This story begins as any good criticism would begin, I was stupid and allowed myself to aggregate an enormous amount of data into one folder. The Liked Videos folder, as any other folder in the YouTube has a hard-limit of 5000 videos, except it doesn’t but we will get to that, and I have rendered myself unable to view all the videos I have liked, and so I had to endeavor into sorting all of it into the different categories of videos I primarily view. As I soon came to find out this was tedious, infuriating, and error-prone.
As it turns out that 5000 videos is the maximum number of videos YouTube is willing to display inside a folder at any given moment, but is not in-fact the maximum amount of videos it can hold, of which the actual limit I do not know. To explain, if I had 5001 videos in my Liked Videos list, I would be able to see the first 5000 videos, and if I removed one of the videos, I would then be able to see the last video in the list, imagine my disappointment at the first time seeing the number 5000 and not my first liked video (it was episode 41/42 of a Minecraft Factions PvP series, no I am not autistic). There is also the soft-limit of how many videos are in a playlist before it stops working correctly, In my testing (sorting videos that are playing then scrolling in the playlist to a new video) after about 200 videos in a playlist will become sluggish, and after about 1000-2000 will really start to slow down and begin to not track clicks correctly, and clicking on a video in the playlist will instead link to a video ~100 tracks behind. This leads into my next point, playlist sorting.