Casual Streamer Accidentally Finds HUGE Skip That Speedrunners Missed 

I love that speedrunners kept the name Boba skip despite her not being part of the speedrunning community at all.

Imagine streaming a game like normal and you accidentally make speedruning history

I think runs using this glitch should be invalid unless you sing "I am the best at video games" after the skip

“Snake, the door is frozen. You can’t use it.” “No.”

I love how she said "get rekt speedrunners"

Don't forget - official speedrunning tournaments require anyone using the Boba Skip to sing the song as part of the skip, or it won't be recognised.

This is why it's so entertaining to keep up with speedrunning. At any moment a random person can come out of nowhere and completely change the game. Most of the big skips in Elden Ring were discovered by casual players, but it still takes a lot of hard-work from the runners, glitch-hunters, and community to figure out and refine them.

Thanks for covering the boba skip! It’s a great little thing that just threw us all off and scrambled every board because we had like 2 minutes to 2:30 minutes to save for free. It was crazy being part of the discord that day and sitting in the voice chat with 20 people trying to replicate what boba has done. Thankfully we made it work 😌

Worth mentioning that when Boba was told she got to name the skip, she decided to name it Kevin.

Sometimes the best skips / glitches are found when you aren't even trying to find them.

The funnier part of this whole saga is that one of her costars in the Yogscast (Ravs) has a Solid Snake avatar and is constantly hailed as the king of stealth. She just effectively stole his thunder

"And while these weren't planted in the game by Kojima for the players to find" That *definitely* sounds like something Kojima would do

getting a skip named after you is actually one of the coolest things a person can have

11:30 The Boba Skip song was truly endearing ❤️

alright, the boba skip song is 100% the best part of this!

Casuals and new players are always needed because in anything any game any hobby you'll always find something new by accident before you'll find it by looking (more often then not) a new user allows for new exploration since we all play games different but in a speedrun we tend to try things in the fastest way possible. Causals however purely play for fun and to entertain themselves of others

Boba is such a treat, she is like a character who turned up her Luck to 10. First she joins the Yogscast after a decade of being a huge fan of theirs. Then is immediately wins the hearts of the community with her cheerful presence. And then she accidentally discovers one in a lifetime rare gaming events. Whatever storyline our World is, she is definitely one of the protagonists.

With the increase in people streaming games casually we should see an increase in glitches like these being found! Great video keep up the great work!

The Yogscast is my favourite thing on youtube/twitch, Boba is a fantastic addition to the network, lovely.

This is awesome! My own contribution to MGS (3) is finding an instant death glitch by rolling into a specific wall, which is damn useless to I never bothered to share it XD

love how they name skips after the people who discover them

Very interesting videos you have here. You go in depth, but it doesn't fall apart into jargon. Boba Skip Song is wholesome as fuck. If I dont see any Remixes done, I will be very disappointed.

This is why I like to watch players that arent good at a game, mess up, get damaged, try different tactics than I normally use. They tend to stumble on some random glitches or secrets.

I actually had a *very* similar glitch earlier this year. I was trying to figure out where was I supposed to plant the C4 in the armory before the Revolver Ocelot boss. Trying to place the C4 on the bottom left corner of the map, I somehow phased through the wall, into the other side of the destroyed wall, except I hadn't actually destroyed the wall, and going back to the other side, it still wasn't destroyed. I chalked it up to an emulation glitch because I was unable to replicate it, and I was having bugs where sometimes I'd bug out of wall collision, stuck into random objects or even into the endless void, which was fixed after either changing the disc read speedup settings back to stock, or changing to a different emulator, forget which.

Imagine unintentionally getting the Speedrun world record discovering a glitch by accident in a casual playthrough. Genuinely curious has this ever happened in speed running?

Just for those who don't know, the Yogscast is an OG RU-vid channel based in the UK, right up there with Smosh, Pewdiepie, and Ray William Johnson. They've been making videos since 2008, 2 years before Pewdiepie started his channel. Boba here is a new member, among the influx of new members brought in over the past 2 to 4 years. They started out as a World of Warcraft guild, the Ye Olde Goone Squad, which was later shortened into YOGScast when they branched out into other games. One of those game was Minecraft, now that may sound mundane from a modern perspective, but the thing is, they were among the _first_ to make Minecraft content on RU-vid, and what's more, the simple let's play they started turned into one of the most famous machinima series there was, Shadow of Israphel, standing right alongside Red vs. Blue during the height of its popularity. There's more I could talk about, but the gist is that they pioneered a lot of what modern RU-vid is. Unfortunately, they've gradually fallen off in popularity, no thanks in part to members leaving over time, like Panda, and others leaving due to scandals, like with Sjin, or just gradually drifting away from the brand like with Sips and Inthelittlewood. The main two heads, Lewis and Simon, are still front and center, though.

Dang that is a good skip! I also love to hear the support from the Speedrun community to delve into this accidental finding as a possibility and taking it seriously. So many communities get to a point where toxicity would have lashed out calling the accidental skip "faked" and dismiss it. This video isn't just about a speedrun stat history but a reflection of hope for humanity.

"So you like AZURE DREAMS" bruh I fricken LOVE Azure Dreams

"Snake, how did you do that? That door is frozen shut!" "Hrrghngh, Boba Skip." _"...What?"_

This feels like one of those movie moments when the least expected person seems to figure out the solution to the problem by accident.

long time Yogscast fan. like LONG time fan. when this first happened it was like a big mashup of some of my favorite video game communities. fun story

Every runnner should be required to sing the discovery song plus doing a little celebration dance.

Freaking cool video man, I love "speedrun mechanics explained" videos. Youve definitely been added to my epic speedrunners list of Tomatoanus, Summoningsalt and Maximum!!

Your videos are the best. It's like Summoning Salt but way more often.

Hey man just wanted to say im a huge fan of your videos. I dont even play any of these games but i find them really fun to watch

Gotta feel awesome to be indavertantly part of Speedrunning history and having your name stamped on the skip..I love it!!

... "for games that are over quarter century old" Fuck, that hit hard

I love how some random streamer ended up completely revolutionizing the speed running of a game, by complete accident.

Love your videos. I've watched every single one of them. Keep it up my guy ❤️

Blows my mind the number of things that would have to line up just right for this to happen

She is truly the best at video games

I'll always laugh over this because its just such a bizarre set of events. Ravs being jokingly mad because she found a huge skip in a series that was his brand, the immediate breaking into song, and her naming the skip Kevin. Chefs kiss.

This chick not only made speed running history on accident, but she threw down a theme song afterwards to cement her victory in the epilogues of the internet.

Was the Boba skip song a reference to something else, or was it entirely improvised?

its so cool how a person who is on their literal first playthrough of the game completely randomly finds an accidental skip, and gets it named after them!

I love how angry she got when she glitched through the door

😂I like how Boba use her two extra minutes to just gloat and sing and dance her own praises.

That Boba song is str8 fire 🔥🔥🔥🔥

Love speedrunning videos and MGS. Great vid bro

ur videos are genuinely amazing!

I love that she has a little song for the skip, omg 😻😻😻

Really cool that she found that by accident, but as for the speedrunning community i must say that it seems like quite the major oversight. If the growing hitbox was a known mechanic, then you'd think someone would run around trying to use it on every important door in the game, but apparently not...

Just to be clear. Is the Boba Skip Song now obligatory for MGS speed running?

Gotta love a skip that's usable in multiple categories.

I remember watching Twitch the night that happened and like four different people I follow stopped what they were doing to go and watch the Boba Skip clip. It was wild because all four channels have different content but "streamer finds speedrun skip by accident" was something everyone could get excited about

I love her camera UI idea, never seen that before.

This reminds me of a prison cell door glitch that was popularized recently in Golden Eye. A emulator speedrunner had done it for a while and he even had a youtube channel. All the pros play on the original N64, and one of them eventually stumbled onto his videos. Stuff like this kind of makes speedrunners feel like idiots. When you see a locked door, you should try to glitch through it. It feels so obvious.

I already knew about the skip and it's history. I just clicked this video to hear the song again. Wasn't disappointed.

nice video, only slight correction to prevent confusion is that the proper term would be hurtbox not hitbox hitbox = the vector/box/poligon that will determine set outcome when it's being active and come into contact with a hurtbox/surface/vector etc hurtbox = a normally persistent box that determine an outcome when comes in contact with a hitbox (unless there's invul frames present)

This is not thefirst time this happened ,within these communities they generally name the skip after the person that found it(happens when a non speedrunner finds the skip)

I remember randomly renting MGS from Blockbuster over Christmas break in 1999 and being absolutely blown away by it. All these years later, it's nice to see it still entertaining people so much.

Makes speedrunning history Boba "why do i hear Home - We're finally landing" Summoning salt enters the chat

It was thanks to this skip that I was able to beat the entire game without taking any steps!

that's awesome, so glad to see new breakthrough for a game as classic as MGS.

this is funny to see that a streamer/yt found the glitch/skip for a speedrun on accident and now it is a true skip for speedruns. This is awesome and the song she did afterward was amazing. Great to see her so happy, not excited just happy.

She understood that this is massive for speedruns immediately

Imagine you accidentally make an insane precise speedrun glitch no one found yet in a f*cking casual playthrough XD

Snakes hitboxes expanding in not only smash brawl, but in his own games too.

Nice video as always

always great to see small unknown streamer stumbling onto things

Before you dropped her name, i saw the still frame of her webcam and thought, "haha, she kinda looks like yogscast Boba... wait that *is* yogscast boba!" 😂 I had no idea she'd discovered something like this! thats super awesome

That song was amazing hahaha

Great job on the video

Thanks for another great video.

super cool video... i love this kind o content =)

This reminds me of the guy who invented penicillin. Completely accident, extremely beneficial.

Playing it casually and then finding and getting a skip named after you! Awesome!

That's awesome, I remember finding a way to skip the second to last boss in the original metal gear on the NES. That was pre-internet though, and probably before speed running was a thing.

only boba could discover something like this, amazing!

I had no idea, great job boba

11:31 Only part that matters

Stuff like this is why I love the speedrunning community. Someone blindly stumbles across a major skip and the community fully embraces it anyway. No saying that it's invalid because they're not a speedrunner, no accusations of cheating. Just a great community enjoying an accidental breakthrough.

I bet some kid done this in the 90s by accident and thought nothing of it.

I like to think I've accidentally found a speedrun-breaking glitch while playing a game and didn't know it (ie. something like this is obvious, but what if I got some weird glitch that made me freeze up split second or I dropped an item and it landed weirdly, yk, things that might be useful to some speedrun category I'd never have guessed would want something like that)

I love stumbling across hidden gems. I mean, what's consider a gem for me...meaning, it's quite possible the whole world knew about said gem already, but I had no idea, so I felt accomplished lol. To give an example - I used to play a ton of Final Fantasy III (or FFVI) back in the day on SNES. For those that know the game, when you meet up with the Returners, get Banon on your team and then get on that raft segment - the raft will go in an endless circle if you keep pressing "A" and never choose another direction. So, if you have a turbo controller (or a means of keeping the "A" button on repeat), and if you setup your fighting tactics on "memory", you can set it up so that Banon keeps healing in every fight. Seeing that Banon's healing abilities don't rely on MP, he never runs out of that ability and can heal indefinitely. Therefore you can grind endless without actually grinding. Just leave it over night for a couple of nights until you're at the desired level. Anyway, I felt so accomplished when I figured out that trick...although it's not a glitch by any means, it's just a cheap way to get to level 99 very early in the game without any cost to myself (except time). Mind you, this was before the internet and I was a teenager at the time. The good ol'days.

"The latest discovery" sounds like it just got discovered, but it´s been almost a year old by this point. lol. Nevertheless, sweet video.

I am actually the worlds most accomplished any% speedrunner in most games, I skipped them entirely.

I had a similar experience with Resident Evil 3 years ago. It was during one of the first bits of the game when Jill runs through a door, I don't know what the hell I pressed on my console pad but all of a sudden I was at a different part of the game.

very professional, also 4:30 skinny snake

Imagine you are playing for thousands of hours tearing it apart at the seams trying to find the fastest way to beat a game and someone who isnt even a part of a community finds a huge skip by accident that has got to be simultaneously the most frustrating and funny thing to ever experience i love how the skip is still named after her goes to show how awesome the speedrun community is

Having a skip named for you is one of the higher honors in gaming, speedrunner or not

Nice video !

That fact that MGS is still being played today is testament to its god-tier story and general game design. The graphics even today are imo good.

This is so cool. Awesome that they called it Boba skip too.

All I can hear is the *WHARRRM* of a summoning salt video

Snake: strike me down, I will become so powerful that I will ascend beyond you Guards: shot Snake, causing him to load into the next room. Guards: well I guess he wasn't lying 🤷‍♂

A speedrunner figured out a set up to do the skip with the SoCa gun... Which was exactly what Boba did when she discovered it. Just happened to line herself up the exact correct way with the correct gun.

damn usually people are begging for subscribing at start of video but this mad lad straight up wants patreon money.

The song was wonderful! :D

"Bosses that require you to switch controllers port" I beat that guy without doing it, hardcore freaking mode, wasted all my resources but won, it was epic!