Any idea on why Youtube videos don’t follow the natural reading direction with the title? [on hold]
I'm writing an assay on designing the layout, and while researching the diagonal layout design pattern (setting the elements to align to left on the top, and to the right on the bottom to properly follow the users reading direction), and while doing it I've noticed that the Youtube player only follows the rule to some extend, and you can see in pretty much any player view:
As you can see, the player has the title in a quite hard to see spot, while maintaining the correct position of the feedback buttons and the subscribe button. Usually, as is shown in online articles, the header is always placed above the content and aligned to the left for the mentioned reading direction.
I was wondering why would Youtube go for this approach. The first thing coming to my head is that simply youtube thinks you don't really need the title all that much since most likely you clicked on it to get to the video, but I don't like jumping to conclusions.
Haven't been able to find any good research on the topic, therefore I'm asking here.
Sorry if this is a rather noob question. I am still a beginner to be honest. Any help would be amazing :)