That Time YouTube Got Hacked

[@nationsquid]

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[@heyiamthomas]

how you doing NationSquid?

[@heyiamthomas]

i think since you hearted the comment, is great

[@nationsquid]

@@heyiamthomas As all the hip kids are saying these days, super swell! How are you?!

[@heyiamthomas]

@@nationsquid i am doing very good!

[@rienoet]

27th that liked

[@nillypc42]

If KZbin gets hacked again, I'd want that hacker to reverse any bad decisions the company added to the site.

[@JamalLeEpicBall123]

Like dislikes getting removed, i wish it was reversed

[@TheGuyWhoIsSitting]

The last “hack” I remember was early 2010s July 4th. When people realized KZbin comments didn’t filter out html content in posts.

[@swandive46]

Bring back dislike button, KZbin Streams, private messages, and friends.

[@EpikBirb]

@@swandive46 and the 2007 layout, my favorite one (or at least the good features it had)

[@Brusselsprout763]

would need them to get rid of youtube shorts fr

[@cakesdown]

I just want to say that I really appreciate the extra effort you put in to ensure that readable and well made subtitles are on your videos. While I'm not deaf, I do have an audio processing disorder and I'm glad I can enjoy your videos properly :) really amazing video as always btw!

[@Th3Raz96]

I'd never heard of an auditory processing disorder before, that's really interesting. Is it like dyslexia but for your ears, like the information just gets jumbled in your head?

[@dedchanel4002]

@@Th3Raz96 i assume it's like when you listen to a song without knowing the lyrics, so your mind ends up making up the words as it goes along..?

[@ethirium]

@@dedchanel4002 not the op but i also have a similar thing as them and yeah, i can say thats pretty much how it is and also when it comes to other stuff like people talking and such, without subtitles or any visual cue to show what they are saying, it ends up sounding as if they are mumbling, despite that clearly not being the case but this is pretty much how i view it based on experience, op might have a different opinion than mine

[@LemonPartII]

@@Th3Raz96 I’m someone who has a sensory processing disorder as well (it affects all my senses in the some way) and, while not as severe as it could be, still messes with my life. For me, sound can sometimes be awful; making the world jarring and making the world difficult to be in. Last night I had a particularly rough time getting to fall asleep because every little noise was loud, painful and made me jump out of my skin. Some point, most of the noises stopped making sense and started humbling together in an angry loud pile.

[@cakesdown]

@@dedchanel4002 sort of! Imagine trying to listen to someone talk, but all you hear is simlish. It's like the information is lagging behind in your brain, so it doesn't process right and you just get gobbledegook.

[@KaneLivesInDeath]

KZbin got hacked and all the hackers did was randomize video thumbnails? Sounds like an April Fools' prank, lol

[@Popcorn_Pillow]

Eh people didn’t find as much reasons to do major hacks back then I think

[@KaneLivesInDeath]

@@Popcorn_Pillow The ILOVEYOU virus disagrees.

[@bunkerofclarence]

@@Popcorn_Pillow there have been tons of viruses and hacks meant to target a large amount of people.

[@Popcorn_Pillow]

@@bunkerofclarence fair. But there still were a few that were for jokes and pranks back then.

[@bunkerofclarence]

@@Popcorn_Pillow fair point.

[@humblebeningings]

I love how in the old days NationSquid's name was CountryOctopus

[@GhostGamingROBLOX]

Reverse Psychology! ygolohcysP

[@ThatNoobKing]

Evolution

[@Lizgirl10Star]

Inteeresting, so why the animal was changed from an octopus to a squid?

[@garuccadraws]

@@Lizgirl10Star Maybe Pokemon logic? lol

[@goodnightmyprince6734]

What next ContinentKracken

[@Abyss10n]

I want to say something, I am always super impressed how your videos seem to depict things as if from their era, and I don't know how you do it at all. Like so much footage in this was of the old KZbin layout, the videos, the numbers, stats, thumbnails, everything and I don't know if it's some extremely clever editing or something else I don't know about entirely.

[@ytuser30]

..except that part where it zooms into the IE window buttons and you can see it says download for linux

[@SL4RK]

I still have a copy of the 2011 layout, you ask how? back in the day I often used extensions to save locally what I liked best, mostly music, but sometimes it would fail and save html, when I went through the files on my old computer I found these copies, it was a wonderful 10 minutes of nostalgia.

[@NotAtemzug]

​@@SL4RKQuick question! Do You still have those copies saved?

[@Ziggy_stardustttt]

Exactly bro like i was born after all the early stuff so its fun to see what early yt looked like since my version of yt is wayyy different

[@zacharybenard1076]

​@@SL4RKdo you still have them? If so could you share them somehow with the internet?

[@wuffleroo]

Bro you have no idea how glad I am that you don't villify people on your channel. Like that's the thing I hate most about modern KZbin is how quickly people get caught up in the hate and shame train. It's just really refreshing to see someone just not do that. Thank you.

[@yeehaw-city3086]

It’s really funny to me to hear KZbin poops referred to as a strange or weird thing considering they’re still around and watched today

[@Ascension721]

I consider them the catalyst for a lot of modern meme culture. They arent as popular as before but theres some YTPers still around. The community is more niche now I think but the impact it had on the internet is tremendous

[@CMSonYT]

People been memeing since the 90s. YTPs though, are basically ultra complex edits compared to most contemporary or past memed

[@Pandaxtor]

TF2 has their own variant of YTP which is nice.

[@obeseperson]

I got a dude grounded and prevented from watching KZbin in middle school because I told him to watch a (highly inappropriate) Billy Mays KZbin poop

[@0n1c420]

People are still shitposting now. Cool!

[@LuigiGodzillaGirl]

I sadly don't have any memories of this event, but the names and imagery in this video still gave me a nostalgia rush for what I consider to be KZbin's golden age. As a dirt poor college kid at the time, I was an active member in the KZbin Poop community, happily watched various movies that users would upload in low image quality segments (and if I liked the movie well enough, I would seek out a legit physical copy).

[@Tor-Erik]

Seeing that old KZbin layout (used to have a channel in 2007) takes me back. Back when KZbin shorts didn't exist, and money hungry ads and sponsorships didn't take over. Good times, good times. And I remember that time. My old channel and KZbin Poop videos were affected, and it really freaked me out. Not knowing what was going on.

[@borntoclimb7116]

This was a weird/interesting incident. I miss the time on KZbin between 2005 and 2010.

[@hozehd8246]

I suppose it was only an IDOR vulnerability, meaning the hackers were able to only change peoples thumbnails. This same happen to Instagram a few months back, when peoples Instagram thumbnails of videos and pictures started saying "hacked".

[@borntoclimb7116]

​@@hozehd8246yes the Word "Hack" isnt that correct

[@SSoto_21]

I really like how you talk about things that aren't very well known or talked about very much. I feel like I'm learning something new every time I come to this channel. Props to you NationSquid!

[@camronh14]

mhm, props to nationsquid

[@mateobonavento3939]

It makes me sad that I never got to experience old KZbin. The only place where I could access the internet back in those days was at my school's computer lab, and they had the site blocked. I could play flash games though so at least I had that.

[@2017-X]

mine was the opposite, youtube was open but flash and some other unblocked game sites were absolutely LOCKED DOWN.

[@mattalden10]

Hearing Fred again was like hearing nails on a chalkboard.

[@McMaNGOS]

Definitely wasn't expecting to see a video covering this topic, let alone be mentioned in it, haha! It definitely made a big stir at the time, and I recall specifically asking the person who was behind all this to change the thumbnails of some videos on my channel. Mostly as a way to validate that this was indeed the person behind the hack. Sure enough, moments later, they were changed, and I've kept them as they are to this day. I remember testing a bunch of stuff out to see if I could figure out the exploit as well, in retrospect I think it must have been some form of authentication bypass specifically for the part of KZbin that handles partner thumbnail uploading. Essentially uploading a new thumbnail for one of your existing videos, but managing to provide the ID of another video somewhere in the process. If the hack would have provided full account access, I'm certain it would have resulted in far more than just thumbnails being changed. Never managed to figure it out, but it was still mindblowing to see something like that happening in real-time. Thanks for preserving and documenting this niche internet event for future generations, really. Old KZbin was such a different experience, something that would be lost to time if it weren't for videos like this one.

[@nationsquid]

Thank you!! Glad you were able to take a look at it!! :)

[@t-pos]

Hello! Glad to see you here!

[@ev_oo]

obviously I'd assume you don't remember but who was it? was it your friend or like, how did you find him out?

[@carlycarmine3858]

I used to watch clips from my favorite movies (Ice Age Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Chicken Run, Land Before Time... y'know, the greats) at my school's computer lab back in 4th and 5th grade... Yeah, early KZbin was great... I miss it every day

[@bacationsev]

I learned so much from your videos Nationsquid. Hope your doin well and fine.

[@Zombie_Trooper]

Blast from the past, I still remember all this like it was yesterday. And since you mentioned full movies, that's exactly how I watched The Happening in early 2009 lol

[@deniskincses]

Great video, love your content, and thumbnails! Hope this one doesn't change it somehow

[@nationsquid]

Who knows!! It could!! ;)

[@nationsquid]

@dylanbanning Working on this as an upcoming project actually!!

[@nationsquid]

If I cover a topic like that, it will likely be a series, so it would be multiple videos. I would like to get started on it soon! We'll see. :)

[@Youcican]

The time when youtube panicked

[@jonfromartv]

At the disco RIP

[@JmKrokY]

True

[@Sunny-296]

I was the one who screenshoted that

[@lain44]

Your production value is always fantastic. Deserves way more views.

[@hongqipiao]

You make the best content on the digital age. Don't stop.

[@FlameFlickers]

Hmmm, so I guess we're just not gonna mention the "Get Blood off your Car" and "It was a Deer, I Promise" desktop items at 00:00:08 😂

[@FSAPOJake]

I miss old KZbin. I made my first channel in Jan 2007 (I just turned 11 in Sep 2006) and IMO, 2007-2010 was KZbin's golden age.

[@OfficialCyaned]

While I don't remember this event, I do remember that one time KZbin was down for like a day or two. Kinda surprised I've never heard of this before.

[@hozehd8246]

I suppose it was only an IDOR vulnerability, meaning the hackers were able to only change peoples thumbnails. This same happen to Instagram a few months back, when peoples Instagram thumbnails of videos and pictures started saying "hacked".

[@kantraa]

Love the XP setup with the Windows Vista wallpaper. I think that was every XP user back in the day.

[@Fireberries]

Does anybody remember that time when we all randomly got the same videos in our histories without ever clicking on them? This was around 2011 I think

[@randykitchleburger2780]

What was the video about?

[@Fireberries]

@@randykitchleburger2780 Not what I'm talking about. As in, separate thing entirely

[@bro_codeKE]

One of your videos appeared on my suggested videos section. This is the 4th video I'm watching on your channel. Man, you have great tech content. Keep it up. 💪🏾🔥🔥 You've earned a new subscriber.

[@rosiedollface]

This is just a nostalgia trip hahaha ! I think I remember seeing the thumbnails too... Perhaps watching Fred's video.. We really need more moments like this on KZbin though, it'd be hilarious to see it happen to government outlets or music channels that dominate KZbin nowadays, just so blessed to have been on KZbin were it was only content creators being super creative + funny... I also missed how unique everyones KZbin pages used to be, could change literally everything, the good ole days.

[@wingedhand2525]

I like these history of the internet/website videos because they're both educational and nostalgic. Thanks for that!

[@IchHaba]

damn, youtube and the Internet as a whole used to be so fun. now it's just a money making machine everywhere you look

[@Shirayuki_39]

@@draguOdoT anything corporations touch becomes shit

[@M50A1]

@@draguOdoT mans genuinely malding over the internet being a part of major culture to the point he wants to go back to telegraphs 🤡

[@Blomsom]

still waiting on the nationsquid video that ends with "make sure to like, comment, subscribe, and rate it 5 stars down below"

[@nationsquid]

Ahh! Opporrunity missed on my end. 😩

[@neonXG]

great vid :D your videos always cover each topic in-depth and it's a great format, keep up the good work!!

[@jackosaurus117]

Wow I miss the old KZbin design. So much nostalgia. Another amazing video NS!

[@Sakis_Husband]

Funnily enough I actually remember this. I would've forgotten this over time if it wasn't for this, but there's still a video I know on KZbin that still uses one of the thumbnails when the website was hacked. It's called "One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop)" by WalrusGuy. Over 10 years later, and the thumbnail was just never changed.

[@BouaphaTheGourdslayer]

I vividly remember being a WalrusGuy fan and wondering why the thumbnail for One More Final: I Need You(tube Poop) changed. I'm not sure about the other changes, it's very vague. I didn't realize it was an actual event that affected several other channels until EmpLemon made his video documenting it in 2018

[@TheEngineer28]

2 NationSquid videos in 2 weeks is a treat!

[@billyhatcher643]

back then that was a harmless thing that happened now days its just disgusting crypto scammers doing harm to many channels

[@hozehd8246]

I suppose it was only an IDOR vulnerability, meaning the hackers were able to only change peoples thumbnails. This same happen to Instagram a few months back, when peoples Instagram thumbnails of videos and pictures started saying "hacked".

[@aromanticfranziskavonkarma]

I miss being able to watch movies for free as a bunch of clips strung together in a playlist. There was this one of Lucario and the Mystery of Mew that I used to watch all the time, but I think it eventually got taken down.

[@SonGojit456]

Oh Yeah, I used to watch these Well, My Brother did.

[@lysergichigh6172]

the fact this was updloaded while youtube music is down

[@MF2M465YT]

I miss old KZbin, back when people "could" put Copyrighted music in their videos with no issues. Now you basically have to risk a Strike or Demonetization trying to be funny or cool. I've been watching KZbin since 2008 being 5 years old. It's hard to believe, but it's true.

[@BanniiTea]

Ong

[@charliewalberg9059]

Don't blame KZbin, blame the draconian copyright laws USA and other countries have.

[@angelueru]

damn i wasn’t even in the womb in 2008 😭

[@tinycatfriend]

you still risked strikes back then! it's been too long to remember how it all worked, but i think it was mostly that it was harder for the site to detect copyrighted content. we'd find clever ways around their tactics until they tried a different one. they used to only check the first 30 seconds of a video, so you could dodge it by just not having any of that in those 30 seconds. another common one was speeding up the audio slightly, but things are far too sophisticated to get away with that now.

[@lowlyworm9323]

Well now my pet theory is that YOU, Mr.NationSquid, were the 2009 hacker all along

[@CyberCatbs]

14:52 MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE AND GREEN DAY REFERENCE???!?!?? IM FUCKING TWEAKINGH WUIWJWJWJWKWKSKKWKWJWJWJWJW

[@harukami912]

Whoever decided to make that Robotnik figure a thumbnail was a genius lmao.

[@Rick-v1k8j]

There was a documented case in 2011 that KZbin was unstable, and shut down for the day. But some people turned it into a creepypasta, saying that very few who had access still saw very disturbing videos, and blamed malware.

[@frillydress]

I find it funny how My Sweet Piano was used as some of the thumbnails and icons, honestly it seems a bit normal because she’s super cute lol

[@oworcah]

Thank you so much for this content ! Love it :)

[@PandaCoasters]

15:29 Squid, you just reminded me of that absolutely chaotic iCarly YTP. Thank you for the memories.

[@Known_as_The_Ghost]

I remember that KZbin hack. I recall seeing tons of videos with those thumbnails, being confused as to why everyone was using them. lol

[@Stopreadingmyusername23]

Commercial break at 3:10, regular programming resumes at 4:37

[@slasheffecttech]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS! MAN YOU ARE THE BEST KZbinR ON THIS PLANET!

[@Bil64]

Yes. Definitely, I’ve notice the quality and effort he puts in his videos!

[@5pringtr4p]

Imagine that this hacker is watching now this vid and he's/she's thinking: well, this was supposed to be a treath

[@pumpkinpurrs1]

One of the few channels I put notifications on for! Always such a delight to learn something new with each video.

[@Hawkfire360]

I may have been twelve years old at the time with no hacking knowledge whatsoever, but you can't prove that it WASN'T me.

[@nikolqy]

Sounds like we found the culprit right here!

[@penieweenieselenie7435]

2:36 but it was just "some website" back then

[@Guzuma]

is this gonna be on that Finnish guy who replaced video thumbnails with an icon of Mei from Arashi no Yoru Ni / Sweet Piano from Sanrio

[@gmestanley2214]

you were right congrats

[@2006HondaCivicD]

I was too young at the time to create my own acc for youtube however I vaguely remember watching some yt video after the fact I had it set up. It basically talks about the very same hack. What a blast from the past

[@Gamebit-j3m]

Thanks guardio just helped me get rid of an unknown virus

[@DrHojo123]

KZbin poops was my jam back in the day I made some myself not great though but loved that era. Great video NationSquid as always

[@hcbs1986]

7:07 take note of the "tube" icon. this means someone went out of their way to partner this person. funniest shit ever

[@milosbatmanvideos]

16:34 You can see Cuddles from Happy Tree Friends at the top

[@aze4308]

I love these videos! Thank you so much! I hope you are doing well!

[@kingcobragaming8551]

I rember watching a lotta KZbin poops when i was younger sometimes i still do even to this day the KOTH ones were always the funniest to me no clue why

[@stonerdoomclown]

CustomHank420 is my favorite ytp of all time

[@TheAdzyPadzy]

wow i remember this and gosh throwback to all the youtubers i used to watch at the time, wow its been so long!

[@yayaymonster]

i am proud of you for all of your hard work

[@Window873]

0:02 "Get Blood off your Car"

[@sabkafather]

2007 -2014 KZbin was the best.... everything went downhill after that

[@shimajebriel8972]

2023 is way better than 2007-2014

[@sabkafather]

@@shimajebriel8972 how ?

[@shimajebriel8972]

@@sabkafather well you see 2007 look kinda weird and boring

[@sabkafather]

@@shimajebriel8972 it wasn't. It was exciting year atleast for me

[@vq_qr3]

you might laugh at me, but this video made me tear up and cry, i mean, look at how The Internet and its people were so simple and fun, they all saw a hack going on KZbin and they just laughed it off and the hacker himself didnt do something horrible, and how the old KZbin UI was, the old content, MAN this stuff is just so touching, for a person like me who started using The Internet in 2010 (at 3 years old) i really want to go back to that era, i envy yet at the same time feel happy to everyone who attended that beautiful era of The Internet.

[@Carterawesomelife]

broadcast yourself ❌ Broadcast yourself doing _____________________ ✅

[@Haz98834]

I literally just put this vid on my ps and sat back and just watched it for 20 mins. Great video man

[@lunatic0verlord10]

Whoever did this should come back and hack the whole site itself.

[@MatthewCobalt]

I still can’t believe that the only reason I’ve heard of this was because of EmpLemon creating a video on the topic.

[@litfrogna]

same

[@carlysmarlyson]

Should have made your thumbnail for this video one of the hacked thumbnails!!!

[@davidsmith7855]

Give a brother a nostalgia warning before you hit us with windows xp start up first up! 😂

[@AzaiStats]

Is nobody gonna mention that the leaderboard shown at 7:22 shows the sub counts on 12 November 2009, and doesn't even have the same profile pictures for nigahiga and FRED?

[@princesssarah5130]

Whoever put My Sweet Piano as a thumbnail is a GOAT. That's my favorite sanrio character

[@pietvx532]

Gosh these days man, how much I miss them. These Ratings and just people trying to have fun and not taking things too serious. These type of Legends, some of us where in this, it's just unbelievable how much everything has changed in the internet. It really was the wild west and everything was possible back then.

[@soupeater]

the fact that half the thumbnails were changed to my sweet piano is so funny

[@tverdyznaqs]

16:51 perfect sound byte to use in a ytp meta-unironically

[@retroclassicpablo]

"nah it totally was a april fools joke" "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS-"

[@BrewmasterLo]

this is like the ROBLOX 2012 April fools hacking, in the fact that this is the only time the website was compromised.

[@danzstuff]

5:00 fred figglehorn?! he's called kaden fumblebottom now

[@dreamymelody12]

5:30 ahh yes ♡ her

[@spongeb27]

I love that you can sense from the cadence in his voice when an ad is coming 😂

[@SonicJrandSarah]

I think I remember seeing somebody bring it up, but I wasn't affected by it nor did anybody I know at the time.

[@BasicaIIyLogan]

it warms my frozen heart whenever you post

[@snakecat6191]

I left the screen for a sec and came back and the sponsor part was on and I tried to skip ad but then realised it was part if the vid. Lol

[@takuminguyen9452]

if i was a hacker, i would delete all pointing down emojis

[@takuminguyen9452]

and then youtube will be safe without these emojis

[@IAmNotAFunguy]

Wow! I just realized that I haven't heard "Because KZbin is where the poop is!" regularly since high school!...

[@redstonechippedsemmy7177]

Everytime I see that sheep... My Sanity drops

[@Clock_its_time_for_the]

What sheep

[@redstonechippedsemmy7177]

@Dandys_world_fan_plays I guess Sanrio

[@Veladus]

KZbin Then (Goofy): 10 minute limit KZbin Now (Too Serious): 10 hours of the Ultramarines Chant

[@DaBloxxer420]

KZbin poops back in days were gold, now with KZbin terms and all that, most poops don't seem to have that same affect they did a couple years ago.

[@Collin93387]

I do remember the thumbnails being different and hearing about the hack but didn't think too much about it.

[@joetri10]

I actually do remember this!! and i remember not remembering days later of it happening 😂

[@EpicSD23]

Imagine someone broke into the KZbin headquarters at the time during the time it was closed and the hacker just ruined the whole video

[@tayyx1]

How did you access old youtube bc im interested in that coraline thing

[@shirokoflimsyou]

windows xp with vista wallpaper

[@Combuskenisawesome]

Ohhh I remember this! I remember at the time I felt outright salty that I wasn't targetted "I see how it is, I'm not good or popular enough to be hacked! >:( "

[@monion._.9006]

Whoa this video is so well made Nation Squid you are such a KZbin

[@sinkcat0113]

It probably worked similarly to how the MySpace worm was created where KZbin was using the .innerHTML property and in some text box likely maybe the description text area tag they put a JavaScript script tag in it to randomly turn thumbnails into those photos

[@D12FE]

im gonna watch this after i get home from school, im sleepy rn