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- The title of this video should change with the times. But nothing lasts forever: here's the story of how I made it work, why it used to be easier to make that work, and how it all ties in to the White Cliffs of Dover and the end of the universe.
Edited by Michelle Martin: / @onthecrux
Includes an accelerated section of "Traduction automatique des flux d'information (Yahoo Pipes IV)" by Laurent Moccozet, which is licensed under CC-by: • Traduction automatique... - the remainder of this video does not fall under that license.
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I love how this vid appears on my recommend every once in a while.
Ikr
Ikr
Yup
realtable moment
Same
I went straight to the views and wasn’t disappointed
what was it for you?
Same 31,471,637
@@imeldajokowidodo1413 mines just 31,491,466 views
31,494,477
It's 31,497,384 now
I love how this video periodically gets recommended to us when the title is exactly right
it did to me as well
@@samuelboczek1834 same
happened again
It mainly has to do with the title changing
The algorithm does that whenever parts of a video change, whether it be the title or the thumbnail
It did it to me aswell
Man, I remember this from a few years ago. And the counter keeps on ticking...
73,451,441... and STILL going!
It is now 73,670,974
Now it’s 73,681,606. Just updated the moment clicked
This is a TED talk, but with better background.
Cienciabit: Ciencia y Tecnología. Exposed on my channel
yep
Spot on!
What
All his videos are
This guy's a genius. This video is the ultimate clickbait, except it isn't a clickbait!
Agreed m8, agreed
He's a paid actor.
What?
@@commentpolice4694 Chto?
Tom: “if it’s actually spot on, it’s a miracle”
It’s spot on
It’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
I ate a hotdog.
@@ianseldoon1197 It's a miracle
almost 5 years later & it still works 100% perfectly
this video appeared on my recommend like 4 times already in the past 3 years
Its correct
Same
Same still
Well you do keep watching it.
Same
I feel honored to see the title when it’s still exactly accurate and counting
Nunya Bisness ikr
Same
Yes me too
Claim you’re blank blank view counter...
SAME
At this point I would be more surprised if the title was wrong.
its wrong rn
@@newend2116 nope
It's been wrong once for me but now it's back to 100% accuracy
not just accurate its magic!
As of now its wrong the title says 32,870,178 while the actual views is 32,870,305
It's annoying how people just comment on the view count and leave, when this is probably one of Tom's most insightful videos
Maybe more people will talk about the "Nothing Lasts Forever" part if/when the code breaks
I do agree though, I love the point of this video, to build and live despite the destruction and death to come, and it feels a bit overshadowed by the views
Who else keeps getting recommended this and seeing how much it goes up?
Me too
same for me bro
Yep me
ikr
it's me.
The title is completely accurate, I couldn’t be happier.
Not anymore
@@h6_ still
Now it's not
yh
Funny how people are still watching it. Luv it
I literally come here every month and it’s perfect
Same
Same
Not anymore 😌😏
Omg it’s perfect
@@VaultYT. it Automatically updates through script
1:59 - I love how Tom Scott licks his thumb right before flipping to the next page of his thoughts.
a little peek into his mind palace
Him: The title wont be exactly right,
The Title: Literally exactly right
Its because the way that youtube works with the views now
Its 300 views off
it's off now by like 300 views
@@ah1551 It's exactly right again.
@@seagull1311 its right now
I will be back a year later to see if it's still 100%.
Edit : I'm impressed , still 100%.
Fax
yea
The script running it will get shutdown
It’d not
The script will run as long as Queen Elizabeth is still alive
I'm getting rather a lot of emails telling me that it's working (by my standards, miraculously well)! Which is great, thank you! -- but for the sake of my inbox: the code's also keeping logs for me, don't worry about it :)
K
Ok
fortnite
No offence Tom but it didn't work for me. Can you make an entire video on the probability that this will work would be great
great work tom
0:18 its exactly matching
wrong
its 1 view incorrect
i hope
same rn
Same 😊
@@3_or_more_characters.no
I was recommended this at 8.2 million. Then at 12m. Then at 18m. And finally 21m and now I’m finally watching it.
every day since posting
I’ve been here since around 100k and I’m astonished on how much it’s grown
Exactly
Same
title stock market
When you think the title is clickbait but it’s actually not:
What's the ":" for?
alie804 a typo?
alie804 misclicked?
Well it is clickbait because look at the description the views aren’t exactly the same??
Idk daddy
"It's a miracle if it's right"
It's literally exactly right
It's a miracle then
I was kinda blown when I checked up on it today
Hey same with mine!
I was so weirded out for a minute. (Not to mention, 3,203,203 seems like a bit too much of a patterned number)
kirjian right rn too
Even if tom has left youtube, this video is like a legacy he left behind
Skibidi ohio
A lot of people witnessing miracles, on this fine day.
"fine day"
*_[about time 2020 experienced a miracle]_*
And I’ll name them
It’s a Rosa Reference do you guys even know who that is ?!?😂💀
Its a miracle today for me as well
This is the perfect " never gets old " video
Fr
Unfortunately, someday it will.
@clouddd. wdym its working?
Ikr
@@synctic It wasn't working for a time
Tom: “The title won’t be exactly right”
The Title: Exactly right
TH-cam: So you think you’re smart do you?
this comment looks familiar
Doge Guy grow up mate, there’s 132k comments and I read about 3 but if you think I’m sad enough to scroll through and copy another comment then fine but I can assure you you’re wrong. Jealousy at its finest.
Liam Daly lmao just because of a "this comment looks familiar" comment u wrote a whole paragraph? if anything ur offended af, admit it lmao
and its dont u
It’s exact every time I check
Exactly correct right now. Hope you're well, Tom
Gotta love how this guy is really talking about an interesting thing and everyone is like. "Bruh, look the title is still right"
So true
You have 666 likes, lets leace it
Now its at 1k btw i am your 1k like
I really appreciate his speech, so count one for me.
It's really interesting but unfortunately people have short attention span and won't focus because he's talking about "APIs", "Web 2.0", "bots" and whatever, but hey! Look at that shiny title! Wow completely right!
This dude has the type of energy that a timetraveler would have
shungite
How do we tell him?
Shungite
i think ur onto something
Shungite
This is the most brilliant idea to get views ever created.
The best part is that it’s one of the best TH-cam videos I’ve seen in a long time
@@finestcustard5647 I'd definitely say is one of the best videos i've seen on youtube ever.
*This reply has exactly 1 like.*
@@arnaudj.5314 no
@@Psycho0172 👍👍
i remember this video from sooo long ago it was a really cool thing to see back then but rn its legit spot on literally not even a single view off
“The title will not be exactly spot on”
“That statement is exactly spot off”
its not spot on
@@IAm-zo1bo it is
@Samuel Dunlap for me it is! 24,679,454 views!
It is for me rn
@@TheMedjed-k9n 24 737 512
Well, in the south pole. its rare to find people with non-clickbait titles, you earned a penguin's respect
Penguins use smartphone Nowadays?
@@hansamitamajee1930 why not? it's 2020, you know...
@@hansamitamajee1930 Yea you can identify yourself as anything you want
Btw i am a *TREE*
So my experiment worked-_•
I love this comment
So according to him, this video will never stop being a miracle.
@DON'T reported lmao, hope you get banned
No the title of the video will always be wrong in some way it can be wrong right now and you'd never know it because it hasn't updated yet
@@rainbowsonglyrics6018 ? 😐
it stopped
It’s wrong at the moment
4 years ago and your code is still working. Kudos!
This guy: "it won't be exactly right"
Title: *We dont do that here...*
Did you seriously call Tom Scott “this guy” ?
@@Jack-mu6ev JACK?!!?
@@annsofieisaksson3269 ANDROID?!?!?
@Muhammad Lo MUHAMMAD??
@@jakeramirez883 JAKE?!?
The title won’t be spot on, it’s a miracle if it is
The title: has always been spot on no matter what
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
That saying was meant for when the code breaks in the future
This feels like a part of TH-cam history.
It will be
It is
No
But in my history
Existence=History
It is
Whos here as its perfectly matched?
Came here for the title, left with a existential crisis.
Ikr
Same
funny seeing you here!
at least the code still works... :-)
Yep.
This title went from a cool experiment to a massive flex.
The most accurate flex in the entire Internet
The universal S
Very much so
Him: *I flexed on 20M people because I simply changed the title too: "This video has 20M views."*
Tom: “The title of this video won’t be exactly right”
Me every time I come back to check it: ‘You lied to me’
I was about to say something similar
@The Tailor ツ bro nobody is changing this on purpose, have you watched the video?
It failed once for me
That's british people for you. Set our expectations low so they don't disappoint when they don't deliver
@@requiem165 Screenshot or it didn't happen.
Man it’s still 100% spot on. Crazy
This feels like his final message to humanity before some secret organization got to him.
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
Could be
Who knows... Maybe students have to analyze his words in the future 👀
Would love to like but its at 911 likes
Fr
This is turning out to be way more accurate than Tom expected
I'd imagine the views presented by the TH-cam API are what are also used to show end users. All of the view fudging and aggregation will happen in the background before it's presented anywhere.
ikr
100%
Outside it’s exactly the title
it´s perfect for me
If it’s 100% right then it’s a miracle
Everyone in the comments: I’ve witnessed a miracle
Keagan Davidson same!
IKRRRR
I got it
K.
Meet too
This has become a yearly rewatch for me
It's incredible how comments made an hour ago are getting 1000s of likes
Ikr 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trying to get likes oh i see
Ikr
Not yours though
This was literally made an our ago-
The code hasn't broken yet, it's still perfect surprisingly
Mine has often been off by a couple hundred views.
It has broken
@@kratz_creed what you mean
Mine is off by 39 views
I refreshed it and it’s back on track
"If the title is 100% spot on, then it's a miracle"
then is it just me or have i witnessed about 20 miracles so far
Aye me too
Right lmao
8y8x same
Flyingcat 655 it’s not actually
Aaayyy me too
you do not defeat entropy, you embrace it
This has been recommended to me twice, and the title has been exactly right both times. Tom, you clever clogs.
yep
It’s not right
It’s correct rn
Off for me.
It’s right atm
i thought the title and views is just luck and meant to confuse one person and i got so happy
Its a bot
@@AstroVisionProjector we can see u typed it 15 minutes ago, not 15 years
@@szelll *really???????????????*
hm yes
I just view this and did not add views at all
"If it's actually accurate then it'd be a miracle"
Title: Is accurate all the time for over a month
Kyrox Productions I ruined it it was perfect
Kyrox Productions It’s not accurate right now
Over a year*
nah 4 years
It still is accurate
4 years and it's still working. Kudos.
I don’t like how exact it is and he’s saying it might not be exact
K tequila Joseph
“Tacos”
one time for me it wasn't exact, so yep
youtube sometimes lags
weebtrash I love your profile photo
It's not exact for me rn and the whole point was that over time the title will grow more inaccurate. It's only been 2 months
Fun fact: This title is probably the most refreshed title in all of TH-cam
G
It has to be, because otherwise if a video was uploaded at the beginning of youtube the title would need to be updated about 7000 times a day
true
You boys have any idea why did this video explode recently? Remember it being at 32m views like a week ago
@@HazzySW1 I smell cap
Still working perfectly fine over four years later.
I miss Tom Scott.
what happened to the guy?
@utamari either hes quitting or taking an extended break I forgot
Everything after 9:07 hits different to me, now that he's stopped posting.
Time to binge through his older stuff, who's with me?!
@@utamari he has a podcast now
@@utamari he has multiple podcasts now, but I think hes just enjoying not doing weekly vids
after 3 years, still accurate, now i understood everything you said
This has been recommended 3 times and hasn’t wrong once.
Sameee
I got wrong one
it’s wrong for me now 💔
It's only been three months, after a year or two it'll slip
Wow same broooooo
The perfect title doesn’t exist
This video title: *Hold my codes*
Farah haha!
Nice
Ever heard of the ‘Why does youtube views get stuck at 301’ video?
The title and views were actually wrong for me
Edit:it just fixed itself.
I just realized its changed
"the title of this video won't be exactly right"
"those bastards lied to me"
Nah it's a miracle
@Thomas Kirkpatrick fr
Its exact for me right now
i love that after 10 months its still spot on
@@TiredEyePilot its a miracle
Came for an explanation, stayed for a life lesson.
If it’s 100% correct it’s a miracle.
Well Tom, its a miracle then.
Yep
Ikr
Nah the last digit is 4 not 3 for me 😅😅
This dude is a Matrix hacker
Ikr, as soon as i refreshed both the title and viewcount changed and it was exact
“Don’t bother refreshing and refreshing” everyone: *refreshes*
Tru tru
Benhasaspike 666 likes
Not true
800th like
Bruh mine was exact
4 years later, and it still working flawlessly
I’m assuming Tom has had to fix this dozens of times by now.
@@Sef_Era Probably
4 years and almost 10 months later, and it's still 100% accurate.
It pops into my recommended and its exactly right so thats a W in my books.
Oh hi
Oh welp i guess we're all here now
Yo same
Same
Your Local FBI Agent If your my Local FBI Agent, do you know what I’ve been searching up right?
Still 100% spot on, even more than a year after release.
Yea it's still now
@@babukajimaharjan2299 same
Yea
it still the same
Fr
pov: you're refreshing aggressively to see the title change
🅿️🅿️
🅿️0️⃣0️⃣🅿️
🅿️0️⃣0️⃣
Did it change?
Maybe its really a miracle
k
It will be a sad day when the code breaks
"If its actually 100% spot on it's a miracle."
Perfect for me
It's Perfect for me
Same
Same
Same
'sgood here
Teacher: So what did everyone do during quarantine?
This guy: *Its complicated*
yes I ruined the 1k likes no comment thing YESSSSS
He's tom scott
The guy has a name..
Also old enough to be the teacher
h
Tom: "The title of this video wont be exactly right"
Me: Looks at view count and title "That mans a filthy liar"
Aparently its a miracle, im felling quite special, thanks Tom.
Me too!
@@joaobispo2602 same!
me2
This Video Has 2,442,143 Views
2,442,143 views•Apr 6, 2020
Still working, wow, just wow, I can’t imagine the determination to do this because coding is such a pain in the aaa that I’m more impressed with the fact that you finished it than the fact that the code still works as of today, kudos.
This video is getting so many views from people coming back to see if it’s still accurate
Yep. I noticed that
*distantly screaming* you've been trolled, you've been trolled...
I saw it once get messed up but it was fixed
Are u a jojo reference
We've been bamboozled
"If it's spot on, it's a miracle"
I guess I'm taking a screenshot
Temmie Village didn’t work exposed on my channel
@@Bouncymotive So basically you didn't watch the video? lmao
Same!
same
I took a screenshot before I knew it wouldn't be perfect.
When the title is correct:
Impossible
I've seen it correct 20 times
the views and the title changes 0-0
Melissa Belmar Davis did you watch the video
@@lol_txch the owner of the vid has the setting to chang the numbers or they can pause the views
I know it cause iam a youtuber
Still waiting to see his code breaking. 4 Years and counting.
“The title of this video won’t be exactly right”
Comments: *_are you sure about that_*
Lmao
I was gonna like but 900 looks better then 901
@@benjamingriffith4161 *are you sure about that*
Benjamin Griffith i respect that
I HATE YOU PEOPLE THAT COMMENT THESE
Honestly, this is the coolest “Monument” on TH-cam.
More like Easter Egg
Fun and Games apart from the 8 year old video that still has 301 views.
What about neutral response?
why does this have 666 likes I’m scared
recommended huh? we assemble once again
No
Next video to be recommended is the video stuck at 300 views
Why is this on my recommendation page help me out
remember me and i saw this video after it was uploaded
Hi
Code still running strong! Perfect count on todays check ;) niiiice
"The code was never the important part"
Sounds like the pivotal part in a film where the protagonist has a deep realization.
Sounds like "I am always angry" but in matrix.
Wow stole my comment
The real code was inside us all along...
Someone's watching Westworld
The real matrix was the friends we made along the way
"It'd be a miracle if the title was 100% correct"
Yet every single time I've come here, it has been.
maybe were all just really lucky 🤷
Not anymore Edit: wow after an hour its working again
It’s not right now
It seems to me that his quote refers to the actual numbers. There is a common delay on the video so counter is about right but can not be always accurate.
Today it is wrong
Tom Scott: The title of this video won't be exactly right
The title: *is exactly right*
Seriously!’ 😂😂
So original bro.
Same 🤣
now its off
It’s coding and when it hits a certain amount of numbers, the code won’t know since it wasn’t set to sed number
Profound to the core, this is the best video ever to have been posted on TH-cam.
Tom: *says title will be a bit off*
Viewers: *reality is often disappointing*
Facts it’s 100% spot on
It’s off for me as well but damn it sure as hell is close
Raging Overwatch not anymore
Its exact for me
Exact same for me.
I just wasn't expecting something so deep and philosophical, you're a mad lad.
More than MadLads
Tom Scott man of pure logistics
“If it’s actually 100% spot on, it’s a miracle”
Its still 100% accuarate
yup
Nah it's around a few thousand views off
you copier
@@nightcrawlerwagner9806 it's not try opening a video then coming back to it
i got it too
Tom: Nevermind the code
*Us: MIND THE CODE, THE TITLE IS RIGHT*
YES
"If its actually 100% spot on its a miracle"
0:18
"The title of this video won't be exactly right
"
The title: _say sike right now_
You got likes thought I’d tell you
this is like modern poetry.
the structure is different, but at its core its an idea that wows you.
(Updated) 1 year, 3 months, and 6 days later, and it’s still accurate.
Did the views increase..... how much was it earlier
@@danishahmed1029 well i mean... It started with 1 and from there it went on
Don’t you release it’s set up
3 years
It’s no longer accurate.
If the code breaks the code isn’t slipping, reality is
Yes
*Classic music starts playing*
ATTENTION THE CODE HAS BROKEN
@@hussainbedair7676 😔😭☺️😶☘️🤣😉😢🤩🤩😶🥒🥒👈
:{
Him: “don’t bother refreshing and refreshing”
Me: *refreshes anyway*
TH-cam: Updates title.
its actually wrong
yep...
Same
its still working and spot on
Two years later and it's still holding up. Nice work, Tom.
I wrote some code for a company that no longer exists "Bankers Trust". Many years later I came across a small pocket of people I used to work with at BT and found that the remnants have been bought sold traded for around 13 years. At that moment I got introduced as the "Guy who wrote the zzz system". I was mostly shocked that they still had it running. It was written in vb4 using DCOM and MTS in the lat 90's. AFAIK it's still going.
@@cobrakzu_2916 yep its starting to drift now i reckon
@@sherr6847 Yee
@@sherr6847 same still for me, maybe you guys caught it before it refreshed. Remember Tom said it doesn't refresh quickly
@-western froggy- that not why, it’s because this video was uploaded in April so when we reach the exact date the video was uploaded it’ll say 3 years