This is a really interesting glitch or feature I guess you could call it! I was just messing around with the YouTube annotations for no reason. I was really after the pause one, because I have never used it before. I was just testing something out and noticed something… When I played the video it kinda skipped so that got my thinking… What if I put this pause annotation in the very beginning and make it really short? So I did that and it made my featured video on my YouTube page auto play and I am not a YouTube partner! I made this little tutorial for anyone reading this just so you could do it yourself!

Step #1. Go to your YouTube page and click on the featured videos name so that it will bring you to the videos page.

Step #2. Click “annotations” under edit on the right of the video.

Step #3. Add a pause annotation to the video.

Step #4. Set the pause start at 0.00.00.0 and the end time to 0.00.00.1.

Step #5. Click save draft if the annotations were not saved and then click publish.

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