Change profile icon to include lowercase letters

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Pull Request Type

• Youtube-ification

Description

I noticed this behavior when I had the Hide profile pictures in comments setting enabled. The profiles within the comment section always used a capital letter, even though I observed some profiles without pictures that used lowercase letters when the setting was turned off. After removing the .toUpperCase() from this setting, I realized we could apply the same approach to our own profiles. This is especially useful when two profiles use the same letter. Previously, the only way to distinguish them was by color, but now the appearance of the letter itself whether capitalized or not also serves as a differentiator.

Screenshots

YT default profile icon when user didn't set profile picture:
Non capitalized icon

Capitalized icon

Before:

After:

Testing

Case A:

1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx5VXPsw7Q9g9Lw7s4QZi3FqyRSOiwmanV
2. Check that profile pictures contain capital or non capital letters
3. Enable Distraction free -> Watch page -> Hide profile pictures in comments
4. Go to https://www.youtube.com/post/Ugkx5VXPsw7Q9g9Lw7s4QZi3FqyRSOiwmanV again
5. Check that profile pictures contain capital or non capital letters

Case B:

1. Create two profiles, one that starts with a capital letter and the other with a lowercase
2. Check if both uppercase and lowercase letter profiles are visible on all places you can interact with the profile

Desktop

• OS: Windows 11
• OS Version: 24H2

[PikachuEXE]

Note that with Hide profile pictures in comments off, YT got author thumbs with sometimes random chars not event matching username, they are still images not text

[PikachuEXE]

Oops not changed here

[efb4f5ff-1298-471a-8973-3d47447115dc]

Good catch i somehow had that still sitting in my stash