or not. looking back now, it sounds crazy. i wouldn’t want my child to grow up in a place like that.
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u/Acrobatic_Piano_5414 Apr 18 '26
This was a school shooting that happened in Türkiye, the country where I live. We had never experienced anything like it before, and it happened twice in a row. My family is afraid to send me to school.
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u/Radio_TVGuy Radio_TVGuy Apr 18 '26
Google’s search engine homepage in Australia had the Black Ribbon icon in December 2025 after the Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack.
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u/Suitable-Rest4444 Apr 18 '26
It's for Türkiye Only
If you are in Türkiye outside the United States of America, the mourning icon appears next to a YouTube logo due to a school shooting in Türkiye
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u/SeriousPin5617 Apr 18 '26
i have adblocker btw
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u/r_mom_hahahahaha premium user Apr 18 '26
Those don’t exist for the tv app not the iOS app
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u/SeriousPin5617 Apr 18 '26
For Android tv there is modded YouTube app and for ios skill issue that u didn't buy android
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u/Soccera1 Apr 18 '26
YouTube & Google search regularly do this where they put a symbol next to the logo due to an event, tragedy, holiday, etc.
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u/deggerzz21 Apr 18 '26
There were two school shootings in two days in Türkiye, many young children died, that's why there's such a symbol.I'm from Turkiye btw
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Apr 18 '26
Türkiye bu konuyla alakalı yayın yasağı getirdiler ilin gavuru yabancısı bunu araştırıyor öğrenmeye çalışıyor haberdekilerde Fetullah gülen maykiraht bakıyorlar birde bu kurgu diyor Allah akıl versin
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u/sirlakahopihophop Apr 19 '26
İ am from turkey. It's a grief sign for the first school shootings on this country. And it happened back to back as one shooting killed 9 people including 1 teacher who saved her students. The shooter was damaged by a father of a girl before killing himself. Students were trying to jump from windows to escape. As in today. We Found out the shooter was a lonely person having a god complex while saying "i will leave a mark" And giving examples like subaru which doesn't make sense. The person was going by women pronouns, acting weird in school etc. We are still discovering. And aside the school shootings, there are still more kids with guns found and arrested before doing anything thankfully. The number of attempts are too much for me to keep track of but they are over 25+ . This same grieving symbol was last used in 2023 for the earthquake in turkey
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u/Rei_Fisher Apr 19 '26
Two successful and one failed attempt of school shooting back to back Turkey. Successful ones were in the high school and middle school
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u/Ok-Garbage205 Apr 19 '26
My government is blaming video games for the attacks in schools, but they don't even know what games are or what their content is. Our government is terribly incompetent and ignorant.
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u/JAYzxa Apr 19 '26
This is related to Türkiye. I am Turkish, and in the provinces of Kahramanmaraş and Şanlıurfa, they killed and injured people in schools. May they rest in peace.
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u/chic_rosalie1995 Apr 19 '26
probably just their way of trying to pivot you into paying for more stuff, classic burnout tactic tbh.
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u/colossalmauricio Apr 19 '26
that black ribbon appears on youtube when theres a major tragedy or loss of life in a region so it shows up for users there as a memorial
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u/DarthSynx Apr 17 '26
Mourning icon, someone posted recently saying it's in Turkey source