How I fooled EVERYONE with a secret Square-1 channel

[@Oxzowachi]

This was an amazing and hilarious journey! In retrospect it should've been way more obvious but the laptop and angle change were enough for a couple days (nice one to Hassan for figuring you out!). What an awesome prank Sam :)

[@JavaCuber]

congrats on annoying sam

[@Relkond]

Nothing will annoy people and generate interest in a thing like a mystery without an answer.

[@magicdippyegg]

hi

[@kokichiouma4267]

Lol

[@Aurora_Animates]

YOO :D

[@Tingman]

Plot twist: that guy wasn't Sam. Sam is actually that guy.

[@superprofi4307]

hey tingman

[@Crinlask]

hey tingman

[@BebPlays]

hey tingman

[@nicoelevadoados]

hey tingman

[@sleepwoked]

hey tingman where’s my money

[@tuckerchamberlain3306]

This is the greatest thing that has happened to the sq1 community

[@skippitysmithsonshorts]

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[@zenreeio13lIIll]

That's pretty sad if true

[@Axcyantol]

i like square-1

[@a-very-uncreative-handle]

the community was in remiss, there has never been something greater than this

[@Lee-One]

@@zenreeio13lIIll it’s a good thing tho.

[@calebvalenzuela7899]

They just got “Cube Rolled” by if not one of the best square-1 solvers out there

[@BrightyLighty_]

No, Cube Roll is Cary Huang

[@cyanisnicelol]

HHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH who is he?

[@AlisonOSC]

@@cyanisnicelolcube roll, who changed their channel name to “cubykh” is Cary Huang, creator of “Battle for Dream Island”

[@DaDerp_1]

@@cyanisnicelol a mastermind behind the hit object show bfdi

[@moby4503]

to summarize the entire video: "This was actually a lot harder than I thought"

[@JJCuber27]

Loved this idea, it was funny to see the theories on who it could be. For me, I was seeing the comments on the video speculating that it was you, but the theory was confirmed once you used the Gan Square-1 lol Also 7:23 I got included oops

[@Nammie_Nguyen]

Do you specialise mostly in square 1?

[@noahswor]

When I first found the channel I wasn’t even phased enough to try to figure it out, I was just like oh cool another person who’s really fast lol, entertaining vid sam

[@aykarain]

i would think that if i saw it

[@the_itzdracon]

3:20 just so everyone can undesrtand the whole message: "Hey cubers, in today's video i got the best average of 100 in the square ever recorded in history! And together to it, the best average of 50, and other excellent results!"

[@josiejorubric4958]

Thank you for showing how well I can spell. This was very entertaining and blatantly obvious it was you in retrospect.

[@dripbingus4224]

honestly this shows how hard it is to be successful in youtube, even with great skills.

[@ItsGamein]

It's not as hard as you'd think, it's just most people would have no idea what to do. There are lots of ways to exploit the algorithm to get the most out of it, as long as your content is also something people would want to watch. The spiffing brit made a video recently showing how he literally edged the premier system to get 20k live viewers on a stream when he averages 1k most other streams kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIrIloSNntl7rpo There are tons of weird ways you can take advantage of the algorithm, it's not a coincidence that mr beast gets 30m+ views every video

[@wildenboy_]

I literally just watched a guy's first video 13 days ago and now he has 3-4k subs. In 13 days (he hasnt uploaded again yet)

[@nuloom]

@@wildenboy_ some people get lucky with the alg, other’s don’t. Most don’t. A lot of channels that have 3-10k ish subs and only 1 or 2 videos are bought or repurposed, so they have all their older videos removed. I guess there’s also bots in some cases. Actually getting that many subs from one video is rare and hard even for channels with 50000+ subs. Very few channels get that lucky, and that includes few of channels that have good quality work.

[@ItsGamein]

@@wildenboy_ that's a bit of an extreme example but yeah when stuff like that happens it's not pure coincidence, there are plenty of cases of people engineering videos to become popular, Andrew Tate's an example of someone who was an expert at it, even if he was a shitty person

[@PopeMical]

Partially true but he did also actively choose to ignore everything else about being a youtuber if you want to be successful. Titles, thumbnails, descriptions, and promoting are all pretty important, especially when trying to grow from nothing.

[@burgerboy_20]

This reminds me of this one time i was on a small animation app and decided to make a new account and have the community guess who i was. They got VERY close to finding my identity and I did not expect so many people to be interested in some bored kid drawing pictures on a different account.

[@Dkalieisieudu]

What was the app called

[@ericzhu6620]

I think the more important lesson is that even if you did succeed on one youtube channel, it doesn't mean you can do it a second time as raising a channel requires pure luck

[@CubeMasterYT]

I disagree. While it is quite difficult and requires maybe some luck, there is plenty of skill in making good videos and doing well on KZbin. I was purposely trying to stay under the radar, but with good editing, thumbnails and titles, it won't take that long to be recognized :)

[@pacifist1354]

Watch this video by Ludwig named: I made a secret KZbin channel to prove it's not luck and your opinion might change

[@cheese_cookie]

​@@pacifist1354 I completely agree that growing a youtube channel requires a lot of skill and isn't just luck, but Ludwig's video was a very poorly controlled experiment. He literally leaked the title of the video on his "secret" channel on like three different podcasts. kzbin.info/www/bejne/amWpn3mGZdufeKc

[@kirti3839]

@@pacifist1354 yes but that video is kinda meh cause he advertised the channel a day earlier on his podcast. DarkviperAU made a pretty good breakdown of why it isn't a good way of showing what he wanted to show.

[@byeguyssry]

@@pacifist1354 Ludwig's video proves nothing. Firstly, he made a video focusing on a particularly streamer, who obliged to reacting to it. What if you want to make vids that aren't as personal? Would others still want to react to it? If no, how would you gain your initial views? Furthermore, there's a sample size of literally 1.

[@ZuhairKhan]

Thanks for signing my cube JPerm!

[@CubeMasterYT]

Of course :)

[@TetraCubing]

No he’s sameer

[@khachuli]

@@TetraCubing wdym? he is zeliks femdegs

[@idkyet9458]

@@khachuli huh? i thought he was mats valk

[@gxraffe]

what? i thought he was cubehead

[@Super_Wooper]

I'm not even a cuber and this was interesting

[@wildenboy_]

Same

[@Kissyoubutwontmissyou]

Same

[@hayond656]

Same

[@user-vc6ei4ph1t]

Same

[@khachuli]

this was so entertaining to watch lol. keep it up!

[@SirPrizeWildRift]

That's actually funny and entertaining how they try to solve who the person was.

[@GukGukNinja]

They started to theorize about hands, just like Yoshikage Kira 💀

[@JoshDeens]

IS THAT A JOJO REFERENCE?!!1!1!1!!!!!111

[@DarkDemon259]

No clue about cube solving communities so I don't know anyone involved but I do like watching a good imposter play in Among us. Well done 👏

[@jon...5324]

I've never heard of square-1, but this video was entertaining. Good job, the algorithm has blessed you.

[@abhaythecuber1837]

This is actually really interesting. Great job 👏

[@solver5k]

I love this video. Your patience is epic! What a great idea, lol!!!

The cube spoke for itself 😂

[@Carroto_cubing]

I'm really surprised to realize that the video I saw when I began SQ1 is yours and you're helping me improve a lot!

[@SuperJxl]

i need to learn square-1 now

[@joejoe5081]

Man really sent the sq 1 community on a hand hunt

[@thephysicistcuber175]

I laughed at the appearance of Michael Humuhumunukunukuapua'a.

[@CubeMasterYT]

Few remember the legend himself. I was lucky enough to see his first official solves in person!

[@tunafllsh]

Wow this is certainly interesting to watch interactions in somewhat small communities

[@ShignBright]

The fact that they actually posted your vid for something random and STILL didn't notice

[@DMJohn2]

6:06 chubbi hands 💀

[@insanedevan7957]

Lol they should have called you on their phone and said "imposter? Is this imposter from amoong us??" Breakout the ai voice mod "yes yes this is imposter from among us"

[@abdulmajidkhan8584]

Maan! I really enjoyed the video keep it up!

[@CandyCuber1]

This is the best prank ever... I was laughing almost the whole video

[@numberoneappgames]

I love how they became detectives halfway through the video. This also proves that youtube is a place where skillz should be on display and not luck. This was entertaining. Thanks

[@digs-]

Funny part is I’m just getting into cubing and I stumbled across your square-1 channel before this one lol

[@FantomZap]

On this episode of undercover cuber

[@wnesl]

0:06 does anyone know who that guy that got a 4:59 with a dayan actually is? Kinda looks like drew brads but im not sure

[@whatdoiputhere224]

6:13 Big Macoto

[@microsoftpicklerick9024]

I SAW THIS AND WAS LIKE SO CONFUSED WHY EVERYONE WAS MAKING FUN 💀

[@bluehairedemon]

I'm planning to actually get really good at skewb (im already good but not crazy good) and just make a random youtube channel and post solves

[@Musicube.]

Wow we all got played.. also me at 7:24

[@fperm5884]

The reveiwing your videos reminds me of starting youtube!

[@Muhluri]

I’ve literally never watched a cubing video. This was pretty interesting though

[@putian_ye]

you know ur good when you can just break a ytuwr whenever you feel like it lol

[@ProggrammerHasPain]

my boi got 28 subs already even before he got the description ready

[@ErikTheOkapiYT]

Can't believe it took 2 days for that Discord Server to figure it out.

[@azthtj]

Wait are you square-1

[@Kasumibnuuy]

I have no knowledge on anything cube related but this video was entertaining to watch 🤣

[@Arieapm]

me who just finished a square1 video and getting this video recommended

[@iertan7461]

im not into cube solving but this is interesting

[@cryokinesis420]

But hey, that's just a theory! A CUUUBBBE THEORY!!

[@matthebee]

For the longest time I thought your Name is SAM LONG

[@amiralihajatpour686]

What is the name of the game ? 0:09

[@Cninder]

dude i was thinking i was gonna watch this video then it just autoplayed

[@harryforbes2492]

hi sam, when do you think a good time to learn full CS is? In terms of time barriers like sub 20, 15,12 etc.

[@faith-chess]

I dont know what tf i watched but veryy interesting XD so what’s Square-1?

[@Alam-bh1tx]

Square-1 is a twisty puzzle just like 3x3 but turn differently

[@CubeFinn]

I was wondering why it had no logo

[@remycubes30]

idk if the 6.55 ao100 should’ve counted bc it was keyboard

[@parihar-shashwat]

KZbin algo. But I watched till the end 😂

[@thecubingguy7333]

3:10 but… that’s nice.

[@jameschea.]

You got everyone on discord to investigate hands looool no one even suspected you gj

[@imcasey]

makes me almost want to try square1

[@grilledcheesesandwich1004]

Bro this was amazing

[@JustTata.H]

Is no one gonna talk about that he started the channel with 28 subscribers. 0:39

[@rowinso]

I was wondering this too! At 3:26 the person in the video mentions that the channel has 9 subscribers. So it’s safe to assume that after the experiment, he took the photos that we see in the beginning, which explains why the channel has a higher sub count in the video. Chao.

[@EvanWrightSpeedcubing]

@@rowinso this is correct

[@ZuhairKhan]

When is the Pretzel Mania vid coming out?

[@timothygeddes6757]

Don't know why I'm here it was in my feed

[@The-Architect-MC]

hey you have a the same keyboard as me, I'm new to channel and saw your keyboard for like a second

[@user-pr6ed3ri2k]

the intro: pap para ede dough where

[@cfoples]

oh god that really was sam...

[@SorieMiya]

First time here but wow this was really interesting. Good video!

[@BlueAcidball]

4:30 oh hey that’s me

[@The_hampster]

Man this is so relatable i just started mine and soooo relatable (only the start trying to get a few views)

[@elirichards6044]

Wait... I thought this was a cuberazn video....

[@gamrcubr2926]

How do I join the sq1 discord server?

[@hunterdeardurff4386]

Happy the algorithm showed me this video.

[@AtomicDonuts3680]

Is the Sq-1 discord server just for us users?

[@wnesl]

no vicenzo and david is also there

[@beniciolinspinheiro8959]

@@wnesl how can you join ?

[@wnesl]

@@beniciolinspinheiro8959 i have no clue, ive only asked the link to someone who was already there. its a bit private so 🤷‍♀

[@iDevvv]

wow dude i love u, it works!

[@cannedbananas9950]

Sq1 wr single just got beat by .01 by Elijah phelps

[@pickledapplez]

This is really cool but I think you should add background music!

[@jellly1602]

Hey could u explain why it says joined November 20 2021 and u have 1,331 views on it? Edit: here at 00:40 Edit: again don’t reply I’m dumb I forget something

[@GDominusOnYt]

Do you have any advice for someone who's starting out in YT?😇

[@hydynn4645]

Is there a squan discord server?

[@theofficialdorg]

Does anyone know if I can get into that server? Trying to get better at squan lol.

[@pine2850]

3:12 the time looks sus

[@chelsealiu5099]

Please make a mega minx tutorial

[@Techleaked-t8z]

How can I get into the sq1 discord

[@Relkond]

‘He has chubby fingers’ - yeah, the camera always adds 10 lbs.

[@AndridosE]

Mild amount of tomfoolery

[@wrmmaglev6620]

When are you gonna stream on twitch lol

[@bazingatheskialuser3519]

never ever

[@LOWKAILOKMoe]

how can I get into the square-1 discord server?

[@orangenasa]

I thought this was Rubik's Cube

[@Alam-bh1tx]

It is! but not 3x3...

[@firefeather5gd14]

How do I join the squan discord??

[@Qubify1]

Idea, solve a square one but you have to do slices with your left hand

[@Illogical.]

Is Cube Hamster still around?

[@itsmeidkfellthebruh4610]

What website did you use?

[@MalaysianBallProductions]

Amazing!

[@zenreeio13lIIll]

I clicked on the video and paused at 0:00 to lower average viewtime

[@trouttylouty783]

Is no one going to talk about the 666 at 3:10

[@NickelTetris]

I saw that channel before i saw yours lol😂

[@DerpyCuber]

LOL

[@holden-i]

How do you make a good channel?