The YouTube "Watch" Rabbit Hole... 

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Didn't know about the timestamp trick, thanks!! Shorts suck lol

You can also type the thing that says when a comment was created next to the users name and it will bring you to a normal video

Theres an extension that I use called youtube shorts block that replaces the "short/" into a "watch?v=" for you automatically for you in case you dont like the shorts ui

@ٴٴ wtf bro

Thanks for this

yeah...just an old spooky myth with a link to a discord server filled with kids spamming slurs.

Mighty Talos is the only truth the way and life! Repent and come back to the one and only Talos.. prophecies are coming to pass that only the Mages of Skyrim have prophesied. Strong and Mighty Talos says the gate to Sovangarde is narrow and the gate to Molag Bal's Coldharbour is wide. It only makes sense to have one way to Sovangarde young ones, and that's through Talos! History proves Talos died and rose again. No other historical figure has done this. Mighty Talos is the way to eternal life, Mighty Talos conquered death with his voice and proved that there is an afterlife. Molag Bal is liar he wants you to believe there's Easier ❤️ ways to Sovangarde to throw you into confusion.. don't believe his lies trust only in Mighty Talos!!! REPENT AND OBEY MIGHTY TALOS STORMCROWN!! He's knocking on the door to your heart open and let him in. I love everyone so much to tell the truth.. but most importantly Talos loves you more. He will cast out those who have sinned, the Dark Elves, the argonians, and the other sinners.

yeah it’s kinda fun-like spooky creepy pasta not snuff film

it's still RU-vid

the second video on the guys channel is age restricted and has some stuff in it

Sorry for being pedantic but the algorithm has always existed. You wouldn't be getting recommendations if it didn't. I think the reason why you don't end up in the dark side now is because youtube has gotten truly huge. Back then you could easily run out of related content so you would be recommended more obscure videos.

@@xristosxi393 , At first though, they were mostly recommending trending or popular videos, as well as general subject matter categories that tended to be sought after a lot (animals, cats, funny, pranks, etc). That was simple enough to do without an algorithm, just look for certain stats & shove that in users' faces. Simple periodic scripts with certain shuffle/random/priority routines attached could do that, with occasional updates by humans, then by automated process to keep up with trends faster. It was largely dictated by videos' tags. Until people began abusing tags to the point they became useless, thus they had to come up with new ways to identify video content. So they put more emphasis on the title & video description. Then eventually due to copyright pressure from entertainment corpos, audio & video fingerprinting. The algorithm came into being at some point when the site was getting bigger & more content necessitated more specific matches to user preference, which scripts just couldn't do anymore. It was very rudimentary when it was first implemented, because the technology was new. So it was easy not to notice. Then it became more advanced over time, to the point that it's now pervasive & more skilled at figuring out our watching habits. When it got a big upgrade in the 2010s somewhere-ish, it had growing pains when they set loose a new advanced version, but it was very mechanical & ignorant & had to use our habits as feedback to learn. We were unpaid lab rats enduring frustratingly irrelevant & even insulting suggestions for years because it didn't understand nuance & context. But now, it seems to have found its stride & does a good job (in my opinion). Well, except one problem: This past year or so, it's starting to get WAY too insistent on showing me stuff I've already watched a bunch (I guess it figures me watching repeatedly means I ALWAYS want to watch it again? Like, no, when I'm in the mood I'll look for it myself or open the playlist it's on. I wish there was an option to choose "new suggestions only"... Now if only the Search function actually friggin' worked in terms of relevance to search terms, instead of still using the darn algorithm & trying to be relevant to my tastes only. Sometimes I want to find something new, step out of my echo chamber, etc! I'm getting so many repeat suggestions barely related to my search terms. Come on Google, y'all started as a search engine! Let us use 'quote marks, plus, & minus' to impose 'verbatim, include, & exclude' functions like we can in the search engine! (And don't get me started on trying to search a user's channel for particular videos, even with a single word query. Most of the time you get absolutely random crap.)

Dunno bro, once in a while youtube shows me some truly horrible stuff when i search something. So, only time it happens for me is when i use search bar. Then, for some reason, sometimes i get some trypophobia videos, or videos of disturbing stuff in general. Like someone missing huge chinks of their skin on one of the bodyparts and stuff like that. And, unlike main page recommendations, you can't block channel or ask to show less stuff like that without going to video. And if you go to do that from video page itself, YT ignores the fact that you went there to block content like that and algorithm will force more videos of that sort on you. At that point i always delete my history. Seems to help for a while, then cycle repeats.

There was a time when youtube didn't give you recommended content based on your watch history, only content related to whatever video you were watching. The front page was exclusively trending videos and your subscriptions. These are both technically algorithmic, but--as im sure you know--when people refer to *the* algorithm they're referring to a process where the platform makes an effort to predict what you'll want to watch next based on your watch history/subscriptions/likes/etc.

​@xristosxi393 an algorithm existed. THE algorithm (the current, more personalized algorithm) didn't exist

i was redirected to page Just A Bit Of White lol

​@@RevO-OneIt took me to a video of rude Karen's getting what they deserve lmao

Why is this actually true though?

@@skilledcamman4752 karen conspiracy’s

I made a video about it on my channel

i just found a different rabbithole if you remove the w-c-h out of "watch" so makeing it "at" theres a bunch of other channels you can find

@ٴٴ Ok Karen

@@Shan-rb5rl bro you've only got 3 videos, and a whole guy being dead equates to that?

@@kidnamedfingor they’re bots bro, just report them. They’re really bad on moist critikals vids too

@ٴٴ huh

I agree

Niko

Ikr

@@sonetagu1337 Niko

good pfp

Thank you for this information

u can also replace it with 5 i think but im not sure i saw it on tiktok and dont own a pc anymore so ye

@@fuiii_ can confirm, except it redirect you to a channel instead of a video

Oh lord it works

thanks for this lmao

rip edit: the "short" url still works, and so does the "wat" url

so does wath

I FUCKING KNEW IT! I KNEW IT LOOKED FAMILIAR!

@@nerdtendo128 same

@Kal El It's not.

@Kal El I would like to see you explain why is it AI generated

@Kal El it's still his art. And it's a style.

Same, especially that the channel was formed mere months after the creation of youtube

it's actually a url trick anyone who has a youtube partnership can do they can make a link to redirect to any channel or video I think which is still weird but it's not yt themselves making the easter eggs lol

@@AlexEEZ i know, i said sometimes i LIKE to think those kinds of things are just things someone at youtube decided to make an Easter egg, not that i do legitimately think that.

@@lunar9333 well, it technically isn't really glitch either but that's fair ig

@@revenger211 Doesn't mean much, my original account was made sometime in summer 2005. Lost access to it though. This the second account I've ever made. Most old accounts have no association with anyone who still works there. The original dev's don't work there anymore lmao.

LOL, good ol' days

I hope they don't. It will make so many kids day to do this at 3am at a sleepover

@@Norogoth Fr-let there be fun and mystery and creepy pastas in the world

What are you on about? it's all working as intended

Heh… more like a good watc.

I've always found it astounding how many tech companies just don't cover their bases with this stuff. As an example, Doordash has had a partially broken app for years, with tons of people getting so much slowdown and glitchy behavior on their end as to make the app unusable, even being forced to miss deliveries or leave them incomplete. For me it gets to the point where I have to Force Stop the app between 2-6 times per delivery order. That shit is inexcusable, and I've heard it's because they outsource development and cycle regularly, so nobody gets a good understanding of the whole code base enough to make meaningful changes that'll fix its foundation. Eventually the wobbly tower has to be reinforced, be redone and fixed entirely, or fall. Probably the worst glitches I've had were being directed to the wrong house in the in-app embedded Google Maps GPS system. Usually I can get around this by canceling navigation and re-engaging, but usually I don't even find out I'm going to the wrong place until I'm at the destination it brought me to. This has happened to me a decent handful of times, and I've read other stories about it too.

Ik was aan het zoeken naar deze comment❤

@@FlashingDutch Het duurde maar een jaartje.

@@rafox66 maar de comment was er wel

But it still doesn’t explain how an outside user actually managed to do this or what method they used because fiddling with stuff should produce a random result yet both c and h removed go to that video leaving us all wondering but why

@ٴٴ this has to be a joke

@@tybell4949 Those aren't the only combinations that lead to that video. IIRC, replacing the 'h' with 'j' also redirects you to that video. And ofc, other combinations can lead to other videos. I don't think the 666 user did anything intentionally, I genuinely believe they got incredibly lucky when their video's unique ID was generated.

@@rajmundseidel6035 it's a bot

@@VOgaming51official coool

Exactly! Also, merhaba abi.

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@ٴٴ who hurt you 🗿🗿🗿

Creepyasta/Dark Web Muta is best Muta

@ٴٴ wtf

Its incredible how confidently off the mark you are

@@legeorgelewis3530 I implement these things every day. It's funny that you claim I'm off the mark without even trying to explain how.

@@legeorgelewis3530 He's not wrong at all tho?

Ok, useful but this doesn't explain the watc thing

@@Zyjem Muta did a great job of that. I just thought I'd add some explanation for the actual mechanism for people who are already familiar with some rudimentary programming.

You reckon there’s a deeper meaning mate?

did you mean "umor"?

@@Delayrix tumor

@@Delayrix no he got blown up last week :/

what

yeah definitely a nice prank to do if pulled off right lelz

Was just thinking this is the red light it's gonna be a banger

This is his usual voice i dont see how its calm, i get hes energetic at times but still

@ٴٴ i'm sorry? What are you doing?

When does calming voice not hit?!

:)

Why isn't this blowing up yet

Is that the real g fuel

G Fuel when H gasoline walks in:

H gasoline when J diesel walks in

Hey G Fuel. Never had any of your products. Send me some ;)

Nana lowkey makes the most unsettling content on the internet, there's nothing that beats their work.

@@RealValkor Shaye Shaye St. John?

@@ElisandroDeLeonyou still doing that hand thing?

he just plays minecraft and has an ant farm now lol he’s awesome

Fr

yea, I'm sad i missed out or the random video spawner, now all I get is a sub to a barren channel

It's not a glitch. Removing the "c" or "h" leads to a channel called 666 & removing the "a" leads to a channel called 69. That's no coincidence.

I know they will, but I hope they never patch it. It's so fun.

Not a glitch. It's literally custom user URLs.

@ٴٴ you're not even a good troll lmao

@@foeof If it is a custom channel URL, then why does it go to a video and not the channel?

this only works if watc has the ability to remove the /c, that way the redirect can have /watch in it

I don't know if this is it, as /c/watc is a channel by itself called "/c/watc", when it should redirect you to "watc"'s channel page. It's nuts.

I changed the language settings to Japanese and I get a completely different channel coming up.

@@SpencerLemay It broke earlier today, actually. I tried it and just typing 666 takes you to an error page as it did previously.

i tried typing in watc2 and i got sent to a channel with a crap ton of twitter links???

it’s developing fetuses

i thought it was baby heads

Midnight calling

I suspect iluomo is actually a RU-vid employee and it's quite possible considering he's the 40th oldest channel on the platform. If you check when his channel was created it was in April of 2005 just a week after the first video was uploaded. Or he just did some hacking work so that it said his channel was created in 2005.

@@erectilereptile7383 I think he's possibly an auditor of the RU-vid API.

yeah this doesn't make any sense

Dude ur wording is so unclear that it doesn't make any sense to me

Mighty Talos is the only truth the way and life! Repent and come back to the one and only Talos.. prophecies are coming to pass that only the Mages of Skyrim have prophesied. Strong and Mighty Talos says the gate to Sovangarde is narrow and the gate to Molag Bal's Coldharbour is wide. It only makes sense to have one way to Sovangarde young ones, and that's through Talos! History proves Talos died and rose again. No other historical figure has done this. Mighty Talos is the way to eternal life, Mighty Talos conquered death with his voice and proved that there is an afterlife. Molag Bal is liar he wants you to believe there's Easier ❤️ ways to Sovangarde to throw you into confusion.. don't believe his lies trust only in Mighty Talos!!! REPENT AND OBEY MIGHTY TALOS STORMCROWN!! He's knocking on the door to your heart open and let him in. I love everyone so much to tell the truth.. but most importantly Talos loves you more. He will cast out those who have sinned, the Dark Elves, the argonians, and the other sinners.

oh thank you for reassuring me that im not crazy

Nah

there is, Just replace the a in watch with d.

@@antonisgkalitsis4400 speechless rn

YES

@@antonisgkalitsis4400 oh God! That's awesome

yes i noticed now too

Chadwick Boseman is in the grave while i make amazing content 🤣🤣

@@Shan-rb5rl What the fuck?

@@Shan-rb5rl dude. Go outside.

To be even clearer, the /watch URL is the function. v in this case is a keyword argument for that function. Although the RU-vid system might be built differently, that's how it works, for example, with PHP Codeigniter. If you route to a controller and use a slash, you have direct access to the methods of that controller by putting the name of the method after the slash. Disclaimer: I am a web developer but I'm pretty new to it, so this might just be me being uneducated. I'm not claiming that this is the one and only truth since there are so many development stacks I haven't worked with yet. Open to corrections always.

v is actually called a search parameter (or query parameter) and it has the video ID as its value. Many web servers have the convention that the path corresponds to a certain file or function and that the search parameters are the arguments, but the server can use whatever logic it wants. The only times I can think of that the search parameters are actually used by the browser is when submitting a form (by default) and when determining if a cookie is accessible or if a cross-origin request is allowed.

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not intended

Aaaaaand now I'm creeped out D:

ARG TIME ARG TIME

And this is possible because of channel redirects apparently you can redirect past or current live streams and redirect it to a premier or any video. These channel are with custom URL 'watc' is a channel URL that redirects to the video. When removing the h or some other letters it doesn't detect the URL as a video it descards the rest of the URL and goes the the channels custom URL and they have there channel redirect to the video. Other channel names short, wath, wach, wtch, atch & maybe others

I'm pretty sure whoever is doing thid is one of the founders of youtube or one of the first employees. The channel is as old as youtube itself, so it must be some easteregg made to mess with people. Specially that early days of RU-vid were filled with tons of easter eggs

don't make this seem that big

lekker eten

@@BlendyCat kanker duur

OooOOooOh youtube fixing thiiings! The horror of people not thinking about that!

Worded like a true master of the arcane magics

This comment reads like a either 12 year old wrote it or a 60 year old

lol

Well damn, if ya want me to die, just say so. Lol

@@JustinTK416 🤣 true true, I couldn't tell if he was trolling or if he really didn't realize how often he used those words

SQUID GAMES❗️❗️

@ٴٴ what

more of a glitch tbh

Not an exploit or a glitch.

I doubt they will. They're not gonna change the whole process of how they create URLs

@@foeof It's a feature and also try 2atch someone made this happen to me

@@sabersz well the only thing they'd have to change are those specific slashes for them to lead to a 404

thats usually the case with these sorts of things

The video you get redirected to was uploaded in 2022 so

It existed since 2022 March

@@TheAtomicPunkLmao Yeah but the redirect existed then

But the problem is, why does whtch redirect to a random minecraft montage?

That sounds unlikely. I think it's pretty much just what Muta is explaining in the video. Also if this is true then why does it also work for a minecraft bedwars christmas montage.

It was harmless, until the discord link. That’s where things did not become harmless

@@FirestarDoppelganger what discord link?

@@slowyourroll1146 on the 666 video.

I think you mean "Kat Meowski"

R*ditor

Nah oggy and the cockroaches negative diffs the kick buttowski theme.

The batman wants to have a talk

true

It don't it's a feature

same here

@T J I bet he could pull it off

@@godspeed-is-taken he already did a horror series like a decade+ ago

@@achu-7941 he covered horror concepts but didn’t make horror content per-say , imagine muta making an horror arg about a computer virus taking over the world or something along those lines.

@Funny Show Seems suspicious with the additional mega link segment at the end of the video link. That could just be a thing to scare people looking closely at links, but I wouldn't want to risk it regardless. Fun fact: "c/2atch" goes to a channel called "spellingwatchewrong" with 1 "members only" video, and one related channel, which happens to be the channel with the video that "/2atch" redirects to.

@@Fluicitea the funny show account seems to be connected with this i mean just look at their uploads

as of 28th of july watc and wath are being redirected to the channel IHP

Theu fixed it

@@juliandnz No theu didn't!

They did​@@BaldiReycaster

Not even 666 videos accepts you

Who even is theu?

@The Great Cosmic Axolotl Yes and no. As I said is technically right, since for children you make them understand Il for masculine first, then pass on apostrophes. "Il uomo" works in old italian, vulgar italian and some dialects.

you know you can fake your location on your RU-vid channel I faked mine to say Canada

@@OatmealGrillBlazer True, but there should be a reason for it, that just deepens all.

damn

@wch Bro is in a rampage to Rick Roll everyone out there

Interesting

Yep, this. My account is from 2006. I think they classify it as a "brand" account now or some odd shit.

How old is that feature? I really wanna set up something like that.

Notice, how he is convinced about this "invisible unicode hack". Despite the fact that manually replacing or deleting individual URL characters like that doesn't introduce any unicode outside plain ASCII. For a moment dude looked legit though. Shame...

Um... urls can usually be manipulated to direct you towards different areas of most sites.

@@moistp1ckle did you figure that out by yourself 🤓

@ٴٴ Stop spamming.

@@eighthdoctor I've seen them on moistcritical's newest video too. I think that they are a bot

@ٴٴ bro wtf is up w u

@ٴٴ Nigguh wants attention 💀

@@mikuenjoyerXD Def a bot, the AIs are taking over, and the question is what kind of strange propaganda is it spreading?

It's amazing watching him learn the game with out help, things that seem obvious to us is out of sight to him

@Abby maybe that ones a fake account but I do know nana does play minecraft on his channel, I watched it a few years back

same here