Earlier it used to be thus for random links but almost any YouTube link in WhatsApp if clicked leads to the playback happening in a small minimised window at the bottom with the main window almost blank under it. I can pull the video up to the top where it will play in portrait mode but won’t rotate to landscape. No comment section seen. 
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Try disallowing picture in picture permission for Whatsapp
Did not help. Tried that.