She installed the APK on her main TV—the 65-inch OLED in her living room. The same dark interface appeared. The same folder. But this time, the folder was not empty. There were hundreds of thousands of thumbnails, arranged in a grid that seemed to scroll forever. Each thumbnail showed a frozen moment from a deleted video. She recognized some. A viral prank channel that got terminated in 2016. A music video pulled due to a sample clearance. A news clip from a local station that closed down.
The 1.3.11 version of YouTube for Android TV is an older, highly stable, and lightweight version of the YouTube app. It is optimized for devices running older versions of Android TV.