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According to the creator, /u/T0X1K01 on reddit:

> No, that's what's so cool about it. I explain it in more detail in the video, but basically because the videos are created using 1-bit color images, it makes it easy to retrieve data without having to worry about how YouTube changes the video.

There's a video explanation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu_ZIr0q5rU&feature=youtu.be

Source code here: https://github.com/AlfredoSequeida/fvid/

An example here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzZDFxM5Coo



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