This Video Broke YouTube
Summary
TLDRThe video script discusses the narrator's journey of learning to enjoy previously disliked activities, but expresses a persistent dislike for April Fool's Day due to its association with insincere pranks and marketing gimmicks. However, the script highlights a unique instance where an April Fool's prank by Discord inadvertently led to a record-breaking YouTube video view count, surpassing even those of popular content creator MrBeast and K-pop group BTS. The video in question was a promotional announcement for Discord's loot boxes, which looped endlessly for many active users, resulting in over 600 million views. Despite the unexpected achievement, the script suggests that this record, likely unbeatable, was set by a viewbot, not by human viewership.
Takeaways
- 🎶 The speaker has developed a liking for things they previously didn't enjoy, such as country music and being stuck in traffic.
- 🏃 The speaker finds running and listening to audiobooks during traffic enjoyable, indicating a positive change in their perspective.
- 🎉 Despite trying, the speaker cannot enjoy April Fool's Day and finds it repetitive and often associated with unoriginal pranks.
- 💡 The speaker criticizes April Fool's Day pranks, especially those by brands, as they feel they lack creativity and novelty.
- 📺 A significant event on April Fool's Day was a Discord video that gained an unprecedented 624 million views in 24 hours, setting a new record.
- 🎮 The record-breaking video was an April Fool's prank by Discord, featuring 'loot boxes' that played a video loop on the platform.
- 🔁 The video's massive views came from being played in a loop for every active Discord user, which led to its record-breaking numbers.
- 💸 The speaker speculates on the financial implications of the video, including potential ad revenue and costs to YouTube's backend.
- 🤔 There is a sense of irony in the speaker's discussion, as a day typically associated with pranks led to a genuine record-breaking event.
- 🚀 The scale of the achievement is emphasized by the speaker, suggesting it may be a record that stands for a lifetime.
- 🎶 The speaker ends on a personal note, expressing a newfound appreciation for an April Fool's Day event and a return to their other newfound likes.
Q & A
What is the main theme of the speaker's lifestyle change?
-The speaker has made a conscious effort to find enjoyment in activities and experiences they previously did not like, such as listening to country music, going on runs, and even being stuck in traffic.
Why does the speaker dislike April Fool's Day?
-The speaker finds April Fool's Day to be repetitive and overdone, with the same pranks and jokes happening every year. They also dislike the use of the day for brands to promote lame marketing materials and people to spread false information on social media.
What is the speaker's opinion on the use of breakup announcements as April Fool's jokes?
-The speaker is frustrated with breakup announcements made as April Fool's jokes. They find it tiresome and disrespectful, especially when people use such personal matters as a prank.
What record does the video about Discord loot boxes hold?
-The video about Discord loot boxes holds the record for the most views in 24 hours on YouTube, with 624 million views, surpassing the previous records held by other popular videos and artists.
How did Discord accidentally create a viewbot?
-Discord introduced loot boxes for April Fool's Day, and when users opened these boxes within the Discord app, the associated video played automatically in the background, causing the view count to skyrocket.
What was the impact of the Discord video on YouTube's backend?
-The video played over 600 million times, which would typically be a significant source of revenue for YouTube. However, since the views were generated through a viewbot-like mechanism, YouTube did not earn any AdSense revenue from it.
How much ad revenue did the speaker estimate their own video with 30 million views made?
-The speaker estimated that their video with 30 million views made about $2,000 in ad revenue.
What is the speaker's final verdict on the new record set by the Discord video?
-The speaker believes that the record set by the Discord video is unlikely to be broken and that it was an accidental yet effective strategy that greatly benefited Discord and YouTube.
What does the speaker plan to do after the discussion about April Fool's Day and Discord's video?
-The speaker plans to listen to some country music, get in a car, and go for a run, indicating a return to the activities they learned to enjoy.
How does the speaker feel about Mr. Beast's involvement with the April Fool's Day record?
-The speaker expresses sympathy for Mr. Beast, as he has been outdone by a viewbot and lost the record for most views in 24 hours, which he had previously held.
Outlines
🎶 Embracing New Experiences and Disliking April Fool's Day
The speaker discusses their journey of learning to enjoy activities and things they previously didn't like, such as country music, running, and even being stuck in traffic. They find value in these experiences, such as the productivity gained from listening to audiobooks during traffic. However, the speaker expresses a strong dislike for April Fool's Day, feeling it's overdone and often involves insincere pranks, especially on social media platforms like Twitter. They find the pranks, such as fake breakup announcements or job changes, tiresome and a waste of time.
🏆 Discord's Unintentional Record-Breaking April Fool's Prank
The speaker delves into the story of Discord's April Fool's Day prank, which unintentionally led to a record-breaking YouTube view count. The prank involved a video of 'Discord loot boxes' that looped every time a user opened a new box within Discord, resulting in over 624 million views in less than 24 hours. This exceeded the previous records held by popular figures like MrBeast and the BTS music video 'Butter'. The speaker highlights the irony of the situation, where a viewbot, a tool typically used to artificially inflate view counts, has set a record that even the most successful content creators like MrBeast may never surpass. They also touch upon the financial implications of this event, as YouTube would have incurred significant costs from playing the video so many times, but would not recoup these through AdSense revenue due to the video's short length and minimal ad earnings.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡April Fool's Day
💡Country music
💡Discord
💡Loot boxes
💡YouTube viewbotting
💡Mr. Beast
💡AdSense
💡Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer
💡BTS
💡Viewbot
💡Audiobooks
Highlights
The speaker's personal journey of learning to enjoy previously disliked activities such as country music, running, and even being stuck in traffic.
The exception to the speaker's newfound appreciation for various experiences: their dislike for April Fool's Day.
The repetitive nature of April Fool's Day pranks and the speaker's skepticism towards the novelty of the events.
The speaker's criticism of brands and individuals using April Fool's Day as an opportunity for marketing or attention-seeking behavior.
The humorous example of a fake breakup announcement being made on April Fool's Day, illustrating the speaker's disdain for the day's common tricks.
The record-breaking YouTube video view count within 24 hours, sparked by an April Fool's prank gone viral.
The explanation of how Discord inadvertently created a 'viewbot' through their April Fool's Day loot box feature.
The significant impact of Discord's feature on the YouTube platform, with the video racking up 624 million views in less than 24 hours.
The comparison of the new record with previous records held by MrBeast and the BTS music video 'Butter'.
The unique situation of Discord not intentionally viewbotting, but achieving a record view count due to their feature's design.
The potential financial implications of the prank, including the massive ad revenue generated for YouTube despite the video being a short loop.
The irony of a record-breaking view count being achieved not through genuine interest but through an accidental feature implementation.
The speaker's reflection on the unexpected success of the Discord prank and its implications for content creators like MrBeast.
The humorous conclusion to the speaker's monologue, where they express their intention to listen to country music, go for a drive, and run, embracing the activities they learned to enjoy.
Transcripts
I don't know when I started doing this
but at a certain point in my life I
decided to try liking things more things
I didn't used to like like listening to
country music or going on runs or even
being stuck in traffic in La I kind of
like those things now country music
bangs you know when I when I go on a run
I feel good after and even being stuck
in traffic sucks but I get to catch up
on my audiobooks which is kind of cool
however there's one thing that no matter
how much I try I just can't enjoy and
that is April Fool's Day maybe that
makes me weird maybe it makes me crazy
but I feel like once experience it once
or twice is basically the same thing
every goddamn time all right it's just
an opportunity for Brands to sh with
like lame like marketing materials or
just people to tweet out like lame [ __ ]
like this excited to join at Disney as
their Chief Dei
officer it just sucks it sucks to my
mind all right and don't even get me
started tweets are that are like we
broke up oh man please leave us alone in
this very difficult time but it is a
breakup that I unfortunately have to
announce just [ __ ] kid I love this
person
still
EIT I get it I get it but I've seen it
so many times I'm just sick of it I just
want to see Caitlyn Clark highlights I
don't want to read all this it's a day
wasted in my mind however there's one
thing that made this April Fool's Day
perhaps the greatest APR fool ever it
might have turned me around and it has
to do with the biggest YouTube video
ever within 24 hours it's this video
right here in fact Discord loot boxes
are here by Discord got
624 million views in less than 24 hours
and it all happened because an April
Fool's prank gone a little too far let
me explain for starters if you guys
don't know there is a uh recent trend of
of highlighting videos that get a lot of
views in 24 hours it's a metric that Mr
Beast tends to shout out a lot because
he tends to break it a lot like right
here he broke the record for most views
in 24 hours which I think was held by
the Will Smith slap before and then he
broke his own record again 52 million
views in 24 hours and then again 59
million views now Mr Beast doesn't
currently hold a record it's actually
this video right here you might have
seen the Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer
makes sense there's a lot of hype around
that and that got 90 million views you
might notice however these all have the
distinction of non-music Because the
actual record for any video on YouTube
is butter by BTS which got 108 million
views in 24 hours and now is sitting at
damn near a billion in fact if you look
at the graphic it's kind of a huge gap
between Discord loot boxes remember it's
currently sitting at
624 million six times higher than second
place a record that we might not ever
see Break In Our Lifetime and that's not
an exaggeration that's just how [ __ ]
big it is man 600 million people think
about the damn Planet we're we're we're
we're getting there that's 10% bro
anyway let's watch the video together
and see what's so good about it as to
why I got some so many
views wow good
animation song bangs
too okay that obviously has no business
having 600 million views and if you just
quickly glance at the likes and the
comments you'll notice it also doesn't
add up that it has 600 million views
right these are like the amount of likes
you expect from a video maybe a million
two million views so where did the other
622 million come from the answer is
probably what you're thinking
viewbotting Discord viewbotted for the
record the record that now Mr Beast will
never ever get again I'm sorry Jimmy you
lost to a simple viewbot but how is
Discord allowed to viewbot well simply
put they're not which is why they didn't
or at least they didn't try to they view
bought it
accidentally basically they added this
new thing for April Fool's Day loot
boxes looks exactly like this and all
you do is is you click open new
box and then you get
item I got the Buster blade woo and you
can collect all the items that they they
have and you can use them as basically
emotes for a a limited amount of time uh
and you might notice that now it says Mr
our trailer relive your loot box dreams
which will'll link you back to the
YouTube video but do you know what used
to happen when you opened Discord that
video would play in the bottom right and
it would play and it would play and it
would play unless you decided to close
it or click on it and do you know what
that means it means it's looping on
every single active Discord users
Discord which is a lot of people who use
that [ __ ] on a daily basis watching it a
lot of times which
means the record that will never ever be
broken has been set by a viewbot and
here's uh some more confirmation of it
Discord managed to create a working
YouTube viewbot in 2024 by playing the
loot box announce loot box announ
announcement trailer on Loop in the
background of the inapp uh and then this
is somebody who works at Discord I
should mention they presumably did this
accidentally this is one of the high up
developers at Discord who's confused as
to how this was happening how the [ __ ]
is this video getting so many views I
don't think anybody at Discord expected
this to happen but but honestly it
worked out pretty damn well for them and
for how much money they just cost
YouTube I I can't even comprehend it
right like ignoring the AdSense for a
moment this is kind of a fun thing to
think about how much money did the video
make we can kind of inference it all
right I have a video that has 30 million
views so about 20 times less and it made
about 2k so maybe they made about 40K in
ad Revenue okay it's a quick scam on
YouTube but it also costs a lot of money
money from YouTube's backend to play a
video 600 plus million times like a lot
of money and usually they recoup some of
it because you know they get 50 c
percent from AdSense uh Revenue but but
uh they don't get that this time because
because you know it's barely making any
money at all it's just a damn short so
there it is that's uh that's the new
record uh just want to make a quick
video about in case anyone's confused uh
and and sorry to Mr Beast of all people
who's been ruined uh by April Fool's Day
sorry Jimmy happens all right see you
later goodbye see you later goodbye I'm
going to post Tom April goodbye now I'm
gone now goodbye goodbye I'm going to go
some country music in a car and run
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