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

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.
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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!
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title: Why I Am Bigger Than MR BEAST - And Why is KZbin Broken
#youtube #algorithm #glitch

[@thespiffingbrit]

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[@destroyer-of-ai137]

1st

[@leohambly]

tea

[@atrain7788]

5hrs ago??

[@ictitticyrysuicdudijvtvsvh9954]

Tea

[@stanislavjonas9141]

Spif why is your task manager thingy in czech?

[@MrRafalel]

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

[@edwardrhoads7283]

Oh pretty sure they need a large team to do that

[@jonathanhill1076]

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

[@chronosschiron]

the persons name is smart maxwell smart

[@peregrinemiles7936]

Controlling? The madman is free stress testing

[@VCV95]

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]

36,435 I am absolutely in love with the fact there was a legitimate moment at KZbin 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 KZbin HQ and that's absolutely incredible.

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@TheSpeep]

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]

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

[@frankharzer6224]

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

[@MrNaesme]

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

[@MyHandleDownThere]

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.

[@dragon-io4pu]

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]

"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]

@@ILearoy this exact same thing happened to me

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

british people have a cool accent fr fr

[@Red-Tower]

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

[@katanah3195]

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

[@topkek996]

Also sums up a large part of history

[@DubYuhGChoppa]

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]

it was a pleasure to have you there

[@DubYuhGChoppa]

​@thespiffingbrit you're a legend

[@dragoscozma8651]

same. I remember beings so sad when youtube patched it

[@ItsDeveloper_]

same. the stream was flabbergasting indeed

[@idontknoq4813]

Same.

[@gregoryoakes2840]

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?).

[@ruin1307]

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

[@AbsolXGuardian]

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

[@cdubsoptional7849]

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. KZbin wants content creators to be able to scam the system, because it's the companies paying for the adds who are getting scammed, not KZbin. And if you really want to go down the rabbit hole, the companies being scammed are fine with it, because they use the fake KZbin views/ad receipts/etc. to scam their clients and investors and etc. But what do I know?

[@cdubsoptional7849]

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]

@@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 KZbin 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]

@@cdubsoptional7849 Why not both?

[@urazz7739]

@@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.

[@ForeverLaxx]

The scary part about this isn't the exploits, but that KZbin 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]

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

[@skyemegakitty]

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]

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]

Any why shouldn't they?

[@muizzy]

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

[@DexTag]

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, KZbin 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 KZbin 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.

[@kevins_cooked]

yes

[@SBDdauntless]

KZbin 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 KZbin'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.

[@therandomchanneltv4492]

KZbin's entire IT department shivers in fear every time this man uploads a video

[@WKogut]

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

[@57thorns]

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....

[@Fuego440]

Fr 😂

[@Zer0cul0]

Only Spiff could destroy all of KZbin for a birthday laugh. 😂

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

true and its baass all the same

[@jameshahano2555]

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

[@nic_s3385]

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]

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

[@monellin8274]

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

[@damienmcgirl3577]

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 KZbin exploits. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

[@r8gg]

Please respect your parent's energy bills next time.

[@danielbenarie6756]

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

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@Tommuli_Haudankaivaja]

@@danielbenarie6756 Please take a joke 🤓🤓🤓🤓

[@divat10]

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

[@TheodorRiegger]

KZbin: so how many stream viewers do you want? The Spiffing Brit: Yes

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[@CyhAnide]

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

[@supermelloyello]

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

[@renon1946]

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

[@dside_ru]

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

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

yes

[@1IGG]

Oh, THAT'S what CEO stands for.

[@diamondflaw]

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

[@dankboi987]

Thats just the money he gets form his videos/streams

[@jeremyayers5353]

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

[@MaxFerney]

and into a format that applies to a generalized audience

[@jonharson]

"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]

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.

[@sanga1380]

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

[@noahbaker8600]

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

[@SappyDuder]

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

[@ericmollison2760]

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

[@realeatham]

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

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

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

[@sirius5084]

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_]

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

[@jacejunk]

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

[@Alpha-zb8sp]

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

[@DarkSorrow29]

From breaking games to breaking KZbin, 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

[@ParGellen]

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

[@haimlalisho9726]

Skynet is absolutely balanced with no exploits what so ever

[@gabbymcgibson984]

You have nothing to fear.

[@anh413]

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

[@TheAruruu]

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

[@omphya6229]

Spiff would be the one taking over with AI

[@thelastshitbender5790]

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.

[@AMPYMCSTAMPY]

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.

[@name_69420]

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

[@thespiffingbrit]

Our pleasure! Thanks for helping

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

hello im just following general spiffs orders

[@Comrade_OMR]

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

[@luisces]

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

[@chtechindustries4174]

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

[@erikainharmony4465]

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

[@Oblithian]

*for our profit.

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@erikainharmony4465]

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

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

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]

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

[@rainbowand1007]

17:31 the viewcount as of writing is 1,191,800 and theres 41,058 comments (including mine)

[@dannypipewrench533]

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

[@princeminewalker2729]

The amount of mental trickery this man can execute astounds me

[@antonzhdanov9653]

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

[@Brain-washed2]

I don't think you know what mental means

[@yoshifn5k]

truly a major amount of tomfoolery.

[@WanderingOdin]

1.2 million views

[@madcio]

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

[@mgmystique3103]

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]

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[@visceralsc3662]

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

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[@Obvious_Furry]

Burn 🥔!

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

hi just following general spiffs orders

[@cliptracer8980]

The video was 5 hours ago….

[@chromosore]

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

[@fanieldraga533]

youtube is a perfectly balanced game that with no exploits

[@sandordugalin8951]

You are absolutely in a special column in KZbin'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.

[@tetryl1]

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.

[@MessagerOfHell]

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

[@Rave6017]

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

[@kataseiko]

The thing is, KZbin 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 KZbin and you get only a small cut.

[@danielfay8963]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

KZbin 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. KZbin is not the enemy. The ad companies will likely try to have KZbin 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 KZbin 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]

@@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".

[@noahhastings6145]

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]

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

[@jacobfreeman5444]

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.

[@mikelayman8214]

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

[@melrakan]

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

[@codassassin254]

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]

You can use KZbin on the Nintendo Switch?

[@iluvpandas2755]

Yes

[@alexanderflemming6788]

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

[@ericmollison2760]

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

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

omfg lollllll

[@agentwho9187]

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

[@maloxi1472]

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

[@starskyguitarman]

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

[@mrdocterdeath2707]

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

[@thespiffingbrit]

Always!

[@maxwellwang795]

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.

[@RepensiYT]

200th like lol

[@MichealmonkeyBusinessJohnson]

300th like lol@@RepensiYT

[@Xniaer]

41,130 and encounting keep up the amazing exploits

[@DavidZetaKrone]

1189853 Views right now. No idea if you're still keeping track of this, but here you go Spiiff.

[@ADtheUber]

This isn't why KZbin is broken. This is one reason why KZbin is broken.

[@shadow105720]

I love how KZbin 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]

lmao, Right?

[@Longshot441]

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

[@snackplaylove]

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

[@klocksir6428]

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.

[@ordinarryalien]

42; The meaning of life.

[@RecklessFables]

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

[@PerfectZeroMusic_]

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

[@Mz.AmayaHyde]

lmaoooooo

[@sinteleon]

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

[@grzybek901]

Next video: getting arrested for fraud

[@teunburgy4927]

KZbin is literally the meme: this is fine, while everything is on fire

[@sparking023]

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

[@JDSileo]

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]

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

[@Jesayou]

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]

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

[@ed0c]

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.

[@CDX]

1,2 mil rn

[@Cptn_Candy]

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]

hi

[@Mikey-am]

hi

[@beefanman]

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]

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.

[@JohnWilliamNowak]

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

[@tannereiland3250]

KZbin 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 KZbin to play my add I'd be pissed if I knew KZbin was showing them to bots.

[@hfar_in_the_sky]

Regular KZbinr: *tweets out* "Hey, one of your KZbin bots demonetized my video for music that I actually own. Could you perhaps do something about that so I can actually earn money on this video I worked really hard on?" KZbin HQ: "I'm so sorry, but I'm afraid we can't get to your issue at this time. Please submit another ticket and we'll get on that at our earliest convenience. Just remember we care about your opinion." SpiffingBrit: "Hello everyone! Want to come to my lifestream where we're bending the KZbin code over our knee for fun?" KZbin HQ: "Oh sh**!" *moves at the speed of light*

[@randomxgen6167]

It has been 0 days since Spiff catastrophically broke something.

[@TheAruruu]

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 KZbin 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]

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

[@beholdandfearme]

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

[@mowvu5380]

and only 510 dislikes. what a great ratio!

[@anthony64924]

686k views and 69k likes

[@jamesisa7689]

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

[@Nick-dz3lp]

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

[@awelshwhale]

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

[@kphaxx]

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]

E‎ ‎ ‎ ‎ ‎

[@jpbr9296]

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

[@ayo9290]

As of March 10 2024, this video has 1.2M views and 41580 comments. Maybe not being live makes it harder to get help messing with the algorithm.

[@GBfanatic15]

1.2 million. I like to think the youtube employees are like the parent trying to keep him from building yet another entirely too realistic model rocket and putting ANOTHER hole in their roof XD

[@Tomehawk95]

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]

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

[@Tomehawk95]

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

[@kaoshatter6653]

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]

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

[@kaoshatter6653]

@@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 😁

[@DieselMech]

The next video “The stock market is a totally perfect game with no exploits.”

[@DaxSudo]

This man should have been a test engineer.

[@obamabingchilling]

I imagine there's a whole division at KZbin headquarters to monitor spiff to make sure he doesn't utterly destroy the platform

[@shiversmith13]

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]

Wat

[@JameyMcQueen]

Might want to rethink that last part.

[@nazaxprime]

Look at vid description for more numeric detail.

[@samuelllakaj5439]

2:52 As an Albanian I am very concerned.

[@lai1663]

Jerry! That One youtuber just made your next 24 hour shift hell😂😂

[@psychosageio]

The problem (depending on how you see it) with spamming ads to fake users is that KZbin doesn't lose money, the advertisers do. Not a big deal if it's Unilever or something, defintiely sucks big time for smaller businesses or self-funded startups. But... 1. Be a KZbinr where "finance guru (scammers)" target your channel 2. Spam ads on your livestream to a gazillion tabs 3. ??? 4. A bunch of finance guru scammers abruptly go broke and run out of funding to find more victims

[@orukarm]

We need to find a KZbin who is targeted for that, and have them do it

[@neoqwerty]

@@nebylicza Going by my Firefox experience: an actual gaming rig with a VERY LARGE amount of RAM, an incognito mode instance, and/or multiple gaming laptops spending all their RAM on firefox tabs

[@zedantyorant]

Remove all graphic elements from the page and make an automatic bot that will press the botton subsequently

[@shocktnc]

There are quite a few things that would stop that from happening

[@TheXev]

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]

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

[@ffuuzzuu5943]

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

[@lamantidelm]

Oh boy, here we go again

[@darklight8774]

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

[@achillesa5894]

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

[@nerdygirltaylor]

4 or so months later, its at 1.2million views

[@josephsedunary5255]

Absolutely loving these, please break more and more.

[@minerman60101]

Huge shout-out to the browser Vivaldi, which let's you set each tab to periodically refresh. Having 40 tabs which each refresh one after the other over the course of two minutes felt amazing.

[@coconutwindsurfer5589]

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]

lol

[@esahg5421]

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

[@derandere4356]

We shall never forget the 🥔BOIL🥔

[@coconutwindsurfer5589]

@@derandere4356 BOIL 🥔

[@derekcline950]

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