Why I Am Bigger Than MR BEAST - And Why is YouTube Broken

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  • This video will be explaining how I managed to break youtube livestreams and find ways to break and exploit the youtube algorithm. In todays video I will explain how I managed to find a built in view bot on youtube that allowed us to fabricate live viewers and views out of thin air. I will also be explaining how this method has been kept secret on the platform allowing certain dodgy channels to use this secret youtube algorithm exploit to create potentially infinite views that are ultimately false but still provide an unfair advantage in youtubes natural eco system. Alongside this I will be revealing how we can use these exploits to trick the youtube ad system into providing us with more ads than we should have and consequently generate false ad views that still generate money.
    In partnership with todays video VIDIQ are offering their service for a $1 trial at - vidiq.com/spiff
    ^I receive a percent of all subscriptions signed up using this link. I have used vidiq for my entire career on youtube and the tool helps me with every single upload I make even this one. I hope you find it useful too and that it pays for itself. So if you want to know How To Grow On youtube this is what I would recommend
    00:00 - Intro
    02:54 - Tabs equal Views
    06:00 - Animation Livestreams
    07:47 - Farming Likes
    09:02 - Printing Money
    12:14 - Breaking the view count
    15:24 - Results
    17:30 - Outro & Thanks for Watching!
    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 2023 when you can just open a new tab!
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    title: Why I Am Bigger Than MR BEAST - And Why is TH-cam Broken
    #youtube #algorithm #glitch
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  • @thespiffingbrit
    @thespiffingbrit  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3252

    *Who would Win The Most Sophisticated Content Algorithm or Weird Among Us Animations?*
    Also if yee want to give TH-cam livestreaming a go yourselves then I recommend VIDIQ to make bulk edits and SEO easier - vidiq.com/spiff

  • @MrRafalel
    @MrRafalel 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17407

    I'm truly sorry for the youtube agent tasked to controlling Spiff.

    • @edwardrhoads7283
      @edwardrhoads7283 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +596

      Oh pretty sure they need a large team to do that

    • @jonathanhill1076
      @jonathanhill1076 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +937

      The only one that could control Spiff was the Queen, you'll notice that he has only gained more power since her death.

    • @chronosschiron
      @chronosschiron 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +81

      the persons name is
      smart
      maxwell smart

    • @peregrinemiles7936
      @peregrinemiles7936 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +217

      Controlling? The madman is free stress testing

    • @VCV95
      @VCV95 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm not! We need more like Spiff breaking these god awful systems. He even mostly does it for a point instead of solely profit, and he shares his info readily.
      For cosplaying as such a colonial capitalist bastard, he gives away tons of free info.

  • @PhantomSavage
    @PhantomSavage 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1772

    36,435
    I am absolutely in love with the fact there was a legitimate moment at TH-cam headquarters where someone saw that tweet and an entire department of people started panicking and making correction to the platform *during the stream*
    Spiff caused actual pandemonium within TH-cam HQ and that's absolutely incredible.

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      E‎ ‎

    • @TheSpeep
      @TheSpeep 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +168

      Frankly, they should be paying him for this kinda stuff.
      I mean aside from the ad revenue, this is the kinda shit you should be hiring QA testers for and here hes doing it for them basically for free.
      Oh, and about 45k.

    • @StayTrueToThySELF
      @StayTrueToThySELF 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      @@TheSpeepWhy would they hire him if he does it for free anyway ?

    • @frankharzer6224
      @frankharzer6224 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +38

      @@StayTrueToThySELF Strictly speaking he doesn't do it for free as he earns his money with TH-cam.

    • @MrNaesme
      @MrNaesme 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      If he had thought of it, he might have been able to throw this together as an official bug bounty submission.

  • @ruin1307
    @ruin1307 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    this man is just printing money and telling youtube about it
    and Im all for it

    • @dannygoppel
      @dannygoppel วันที่ผ่านมา

      He should get more money from TH-cam. He is actually just testing their platform for exploits and normally they would/should hire a tester for these kind of things.

  • @dragon-io4pu
    @dragon-io4pu 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    At it again the legend himself breaking stuff that most of us would never think of or see coming. Well done spiff you deserve a whole stadium worth Yorkshire gold tea. Keep it up spiff 🎂 happy belated birthday from Australia.

  • @ivyanderson7
    @ivyanderson7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1752

    "I'm sorry. I'm British and you're just going to have to deal with it."
    No single statement has ever described Spiff better.

    • @lukpeluk
      @lukpeluk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ILearoy this exact same thing happened to me

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      british people have a cool accent fr fr

    • @Red-Tower
      @Red-Tower 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      One of the few people to apologize for being British. Respect

    • @katanah3195
      @katanah3195 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      He's a British stereotype and we love him for it.

    • @topkek996
      @topkek996 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Also sums up a large part of history

  • @AbsolXGuardian
    @AbsolXGuardian 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3049

    It just hit me that Spiff is a free pentester for TH-cam. That's why he's never gotten in trouble for his exploits

    • @cdubsoptional7849
      @cdubsoptional7849 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +581

      It's not so much that he's a pentester. He's damage control. These exploits could have been front page news or on wikileaks. Instead, it's just a funny youtube video, and instead of castigating the company itself for being crap, SB puts attention on some pitiful, low rent grifters, and the overall tone is that these exploits are just an accident, and youtube is going to fix them. Give me a break. These exploits exist for a reason. TH-cam wants content creators to be able to scam the system, because it's the companies paying for the adds who are getting scammed, not TH-cam. And if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, the companies being scammed are fine with it, because they use the fake TH-cam views/ad receipts/etc. to scam their clients and investors and etc. But what do I know?

    • @cdubsoptional7849
      @cdubsoptional7849 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +190

      And come to think of it, they're obviously cooking the books. The algorithm does what they want it to, and revealing low rent exploits such as these, provides a smoke screen to hide the real fraud/criminal shenanigans going on. I had a boss who got fired for embezzlement. He was never happier than when he caught someone else stealing, because that meant he could shift blame/attention, and embezzle even harder tgan he already was.

    • @phelan8385
      @phelan8385 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cdubsoptional7849 When advertisers figure this out they stop paying. And why is it obvious that they're cooking the books? You say it's obvious but give no reason. And no, the algorithm doesn't do exactly what they want it to. No one at TH-cam knows how it works, it's over a decade old and no one person has been working with it for that time. It's a mysterious mess of spaghetti code.

    • @GeorgeDCowley
      @GeorgeDCowley 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cdubsoptional7849 Why not both?

    • @urazz7739
      @urazz7739 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@cdubsoptional7849 Yeah, the smart thing your boss could've done was not reveal the other person he caught for stealing immediately and pin his embezzlement onto them before he does reveal it.

  • @gregoryoakes2840
    @gregoryoakes2840 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think there's some issues with distributed consistency with respect to the view count. They probably have multiple servers providing the service to viewers and have relaxed guarantees about consistency between them. Maybe that's part of why it can jump up and down as the different servers cooperatively realize they double counted a single account (or browser fingerprint?).

  • @MyHandleDownThere
    @MyHandleDownThere 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    14:30 - there is a simple fix to this problem.
    Just go to your amd/nvidia settings and set max FPS to innactive window to 1( like in 1 fps). That will save you ton of computing power in both gpu and cpu, and you can open 100 windows without any problem.
    Also, turn down the resolution to 122p.

  • @DubYuhGChoppa
    @DubYuhGChoppa 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1534

    This is the first time i actually got to witness something like this live instead of just hearing about it afterwards. Was definitely awesome

    • @thespiffingbrit
      @thespiffingbrit  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +432

      it was a pleasure to have you there

    • @DubYuhGChoppa
      @DubYuhGChoppa 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      ​@thespiffingbrit you're a legend

    • @dragoscozma8651
      @dragoscozma8651 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      same. I remember beings so sad when youtube patched it

    • @ItsDeveloper_
      @ItsDeveloper_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      same. the stream was flabbergasting indeed

    • @idontknoq4813
      @idontknoq4813 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same.

  • @ForeverLaxx
    @ForeverLaxx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2272

    The scary part about this isn't the exploits, but that TH-cam will just jump into their system and modify numbers live rather than fix underlying systems. This lets them decide who gets to reap the rewards of their broken system and who doesn't.

    • @jacobrollins37
      @jacobrollins37 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +193

      That is a very good point. Just like the thumb down button, TH-cam is not fixing the real problem.

    • @skyemegakitty
      @skyemegakitty 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

      I have a feeling that whats going on here is a bit more sophisticated than that. Google is notorious for it's "automation first" approach, because they really couldn't operate any other way at the scale they have.
      It could be that the view and like counts start in a less-strict, unverified state to encourage organic discovery, but these counts get vetted more thoroughly once they cross certain thresholds that would incur monetization payouts. I know I've heard creators talking about numbers dropping off of what they originally were by the time they get paid for the views.

    • @Nitidus
      @Nitidus 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Just another effortless conspiracy theory. Because who cares about facts and reality as long as you feel like your narrative is confirmed. *_Proof_* or it didn't happen.

    • @HOLLASOUNDS
      @HOLLASOUNDS 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Any why shouldn't they?

    • @muizzy
      @muizzy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +57

      @@ahet Because if they don't accurately track views, the advertisers could sue youtube for fraud.

  • @DexTag
    @DexTag หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I wonder if the ad revenue was actually paid out, I kinda doubt that. And on that note, you can freely talk about RPM/CPM without any issues. RPM was probably a lot higher, because streams (or long videos) have way more revenue from Premium, usually for me they are 50/50 with ads, while on normal videos premium makes up 10% at most. But back to the ad revenue, TH-cam does I think it was 2 additional checks after ad plays whether it was legitimate or not. The first one happens over the day, and the second one happens after the month is over and until TH-cam pays out the actual revenue. For most people this is usually not really different from, e.g. for February it was 0.05% for me (and funny enough higher than what analytics had shown), but I've seen extremes going up to 90% losses, simply because the video had very suspicious activity. Though this was at the time with the embedded video debucle leading to many channels losing monetization as well.

  • @SBDdauntless
    @SBDdauntless 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    TH-cam properly ticks the viewer counts once a day. Until then, however many times you refresh counts as a "view". Those views would have reset on TH-cam's next update tick.
    I suspect that opening a new window will count as a brand new view, however; and some phony views do not reset. I tried figuring out what views are counted and what aren't, while using the same IP and OS, and there is definitely an exploit to be found somewhere. The only thing I can think of is opening a new window will count as a full-view upon the viewer tick, but refreshing the page or opening a new tab does not count as a full view.

  • @ParGellen
    @ParGellen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2045

    If AI ever tries to take over I want this guy on my team!

    • @haimlalisho9726
      @haimlalisho9726 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +95

      Skynet is absolutely balanced with no exploits what so ever

    • @gabbymcgibson984
      @gabbymcgibson984 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      You have nothing to fear.

    • @anh413
      @anh413 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      Bold of you to assume he isn't the one controlling the AI.

    • @TheAruruu
      @TheAruruu 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      Spiff + Jim Browning vs AI. the AI has no chance.

    • @omphya6229
      @omphya6229 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Spiff would be the one taking over with AI

  • @damienmcgirl3577
    @damienmcgirl3577 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +792

    That was an incredibly funny stream. I had like 20 separate tabs open. Also the "perfect short" thing was running on my computer for almost 24 hours straight. God I love TH-cam exploits. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

    • @r8gg
      @r8gg 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +26

      Please respect your parent's energy bills next time.

    • @danielbenarie6756
      @danielbenarie6756 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

      @r8g
      Please respect your parent's energy bills next time. - 🤓

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      E‎ ‎

    • @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja
      @Tommuli_Haudankaivaja 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@danielbenarie6756 Please take a joke 🤓🤓🤓🤓

    • @divat10
      @divat10 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      @@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja i really am sick of people making a bad joke and then people getting mad that others make fun of it

  • @nic_s3385
    @nic_s3385 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1,238,638
    I believe a lot of the problems comes from them trying to do as much as possible in the user's browser rather than doing it on the server to save on those precious server CPU cycles. I've been in web dev for 17 years and I just don't understand how so many people, including multi billion dollar companies, think it's fine to have so much logic client side in the browser where you have basically zero control. And yet, I'm the weird one...

    • @DasSchwarzePhantom
      @DasSchwarzePhantom 13 วันที่ผ่านมา

      The Views stopped increasing since then, I wonder what happened.

  • @Akario3
    @Akario3 2 วันที่ผ่านมา +2

    1.2 Million
    Can't believe this was recommended to me 8 months later, and idk if this helps lmao, but you gave me a good laugh throughout the video.

  • @therandomchanneltv4492
    @therandomchanneltv4492 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +277

    TH-cam's entire IT department shivers in fear every time this man uploads a video

    • @WKogut
      @WKogut 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      "Oh, he's just playing RimWorld today, thank God"

    • @57thorns
      @57thorns 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Better luck next time, we need to figure out the cheats we do not know about.
      Of course, the _finance_ department on the other hand....

    • @Fuegoaries
      @Fuegoaries หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fr 😂

  • @Zer0cul0
    @Zer0cul0 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +721

    Only Spiff could destroy all of TH-cam for a birthday laugh. 😂

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      true and its baass all the same

    • @jameshahano2555
      @jameshahano2555 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Hello Tea drinkers in todays video i crash the entirety of youtube and commit corpore espionage

  • @monellin8274
    @monellin8274 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    1.2 Mio, well done spiff. Looking forward to the next video

  • @AMPYMCSTAMPY
    @AMPYMCSTAMPY 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imagine how weird it would be if we only had the big toe on our feet. Just nubby ends to a stumpy foot and one big toe. Like the foot itself is perfectly formed, but we just had the big toes and none others.

  • @diamondflaw
    @diamondflaw 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1144

    Spiff deserves bounties paid to him from TH-cam for all this excellent documented stress testing he’s doing for them.

    • @dankboi987
      @dankboi987 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

      Thats just the money he gets form his videos/streams

    • @jeremyayers5353
      @jeremyayers5353 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      He’s was on the empire’s side all along!

    • @MaxFerney
      @MaxFerney 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      and into a format that applies to a generalized audience

    • @jonharson
      @jonharson 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      "stress testing" There are 50k watching a 5 minutes loop of rain right now, orange man would routinely get 1M+ live viewers to his rallies.

    • @lokimidknight7319
      @lokimidknight7319 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Hes essentially a free pen tester for YT at this point, should def be charging a consulting fee every time he breaks the platform and reports it.

  • @sirius5084
    @sirius5084 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +439

    This man single-handedly caused armageddon for platform shenanigans and I'm all here for it. It takes a special content creator to not only NOT abuse the bug for their own good, but to raise awareness for itwhile also making for an entertaining experience. o7

    • @clooneytune_
      @clooneytune_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd hardly call this a bug... It's been around for years and I highly doubt TH-cam are actually unaware

    • @jacejunk
      @jacejunk 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Maybe the @thespiffingbrit channel icon should change from having a black top hat to a white hat to indicate his helpful practices?

  • @CyhAnide
    @CyhAnide 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1.2 million views.
    I'm convinced that every platform starts sweating buckets whenever they see their logo on one of your thumbnails.

  • @noahbaker8600
    @noahbaker8600 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1,235,949 Its great to see a megacorp go into panic mode in real time. keep up the good work spiff!

  • @supermelloyello
    @supermelloyello 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    It's just so fun, finding all these hidden shortcuts in anything realting to gamrs or the internet.😊

  • @thelastshitbender5790
    @thelastshitbender5790 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I am very upset I wasn’t aware this was happening. Would’ve opened up tabs until my computer froze and that would take a bit.

  • @TheodorRiegger
    @TheodorRiegger 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +252

    TH-cam: so how many stream viewers do you want?
    The Spiffing Brit: Yes

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      E‎ ‎

  • @Comrade_OMR
    @Comrade_OMR 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +297

    Breaking monetized systems is definitely my favorite series, Spiff. Cheers 🍵

  • @sanga1380
    @sanga1380 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    14:10 is this a DougDoug reference?
    Or have enough been drinking too much tea.

  • @Alpha-zb8sp
    @Alpha-zb8sp 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What an upstanding fellow, I daresay he warrants double the viewership he currently receives. I’m chuffed

  • @princeminewalker2729
    @princeminewalker2729 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +674

    The amount of mental trickery this man can execute astounds me

    • @antonzhdanov9653
      @antonzhdanov9653 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      True british.
      Like I dunno, but this is a feature whole nation is literally infamous for😅

    • @Brain-washed2
      @Brain-washed2 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I don't think you know what mental means

    • @yoshifn5k
      @yoshifn5k 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      truly a major amount of tomfoolery.

  • @SappyDuder
    @SappyDuder 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +120

    Part of me is convinced that there is a team at TH-cam to monitor specifically Spiff for breaking things

    • @ericmollison2760
      @ericmollison2760 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      There should be, but clearly they aren't very good.

    • @realeatham
      @realeatham 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      I think there is, he basically provides free stress testing.

    • @alexturnbackthearmy1907
      @alexturnbackthearmy1907 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      But all of them are on twitter on work. Just as founding CEO intended.

  • @madcio
    @madcio 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nope, ad companies (and people that individually order ads) are ones that should worry. I doubt TH-cam has any problem with scamming advertisers.

  • @luisces
    @luisces 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Here i am, craving for some yorkshire tea waiting for my job to start. And also trying to help whatever is going on.

  • @name_69420
    @name_69420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +134

    I feel honoured to have participated in something like this! It was really an adventurous experience during the livestream, Thank you Spiff!

    • @thespiffingbrit
      @thespiffingbrit  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

      Our pleasure! Thanks for helping

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hello im just following general spiffs orders

  • @sandordugalin8951
    @sandordugalin8951 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +410

    You are absolutely in a special column in TH-cam's system.
    You might still be plugged into the algorithm, but they have a team of programmers who watch your channel 24/7 and are ready to cook the books every time you pull a prank.

  • @WanderingOdin
    @WanderingOdin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    1.2 million views

  • @DarkSorrow29
    @DarkSorrow29 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    From breaking games to breaking TH-cam, nice career upgrade... Now, be a good lad and go break a couple of these multi-b dollar corporations that are destroying us XD
    P.S. wasn't the "refresh = 1 view" thing known already? I noticed that thing years ago, I thought it was normal lol

  • @erikainharmony4465
    @erikainharmony4465 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +234

    Hats off to Spiff for being a stand up gent and not continuing to exploit TH-cam for profit. From a coffee drinking American, much respect.

    • @Oblithian
      @Oblithian 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      *for our profit.

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

    • @erikainharmony4465
      @erikainharmony4465 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@Oblithian No. For profit. Do not intend to speak for me.

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      i agree although matcha tea i will always drink above coffee (unless im falling asleep or its a new coffee place ive never been to just to try their coffee but then always matcha)

    • @Longshot441
      @Longshot441 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He did make a profit, Yt bribed him with tea to stop.

  • @renon1946
    @renon1946 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +149

    Spiff owes some of his audience a new CPU. And TH-cam owes him a job as a chief exploit officer.

    • @dside_ru
      @dside_ru 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +30

      But that would make him CE… _Oh-h-h-h-h…_ How very Spiffy of you.

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      yes

    • @1IGG
      @1IGG 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh, THAT'S what CEO stands for.

  • @dannypipewrench533
    @dannypipewrench533 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1,246,604
    I would like to think that when TH-cam found out, the entire staff collectively said, "Oh no, he's at it again."

  • @ordinarryalien
    @ordinarryalien 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    42; The meaning of life.

  • @mgmystique3103
    @mgmystique3103 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    The stream did indeed find me.
    It was an honor pushing my pc to its limit by watching the same stream 8+ times simultaneously for the sake of science.
    Good work spiff, Always a pleasure

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      E‎ ‎

  • @Rave6017
    @Rave6017 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Honestly, youtube needs to hire you for stress testing its platform.

  • @MessagerOfHell
    @MessagerOfHell 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Making content is too much work. I'm here to see Spiff rupture a hole in the fabric of the internet.

  • @maxwellwang795
    @maxwellwang795 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +473

    Spiff honestly deserves the success and attention drawn towards him. He's innovative, persistent, and most importantly has the integrity to expose the malfunctions of a broken system rather than keep the knowledge hidden and exploited.

  • @visceralsc3662
    @visceralsc3662 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +177

    This stream was priceless, the sheer amount of people who joined and were utterly bamboozled by Spiff had my laughing so hard.

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      E‎ ‎

    • @Obvious_Furry
      @Obvious_Furry 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Burn 🥔!

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      hi just following general spiffs orders

    • @cliptracer8980
      @cliptracer8980 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The video was 5 hours ago….

  • @chromosore
    @chromosore 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Imagining the confusion of someone getting spammed by ads after clicking a random livestream is absolutely hilarious 😂

  • @chtechindustries4174
    @chtechindustries4174 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    At this point; I think spiff is an unofficial employee (:

  • @tetryl1
    @tetryl1 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Damn this could be big. The advertizers could sue youtube for this. They have probably been paying youtube way more than they should have for years.

  • @mrdocterdeath2707
    @mrdocterdeath2707 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    I am so lucky to have been a part of this glitch, the live-stream was hilarious. Keep it going Spiff, keep breaking TH-cam.

  • @fanieldraga533
    @fanieldraga533 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    youtube is a perfectly balanced game that with no exploits

  • @grzybek901
    @grzybek901 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Next video: getting arrested for fraud

  • @codassassin254
    @codassassin254 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    It was an absolute honor to be a participant of this. Had the stream open on my phone, Switch, TV, and about 100 tabs on a laptop. It was beautiful.

    • @GoldDudeMan
      @GoldDudeMan 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      You can use TH-cam on the Nintendo Switch?

    • @iluvpandas2755
      @iluvpandas2755 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yes

    • @alexanderflemming6788
      @alexanderflemming6788 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ​@@GoldDudeMan Yep same with other platforms such as xbox.

    • @ericmollison2760
      @ericmollison2760 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      100 tabs? I want your laptop. Can you please duplicate it for me?

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      omfg lollllll

  • @shadow105720
    @shadow105720 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +49

    I love how TH-cam only found out about it from an employee being on Twitter/X instead of their own platform where they must have analytics just the same or even more than the streaming channel.

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      lmao, Right?

    • @Longshot441
      @Longshot441 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They don't understand yt either and they manage it.

    • @snackplaylove
      @snackplaylove 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You just do it when America sleeps. Get away with anything then!

  • @mikelayman8214
    @mikelayman8214 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You may never see this but i want you to know you have been a hilarious break for me in a bad time in my life i love your tea drinking British ass never stop go get em spif

  • @maloxi1472
    @maloxi1472 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Him: "...and destroy any sense of balance or fairness that this platform has."
    Me: It does ?

  • @Cptn_Candy
    @Cptn_Candy 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +277

    It's about time that we, the content creators, made youtube sweat in fear and worry and not the other way around. Side note, I think spiff's channel is being ACTIVELY monitored and refreshed, I've seen the likes go from 18k to 19k like 3 times while watching the video and the view count is actually going up in the description as I watch. Not sure if this is a new feature I just never noticed or what but uh, yeah.

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hi

    • @Mikey-am
      @Mikey-am 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      hi

    • @beefanman
      @beefanman 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Yeah, the view count is going up like crazy, within 18 minutes the video has gotten over 11k views, views were at 206k at the start of the video, when I refreshed at the end (because of this comment) it spiked up to 217k

    • @cdubsoptional7849
      @cdubsoptional7849 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Content creator, is kind of a weird term. At least in my mind, it invokes the image of someone opening a sluice gate and unleashing a torrent of slop into a waiting trough.

  • @sparking023
    @sparking023 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +66

    There's something oddly heartwarming in knowing YT's code and systems, a major tech giant, are still kept together with virtual glue, hopes and tears of the dev team, just like the code you come up with at your first year of college/bootcamp. Some things never change

  • @melrakan
    @melrakan 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1,234,105 ... it's apparently grown by about 300 viewers since 19 hours ago.

  • @Xniaer
    @Xniaer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    41,130 and encounting
    keep up the amazing exploits

  • @agentwho9187
    @agentwho9187 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

    That fact that I've never heard of you and don't usually watch videos about the TH-cam algorithm, yet randomly got recommended this video I think means the exploit is working.

  • @kataseiko
    @kataseiko 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +220

    The thing is, TH-cam has absolutely no problem with showing 20 ads to one viewer at once. They don't even care if that thing gets exploited. Because every time you show an ad, 70% of that revenue goes to TH-cam and you get only a small cut.

    • @danielfay8963
      @danielfay8963 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +62

      It doesn’t directly cost them money, but it does lower the value of their ads. If livestream ads consistently get lower conversion because their consistently getting shown on screens that no one’s actually watching, then google can’t charge as much for them, so they absolutely do care about that.

    • @BlairdBlaird
      @BlairdBlaird 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danielfay8963 it can also get them sued by their clients (the advertisers), because an advertiser is not paying primo money for 6 impressions on the same secondary display. In fact that's already an issue because of a WSG report that ads are showing up on "low-quality sites" and inappropriate contexts.

    • @Buttersaemmel
      @Buttersaemmel 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danielfay8963 yes but if the window is kept active then there isn't any real way to know if the ad was acutally seen or not, if zthey don't change things.
      so as long as this "ad-view-multiplying" exploit isn't public enough to reach advertisers youtube can act like those views of the ads are real, even though they know that it's just exploited/botted.
      now if this knowledge reaches advertisers they have to change things in order to ensure advertisers that theire ads are seen, otherwise the case you wrote happens where they can't charge as much anymore.

    • @nathanielbellmore
      @nathanielbellmore 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      TH-cam has been helping regular people make profit off of big corporations through ad revenue. They also provide a space for smaller businesses to have a somewhat fair footing in marketing their products and services to a large audience that they wouldnt be able to reach otherwise. TH-cam is not the enemy.
      The ad companies will likely try to have TH-cam implement a system to prevent bots or exploits from raising ad view count so they know they arent paying for any wasted ad space, or they will just renegotiate with TH-cam lowering the amount they pay for ad space since they dont know how many ad views are legitimate. If anything happens whatsoever, it will ultimately hurt creators the most.

    • @NotAnotherArtVideo
      @NotAnotherArtVideo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@danielfay8963When the ads don't do well, the advertising platform tells the advertiser their ad must not be that good. They make money either way. Advertising platforms are designed to make a target amount of money and profit, regardless of performance.
      I once bought ads for something from Google. They charged me more, because the ads weren't popular. If more people clicked on the ad, I'd have to pay less per click. I was paying over 10x per click compared to the "best" ads".

  • @samuelllakaj5439
    @samuelllakaj5439 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    2:52 As an Albanian I am very concerned.

  • @klocksir6428
    @klocksir6428 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    As one of the french people, I find your insult absolutely not insulting. I mean after centuries of hate, hate speeches are more like love speeches by now.

  • @TheAruruu
    @TheAruruu 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +167

    656,273 views (and 66k likes)
    Spiff can do stuff like this all the time as far as i'm concerned. The only way to get TH-cam to fix itself is to abuse it, while telling everyone how you're abusing it and how they can help. Total transparency for the betterment of everyone.

    • @Roblox-Transportation
      @Roblox-Transportation 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Wait a minute it's now 503,830 views with 54K likes

    • @beholdandfearme
      @beholdandfearme 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Roblox-Transportation 677,681 views and 68K likes now

    • @mowvu5380
      @mowvu5380 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      and only 510 dislikes. what a great ratio!

    • @anthony64924
      @anthony64924 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      686k views and 69k likes

    • @jamesisa7689
      @jamesisa7689 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      The more comments he gets the more the video is shown to others on TH-cam, I think we got tricked... I'm all in, LET'S GET MORE VIEWS!!!
      (688k)

  • @JDSileo
    @JDSileo 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +61

    269,557 views, 16,712 comments, 33k likes, 18 hours old, I was not subscribed but I get recommended and watch often. Thank you for feeding your lust for exploitative conquest in helpful and productive ways.

    • @epoxyglue
      @epoxyglue 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      10:20 PM 443k views, released 2 days ago

    • @Jesayou
      @Jesayou 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      9/3/23 5:45 pm CST 604k views (3 Days old) I too was not a subscriber but have watched quite a few spiffing brit videos.

    • @ImNotFine44
      @ImNotFine44 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      649,366 views, 28k comments, 66k likes and 3 days olds. Am a subscriber but watch infrequently.

  • @starskyguitarman
    @starskyguitarman 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I got DedSec Vibes from this whole thing, especially Watch Dogs: Legion vibes. 🇬🇧🐷

  • @CDX
    @CDX 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1,2 mil rn

  • @ADtheUber
    @ADtheUber 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    This isn't why TH-cam is broken.
    This is one reason why TH-cam is broken.

  • @noahhastings6145
    @noahhastings6145 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +37

    I've noticed recently that YT made a change. If you just scroll by a video in your feed, it shows up in your view history. I'm sure that's exploitable. Have fun Spiff.

    • @kingzach74
      @kingzach74 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Yes that was one of the exploits utilized during the stream as well.

    • @jacobfreeman5444
      @jacobfreeman5444 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It is not new. I considered it an annoyance and found a way to not trigger it on the app. Don't close anything you are finished watching until you find the next vid. The auto watch doesn't trigger that way.

  • @GrenAidanandcats
    @GrenAidanandcats 13 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา +1

    This was incredibly silly, good job

  • @ed0c
    @ed0c 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    political commentator streams get more than that. like crowder before he got banned. but they never get promoted by youtube. so they don’t show up on the front pages of the “live” page.

  • @kphaxx
    @kphaxx 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    The discrepancy between the analytics view count vs view count on the stream could be due the fact that analytics are often done by copying data into a database dedicated specifically for analytics stuff. The copying of data doesn't happen often, and certainly doesn't update as often as the "true" view count does, so I can foresee discrepancies like this happening if engineers have to quickly triage such an exceptionally urgent bug.

    • @EEEEEEEE
      @EEEEEEEE 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

  • @JohnWilliamNowak
    @JohnWilliamNowak 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    Old software tester here. We did this to stress test a server back in the 1990s.
    And here we are in 2023 and TH-cam is basing its metrics on it.

  • @DanBartickle
    @DanBartickle 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That Zoom on Towa

  • @teunburgy4927
    @teunburgy4927 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam is literally the meme: this is fine, while everything is on fire

  • @TheXev
    @TheXev 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +264

    A few more details to note: only Chrome requires you to have all of the tabs visible for this to work. If you'd switched everyone to Firefox, and made sure they had disabled tab sleeping, you could have easily of pulled this off without having all of the tabs viewable.
    On Twitch, there was a limited time where a window had to be active to count as a viewer. This really sucked for anyone who watched a live stream on 2nd or 3rd monitor, and viewer counts tanked as a result, so the change was undone. This however, NEVER applied to Firefox, only Chrome.
    Still, in general, if you love your streamer on any platform you really should be using Firefox, as Firefox doesn't support a lot of this weird spying stuff that Chrome has added.

    • @charlesfranks1902
      @charlesfranks1902 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      running 76 tabs atm , 41 are youtube tabs but sadly only one tab enabled on ms edge

    • @ffuuzzuu5943
      @ffuuzzuu5943 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      yeah that will be because edge is based on chromium - so it will have the same effect as using chrome

    • @lamantidelm
      @lamantidelm 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Oh boy, here we go again

    • @darklight8774
      @darklight8774 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i use brave browser and/or safari so L on you

    • @achillesa5894
      @achillesa5894 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I wonder if this applies to the better chromium browsers like Vivaldi and Brave

  • @jpbr9296
    @jpbr9296 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    I love the fact you made a 3 hour stream of “breaking TH-cam,” and latter a tweet was what called their attention

  • @MrDMIDOV
    @MrDMIDOV 4 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Well I’m assuming youtube somehow benefits from these exploits too because they get paid by advertisers. It’s only a problem when advertisers realize each view is actually worth less and renegotiate the terms with youtube

  • @yutisliud8991
    @yutisliud8991 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    When i heard your next Albania i checked my mirror to see if he was looking at me 😂

    • @gabriql
      @gabriql 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      the British Empire is coming for you...

  • @Tomehawk95
    @Tomehawk95 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

    I remember waking up, grabbing my phone and seeing a live-stream from Brit. That was the craziest moment of my life. This guy never livestreams, so I open it and I just hear him saying "just keep opening new tabs, task manager close the browser and open it again and restore tabs". I was so tired I had no idea what was going on, lol.

    • @morgster1260
      @morgster1260 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same here lol but i was on mobile so i couldnt join in with the exploit

    • @Tomehawk95
      @Tomehawk95 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@morgster1260 Same brother. I tried, but multiple tabs in a mobile browser didn't work (I think)

  • @kaoshatter6653
    @kaoshatter6653 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    This was one of the first live streams I was able to be apart of, and it was an honor to be a part of this

    • @12many4you
      @12many4you 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      A........ Part
      You have to leave a space between "A" and "part"
      Apart from when you don't want to

    • @kaoshatter6653
      @kaoshatter6653 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@12many4you thank you for correcting my mistake. May you find plenty more Grammer mistakes with my reply and also many more through out the messages with in this comment section 😁

  • @DaxSudo
    @DaxSudo 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    This man should have been a test engineer.

  • @tannereiland3250
    @tannereiland3250 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    TH-cam doesn't care who watches adds (or if their a bot or not)... why would they, they're getting paid by showing them either way. However, if I'm a company paying TH-cam to play my add I'd be pissed if I knew TH-cam was showing them to bots.

  • @PerfectZeroMusic_
    @PerfectZeroMusic_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I am giggling at the thought that inside most TH-cam departments there's a big red button with Spiff written on it that sounds a massive alarm across the building

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lmaoooooo

    • @sinteleon
      @sinteleon 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Assuming they actually had such high tech, it's probably just one guy running up and down the hallways. :V

  • @coconutwindsurfer5589
    @coconutwindsurfer5589 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +97

    It truly was a legendary experience being a part of the stream
    Multiple tabs on multiple devices
    Spamming chat
    Reloading the page
    Graphs
    And we may or may not have BOIL some viewers

    • @Mz.AmayaHyde
      @Mz.AmayaHyde 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      lol

    • @esahg5421
      @esahg5421 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      it was epic 😂 the chat should be datamined and taught to kids in grade school lol 😂

    • @derandere4356
      @derandere4356 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      We shall never forget the 🥔BOIL🥔

    • @coconutwindsurfer5589
      @coconutwindsurfer5589 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@derandere4356 BOIL 🥔

    • @derekcline950
      @derekcline950 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      This video doesn't even mention the raids back and forth at the very beginning into the most absurd videos

  • @nerdygirltaylor
    @nerdygirltaylor 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    4 or so months later, its at 1.2million views

  • @MtnNerd
    @MtnNerd 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Has your channel blown up since then?

  • @patrickbateman69420
    @patrickbateman69420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +36

    This is hilarious, one live stream broke viewership (twice), broke the like counter and most importantly of all absolutely destroyed advertising 🤣
    You really keep TH-cam busy, never change Spiff.

    • @cliptracer8980
      @cliptracer8980 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The video was 5 hours ago….

    • @patrickbateman69420
      @patrickbateman69420 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @cliptracer8980 yes and if you actually watched the video, you'll know the live stream I'm talking about did all of the things I mentioned. Did a monkey type your comment for you or was there some other unknown purpose to it?

  • @shiversmith13
    @shiversmith13 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +175

    As an unashamedly tea drinking American, I approve this video. Thank you Spiff for killing so many games and platforms for our entertainment. You deserve every drop of money from the most broken livestream ever.
    Also the video is presently at 337k views, 39k likes, and 19k likes.

    • @Caketurtle7
      @Caketurtle7 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Wat

    • @JameyMcQueen
      @JameyMcQueen 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Might want to rethink that last part.

    • @nazaxprime
      @nazaxprime 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Look at vid description for more numeric detail.

  • @Nick-dz3lp
    @Nick-dz3lp 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    what if we would apply this to all his videos tho...

  • @awelshwhale
    @awelshwhale 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Spiff has a twin brother who works at youtube, but hes an evil twin that randomly adds and removes viewers

  • @InfernalGarish
    @InfernalGarish 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +269

    The Brit has put TH-cam at gunpoint once more. The tea drinkers are too powerful ☕️🇬🇧

    • @thespiffingbrit
      @thespiffingbrit  8 หลายเดือนก่อน +59

      How else am I meant to keep getting sent all this tea for free if I dont make youtube my hostage

    • @treflecrystal
      @treflecrystal 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      ​@@thespiffingbritmake a tea company hostage and make the employees work in exchange of keeping living, duh

    • @ItsDeveloper_
      @ItsDeveloper_ 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@treflecrystalexactly, address the problem at the source

  • @RecklessFables
    @RecklessFables 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Remember folks, YT/Google had no interest in fixing this since it helped their ad revenue as well.

  • @hazonku
    @hazonku 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +98

    This was so fun to participate in. I managed to get my fancy new 7050x with a 4090 and 64Gb or RAM put through its paces and I managed to fill 4 whole monitors with tiny little windows of Brit until everything was going at a snail's pace.

    • @threeofcats5803
      @threeofcats5803 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Haha I love that you did that, cheers 😂

    • @pencilman7474
      @pencilman7474 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Hahah, what kind of browser did you use? Would it make a difference?

  • @josephsedunary5255
    @josephsedunary5255 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely loving these, please break more and more.

  • @jirkaprantl724365658
    @jirkaprantl724365658 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    1.2 mil views after 4 months...just if you still keep tracking it Spiff :D

  • @Figureitoutify
    @Figureitoutify 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    Usually when someone breaks everything they touch, its a bad thing. This man, this magnificent man has made it so fun and entertaining