diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx
index 04a0ef5..633df6d 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Feed.tsx
@@ -310,12 +310,21 @@ export default function Feed({
     list
       .map((v) => (overrides[v.id] ? { ...v, status: overrides[v.id] } : v))
       .map((v) => (savedOverrides[v.id] !== undefined ? { ...v, saved: savedOverrides[v.id] } : v));
-  const items: Video[] = withOverrides(loaded).filter((v) => matchesView(v.status, filters.show));
+  const merged: Video[] = withOverrides(loaded);
+  const items: Video[] = merged.filter((v) => matchesView(v.status, filters.show));
   // The in-app player's queue (auto-advance / loop / prev-next). It's the filtered feed, but the
   // watch-state view filter is NOT applied — so marking the current video watched keeps it in the
   // sequence (no reindex/reload mid-play), matching "watched doesn't affect the list". A video that
   // goes hidden still drops out ("visible affects").
-  const playerQueue: Video[] = withOverrides(loaded).filter((v) => v.status !== "hidden");
+  const playerQueue: Video[] = merged.filter((v) => v.status !== "hidden");
+
+  // A live search ingests new catalog videos, so the disabled feed queries still hold their stale
+  // pre-search cache. Drop them so the feed re-fetches fresh on return.
+  const dropFeedCaches = () => {
+    qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed"] });
+    qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed-count"] });
+    qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["facets"] });
+  };
 
   // --- Live YouTube search mode -------------------------------------------------------------
   // A separate data source rendered in the same cards/player. No watch-state view filter (the
@@ -341,16 +350,11 @@ export default function Feed({
           <div className="flex items-center gap-2 flex-wrap">
             <button
               onClick={() => {
-                // The search just ingested new catalog videos, so the normal feed (which was
-                // disabled and still holds its pre-search cache) is stale. Drop those caches so
-                // it re-fetches fresh on return instead of showing the old (often empty) result.
                 // Surface the just-searched videos in the feed you return to: switch the Source
                 // filter to "search" (your own search finds) and rank them by relevance.
                 setFilters({ ...filters, librarySource: "search", sort: "relevance" });
                 onExitYtSearch();
-                qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed"] });
-                qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed-count"] });
-                qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["facets"] });
+                dropFeedCaches();
               }}
               className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-sm text-muted hover:text-accent transition shrink-0"
             >
@@ -394,9 +398,7 @@ export default function Feed({
                     .catch(() => {});
                   setFilters({ ...filters, librarySource: "organic", sort: "newest" });
                   onExitYtSearch();
-                  qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed"] });
-                  qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["feed-count"] });
-                  qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["facets"] });
+                  dropFeedCaches();
                   qc.removeQueries({ queryKey: ["yt-search"] });
                 }}
                 className="inline-flex items-center gap-1 px-2 py-0.5 rounded-full border border-border text-muted hover:text-danger hover:border-danger transition"
@@ -541,29 +543,25 @@ export default function Feed({
             </button>
           );
         })}
-        {(
-          <>
-            <span className="mx-1 h-5 w-px bg-border" aria-hidden="true" />
-            <label className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs text-muted">
-              <span>{t("feed.source.label")}</span>
-              <select
-                value={filters.librarySource ?? "organic"}
-                onChange={(e) =>
-                  setFilters({
-                    ...filters,
-                    librarySource: e.target.value as FeedFilters["librarySource"],
-                  })
-                }
-                title={t("feed.source.tip")}
-                className="bg-card border border-border rounded-lg px-2 py-1 text-xs outline-none focus:border-accent"
-              >
-                <option value="organic">{t("feed.source.organic")}</option>
-                <option value="all">{t("feed.source.all")}</option>
-                <option value="search">{t("feed.source.only")}</option>
-              </select>
-            </label>
-          </>
-        )}
+        <span className="mx-1 h-5 w-px bg-border" aria-hidden="true" />
+        <label className="inline-flex items-center gap-1.5 text-xs text-muted">
+          <span>{t("feed.source.label")}</span>
+          <select
+            value={filters.librarySource ?? "organic"}
+            onChange={(e) =>
+              setFilters({
+                ...filters,
+                librarySource: e.target.value as FeedFilters["librarySource"],
+              })
+            }
+            title={t("feed.source.tip")}
+            className="bg-card border border-border rounded-lg px-2 py-1 text-xs outline-none focus:border-accent"
+          >
+            <option value="organic">{t("feed.source.organic")}</option>
+            <option value="all">{t("feed.source.all")}</option>
+            <option value="search">{t("feed.source.only")}</option>
+          </select>
+        </label>
         <span className="mx-1 h-5 w-px bg-border" aria-hidden="true" />
         <span className="text-xs text-muted whitespace-nowrap">
           {countQuery.data