8 Easter Eggs That Got People Fired (Redux)
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- Have you ever wondered if an easter egg has ever gotten someone fired? Well, the answer is yes.
Original upload date: March 17th, 2018
This video is a remake (redux) of one of my oldest videos, with new content (8 instead of 6 easter eggs) and improved production. I hope to have an entirely new video up this weekend.
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The easter eggs and fireable offenses include (spoiler alert):
Gex
Commodore Amiga
James May AutoCar Magazine
Simcopter Himbos
BBC / Doctor Who
Marvel Comic X-Men Gold #1
Show do milhão
Easter Egg that triple-folded profits
Thanks to Orange Velocity helping me with some additional research.
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For those wondering, this video is a remake of one of my oldest videos. It features new content, new production, and additional things to find. ;)
oddheader “Additional things to find”... so Easter eggs hidden in a video about Easter eggs? Interesting..
Most of my videos have a few.
Remastered
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The 5:51 thing is openly discriminatory. It's not just offensive for Americans.
Who knew Sailormoon saved a comapny and got someone fired at the same time.
Do yourself a favour and try to find any evidence of that tale.
@@oxymoron02 Indeed. All we have is the original thread. ask.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1045201&cid=25919937
I will say, i noticed reading it myself, the tale says that TWO people got fired. The manager who pulled the stunt, and the salesguy who gave the copy for, and i quote, "exposing the company to such liability".
So in fact, TWO people got fired from the incident if it's true. Fascinating.
Salior Moon is a hero after all lol
A small price for salvation
"...Never running from a real fight..."
“Deepest corners of the internet”. Does that mean page 2 of google results?
No sane person travels to the murky god-forsaken place that is page 2 of google
Entering the void would be page 3 I suppose
Second result actually
Now let's try page 69
that's already too far
The original idea of Gex actually sounds pretty cool
It does actuaIIy sound exactIy Iike the Stuntman games, which were some of the most frustrating, chaIIenging, yet fun games I've ever pIayed.
Yeah
Viewtiful joe
EliteSubs it sounds pretty god awful
Stuntman ruined my childhood
I’m just imagining someone buying simcopter on Friday the 13th and having their first experience of it be...that
Lucky me! 😍 Thank you, gaming Gods!
I knew an engineer for a company that made software for security systems. Their control center application had multiple languages, including "Canadian English". He added that language. It was just US English, except he put "Eh?" at the end of random lines. It took a few months for a customer to notice and when they called in to tech support it was hilarious.
Poor guy, just had a bit of fun...
pretty sad eh?
Snitchers eh? Complimenting without knowing too. Eh?
As a Canadian myself; that’s one of the funniest things ever
damn that is funny bud
Oi vey, eh?
"Set the game to Friday the 13th"
>Sets clock to Tuesday the 16th
Tuesday amirite
@@AmadisLFE its chewsday innit?
@Rosemay Crichton hey it's for me too!!!
tuesday 16th club!
:O tuesday the 16th?? 03/16/2021
That last story was crazy haha could you imagine the look on the guys face when he pulled that picture of sailor moon up?😂
I'd be cackling my ass off.
“And I would’ve gotten away with it too, if it weren't for those meddling weebs!”
Y k Y k LOL 😂 good one
Y k Y k Ahaha
Y k Y k I think you mean dweebs. But yeah hahaha
Normal company: we hide easter eggs in our code to prevent it from being stolen.
Bethesda: we use hard to fix bugs
野龍 it works doesn't it lmao
IT JUST WORKS
EW, COMMUNIST
I think you mean "We make buggy unplayable messes that only function because Todd Howard personally blesses each copy."
野龍 I remember that! It was about a glitch in Fallout shelter appearing in westworld, wasn't it?
i can't believe it but someone managed to make a top 10 channel without rendering themselves completely intolerable
sgiindigo number fifteen burger king foot lettuce?
HEY WAZ-UP IT'S YO BOI Jazzytuberman now let me ramble on for five minutes that has no relevance to the video subject so I can get that sweeeeet ad monez.... five minutes over? okay here's 30 secs of easter eggs I looked up on wikipedia!
Honestly, because it's not a 'top 10' video. The 'top' part of 'top 10' videos is what makes them clickbait. You're expecting to see the best of the best in the subject. But these videos exclude the 'top' part of the title, because it's just content in it's purest form. He's not showing you his opinions, there's no ranking. Which makes it very informative and entertaining.
So not this channel.
he narrates with his real voice and is chill. too much enthusiasm is really grating
I've actually played this version of "Show do Milhão" and the correct answer was "immense", it was actually a monthly subscription game the show was so popular they had to update the game every month.
So in conclusion it's impossible to know exactly what version was that since many other games showed up cuz not everyone was able to afford approximately 17 dollars a month
nada mais provavel doq o silvio santos num estudio de gravação lendo "qual o tamanho do meu pau".
...na real, não soa tão impossivel assim...
@@zoromax10 Tipo, essa versão, não tinha voz do Silvio Santos em cada pergunta, foi uma das primeiras feita pra computador. A versão com voz veio muito depois quando fizeram o mega drive do milhão, que vinha com o jogo na memoria.
kkkkklkkk
There was another instance of the last thing, a knockoff printer had a code entered into it and printed out the names of all the developers in the middle of a court.
the last story reminded me of an easter egg / 'feature' that was left in to a demo copy of 'the sims'. the production budget from ea for the sims was drastically cut and it was expected to flop at e3 because no one saw a niche for a social simulator. the lead designers, after much debate, wanted the game to be family friendly and cut same-sex relationships. but, near the end of dev, a new employee was given old docs to work from, and accidentally re-added same-sex relationships. during the reveal of the game, which was far from ea's main stage, a live simulation of some pre-determined scenes with live encounters was played. during a wedding scene, two of the female invitees suddenly leaned in to make out. obviously, this made huge waves at e3 and no one could stop talking about the sims. so, the developers went with it and it made it to the final game with a bit of polish.
Andrej Walilko And now people have modded pedophiles into the game. To think EA was worried about gay sims.
Some big name companies are so afraid of having same-sex relationships in their productions when it made it EA the big bucks, and I find that hilarious.
IDK. In videogames, yes. But tv wise, I mean, sure there are some examples, but a lot of them are side characters or in passing, and at any rate they still took their sweet-ass time because The Sims came out in 2000.
Woah! Thats an amazing piece of trivia! Might use that somewhere give you a shout.
@Anthony Swiss At that time homosexuality was still not as socialally acceptable as where we're at today.
I actually had the same situation as your last clip with a piece of software I scripted for a client while working for a multimedia department of a bigger company. It was a piece of software showing some locations on maps provided by the client. In short; I created a very very basic version of Google Maps. In beta, I also entered a map of a non existing country with very weird city names, popping up while looking for a very specific phrase in the search bar. After beta-testing I found it too clever and funny to remove (and it was not offending at all, just silly). Later my department was dissolved during a reorganisation. It was a very big mess and our client smelled a opportunity to save some money.He claimed we never created it. The company lost all track of us creating it during the reorganisation, so my old manager called me at my new job to see If I could remember creating the app. I could hear her grin on the phone when I told her about my childish easter-egg. Since it was already a court case, you could say the weird map was a pretty awesome silent witness.
CyBear Lars Scholten the lesson is: Always leave a backdoor.....even if you already get payed
So you put a variant of paper towns ?
And I'm guessing you saw absolutely no money for it.... Sad sap.... You had it in your hands and gave it away....
Well, the same manager offered me a better paying job 3 months later at a new company without me having to do a job interview.
@@cg-senpai well I would hope you would have to be interviewed again.... You already had worked for him.
If someone said "4 numbers and Sailor Moon saved my job" I would've called them crazy.
But you showed me that it actually happened.
Your PFP. It's beautiful.
No? They just said it. There's absolutely no proof.
If the last one is true, then it would have been amazing to have been in that room to see this guys face going completely white as he was being exposed for fraud and theft, by a sailor moon picture easteregg.
Fun fact: Bethesda claimed that the Westworld Mobile Game basically took an older version of Fallout Shelter and basically gave it a reskin.
Bethesda then proved it by doing a glitch in the Westworld Game, that was possible in an older copy of Fallout Shelter.
"Beyond the surface similarities between how the two games look and play, Bethesda claims that there are programming bugs and defects that are present in both games. It cites as one example an apparent bug in the “demonstration” mode of the Westworld game. “Specifically, the view is out-of-focus and the scene that appears is far to the right and below the targeted landscape image,” the company writes. “It is as if a camera capturing the scene had been inadvertently pointed to the lower right foreground and then slowly refocuses on the central image. The identical problem appeared in initial versions of Fallout Shelter but was addressed before Fallout Shelter was released to the public.”"
For protecting their property, or something else?
something else
Ha, trust Bethesda to have rely on their glitchy shit bugs
Jonathan Weiss yeah, I can see that. Except for the fact that the devs signed a contract saying they wouldn't do something like that. Something along those lines at least
EDIT: I remember hearing that it was something about Trade Secrets but I don't know what that means.
Rob Millington what did they do?
“But someone did get fired, so I didn’t trick you”
Lmao
*Speech 100*
"We lost 3 months of revenue cuz of you" No you lost revenue cuz you thought that 7 words were worth stopping production entirely
I mean, Imagine if truly word got out about it, and everyone started uncovering the Easter egg for themselves. The companies reputation would end up ruined. Imagine if t was discovered that the Nintendo witch secretly housed files of graphic images from WWII or racist slurs in its coding, all at just a few random button presses away from little Timmy and other kids. Not saying the company was right, but stuff like that can seriously put a dent in PR causing much worse losses than 3 months of sales. :/
Which just shows the programmer was probably right
@@petersanten3294 are You comparing images of wwII with 7 words that probably nobody would care?
Wouldn't the word "fucked" give a heftier rating, which would hurt sales?
Like the last one. Was a smart unintended security measure most companies who program should use :)
and the boss being stupid fires him anyway. wow.
No. The guy that was fired was the guy that tried to scam them in the call center. The programmer probably got a promotion.
^ redholm is accurate
Pay attention.
The company created automatic call centre software and gave a trial copy to a call centre. One of the developers hid an easter egg inside the code. The call centre decides they don't want the software as a technician found better software. The devs go to take a look, and realize it looks similar, but the guy who hid the easter egg activates the easter egg, revealing the call centres technician had copied the code and changed it around to be slightly different. This got the call centre technician fired for stealing software and the call centre paid the software developers 4 times as much for the software then the agreed price as apologies for the technician's behaviour. The software devs won.
The End all I can think of to call it is reverse password lol
As a gamer, I go LOOKING for Easter Egg, programmers should be rewarded for the more obscure and difficulty in finding it!
I agree.
gamers rise up
the most oppressed race
TO ARMS BRETHRENS, FOR WE SHALL FREE OURSELVES FROM THE NORMIES
But first! We must save our respective princes and princesses in another Castle
That last one reminds me of cartographer’s use of paper towns. Fake towns, roads, etc. are sometimes added to maps so it can be proven if they were stolen. Google does the same thing to prevent their search engine being copied.
Random guess, but you learned this after reading the book 'Paper Towns" by John green in English class didn't you?
(That's certainly how I learned it lol)
The picture of sailor moon is a nice touch
I did the same thing as an editor of Game Informer magazine. I used the big letters at the start of each Classic GI retro game review to make little words. Nothing controversial, but it took about 6 issues before anyone higher than me even noticed.
Lol that’s hilarious!!
Me too
What did you say?
The last clip reminds me of the recent news with the Westworld app, it had some obscure bug that was present in Bethesda's Fallout Shelter, which is how Bethesda was able to see they stole code from them. Maybe a beneficial bugs video or something?
Bethesda games have no bugs, only features.
That's exactly what came to mind when I saw that scenario. I never thought of an Easter egg being used in that way, but it'd sure be useful.
Both games were built by the same developer. So sharing code isn't really very surprising.
Wow I actually didn't hear about that! That's insane!
Jeremy Lakeman but still illegal. Id recommend watching YongYea's video on the subject.
Many years ago, I was writing software for the British stock market. My employer was not a fan of my work even though the app that I developed basically kept the company afloat. I left the company one step ahead of being fired and went to work for Microsoft in developer support. A few years later, I had a phone call from a dev that was trying to do a particularly odd thing with a grid control in a stock market app and it was very familiar. I had coded the special functionality myself. Fair enough, I thought. I told him how it worked. He told me that there was no way something that clunky could get into production code. I had him start my app, go to the about screen, press ctrl-h, alt-h, ctrl-h and he got to see a message that I had left for him - nothing scandalous, just a hidden message saying that I had coded the app.
The first one made me a little sad, because I want to go into game design, but I am reluctant to work in a team because I am 150% sure that they would say "that is a ridiculous idea, we're not doing it" even though the game would be my idea in this scenario. I actually refrain from telling people my ideas and just show them if I ever come through with it, because for me it's the easiest way to get something done and done on my standards. Almost every time I tell someone an idea (except for my dad) I get put down. Then they go on and say "this won't work because dududududu...(maybe laugh a little)" and I just think "DO YOU THINK THAT'S HOW THE GAME IS GONNA BE LIKE? WORD FOR WORD?" Instead I just say "yeah uh-huh okay", in that time I feel like leaving, but people will take it the wrong way so I can't, and on top of that I can't think on my feet so I am terrible at debates so I am unable to defend myself in these situations. I'm sure other people have these issues too.
I feel you on this, I am so scared of telling others my ideas or working with others on an idea of mine that I have so many stagnant ideas that I struggle to pull through on. I'm afraid that I'll have my idea mocked/changed/stolen.
Oh yeah, I suck at debating on the top of my head. It makes stuff like explaining ideas and opinions annoying and difficult (and I once played a card game that involved arguing about why my card combination would beat my opponents' and I never won).
I think I've decided that for my most precious game ideas, I'll probably just make as much of them as possible on my own.
I was more trying to show with that that the business over art focus of corporate culture can tend to kill good ideas and good projects. I ultimately think Jason did want them to find the egg as a statement to them. My point with the story was more about how certain environments, usually corporate-style business-oriented workplaces, have a tendency to stifle good ideas. I feel this is why you tend to see a lot more creativity out of indie developers in gaming nowadays then the big players. Don't be discouraged. You just gotta find the right group of people to collaborate with!
This is why Indie games are popular nowadays, it's just hard to meet up with corporate people who take the frame of your original idea and just fvck it up to their content and pay you less than the value of your original concept.
i can feel you too,i am bad on debates, i am more of a muscle head that would go banging fist first, everyone have ideas for a amazing game,story novel,etc. but they never do it because they are afraid that others will laugh of your idea,if you find your idea funny,interesting and worthwhile,why not give it a shot? maybe it becomes a huge success,the mayority of good games cames as mere ideas from a singular person.probably the mayorities of these persons where laugh at for their idea,but there din`t give a daam and they do it. i years ago got a 2 days long dream of a story(literaly sleep for almost 2 days,(my back was screaming on pain and it din`t hurt when i was sleeping,and i was so very tired),it was amazingly good for me, good enough that i started to learn how to write a novel to do it,i dont care if people liked it or not,i just want to write it.even if i am a noob in that.
The reason/excuse that Microsoft and the other big houses give as an excuse for a lack of Easter eggs in their software is due to government contracts. The belief is that Easter eggs can be considered to be security risks. Thus why we no longer have Clippy either.
It's a fair point; Easter eggs consist of hidden code, which means untested code which could potentially contain a nasty bug or malicious payload.
Nope, they couldn't make sure he was able to be totally secured, so they just dumped his code instead of trying to optimize him.
I am not sure but you may not know what is easter egg because clippy definitely isn't.
@@slovnicurling9808 It's more improper usage of the word "thus"
To be fair, on Amiga's case it's their fault. You don't justfreaking recall 10k units for such a simple message. It's an easter egg that will be found by only a handful (especially when there was no internet) and won't give a damn about it.
The early 80's was a different time
On the Amiga case, it is a rumour I heard even back in the day, but I could never find it in the ROM of my A500. Now I know why. This is the first time I ever saw that Easter egg myself.
It is probably a fake excuse for the recall. I would bet on a real serious issue existing, but management lied and claimed the recall was for this message instead to avoid admitting they shipped a broken product.
@@_PatrickO Then you don't know a fucking thing about Ami9ga computers, kid. Educate yourself, your ignorance is pitiful.
@@wadezane10 dilate boomer
2012-2015 I used to work for controller chaos - company that makes custom x box / playstation controllers. I was a tech / assembler. The work was repetative, boring, and underpaid. Me and several of the other techs took to writing or drawing things inside the controller casings. Anything from the mundane to the absolutely inappropriate. Dont know if any of them were ever found by the end user.
Gonna Google this lmao.
How'd you get that job?
@@gator9339 honest to god - craigslist. When I started, there were only about 7 employees, working from a converted farm house in Chesterfield MO. When I left the company had more than doubled in size and moved to an industrial space in Maryland Heights MO.
@LEGENDARY if you ordered it for Christmas 2012 - absolutely. Holiday crunch was when we did it the most - and that year in particular was heavy ( combine 12 hour work days and being generally understaffed )
We did it a lot less throughout the year, but still some got a special message :)
Cosmonaut Crash omg I gotta get one now
I have done report development for a couple of different companies over the past decade. When asked to put the report in a spreadsheet I always add a tab for the query and an extra tab labeled "Do Not Use." It is always fun having a discussion with someone trying to find out what I had hidden on the tab. I've also used it to see if someone is taking credit for my work by hiding the tab or not removing it before slapping their name on the report.
Ever have anyone try to claim you work was theirs and catch them in the act?
@@KennyTheB yep. I've also had someone recognize my report because of it and invited me to the meeting to make sure I got credit for the work.
The hidden Gex text was basically just "Please call my boss and tell her to fire me".
And apparently wasn't very hidden, seeing as a sign in the game tells you how to find it and then all the messages are just out in the open.
R/madlads
Gex was gonna be stuntman before the stuntman game even came out.
I probably should have been fired for writing my name inside the driver's side rear door of thousands of Ford Edges and MKX's.
I do that with thousands of Subaru cars
Oh, hey - I can confirm that last story as being true! The person who did it is someone I know from an IRC channel, and they've told the story in there at least twice according to my logs, most recently in 2015. All the details match, including the statement of having hidden something in every closed-source program they've ever written. So I can assure you it's real, the person in question is not someone who'd make up a whole story just like that.
3:46 I used to love FedEX. Glad this never happened to me. Dude just TOSSED that TV over the fence, looked back, and kept walking. Wow.
Top 5 insurance claims
about the show do milhão one its a lie, this is a urban legend that run through all the schools in 2001 but it's just a childrens story
Off
Eu to chorano aqui velho KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
*ler com a voz do Silvio Santos* "Qual é o tamanho da minha benga?"
Alternativa Um, grande
Alternativa Dois, enorme
Alternativa Três, colossal
Alternativa Quatro, Gigante
ma-oe"
@@2pedroandrade KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
The last one is the equivalent of your friend changing up answers he got from you a bit so the teacher doesn’t think you cheated, but the teacher finds out because you got the same wrong answer
There was a russian MS-DOS game inspired by TV show that included surnames of scientists working on top secret nuclear program. The player had to guess them letter by letter. They all had to be fired after the game went viral.
LOL THATS THE MOST JAMES MAY THING JAMES MAY COULD DO XD
About the brazilian game, I'm brazilian , and I never heard about this EE , and I also googled it about in Portuguese and I've found nothing, the show used to be very famous, if you ask any brazilian about this show, it will definitly know what it is, and because of this, this EE would be known by a great part of brazilians, if the EE was true, I think there would be at least one brazilian youtuber talking about it, that is not the case.
I think the closer you will find about an Easter Egg and Brazil, it's the E.T one on cs_rio
And great job about the video, +1 sub ;)
Thanks for the insight! Sounds that may be the case. Holding out hope there's still a possibility of it existing.
btw someone else from Brazil contacted me and said they heard of this happening as well, but can't find any info either. The mystery continues..
Oh, hey, I'm brazillian too, but I wasn't alive at that moment, lol.
I'm also brazilian and searched a bit. Only results i found were all from comedy blogs. I would say it's probably a fake story. I mean... It's a very old game but the show was really huge back then and i believe the game came bundled with pre-built PCs here in Brazil so it would sure be more popular.
To be honest, i'm Brazilian too, and i used to love the game show, but i'll NEVER saw something like that! Even in the past versions or the older too
I was fired for an easter egg too. We had a company intranet page with all of our ERP procedures and HR stuff etc... (It was all just basic HTML web page linking to documents) I was bored and made it so that the periods at the end of some sentences on the home page would link to goofy meme type pictures starring me (nothing NSFW). No one noticed for far too long, until I showed one friend, it spread like fire and everyone was hunting for more of my pics instead of working. I was fired pretty soon after for "Tampering with company property" (that i created?) and was asked to remove it, I did except for one I forgot, which was still there for like a year after i left. (It was for the best, less than 2 weeks later I found a job at almost twice the pay.) Cool video, but now I wonder how often this happens!
You said "Show do Milhão" and it sounded like you said "Show do Milho"
Milhão is the portuguese for million
Milho is the portuguese for corn
Which means that "Show do Milho" would translate to "Corn Show"
Also, seeing it as a brazilian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", it would become "Who Wants to be a Corn Owner"
i love watching Corn Show from Brasil; those chicks have huge knockers
So funny 😂😂😂
ok
I love show do milho
Especially with butter
lol
heh. Reminds me of an Easter Egg that I put in the product of a client that was really starting to p!$$ off my boss. This was back in the days of MS DOS
The owner of our client was a big fan of the University of Michigan. With that in mind, I decided that the desktop background would be blue with yellow "M"s. He was happy with this, but obviously not enough to be less of a jerk.
I was kinda annoyed because I had done some really innovative work on the software, using innovative functions and subroutines that I had originally developed on my own time, and modified specifically for the intricate project.
So, for a minor bit of childish revenge, I created two more background screens. One was Ohio State themed, and the other was Michigan State themed. Those two colleges are MSU's kinda official rivals.
I used a random number generator to set it up so that one of the alternate backgrounds would be used about 1% of the time.
I'm almost disappointed that the two companies burned bridges later, because the bug report would have been amusing.
"OK. We'll look into it. How do you reproduce the issue?"
Love the story but hate MSU and Ohio State 💀
You forget with the marvel one, he also had Kitty Pride's face cut off a sign so it said in big letters next to her "JEW"
I'm trying to think of what the sign could have said that would have "JEW" in it.
@@renakunisaki Jewlery?
@@renakunisaki it was a sign for a jewelry store, the guy was fired for being an antisemite
+Zassou July lol, is the word “JEW” anti-Semetic? Or was it for something else he did?
+Ollie Pop Seems like a fuss over nothing, tbh (as per usual).
When James May got fired.
Oh no, anyway.
God, this is up there as one of my favorite channels, you REALLY deserve more popularity
Well when he gets way more popular u could say u been sub since 12k
whet
"almost always usually viewed as time wasters". So almost always, or usually?
Mhm
The Slenderman in Gravity Falls Easter egg at the very beginning of the video is fake
Tedious Totoro noice
I'm glad somebody else knew.
There was one on total drama island. Season 3 I believe. Somewhere between episode 2-4 I dont remember
Oregano Season 5. Can't remember the episode, but it's to do with a forest.
GlitchyPikachu he was on the top left camera
1:35 *Good job finding this egg!*
Found it
1:36
sailor moon,the supporter of good guys
Respect to that SimCopter dude.
I don't usually subscribe to a channel, but man, so few videos and yet so much quality and content.
Nice.
The last one reminded me of a story I came across well over a decade ago. Someone (the person who submitted the story to the site referred to him as 'my boss') wrote programs for the Archimedes platform, and started selling a more popular one as a side business. Archie software was sold as source code, and then compiled locally. He was at an Archie conference and someone was touting a new program. 'My boss' studied it, and it was just like his, only the front end had been altered. So he pestered the sales drone into hitting a specific key combination.. and the original copyright notice came up. Sales drone wasn't aware of the perfidy and was shocked..
apparently it was the best joke of the conference.
3 years late but pretty sure that’s from The Rinkworks, their computer stupidities page. I’d guess the revenge section.
@@blunderingfool You'd be correct :D
Your hardwork with editing is astounding. All these fun short clips and even the panning and transitioning is amusing.
I love Easter eggs, I particularly like the ones that are hard to open.
And what's ironic most of these game designers were actually right.
Irony doesn't mean "the opposite of what should've happened, happened". The only ironic one is the call centre one, because it was rule breaking for the sake of rule breaking and his employer stated Easter eggs were unproductive, but it turned out to be accidentally productive.
@@YourPalHDee dude really you're going to be the word police. I mean was that really necessary. And I mean shit if you're the word police then you would hate me. With my misspelled word zero punctuations poor grammar you would have a field day
@@YourPalHDee "his employer stated Easter eggs were unproductive"
Did they? How can you be so sure?
The last Egg, Cartographers, do the same thing, to protect there work.
With the last case it really makes you wonder if the guy who got fired was the true issue or if someone used him as the fall guy, either way at least it demonstrates that an easter egg can be useful that and I think its actually neat to find hidden extras in software or games so long as its not malicious e.x say a backdoor in some firmware or other nastyness.
Heh, didn't think I'd ever see a "somenumber something that whatever" that's actually delivering. Good job.
Hey dude, enjoyed the video! That last bit is actually a really good idea, throwing in a calling card so no one can steal your work! I once reprogrammed my companies entire part# database. The previous code must have been copied/pasted off some website, as there were big chunks that would repeat 4-5 times right after one another. The manager that had asked me to do this ended up giving credit to her recently hired husband and I was livid. Shit took like 2 weeks to sort out.
well, next time, you'll include an easter egg, wont you? :P
damn right, lol
There are examples in other industries of easter eggs being used to catch thieves. Dictionaries sometimes include ghost words or Nihilartikel to catch plagiarists that have simply copied the dictionary and are selling it as their own. There are also papertowns or trap streets on some maps; these are towns that don't actually exist or streets that aren't real to catch people copying maps. I'm sure it was a bigger issue back in the day when paper maps were popular.
Same thing with lists of cheat codes. Plenty of sites got busted by an "infinite time" cheat included in the middle of a list, for a game that didn't have a timer.
Google maps has some of the ghost streets
1:35 Why, thank you, I have good reflexes.
Outside998 what?
Orange Velocity bottom left during the glitch effect
There's even more than that ;)
Outside998 I see it lol
oddheader Oh, I don't doubt that. Guess I have to keep my eyes open
I personally got fired from pilgrimages office for putting an Easter egg on their website. Psycho boss got angry and fired me. Funny thing is the Easter egg is on their website to this day.
raszop how to make it
Happen
they once told me to make an animated map of how to get to the office, and i had entire day for this task. i made the map, and hide an animation with some crazy music while you clicked very first pixel of applet - the top left upper corner. very precise click. then the map disappeared and appeared something else
whats the website
so i can try it
@@raszop links pls
can you point me to the forums where you found that last egg? I work for the microelectronics corporation and I heard that one guy who worked the sharonville call center back in the 90’s accidentally found the egg and panicked a bit.
I'm a bit late, but it's the only Google result if you search "I hid a secret dialog box in an application I did for a call-center project my employer was working on back in 1999." (include the quotes, for an exact match)
It's a Slashdot thread from 2008.
Someone mentioned the gravity falls thing is fake, but here's a fun little easter egg that totally wasted my time because my friend is obsessed with My Little Pony and just had to show this to me and it took her about 40 minutes to show me
On episode 100 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (It hurts to even type the name) if you pause at a certain freeze frame you can find an image of all the directors wearing the rubber gag horse heads. I didn't believe her, and she showed me and it got a chuckle out of me. Only time I laughed at MLP.
Apparently you can also find images of Bill Cipher throughout Rick and Morty so I thought that was pretty fun since Alex Hirsch and the creator of Rick and Morty are close friends
I was watching an episode with my niece and this dragon ended up dressed like Johnny Depp in "fear and loathing in Las vegas" I laughed for a solid 5 minutes unable to explain why it was so funny to a 4-year old.
That last one was really cool
That last one was genius. You create a hidden easter egg as an extra layer of author passcode.
About the last one. It reminded me of when I learned that map makers would implement fake roads somewhere random so they would know if other map making companies stole someone's work.
As a Brazilian I really didn't expect to see Show do Milhão here 😂😂😂
The host would often make inappropriate jokes on his shows. Maybe he still does them, I don't know lol
What would have been nice was a "what happened after that" or a "where are they now"
He gave the details about the ones he knew about. I highly doubt anyone knows where a lot of these people are today.
that last one reminds me of something i learned about maps a while ago now. every map that a company makes, like google maps etc, will actually make little innacuracies, or put random joke town names in the middle of nowhere. kinda like easter eggs but nowhere near as fun. these are put there specifically for the same situation that happened in that call management software. sometimes, if you make a map, another company could just copy your map instead of going out there and mapping the areas themselves, so in a lawsuit they could point out that the fake towns are still there, just like this guy finding the same easter egg in the reskinned software.
2:05 thats an eastr egg right there.
Haha good find ;)
Hopefully it won't get anyone fired.
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1:35 it's too?
That last one was freaking cool! Sailor Moon dishing out justice!
My god I laugh so hard when I heard *Show do Milhao*, oh this is a classic that I used to play a lot. Unfortunately I never saw the Easter egg, and I don't have a copy of the game, and don't know if there's a download or something. But I know some one that probably can test this.
James May is a bloody legend
Sounds like Justin's easter egg didn't get him fired. Being right got him fired.
If you ever do another video of this, be sure to include the easter egg in Devotion-it's definitely the craziest one that I've ever seen! It caused the video game to be completely banned in China because it pissed off their leader, the game to be taken off of Steam, and the company is now in a very very difficult position.
What a great channel!
J.J. McCullough hey =)
Didn't think I would see you here
IKR!!!
“How dare you have fun which improves productivity”
4:07 Insane that they were forced to recall all those ROMS. That's toothpaste out the damn tube
I wonder if they made any other changes? Would be a good opportunity to quietly fix an embarrassing bug.
I feel for Justin I know what it’s like to spend your time developing something and then have somebody else change it all
Jesus christ i have been binging your videos for a solid 2 hours and i finally saw that you only had a few videos and only had 58k i thought this channel would have had millions of subs if i never checked
Didn't expect James May to appear on here haha
I 100% recommend his recent 6 part travel show "James May Our Man in Japan" on Amazon Prime (if not in your country then VPN to UK) so funny
A video on pokemon specific stuff could be cool. I know there's tons of stuff in those games. New subscriber btw, thanks for these interesting videos.
"Phew! You really saved our ass there, guy! .... yeahhh, you're fired." .... well isn't that a corporation or what?! 🤣
Nope. The CONTRACTOR fired the guy that ATTEMPTED the switcheroony. The first guy that made the easter egg kept his job.
Never knew that about James May!
And you thought Jeremy was worse.
I never knew that about any of the other ones!
Same and he’s my favorite TG and TGT host.
oh cock
Never heard of the "Show do Milhão" easter egg. Tried some googling at stuff like "employee fired" or "secret question", "polemic question" even the question itself, nothing. It's not worth looking into it because the 4th edition of the game has 4k different questions lol
"Unprofessional"? The Gex dev was right and it should be viewed as very professional, because he cared about the product and what was sold to the actual client.
The level was very glitched and he insulted his company with the easter egg. That's why it was deemed unprofessionnal.
Maybe he would gotten away with it without writing in frustration.
It didn't get anyone fired (except maybe for playing it at work), but old versions of Microsoft Excel managed to hide a whole flight simulator inside. That always amazed me.
The last one kinda reminds me of how the westworld mobile game ended up having some of the same bugs as fallout shelter and that's how the realized they just ripped the games code and changed the textures.
When I worked as a printing machine operator, our machine's (Bobst Masterflex) control computer had a secret game hidden in its OS. If I remember right, you had to hold down Alt and right click on the clock in the main menu screen. The game was titled Casse-tete and was one of those simple pocket games where you slide around blocks to make up a certain pattern. The game would congratulate you in French if you beat it. Then one fateful day the computer's HDD died and a guy from Bobst came over to replace and reinstall the OS, in doing so he also updated it and the new version lacked the game (or it was hidden in a different way).
That comic book easter egg makes me really sad. :(
I read the entire blog post about GEX; it was one hell of an interesting read.
Is 7:55 genuinely in windows 95 or is that just a joke program?
lots of companies put easter eggs in their things to catch people trying to copy them.
Sailor moon saved the day...
Anyway, the last story was amazing... people should do it more often.
instead of bimbos, the dude added himbos instead, what a freaking power move
When I heard the last one I was like oh my God I can't feel my legs:))
9:24: very damn clever, not only an easter egg that saved his job, but an easter egg referencing one of, if not, the best damn animes of the 90s!