How I Broke Youtube - Youtube Is Perfectly Balanced With No Exploits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ค. 2024
- The year is 2024 and the youtube algorithm is dealing with a new kind of content format. A style that it does not really know how to deal with because it appears to be near perfectly performing videos with high watchtime and viewer retention. However these videos are not normal. These are sleep videos. Today I will dive into the maddening and wild world of breaking the youtube algorithm in 2024.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Ch1: The New Meta (Introduction )
00:51 - Ch2: How The Algorithm Works
03:16 - Ch3: Sleep Content
10:43 - Ch4: Exploit in the Wild
18:10 - Ch5: The Future of TH-cam Content
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What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience. I promise not every video is all about using youtube seo and algorithm seo to break youtube because sometimes its just a youtube bug that lets you generate infinite views and infinite money! Who needs youtube seo 2024 when you can just open a new tab and out on a 12 hour long video essay!
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*I Am Watching this whilst sleeping*
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have a nice sleep
fat
no comments?
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Hiiiiii
i am watching this whilst awake
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Disgraceful!
I'm not, this is my Stand.
I am replying to your comment in my sleep.
no way me too
Snore... mimimi.... Snoreeeee.... mimimi.... sorry whats up was too busy sleeping instead of watching this video
I stopped my sleeping cycle for this video😈
What about Spore?
*Turns off Auto-Play in French*
You snore like a certain frog man from down under.
spongebob ahh snore
Turning off autoplay is the first thing I do everywhere where I watch TH-cam.
Specifically to avoid the "you forgot to turn it off and now after 100 autoplayed videos your recommendations are completely destroyed"
i turn off auto play on ANYTHING that has it
I just have sleep playlists, like my 400 video long playlist of Elder Scrolls lore.
@@Shajirr_ I get Red Letter Media as the next video now. I miss the old days. It’s like eating pizza for every meal every day. I love pizza. But what about Internet Comment Etiquette? Or a bagel? Nope. Pizza.
Despite this, I still end up sleeping through some videos every now and then, because I dump the videos I want to watch in WL and watch them all there.
@@HyperSonic1999orJTH on PC at least there are ways to turn off autoplay even in the playlists. Not sure about phones
I've been doing this "sleep whilst watching" thing INTENTIONALLY for upwards of 7 years now. I suffer from extreme sleep-time anxiety and consequentially - insomnia. For many years I would toss and turn all night kept up by irrational fears and worries. However, during the day whenever I would be trying to watch a movie or TV show I would typically unintentionally pass out! With my mind preoccupied by the content I was consuming, I was freed from my worries, and thus, my exhaustion would catch up with me. Realizing this, I thought, "If this is what happens any time I try to watch TV, why not harness it for good?" So, I began putting on TH-cam at night in order to sleep. I pick a youtuber I like and want to support, and their channel becomes THE channel for the night. I navigate to their channel directly and choose my first video of the night from there instead of choosing one of their videos off the recommended tab. This ensures that their videos, and only their videos, will play. This way I'm not startled awake by some screaming streamer or obnoxious music. It's just constant and reliable content that I find soothing and relaxing. Quite purposefully, I choose creators with a calm demeanor and peaceful content variety. I like crafters who make things, artists, life/culture commentary channels, or nature and homesteading channels. There are a few calm gaming channels I enjoy, too, but only if they don't have a penchant for suddenly screaming at the top of their lungs or editing in obnoxious sound effects.
As weird as this sounds, it has allowed me to sleep at night for 7 solid years. So whist many would say, "The key to a good night's rest is to turn off all the TVs and distractions!" I couldn't disagree more. I turn on my trusted creators, and allow them to lull me to sleep with their peaceful tone and calm content. Works like a charm. With my favorite creators, I've probably "watched" each of their videos dozens of times. I typically watch them while awake, too, because I actually DO want to see what they do. My sleep watching is just bonus money from me to thank them for helping me sleep!
i reaally relate to this. i used to have a hard time falling asleep until i started bringing my phone to bed with me starting age 16 or so. while it helps me immensely and i sleep really soundly, i now rely on youtube for sleep. ive slept at friends houses where i havent had my earbuds and come to the shocking realisation of how reliant i am on youtube to fall asleep.
I don't even really have a problem, for the most part, falling asleep with no noise, but a fan or AC especially and a nice relaxing TH-cam video just helps even more. Video game lore coming from a nice calm voice, particularly British accents I've come to realize funny enough, really just add to the ease.
I did the same for a long time from my crippled knee keeping me up.
I do the same, after discovering this the same way....in fact there were several channels who's videos I couldn't get through until I'd sorted my sleep! & I also see it as a way to thank my favourite creators. I just turn the screen to black & drift off w/no PTSD/CPTSD triggering thoughts (mostly, can't control commercials when you're sleeping & can't bring myself to pay YT directly, creators yes, YT NO).
Nice find, I'm an insomniac and your comment has inspired me to try this. Although I'll porbably use a second account so that my conscious awake account's algorithm doesn't get skewed by my sleeping accounts algorithm. Eg I dont get DIY videos of drilling concrete whilst I'm trying to sleep.
I'm watching this whilst cryogenically frozen.
I am glad you are enjoying your time in my fallout vault
That is funny
Give him a Medal
Same
@@xMrd0nut can you Tell me what it feels like to be a popsicle
Head Exploiter sounds like a C tier comic book villain.
To be fair so does the joker...
I mean so does the spiffing brit :D
@@thespiffingbrit The spiffing brit is such a badass name
@@thespiffingbrit Im drinking coffee rn
C tier villain with S tier power level
Reminds me of that one time that I woke up to an advertisement playing when I left TH-cam on as background noise before I slept. Wasn't the most unusual thing, but as I laid there for a few minutes, I realized the advertisement was _still_ going. I got up to see why.
The entire advertisement was over an hour long.
It wasn't even halfway done.
It was the third advertisement out of 6.
Something about that entire experience irked my soul.
I'm awake, I'm awake.
it's 3 AM and I cannot sleep, and I just now noticed this in my notification feed.
Also, damn. YOU'RE the reason why my auto-playlist start to get congested by 2+ hour videos.
I was noticed by the preeminent brit of youtube. Truly an honour. Don't tell the adsense advertisers about this exploit though, they might get grumpy.
The pleasure is mine. Keep up the splendid work and go make a video on project zomboid already ;)
Because of your long videos i get graveyard keeper, thank you man for your work! Keep up! Thanks also to my beloved, tee drinking sausage from Britain for great work to explain stuff for my polish kiełbasa's brain.
keep up the good work boys!
Digging the long edit videos floydson. Listen to them at my brain numbing job...
Oh man, I fall asleep to your content all the time, please enjoy my premium watch time ❤
I get so many comments on my longer (and more popular) videos from people I’ve woken up while they’ve been sleeping to auto-play. I’m basically an alarm clock.
Yeah. I almost always wake up to VaporaDark ad carry guides (league of legends content) lmao
Thank you **drinks Yorkshire tea to appease rule 2**
So we, sleeping, are the dinosaurs, and your video is the asteroid, in this scenario, causing a sudden and violent change?
An extremely interesting alarm clock aswell
I always wake up to the same hour and a half long video operating system stuff. All the comments share the same experience
This feels like breaking some kind of 4th wall. 80% of the videos i've seen or see of yours, are before sleep because your commentary is relaxing, and of course i fall asleep and "see" one or two more videos.
And now i realize i've been a patient to an experiment, a mouse being put in a maze... and i even get told now!?
What a wonderful brit you are Spiff, i feel exploited.
Some videos took me several days to finish because of its length and me falling asleep 15 minutes in
Good job... you win this time (im literally going to sleep now)
Ahhh, exploitation, every Brit’s favourite pastime
I am literally in the same boat but I love falling asleep to his voice so I guess I'll just be exploited 🤷♀️
They’re like 20 mins long… get off TikTok good lord
@@Joeysaladslover i don't really know what you mean, i don't use TikTok, but you should browse a little more through Spiffs videos, more precisely the live vods. There he has videos 4-7 hours long, including for example the 100 days to world ends in Skyrim. You can count the 11 hours skyrim special i believe he even mentions in this video too
Don't be a jerk dude
@@KevoYT Let the kid cry dude. he is clearly the tiktok user here.
It's crazy hearing about how the algorithm tries to adapt to your preferences at all times yet my recommendations are complete shit 90% of the time.
I have the same issue. I think that if you happen to like more than 3 things the algorithm goes into convulsions.
@@Mrs.Silversmith Yeah. Every time I see a suggestion I have to decide if that topic is something I want to take up half my feed for the next week.
And if I skip a video to save it for when I have more time, I have to consider what moronic conclusions the algorithm might make out of that.
It's terrible. All this talk about how social media companies know exactly what you are like and what you want to watch is nonsense. They can't even get music right. I put on some upbeat music to clean my room and autoplay recommends pink floyd as the next song.
@@mikeyforrester6887 there are some good background minimal techno and psytrance mixes that are a couple hours long. I would 100% just do those instead of trying to find individual songs
@@fauge7 I'm going to start looking for a TH-cam playlist that does that. It gets repetitive fast when I can't shuffle the songs.
Awe shucks, the gig is up. Great video though :D, so glad longform content is here to stay
I loved your "Building a House" series, I always wanted to do in game but watching it first helped me to realize it was possible all along.
The phrase is ‘the jig is up’.
While jig and gig appear to be related, the phrase originated as the jig is up, and it is first recorded in the U.S. in 1777 (as the jig is over). And, in fact, this jig is up.
I felt you were doing something like that (as in, a little bit of stats exploitation) with those supercuts. Hey, free mone tho, good for you. Keep up the good work.
@@ItzKhilji you must be fun at parties
That’s why your voice is so calm in those videos lol, love the hustle
In 10 years: How I broke our solar system - Space Is Perfectly Balanced With No Exploits
lol
true and real
Did you know that space has no tax jurisdictions...
@@thespiffingbrit truuueee and real
@@thespiffingbrit no tax in space? I should probably move to space now...
This is why i turned autoplay off!
I need noise to fall asleep to but was getting sick of waking up to totally random videos. I need consistency.
The real stinker is the feature length ads tho, always mixed louder than the videos themselves.
i cant think of a worse way to distribute a movie im super proud of and worked really hard on than by PAYING to run it as an ad on youtube, yet ive seen 2hr movies come up as an ad i can skip in 30 seconds.
Watching while drinking coffee 😅. Title of this video is genius. I have never been recommended your videos before, but think I TH-cam may have recommended this because I occasionally search for “green noise for sleep”.
you know, I think there's a secondary audience to these sleep videos. People at work. I work in a warehouse, and typically listen to either music, podcasts, or really long video essays to help pass the time (the 8 hour megaman lore video, 9 hour bionicle lore video, and 5 hour Red vs Blue video spring to mind as recent ones)
I recommend listening to the entire first 100 episodes of Red vs Blue
I started listening to History of Rome podcast and didn't realize after 2 weeks that I was 100 episodes in
@@MrDeldris The most based recommendation I've seen in a long time.
It wouldn't work nearly so well if not for autoplay being turned on by itself sometimes
I worked at Amazon for some time and I have listened to so many things like is it’s insane.
I was curios why those videos did so well. Now it all makes sense haha! Truly humbled to be featured in your video and grateful to learn more about how the algorithm works.
Hey man lovely to have you here. I really enjoyed your video about your perspective on content creation.
I look forward to and wish you the best on your next project whatever it might be.
I woke up halfway through the 300 days video and ended up starting it again cause i enjoyed it also ended up subbing to 😂
Hey I used to watch your space engineers videos! Was pretty surprised when you appeared in the video
The only thing that autoplays for me is a pre-approved playlist of hour-long music mixes, with no ads!! Cheers!
Nice SpiffingBrit,
TH-cams now gonna add a sleep check...
I will often put on Warhammer 40k lore videos to sleep and wake up to a Spiffing Brit stream from months ago.
The system works ;)
@@thespiffingbrit since we're both brits, i already responded in my head before seeing the response you gave Spiff... i said "Aha, my plan works!"
Englishmen United under one rule... the Rule OVER OTHERS!!!
@@swanclipper americans will disagree and say they rule 🤷
Are you me? I keep trying to learn more about the lore yet I always fall asleep. Sometimes I replay the same video nightly 10x times until I finally finish it awake. Luetin must be making bank!
Same
YOU'VE HELPED ME SOLVED A MYSTERY IN MY OWN ANALYTICS I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND
For the record, I am NOT a streamer, that is not my main form of content. My main form of content is very short these days, though I have plans to return and develop other kinds of long form content. But anyways, I streamed a few times last year, mainly simulcasting the same game my friends were playing at the time (usually visual novel stuff like Ace Attorney or the Sonic Murder Mystery game)
You know that audience section in your analytics that tells you what formats your viewers are watching your content? One of of those formats is "live" which, despite me having not streamed anything in a year, has kept ticking upward in viewership. This has confounded and confused me for some time now as to why, but now I understand.
All those streams were 4 to 6 hours long. People who watch my regular videos have been falling asleep and AUTOPLAYING TO THAT.
THIS EXPLOIT WAS IN FRONT OF ME THE WHOLE TIME AND I NEVER UNDERSTOOD WHY.
Happy to have helped
@@thespiffingbrit But doesn't TH-cam prevent inactivity by automatically pausing a video after a certain amount of time?
I think the real reason is the increase in TH-cam TV viewers as its the correct enviroment to watch long form content.
The correct environment to watch TH-cam shorts is on your phone. This is backed up by the data. I've seen various news articles on this.
@@livef1fan473 I think it only does that when you watch a certain number of videos. I have noticed that when I listen to a playlist of music in the background (using TH-cam) it will pause, but if I listen to a long compilation of songs in one video, it will not pause. This means that if a stream or other long video auto plays, it will play most or all of that video, but if it auto plays a whole bunch of videos, it will pause at some point. This would only reinforce long form videos being selected by the algorithm.
@@livef1fan473there is a setting you can enable, that YT reminds you to take a break.
I don't think I have ever fallen asleep to a short. Shorts at least the ones I watch are a bit bombastic. But I do fall asleep to long videos and some about as short as 20 minutes if the author is using a steady speech pattern.
Had this happen to me in January 2023 and it made me several thousand dollars (and half a million watch hours).
The video was a 4½ hour deep dive livestream discussion of patch notes for a game, aimed at very enfranchised players. It started getting served to people with no interest in the game and had some "how on earth did I end up here" comments.
I've done similar streams since but none has taken off like it or made more than a couple hundred dollars.
I accidentally stumbled upon this exploit - I have done several series, ranging from 3-10 individual videos in length, and started combining them just to make things more convenient for my viewers.
Then, when I saw how well they were performing, it became a standard practice of mine that, when I do a multi-part series, a few months later I release the supercut. I always thought it was because people enjoyed it, and found the supercut to be more engaging than the individual videos. Not sure how I feel about learning that a good chunk of those views are from people who dozed off 😂
I passed out and woke up to being told to leave a comment that I was sleeping. This whole video checks out.
lol
I mean, I'm at work. That's basically like being asleep.
I hope you are not a heart surgeon or train driver :D
@@thespiffingbrit Plot twist: he's both💀
Same
@@SteadyJack301Who isn't working two jobs nowadays especially those surgeons who are train conductors
@@SteadyJack301 at the same time
Yep, I have definitely woken up with youtube still running on autoplay
I started doing compilation videos a couple of years ago because I liked the idea of doing big longform comedy epics, I had no idea I was exploiting sleeping people. And yeah, the "Movie" compilations are still my top earners every month, without fail.
Appreciate the mention! I suppose I’ll add to it by saying that I wasn’t thinking about breaking algorithms by making longer videos. It sort of just comes naturally from the stories I craft from gameplay AND my viewers always ask for the longer “movie-like” videos. The watch time really helps get more eyes on it, so by making the entire video extremely engaging and heavily edited people couldn’t put it down once they started. Like Spiffing Brit said though, I can’t make videos like that every upload. It would burn me out instantly. But this also adds to its authenticity. When people see “A Solo’s Journey” return, they’ll know it’s something special. A rare movie that they HAVE to watch. I’ve created this reputation by always ensuring my videos are quality, for the past 5-6 years. My videos are made with a lot of love, I enjoy watching them myself. I’ve always stood by that. If you’re a creator making videos you wouldn’t watch yourself and you’re just pumping them out hoping that somebody watches, I don’t think that’ll get you very far. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk 😅
Your videos are the reason I started playing rust and to properly find love for PC gaming! Big love Bloo
Love your content bloo
I think it was Welyn who kickstarted this, but Rust is quite unique among other games with the large amount and amazing quality of long form "movie" style content, from the OG himself, staple names like Blooprint and Stevie to newcomers like Willy J. Keep it up Bloo, regularly I'll just watch one of your (or the other storyteller's) videos rather then looking for a hollywood movie to watch, and unlike with hollywood productions, I'm yet to be disappointed.
well said mate!
Time to check out your channel and take a nap
Holy shit, THIS is the reason why your streams would ALWAYS be playing when I woke up. I had to start watching playlists to stop you from overtaking my sleep youtube
For a month every day I woke up having watched a whole stream vod, waking up to it still going. I remember waking up to that super long Skyrim video.
@@maldseethecope Over the last two days I have woken up to TSP, and they were the super long Skyrim videos! 😂
05:50 whitelight is my go to for sleeping videos lmao
“I’m Sleeping”
Yeah ngl I'm taking this, posting "minecraft clips to fall asleep to" soon
I respect the decision let me know how it does :)
nice job on top 10 Minecraft players
make sure sweden is runnin in the background
@@thespiffingbritim going to stream on yt and twitch in same time and then just farm sleepers
Nope call then "supercuts" Just a whole series of videos in one good for binging or sleeping
Spiff: Makes a joke about Americans.
Me: Grumbles.
Spiff: Makes a joke about the French.
Me: I knew there was a reason I liked this guy.
lol
That is interesting, and I hope creators are able to use it to make some money.
I turned off autoplay a long time ago. I've never turned it back on. I do listen to long form TH-cam videos while I sleep, but I choose what plays before I fall asleep.
I still get recommendations, and I sometimes click them. But you can't farm me for sleep views. Sorry.
Just when I thought I was out. They pull me back in
I feel like even the French hate the French. Victimless crime type ish
Me and American who is dating a French person… 😑
@@brendanjrice7307 😁No hard feelings, my friends
I'm not awake while I'm not not watching this, dreaming of being asleep while watching myself dreaming
Watching this vid while sleeping
Thumbnail: go to sleep lol
Me watching at 4am: no i don't think I will
I am just trying to look after your health :D
It's okay Spiff. We watch it once while awake, then another 10 times over the next month sleeping.
Make sure to keep/turn on autoplay
On the topic of Supercuts: it's the superior way to watch a past series.
The TH-cam interface (and algorithm) really sucks at showing series episodes in order. You might get 3 in a row properly, and then suddenly you're shuffled off to someone else's channel.
The super cut, single video solves this perfectly
Or it skips a bunch of vids
Many creators also order their playlists in reverse to have the most recent episode on top, which makes it useless to watch the whole series from start to finish.
Also if you aren't watching all in one go watching part way through the supercut and stopping to come back later, youtube remembers where you were. If you watch individual videos in a series it can be a pain to figure out which one you left off on when you come back.
precisely why it works
so the yt interface being so bad, intentionally by yt, that creators resort to these supercut videos produce more ad revenue that yt gets a cut of seems way too calculated a move by yt but maybe they really are playing 5d chess. they save cost on developing the interface and instead pass it along to take our time and make them even more money than if they did something than nothing.
I turned off auto play a month ago after my algorithm switched to 10 hour videos
I watched the video twice. Once while asleep the other while awake.
My boyfriend is sleeping with this playing on his phone.
I overheard it from his side of the bed and decided to leave a sleeping comment for him like a good wifey would.
Liar
This is hilarious.
@@TheTotallyRealXiJinping is it too hard to just let people have fun on the internet? like what difference does it make if this person is lying or not? do you not wish to find joy in the little things in life rather than calling people out because you think they're lying over inconsequential things in the comments of a youtube video? aren't you tired of being mad, don't you just want to be nice?
@TheTotallyRealXiJinping just because you get no maidens, doesn't mean the rest of us don't lol
wholly support
The best part is that the way I found this channel is genuinely after I woke up and realized I had left TH-cam on autoplay.
I can’t even remember how I found this channel because I am always sleeping
2:00 i wonder how many people know about that computer, because I do and i'm 19 lol. i am also watching this whilst I am half-asleep
The long videos of kids animés stacked together is soooo rentable 😆
Spiff is exploiting my narcolepsy.
Mine too
Good serves them right for sleeping 😂
Zzzzzzzzz
@@blackmagick77Narcolepsy is an actual condition, it’s not exactly their fault. At all.
@@nova-witchwood No kidding. You're taking youtube comments way to seriously
TH-cam doesn’t always recommend “episodes” of a series in the right order, or even the next episode at all, so I have to dig to continue watching. A supercut just saves me frustration.
same!
playlists
This. Especially if you've just found a prolific creator and they did that thing where the playlist (if it even exists) doesn't autoplay the series in the right order. Supercuts arw a godsend, though I haven't figured out id there's a good way to create bookmarks partway through to come back to them. I assumr there's an extension I should be using.
@@raffimolero64 youtube doesn't tend to recommend playlists
@@raffimolero64You get way more ads from playlists than you do from these long compilations typically. If you watch all of Spiffing Brit's Skyrim videos, you'll get more ads than the 11 hour compilation.
I never sleep view, but I have noticed that if I'm listening to music in a background window at work, I gradually get pushed longer collections of songs, rather than single songs.
I'm not sleeping but sleeping content I've seen full swing for YEARS 😂
I saw this video on the front page, clicked on it and went to bed. No autoplay involved.
Don't remember any part of it. Actually watching-watching it now.
TH-cam asked me if I enjoyed this video, put 5 stars, liked, checked all the reasons. It works!
Five stars?? What era of youtube are you trapped in? Do you need help?
Jesus is calling you today. Come to him, repent from your sins, bear his cross and live the victorious life
@@LordSeptimus kinda ironically, now
sometime Ytb will give you a form to review a random videos that you have just watch, and if you really like it, just pick 5s and everything, that is worth a lot for the channel in the algo
Ofc, you can also be that dick, but who will?
I honestly really appreciate when a series gets a "super cut" because It usually means that I can enjoy the entire thing at once without seeing the intro/outro in between every episode. Something that might be worth noting is that youtube pushes long videos to everyone after periods of nonactivity. This happens regardless of if they're signed in or even if there's any watch history cookie save data to pull from which means that even if premium users never sleep watch the videos, ad revenue from the slotted in ads would still accumulate off literally anyone who falls asleep watching. I say all that because it doesn't hurt anyone and could potentially help content creators earn more back on making more time consuming content (like full series/live steams) with some minimal editing even if views slow down on later episodes.
TH-cam in the near future: *asks for webcam permissions to make sure you're awake while utilizing it*
Thanks to this video, youtube will start putting in 'Are you still watching" prompts, which means that I'm going to start getting interupted in the middle of my long form playlist pods
Am I crazy or has this already been a thing for ages? TH-cam will always interrupt a video if I have it playing unattended for a couple hours
@@Trick.Sparrow It does on PC/ website, doesn't ask on the app for me
@@lyaneris oooooohhhh that makes so much more sense ty
Or youtube will do nothing about it because the company wants to keep their ad revenue. I could see TH-cam using "Are you still watching" prompts if ad providers make them. Sleep viewers dont actually see the ads so, from the advertiser's perspective, its just burning money
@@epadefunder5331 they already have are you still watching prompts theyre annoying asf
I genuinely woke up at 6:30 am with this video playing with spiff explaining that most of us might be alseep currently watching the video. Definitely threw me for a loop for a second.
Im here almost asleep in an armchair listening to this guy saying hes making content exactly for me, im so baffled that i have to pick up my phone to leave a comment, youre riding the algorithm raw, no harnesses no nothing.
4:41 fuck, just woke up and ur video was playing.... only joking lol
TH-cam didn’t need Spiff to break it. It breaks itself CONSTANTLY.
I fkin knew it. Its been months, *months*. Sometimes i forget to put a timer for my notebook to shutdown, and if I do, next morning is always spiffing with a 4h+ video.
I was like, is this possible? I watch a shit ton of channels and its always spiffing? Is this dude doing something to show up with such consistency?
you could look at your yt history
Do your other channels stream?
@@GeorgeDCowley hm, some of them do. They do have long videos, for example one of them has a 73hour playthrough of Morrowind. But most of such lengthy videos aren't youtube streams.
But yeah i think you maybe on to something, when its not spiffing its some old ass ltt live, building pcs.
Fell asleep watching a Kyle Hill video around 11pm, woke up with this video playing around 2 AM.
Heyyyyy!!!! I love Blooprint! And all the rust bois! I actually watch those all the way through. Cool to see him getting talked about here, where I come for the science of breaking things. Lol
TH-cam can't outsmart me. I watch longform videos while awake to keep me company while I work or play on the side. Truly a perfectly balanced strat
Based comment. I, too, listen to longform content during my hours of labor!
You outsmarted their outsmarting!
No exploit escapes this meddling British man for long... he's on to us
minecraft content creator?
Dont forget to be excellent, and drink yorkshire tea!
I was going to say something about sleeping, but i was on the fence; i didnt want to be flagged as a bot message. Then, TH-cam decided to treat me like a first time twitch commenter, amd show me rules for commenting on Spiffing Britt's channel!
My coirse of action became clear from there.
videos keep playing while im sleeping but somehow when im listening to music yt stops to ask if im there every minute
That's actually insane. I generally fall asleep to youtube videos, and more often than not when I awake im 5 hours into one of your long ass videos. Your exploits have reached meta levels. There's no escape from you, not even in our dreams.
Can't hate the player, hate the game.
SAME!
This is precisely the reason that I never have auto-play enabled. It's very frustrating to wake up to a completely different recommended feed and have to wait days for it to get back to normal. I just find a slightly longer video than normal, and fall asleep to that.
You can just tell TH-cam that you are not interested in that content and it'll quickly backtrack to what was previously recommended or watched by you. It's the 3 dots on the right of the video, just pick not interested.
@@Phoenix.Sparkles Yes, that's my point. Doing that on every video that I don't care for every day (if you fall asleep to videos every night like I do) is very frustrating. Wouldn't it make more sense to not have to deal with that at all? I don't see any benefit significant enough to outweight the frustration auto play causes later.
@@itranscendencei7964 I don’t mind it, my algorithm is pretty well attuned to my preference. I watch a lot of rust videos to fall asleep to, and I’m pretty much interested in any random stuff put in most video essays.
Also if it helps generate money for creators I’m all for it.
@@leopoppa7753 My recommended feed is pretty well tuned as well. That's why I don't want auto play ruining it. To each their though, of course.
I do tend to fall asleep sometimes watching your shit and have woken up at 3:00 in the morning watching a 5-hour live stream of yours
I did fall asleep, but i don't have the "auto play" so i just rewatched the whole video AGAIN in the morning
I love longer videos, I usually skip over the 8-10 minute ones unless they’re from someone I absolutely love. I have TH-cam going while I work so I hate stopping and scrolling every 10 minutes.
Same. I actually favor channels who keep neatly curated playlists. When I can't think of something to watch and nothing is catching my eye (because my recommended page is pretty garbage lately), I'll dip into a favorite creator and find a good playlist to run on my second monitor.
i have recently gained a special interest in WWE and general wrestling history, just because there seems to be such a wealth of 2-4 hour videos that are perfect for background listening, it's funny because while it is so interesting to me, i still don't really enjoy watching wrestling matches and i've come to accept that, i just want all the drama and it is such a super cool artform with so much cool history and culture surrounding it that i have to say that i love it, but if i just threw a match on, it'd just be too much lol not my cup of tea
Just put them in a playlist like I do
Noted. I will soon be working on 10 hour music videos
You have actually done this to me multiple times.
I don't often fall asleep watching youtube, but sometimes I do, and when I do, I usually get woken up in the middle of the night by an enthusiastic British man playing CIV.
I've noticed this as well, I don't mind at all, but this explains it.
I remember waking up half way through that video
to be honest, long form works so well because of how annoying YT is to search out good new content.
Having something going in the background while I game or work is pretty much engrained in my routine. Sometimes gaining knowledge, sometimes having something funny/entertaining as atmosphere.
Even when not asleep, I am usually looking for long form videos or playlists from channels I either like, or can potentially not scream at at least. So I dont have to tab out of whatever I am actually doing every 15 secs and spend an hour trying to find something not infuriating to have creating atmosphere
6:55 ok that makes sense. I would get more podcasts around 3:00pm. Something for me to pop in my ear while i commute home. I'm not even handling the phone to get distracted. I don't get any TH-cam ads for the most part. Like about 99% of my commute I don't get an ad. But as soon as I get home I do seem to get one.
You gotta make, "TH-cam is perfectly balanced THE MOVIE"
That's the end of the series, make it a 12 hour playlist, ???, profit!
This is why I keep autoplay turned off.
You don't want to give free money to people while you just sleep? Why not? It's not like you have anything better to do if you're asleep lol
Exactly
@@PossessedFajitaI turned it off so my phone goes into sleep mode. Screen timeout is disabled when a video is playing, but not when it's finished
@@PineaFan that's valid. I was thinking more along the lines of having it on the TV while you sleep since I figure that's where most "sleepviewers" come from. I'd imagine most sleepviewers aren't on their phone for the same reason you mention -turning off autoplay (to not kill battery).
I have autoplay turned off, but I find a playlist of a creator I like and play that while sleeping. This way I won't be surprised by the algorithm when I wake up. 😄
I've never felt so personally called out.
This explains how so many ads end up on videos when TH-cam auto-adds them. A streamer recently made a community post about it because they got a lot of complaints, and it turned out TH-cam stuck an ad in there every 3 minutes.
yeah, sounds legit, i've woken up to your livestream vods, LTT WAN Show vods and streams of 4 year old congressional hearings countless times.Perfectly balanced
Oh my lord, every single time I fall asleep with yt on, it's always either WAN Show, or Dankpods' complete season videos
i wake up to the WAN show every single day haha
Technoblade used to talk about his live streams and how they got crazy watch times making him think that some people watching them were asleep.
Story mode.. rip
I have very much noticed this from a viewer standpoint, as when I got to bed, I love putting on longer gaming videos from challenges etc. And frankly I love it. Gives me something to relax and sleep to, it gives creators money, and I frankly wish more creators will take advantage of it. Becuase everyone wins in it and doesn’t hurt anyone
4:26 yeah WAN show moment
I remember dystopian stories on how in the future we are going to hear ads even in our sleep. But I did not expect spiff of all people to do this to us.
This dream brought to you by Lightspeed Briefs.
The fact that i got this recommended after months of not seeing your channel in my feed is yet another proof your algorithm tactics are working.
I'm in fact not asleep, but I was looking for a video to fall asleep with, and... Here is where I landed..
RCE has been taking notes
"Provided you are watching videos on the platform that means you are watching adverts or have TH-cam Premium"
bold assumption, my friend
I regularly fall asleep to your longer Elder Scrolls videos. You speak calmly, don't shout, and are soothing to listen to. But hey - let this comment be evidence that I watch your stuff while awake too! :D
“If a TH-camr uploads the same video over and over again, the viewers won’t like it!”
*Iwilldowhatimustyouwilltrydaily has entered the chat*
Something is seriously wrong if TH-cam considers the best viewer to be one who is not watching
You didnt get me this time, spiff.
I VOLUNTARILY FILLED MY FEED WITH YOUR VIDEOS SINCE I'VE BEEN SLEEPING WITH THEM FOR OVER A YEAR!
I just took a playlist with your videos, shuffled it up and went to sleep, the algorithm then just did its job and recommended me more of what i already watch 😅
I call it the "infinite sleep glitch"
I also pay TH-cam premium, it's equivalent to 5 USD per month and I'm free from that ad nonsense.
I pay way more than that for a meal that will kill my hunger for like 3 hours
I do this for smaller creators,
Infinite money glitch.
Leave their playlist on a loop all night.
For that sweet sweet Ad rev
@@JaSon-wc4pn I do it with creators that I like, especially podcasts or game-related videos
@@JaSon-wc4pndamn you’re the kind of person who helps small channels grow. People like you are what keeps TH-cam and content good and away from stagnation. It seems small but I think more people should appreciate that. Good work!
@@andreilacerda5634 yeah I also let the videos of friends or creators I like run to sleep lol
One HUGE annoyance I have for youtube in a similar topic...
If I am listening to music in a playlist while driving somehow TH-cam seems to know and ALWAYS puts up some stupid ass 5 minute long ad. Bugs the HELL out of me!
Basically it's bugging you to get the wonderful TH-cam Premium 👍
Basically it's bugging you to use free adblock 👍
Similar thing happened to me. When YT first started blocking ad blockers, I just left it off cause I didn't care if ads ran - I usually use youtube videos as background noise when im doing other stuff. But then I noticed that my super short 5, 15, 30 second ads started turning into 2, 5 minute ads. And then I started getting those dreadful super long 30, 45 etc. minute ads - it's like TH-cam ad algorithm noticed I don't skip ads and stared giving me ones that are as long as possible
@@toritori2299 Them doing things like that is why I refuse to pay them to get rid of ads. It's so scummy.
@@littlebear274 Me too. After I noticed that I found an adblock again. Just funny how their greed pushes people like me, who dont really mind ads into blocking them all together lmao
I‘m (almost) sleeping
As a premium member, I'm going to start intentionally letting my phone stay on throughout the night just to distribute more watch time.
I think it’s funny that i don’t watch this channel, but every so often, he will still pop up in my recommended out of nowhere with a video about a TH-cam exploit.
Clearly it has worked.
Just like ThePirateSoftware conqueered youtube shorts. Smart guys are winning
Same!
I honestly have an alt account that only subs to "sleep" channels, and you are one of them 😅
Soothing voice, long form, and no sudden loud noise, just hit all the right places
Yeah, this is something he overlooked. Some of us are actually watching these videos on purpose to fall asleep. It only works if you have premium though, otherwise you'll be woken up by loud obnoxious ads.
@@StylishHobo or ad blocker
God i hate the forced recommendations, i just want the pure chaos that youtube originally was.
Also 212k subs being "smaller" hurts my head a bit since I'm definitely a small TH-camr, and getting to 40 times my size seems to get me 2 more letters. Er.
I'm indeed sleeping.
Gawd dayum
Hi indeed sleeping.
_sees infinity catalyst pfp_
i see you're a fellow man of culture
I absolutely love this, im a long haul truck driver and i love extra extended long form content. You got a 7 hour lore breakdown of the armored core series? Great im listening to the entire thing lmao
Basically radio 2.0.
The amount of 4+ hour long elder scrolls retrospective/analysis videos I have watched is just absurd at this point
My husband is a truck driver too and he asks me all the time for my favorite long form content lol
I’ve definitely woken up to your Skyrim vods