Changing volume pauses video

Win 10

Chrome Version 78.0.3904.87

Regardless of video/podcast recording, player mutes itself upon volume change. (with all extensions disabled)

I've been seeing the same thing on Chrome on Windows 10 and on the most recent version of Safari on MacOS Mojave version 10.14.6.

Been noticing the same thing but only for GBeast videos and podcasts. Using the latest Firefox on Win10.