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For the past few weeks or so YouTube has offered the ability to switch between Standard Quality and High Quality when you’re viewing a movie on YouTube. If you watch YouTube with any regularity the constant clicking on the High Quality button has probably already become about as annoying as you might expect having the last name Gay would be throughout middle/high school.

Luckily there is a little advertised but easily accessible solution for those of us who have YouTube accounts. If you don’t have one you can easily register for a free one if you are willing to forget that your personal information will be stored by a site whose all time most popular video is a song full of pop angst by Avril Lavigne.

Here’s the 2oz way to get ‘er done:

Step 1: Go to YouTube.com and click on the Accounts link in the top rightish corner of the page.

Step 2:: Do a shot. I recommend Sambuca because there’s no good reason to drink it any way other than a shot.

Step 3: Scroll all the way down the resulting page of account options until you find the Account section (yes honestly they have an “Account” section within their “Account” page). The last or second last link is called Video Playback Quality. Press that link like a Polaroid picture. (Hooray 2003 pop reference!)

Step 4: Select the option stating that you have a fast internet connection.

Step 5: Take another shot.

That’s it.