hello there ladies and gentlemen I'm the
spiffing Brit and like all good British
people I dream of achieving something
incredible insulting French people but
outside of that dream there's another
dream a dream to write history to
achieve something absolutely magnificent
and in my case the dream I wanted to
achieve was to get to 30 000 concurrent
live stream viewers on YouTube this is
seemingly an impossible task for someone
like myself whilst I have over 3 million
subscribers my average stream viewership
is between four and six thousand people
but a few days ago to celebrate my
birthday I achieved The Impossible and I
got to thirty thousand live viewers but
I didn't play fair ladies and gentlemen
you see whilst alive we discovered some
absolutely broken features of YouTube
that allowed you to destroy the entire
platform and today ladies and gentlemen
get yourselves comfortable because I'm
about to explain how I and literally any
of you are able to use one of the
greatest secrets of YouTube and Destroy
any sense of balance or fairness that
this platform has so make sure you have
a nice warm cup of tea in hand and let's
begin now as I mentioned looking through
the live streams on YouTube there's a
whole bunch of people out there doing
all kinds of different kind of weird
stuff and I just wanted to see if for
one day I could beat them if I could get
more views of the Ninja more views than
Dr Lupo wouldn't it be incredible if
someone like myself could pull that off
heck what if I could get more views than
those weird animation channels that for
some reason of running like six
animations all at the same time I mean
who's even watching them I guess we'll
never find out anyway that doesn't
matter what matters is that I wanted to
grow a live stream on YouTube so how
does one normally do that well YouTube
is a very simple meritocratic platform
everything on it snowballs the more
views a video has or the more viewers a
live stream has the more that that
product is pushed and consequently the
more viewers are then brought in this
can lead to incredible compounding
effects where you have Channels with
literally 1 000 subscribers releasing
one video and it's slowly getting a
million views over the course of a few
months this is probably my favorite
feature of YouTube and it's why why the
platform is so brilliant in my opinion
but the platform only works provided
this system is fair and only works if
the live viewers are real viewers and
that the views on the video are Real
views otherwise YouTube is effectively
pushing a lie to people we wouldn't want
that so as I said a few days ago I went
live now what was this live stream
unlike my normal live streams I wasn't
playing Rim world I wasn't getting 500
of my fans to try and speedrun factorio
and a brutal working conditions nope the
live stream was simply myself and my
good friend potato mcwhiskey sat down
explaining a bunch of YouTube exploits
that we discovered over the last few
years and testing out and enjoying them
live the only goal I wanted to achieve
was to beat my last live stream
viewership record of 20 000 viewers you
might ask why did I want to do that and
the answer is simple I'm British I
continuously desire more I mean after
what's the point of conquering one
country when there's other countries out
there
your next Albania I'm sorry so let's
talk about the biggest exploit Discovery
we made that stream it all began with my
friend potato mentioned kick everyone's
favorite legally dubious gambling live
streaming site recently had a very
public exploit whereby you could
increase the viewership on someone's
stream by just simply opening a new tab
and having the stream running again it's
meant that if you're a nobody streamer
on Kik all you needed was say yourself
to open up your own stream on another
window and suddenly you have two people
watching you you can open up another Tab
and then suddenly you have free people
watching you repeat this 20 times and
suddenly you have 21 people watching you
and of course when you're a live stream
the more people that are watching you
the more likely someone's going to click
on your live stream they want to see
what everyone else is looking at they
want to know what's happening
traditional live streaming platforms
like Kik and twitch don't really have a
discovery algorithm so viewers are
simply suggested new content by raiding
word of mouth or just whoever's at the
top of the list but then we had an idea
I mean of course YouTube's a massive
platform it's a billion dollar company
it's got a brand new CEO surely and I
mean really surely there's no way this
exploit could work on YouTube as well
well right so um naturally we attempted
it live that's right I asked my lovely
adoring fans to open up as many tabs of
the live stream as possible and what
happened next was absolute chaos now
when we started this exploit we had
approximately 18 000 people watching the
live stream which was incredibly
impressive for me but of course I wanted
to beat twenty thousand I wanted to go
beyond it so what happened next was a
little bit crazy a lot of our viewers
who weren't watching on a mobile phone
opened up another tab of the live stream
and what happened was the live view
account suddenly increased now the thing
with these tabs is they all had to be
separate Windows if you had the tabs
just simply lying across the top of your
page they wouldn't count as being
actively viewed but if you separated
them all out to a little bit of the live
stream was showing at each time they all
counted as a live viewer now that's
incredibly powerful but if all it takes
to double your live viewership is to
have all of your live viewers open up a
second Tab and something very bad has
just happened and that's pretty much
what occurred and at 53 minutes into our
life stream we managed to achieve the
impossible and we took my channel and we
got 30 000 live views at this point in
time I was the largest live stream on
the entirety of the platform and it
wasn't even close I was beating out the
next live stream by over 9 000 viewers
it's meant that if you're on YouTube and
you went into the live tab the first
stream you would see is my stream this
meant that we would then have even more
and more people coming to the stream and
largely go what the heck is going on but
also in turn join in with the exploit
there were however a few downsides to
this uh YouTube live streaming isn't
quite as well optimized as twitch it
does kind of devour a large amount of
memory and then when you're suddenly
running 20 tabs of a live stream with a
live chat that's going faster than an F1
Supercar suddenly you start running into
some issues I read a bunch of our chat
effectively drop out and come back in
saying that their computer blue screened
now of course my viewers couldn't keep
this up forever and I didn't want them
to keep it up forever if they did their
computers would be running hot for the
rest of the stream and I'd much rather
we kind of chilled it down a bit so that
was the end of exploit number one but
looking back on that exploit it really
got me thinking to something that I
wondered about earlier why do those
weird Minecraft animation channels and
weird among us live stream channels have
so many live viewers like I know there's
a bunch of kids on the platform but
these numbers are really high like why
are there 554 people watching scary
teacher 3D all of us are dead this
channel here is literally running five
live streams of what I can only presume
is the exact same content all playing on
some kind of weird Perpetual Loop and
for a live stream with 556 people
watching there's an average of one
message in chat each hour so of course
something's going very fishy here and
this channel here you Hulk family as
well as this channel here ryg game
animation well these guys are just doing
the exploit as well they've evidently
known about it for years and they've
gotten away with it it's been one of the
best kept secrets on the platform and
honestly it's incredible that it took me
to just randomly stumble upon it after
all this time but the one interesting
thing I wanted to take a look at is That
these channels are exceedingly and you
can definitely tell that they're
viewporting because we notice they have
hundreds of live viewers watching as
soon as the live streams are done they
only have like 2 000 views on the Vaude
now this just isn't accurate if I have a
live stream with 6 000 people watching
when the live stream finishes there's
gonna be at least 80 to 150 000 views on
that live stream board this channel here
with 444 people watching a live stream
when that VOD finishes there should at
least be anywhere between 10 and 50 000
views especially considering these live
streams are running for like 24 hours
but the reason the view counts are so
low is because almost all of the views
are just other tabs that are open so
whilst there's 444 people watching in
reality YouTube is probably classing 90
of these live viewers as just one view
meaning that the vods have absolutely
abysmal view counts so yes that's our
first exploit but come on ladies and
gentlemen you know what I'm like I'm not
gonna finish this video by just showing
off one exploit so let's go through some
of the others next up is the exploit
that we discovered to increase the
amount of likes on the live stream now
of course YouTube ties the like on a
live stream to an account if you go and
like a video on YouTube then close the
video and go back to the video your like
is still on that video you can't add two
likes to the same video it just doesn't
work and if it did it would completely
destroy YouTube however it turns out you
can books for our live viewers if they
unlike the stream and then opened up a
bunch of tabs of the stream again and
then individually one by one like the
stream on each of those tabs the light
count increased by that amount it's
meant that we're able to summon
thousands of likes out of thin air that
we simply shouldn't have had access to
it's truly incredible that you can
destroy YouTube in this way and finally
we'll go for probably the biggest and
most concerning exploit that we
discovered and when I say concerning
it's not concerning for you or I if
you're a content creator you're
absolutely gonna love this next bit but
if you're YouTube
um yeah this is probably the one you're
going to focus on fixing books we
discovered that one viewer could count
as multiple viewers if they had multiple
tabs open I wanted to discover if that
included them Counting different viewers
when it came to playing an advert now
whilst live streaming I have a big
button on my page that I can push and it
just summons an ad out of thin air it
doesn't summon one for all live viewers
but it only plays one ad so the
experiment we set up was very simple
have multiple tabs of the live stream
opened I'll push the add button and
logically from YouTube's perspective
they should play one advert on one of
the streams if they don't do that the
next best solution for YouTube is that
they play one advert across all of the
live streams and it's the same advert
that way we know that YouTubers class
this as one ad view for that viewer and
I'll be only getting paid for that one
ad view however that didn't happen what
ended up happening ladies and gentlemen
was I push the advert button and for
some people if they had six tabs of the
stream open they got six adverts and
they were all different adverts what
this means ladies and gentlemen is I
managed to convert one viewer into being
worth six viewers I managed to convert
18 000 people watching my live stream
live and getting advert views from from
them into thirty thousand people
watching my live stream live and getting
advert views from them this is a very
very big problem because effectively if
you have access to live streaming what
you can do is you can start up a live
stream get a whole bunch of YouTube
accounts open them up duplicate as many
copies of your tab as possible and then
spam that insert ad button and you will
just print money now of course you might
be thinking well look there's no way
YouTube actually paid you for playing
that amount of ads surely on their back
end they must have caught it after a
while and that's honestly what I was
expecting as well I was expecting after
the stream that it wouldn't have counted
and that the money wouldn't have been
actually added on to my account but it
turns out it did now I can't show you
this data because I don't believe
YouTube allows us to publicly show off
cpms and RPMs but I'll quickly explain
what they are a CPM is the amount of
money I made from a thousand people
watching One advert across the platform
this is usually a number anywhere
between three dollars and say 25 however
the more important statistic for YouTube
is rpm this is the real amount of money
I got per thousand viewers now when a
viewer watches multiple ads this
increases the RPM because effectively
we've turned say a thousand people
watching One advert being worth say four
dollars to instead be a thousand people
watching two adverts which will of
course probably be worth eight dollars
now my live stream didn't have any other
ads playing beyond the first advert
people watch when clicking on the stream
and then that brief section where I
inserted the ads now based on the
average watch time of the stream my RPM
shouldn't be that much higher than my
CPM however it is it's a lot higher than
my CPM and whilst I'm never going to be
able to exactly confirm if YouTube
definitely added on the additional ad
payments I can tell you that from
looking at the disparity between the
real amount of money I was paid and what
I probably should have been paid yes
this exploit does work and if that's the
case uh YouTube You're Gonna Wanna fix
that because sure I'm a nice person I
love your billion dollar Mega
Corporation I'm personally not going to
abuse the hell out of that but basically
anyone can and I hope I haven't just
caused the next adpocalypse across the
entirety of the platform so um if I have
ahead of time sorry guys look it's part
of a YouTuber's career to cause
accidental sweeping broad issues with
the platform to come crashing down on
its face so of course we've broken the
live view account we've broken the light
count which by the way you can also do
by liking this video that's a plug the
next thing that we're gonna break ladies
and gentlemen is the total view count
for a live stream now for me of course
the average amount of views a live
stream has when I finish the live stream
is usually between 80 and a hundred and
fifty thousand anyway whilst doing our
other exploits we decided to test what
would happen if our live viewers
refreshed all of the tabs they were
watching on of course it would
immediately reload the live stream but
the question is what would happen when a
viewer Reloaded The live stream would it
count as an additional View and the
answer is yes yes it did chat if you
like just start spamming refreshing the
stream uh we're gonna see how high The
View count can go that's over twice the
viewers
insane what then occurred was thousands
of my live viewers refreshing the live
stream as many times as possible across
all of their tabs and within the span of
15 minutes my viewership was adding
anywhere from 6 000 to 12 000 views per
minute to my live stream I have never
even released a video that has gotten
that many views per minute on my channel
and yet here I am live with just a few
thousand Lads and we are destroying my
Channel's records by mashing the F5 key
that's right ladies and gentlemen it's
2023 and YouTube has a built-in viewbot
on the platform thanks guys so of course
I wanted to get a bit cheeky I wanted to
break a few records I wanted to see how
many views we could add to the channel
and that's exactly what we did we set
about with the goal of getting 500 000
views on the live stream and after
discovering this exploit we did it we
smashed it look at that live views graph
it just climbs into the sky so naturally
my hubris and my British ego started to
build I wanted to see if I could get to
one million that's right little old me
could myself and my lovely viewers drag
ourselves across the line effectively by
this point the live stream was in
overtime I was only planning to stream
for two hours so by this point we were
down to the elitist Warriors the people
whose computers hadn't blown up in the
previous exploits and they were mashing
F5 and they did their best goddamn live
streaming of their life
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but of course disaster stroke in an
attempt to bring more people on board to
help us hit our goal faster I sent out a
tweet I sent out a tweet explaining what
we were doing explaining exactly how it
worked and inviting people to join us
however I am of course followed by
several wonderful YouTube employees and
what happened next was someone probably
forwarded on my live stream to the
correct department of YouTube to take a
look at what was going on and
unfortunately three hours into my stream
disaster struck the live view account
started dropping as YouTube started
correcting our video to lower the amount
of views on it sensing defeat I ended
the live stream knowing that YouTube
would eventually auto correct and remove
all of the views on the stream sending
us back down to where we probably were
meant to be maybe around the 100 000
view Mark but still this was very very
silly I absolutely loved it and there
are definitely ways this could be
exploited in the future so it's the
moment you've all been waiting for it's
time for the results on the back end of
the live stream what were the impacts
that we actually felt well beyond the
fact that a bunch of very generous
people donated money to my birthday tea
fund and a whole bunch of YouTube
channel members appeared out of thin air
the live stream itself was a very weird
algorithmic success and yet simultaneous
failure because we'd been refreshing the
stream so many times the average view
duration of this stream had tanked into
abysmal numbers by the end of the stream
I think it was as low as six minutes to
put this into perspective I have live
streams where the average view duration
is not six minutes it's well over an
hour consequently that's not a very good
sign however YouTube began over the next
few hours auto correcting the amount of
views of course it took a bunch of views
off of the live stream believing that
they were probably bought in fake views
and yes they were completely correct
average some weird point at like 3am
they decided to add a bunch of views
back onto the live stream which I wasn't
expecting and then 24 hours after that
they just removed them but also didn't
remove them because the views are still
there they just didn't show up on the
analytics section anymore honestly I
have no idea what's going on in the
background of YouTube for this video
it's a little bit of a mystery we of
course did go through a few other
exploits that didn't make it today's
video so if you want to check them out
by all means go and watch the entirety
of the board I just don't really want to
bloat this video out into something that
became completely unwatchable but yes
there we have it YouTube in 2023 is
utterly and completely broken and you
know what ladies and gentlemen I love it
I love it when a platform doesn't work
the way it's actually intended to the
fact that anyone can just massively
increase the amount of viewers they have
on a live stream it's really silly and
really funny I wouldn't be surprised if
some streamers have accidentally been
getting helped by this without even
realizing and if people are doing it you
know what hats off to them it doesn't
really matter at the end of the day
YouTube's a meritocratic platform the
entire algorithm will auto correct
itself at some point and if it doesn't
Ah that's completely fine because
everyone loves a little bit of Jank
there is one final thing I want to try
though ladies and gentlemen I'm doing a
little secret exploit on the back end
that I'll try and share with you in the
future but it's not quite ready yet and
that requires one final test that you
all can help me with simply leave a
comment on this video keep it as simple
as possible make it just the view count
on the video so that I can actually keep
track of it as I think there's something
very suspicious going on so of course
yes thank you very much for watching
today's video thank you for giving it a
like thank you for leaving your comment
on the video and helping me with my next
exploit and of course thank you because
you've probably subscribed and if you
haven't you probably drink coffee and so
I bloody hate you I'm sorry I'm British
and you're just going to have to deal
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one of you in the next one have a lovely
day and uh goodbye for now