I'm getting rather a lot of emails telling me that it's working (by my standards, miraculously well)! Which is great, thank you! -- but for the sake of my inbox: the code's also keeping logs for me, don't worry about it :)
Hey guys good to see you again, before the code ever breaks just wanna say even though we’ve never met. I’m glad we share this have a good life y’all 0:24
Doge Guy grow up mate, there’s 132k comments and I read about 3 but if you think I’m sad enough to scroll through and copy another comment then fine but I can assure you you’re wrong. Jealousy at its finest.
I'm convinced that someone at UA-cam is a fan of Tom Scott and has been constantly lobbying to keep the API up to date so that this doesn't stop working years later.
I wrote some code for a company that no longer exists "Bankers Trust". Many years later I came across a small pocket of people I used to work with at BT and found that the remnants have been bought sold traded for around 13 years. At that moment I got introduced as the "Guy who wrote the zzz system". I was mostly shocked that they still had it running. It was written in vb4 using DCOM and MTS in the lat 90's. AFAIK it's still going.
It depends, you can give them the title if you give it before it updates. And does it matter? No. You can search “This video has views - Tom Scott”. Or send the link
I'd imagine the views presented by the UA-cam API are what are also used to show end users. All of the view fudging and aggregation will happen in the background before it's presented anywhere.
It baffles me how seemingly no one seems to understand what Scott meant by saying that. The title is simply identical to the youtube's own viewcount, which doesn't keep track of views in real time, only every minute or so. Which means it isn't accurate, and therefore neither is the title.
I see 56,662,598 in title. 56,662,956 in description That is scarily accurate, especially since I have seen this video 17 times and it was right on the money the other 16. That program is really good.
@Horizonshot Not necessarily. There's nothing wrong in the code, it's not something you can fix. Some day youtube will stop supporting a particular function, let's say, modifying the title of a video, or reading the number of views via code. Until that day, the code will read the number of views and write it in the title. Code doesn't "rot".
This is a TED talk, but with better background.
Cienciabit: Ciencia y Tecnología. Exposed on my channel
yep
Spot on!
What
All his videos are
I love how this vid appears on my recommend every once in a while.
Ikr
Ikr
Yup
realtable moment
Same
I went straight to the views and wasn’t disappointed
what was it for you?
Same 31,471,637
@@imeldajokowidodo1413 mines just 31,491,466 views
31,494,477
It's 31,497,384 now
this video appeared on my recommend like 4 times already in the past 3 years
Its correct
Same
Same still
Well you do keep watching it.
Same
At this point I would be more surprised if the title was wrong.
its wrong rn
@@newend2116 nope
It's been wrong once for me but now it's back to 100% accuracy
not just accurate its magic!
As of now its wrong the title says 32,870,178 while the actual views is 32,870,305
Tom: “if it’s actually spot on, it’s a miracle”
It’s spot on
It’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
It’s a miracle
I ate a hotdog.
@@ianseldoon1197 It's a miracle
I feel honored to see the title when it’s still exactly accurate and counting
Nunya Bisness ikr
Same
Yes me too
Claim you’re blank blank view counter...
SAME
this keeps getting randomly recommended every now and then and its still always spot on
Me too, 4 years since last time and still is!
The automated variable updated? Automatically?
Noºo⁰oOo⁰oº WaªaAaªaAaYyYyY
@@trip_s1mulat0rdid you watch the video lmao
@phuncc yes lmfao OP has been significantly lucky, we must suppose at face value
I love how this video periodically gets recommended to us when the title is exactly right
it did to me as well
@@samuelboczek1834 same
happened again
It mainly has to do with the title changing
The algorithm does that whenever parts of a video change, whether it be the title or the thumbnail
It did it to me aswell
Who else keeps getting recommended this and seeing how much it goes up?
Me too
same for me bro
Yep me
ikr
it's me.
The title is completely accurate, I couldn’t be happier.
Not anymore
@@h6_ still
Now it's not
yh
Funny how people are still watching it. Luv it
four years later and it's still spot on
Yessuh
I wish I could see all the times I’ve viewed videos
I'm getting rather a lot of emails telling me that it's working (by my standards, miraculously well)! Which is great, thank you! -- but for the sake of my inbox: the code's also keeping logs for me, don't worry about it :)
K
Ok
fortnite
No offence Tom but it didn't work for me. Can you make an entire video on the probability that this will work would be great
great work tom
This guy's a genius. This video is the ultimate clickbait, except it isn't a clickbait!
Agreed m8, agreed
He's a paid actor.
(Updated) 1 year, 3 months, and 6 days later, and it’s still accurate.
Did the views increase..... how much was it earlier
@@danishahmed1029 well i mean... It started with 1 and from there it went on
Don’t you release it’s set up
3 years
It’s no longer accurate.
Code is still working as of 31st October 2024.
Someone on current time 😅
Yup. Big Tom Scott fan but I only discovered him a few months ago so I'm still getting through his back catalogue.
yep working on the third of november!
Code still working 4 years later 😃😁
Still working 7th November 2024 exactly spot on
More than one year later and it’s still 100% accurate
How?!
Yep I can’t believe it
Incredible
Fun fact: everything is either a potato or not a potato
@@Plasmicballs it broke?
The title won’t be spot on, it’s a miracle if it is
The title: has always been spot on no matter what
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
I would like to ask you to listen to my latest song by simply clicking on my channel, you will not regret it
That saying was meant for when the code breaks in the future
So according to him, this video will never stop being a miracle.
@DON'T reported lmao, hope you get banned
No the title of the video will always be wrong in some way it can be wrong right now and you'd never know it because it hasn't updated yet
@@rainbowsonglyrics6018 ? 😐
it stopped
It’s wrong at the moment
Hey guys good to see you again, before the code ever breaks just wanna say even though we’ve never met. I’m glad we share this have a good life y’all 0:24
Good to see you too, best of luck to you.
Beat of luck to you sir 🫡
It's spot on for me now
Tom: “The title won’t be exactly right”
The Title: Exactly right
UA-cam: So you think you’re smart do you?
this comment looks familiar
Doge Guy grow up mate, there’s 132k comments and I read about 3 but if you think I’m sad enough to scroll through and copy another comment then fine but I can assure you you’re wrong. Jealousy at its finest.
Liam Daly lmao just because of a "this comment looks familiar" comment u wrote a whole paragraph? if anything ur offended af, admit it lmao
and its dont u
It’s exact every time I check
Tom: *says title will be a bit off*
Viewers: *reality is often disappointing*
Facts it’s 100% spot on
It’s off for me as well but damn it sure as hell is close
Raging Overwatch not anymore
Its exact for me
Exact same for me.
4 years later, and it still working flawlessly
I’m assuming Tom has had to fix this dozens of times by now.
@@Sef_Era Probably
When he flashes the code on screen at 0:48, you can see where it says “id:” it shows the id to never gonna give you up.
😂 Rick rolled.
This is the perfect " never gets old " video
Fr
Unfortunately, someday it will.
@@LanaaAmor it did
@@g00berthealien wdym its working?
Ikr
A lot of people witnessing miracles, on this fine day.
"fine day"
*_[about time 2020 experienced a miracle]_*
And I’ll name them
It’s a Rosa Reference do you guys even know who that is ?!?😂💀
Its a miracle today for me as well
If it’s 100% right then it’s a miracle
Everyone in the comments: I’ve witnessed a miracle
Keagan Davidson same!
IKRRRR
I got it
K.
Meet too
Who's watching in October 2024?
The title says that it is 80 more views than it was 10-12 hours ago
Nah I’m watching in September 1939
Present.
Already November 😅
@@zipinhayep, October was in the past man, now we’re in the future
People literally pushing UA-cam's limit no matter what.
Hey gigachad.. I thought you weren't real
@@rishabhbhatt1534 same thought
Not really the limit, just a bot renaming the title to the video views in simple
Your profile picture is the peak of humanity
Nice pfp
I was recommended this at 8.2 million. Then at 12m. Then at 18m. And finally 21m and now I’m finally watching it.
every day since posting
I’ve been here since around 100k and I’m astonished on how much it’s grown
Exactly
Same
title stock market
"If the title is 100 percent correct, its a miracle"
Seems like it's been a very long miracle
Exactly
It is omg
I checked the views 3 times. 1. Correct. 2. Incorrect (had more views). 3. Correct.
¿ ? U got 126 likes in one day wo
@@provestic 376
I'm convinced that someone at UA-cam is a fan of Tom Scott and has been constantly lobbying to keep the API up to date so that this doesn't stop working years later.
This is my working theory, this video has a sponsor somewhere inside UA-cam keeping it working 😂
Two years later and it's still holding up. Nice work, Tom.
I wrote some code for a company that no longer exists "Bankers Trust". Many years later I came across a small pocket of people I used to work with at BT and found that the remnants have been bought sold traded for around 13 years. At that moment I got introduced as the "Guy who wrote the zzz system". I was mostly shocked that they still had it running. It was written in vb4 using DCOM and MTS in the lat 90's. AFAIK it's still going.
@Kakashi Hatake It is not the same for me, yt shows me 63,614,385 views instead of 63,614,332 Views
@@cobrakzu_2916 yep its starting to drift now i reckon
@@sherr6847 Yee
@@sherr6847 same still for me, maybe you guys caught it before it refreshed. Remember Tom said it doesn't refresh quickly
I literally come here every month and it’s perfect
Same
Same
Not anymore 😌😏
Omg it’s perfect
@@VaultYT. it Automatically updates through script
“The title will not be exactly spot on”
“That statement is exactly spot off”
its not spot on
@@IAm-zo1bo it is
@Samuel Dunlap for me it is! 24,679,454 views!
It is for me rn
@@TheMedjed-k9n 24 737 512
The message in this video is the biggest part.
So if you want to tell people about this video, you can’t actually give them the title
It depends, you can give them the title if you give it before it updates. And does it matter? No. You can search “This video has views - Tom Scott”. Or send the link
@@gras2121 it uhhhh joke
Greg 👏👏👏
HM maybe but it is indeed a shitty one if it was a joke.
Greg you’re just a troll that got wooshed get over it
Fun fact: This title is probably the most refreshed title in all of UA-cam
G
It has to be, because otherwise if a video was uploaded at the beginning of youtube the title would need to be updated about 7000 times a day
true
You boys have any idea why did this video explode recently? Remember it being at 32m views like a week ago
@@HazzySW1 I smell cap
This title went from a cool experiment to a massive flex.
The most accurate flex in the entire Internet
The universal S
Very much so
Him: *I flexed on 20M people because I simply changed the title too: "This video has 20M views."*
Over 4 years later and it’s EXACTLY right. So cool!
This feels like a part of UA-cam history.
It will be
It is
No
But in my history
Existence=History
It is
I just wasn't expecting something so deep and philosophical, you're a mad lad.
More than MadLads
This video is getting so many views from people coming back to see if it’s still accurate
Yep. I noticed that
*distantly screaming* you've been trolled, you've been trolled...
I saw it once get messed up but it was fixed
Are u a jojo reference
We've been bamboozled
Still spot on.
This is turning out to be way more accurate than Tom expected
I'd imagine the views presented by the UA-cam API are what are also used to show end users. All of the view fudging and aggregation will happen in the background before it's presented anywhere.
ikr
100%
Outside it’s exactly the title
it´s perfect for me
i thought the title and views is just luck and meant to confuse one person and i got so happy
Its a bot
@@AstroVisionProjector we can see u typed it 15 minutes ago, not 15 years
@@szelll *really???????????????*
hm yes
I just view this and did not add views at all
If the code breaks the code isn’t slipping, reality is
Yes
*Classic music starts playing*
ATTENTION THE CODE HAS BROKEN
@@hussainbedair7676 😔😭☺️😶☘️🤣😉😢🤩🤩😶🥒🥒👈
:{
It’s 💯 spot on in 2024!!
This is the most brilliant idea to get views ever created.
The best part is that it’s one of the best UA-cam videos I’ve seen in a long time
@@finestcustard5647 I'd definitely say is one of the best videos i've seen on youtube ever.
*This reply has exactly 1 like.*
@@arnaudj.5314 no
@@mohammadzanjani1060 👍👍
I will be back a year later to see if it's still 100%.
Edit : I'm impressed , still 100%.
Fax
yea
The script running it will get shutdown
It’d not
The script will run as long as Queen Elizabeth is still alive
The code hasn't broken yet, it's still perfect surprisingly
Mine has often been off by a couple hundred views.
It has broken
@@kratz_creed8427 what you mean
Mine is off by 39 views
I refreshed it and it’s back on track
2024 and it's still spot on!
It's incredible how comments made an hour ago are getting 1000s of likes
Ikr 😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣
Trying to get likes oh i see
Ikr
Not yours though
This was literally made an our ago-
I don’t like how exact it is and he’s saying it might not be exact
K tequila Joseph
“Tacos”
one time for me it wasn't exact, so yep
youtube sometimes lags
weebtrash I love your profile photo
It's not exact for me rn and the whole point was that over time the title will grow more inaccurate. It's only been 2 months
"If it's actually accurate then it'd be a miracle"
Title: Is accurate all the time for over a month
Kyrox Productions I ruined it it was perfect
Kyrox Productions It’s not accurate right now
Over a year*
nah 4 years
It still is accurate
You didn't search for this. Yt recommended it to you.
Honestly, this is the coolest “Monument” on UA-cam.
More like Easter Egg
Fun and Games apart from the 8 year old video that still has 301 views.
What about neutral response?
why does this have 666 likes I’m scared
“The title of this video won’t be exactly right”
Comments: *_are you sure about that_*
Lmao
I was gonna like but 900 looks better then 901
@@benjamingriffith4161 *are you sure about that*
Benjamin Griffith i respect that
I HATE YOU PEOPLE THAT COMMENT THESE
"The title of this video won't be exactly right"
I'm convinced UA-cam just operates on pure spite, because it's been exactly right for over a year now
It baffles me how seemingly no one seems to understand what Scott meant by saying that. The title is simply identical to the youtube's own viewcount, which doesn't keep track of views in real time, only every minute or so. Which means it isn't accurate, and therefore neither is the title.
@@MrSamulai exactly, so many people don't understand this.
@@MrSamulai I feel so stupid right now
Today I have witnessed the title of this video being wrong
What I mean is the UA-cam view count says the last theee digits being 288 but the title says 180
ITS RIGHT!!
Him: The title wont be exactly right,
The Title: Literally exactly right
Its because the way that youtube works with the views now
Its 300 views off
it's off now by like 300 views
@@ah1551 It's exactly right again.
@@seagull1311 its right now
I don't know why this got recommended to everyone all of a sudden, but it's unbelievable how it's still exact.
It’s broken
@@ashbyglenn5389 mine is 100% correct
You can actually stop your video's views count
@@terminatorgamingthen4369 no you can’t
when the views changes the title changes to that number
Seeing this 2 years later with complete accuracy even though he didn't think it would be is very uplifting
fr
I don't understand how this is possible
Trueeeee
Tru
I see
56,662,598 in title.
56,662,956 in description
That is scarily accurate, especially since I have seen this video 17 times and it was right on the money the other 16. That program is really good.
still correct 4 years later!
Well, in the south pole. its rare to find people with non-clickbait titles, you earned a penguin's respect
Penguins use smartphone Nowadays?
@@hansamitamajee1930 why not? it's 2020, you know...
@@hansamitamajee1930 Yea you can identify yourself as anything you want
Btw i am a *TREE*
So my experiment worked-_•
I love this comment
“If it’s spot on, it’s a miracle”
Here is your wish everyone! 👏
69 likes
😔 309 likes now
@Vaggod1 470 likes :(
@YoZnn 810 likes now
Yo I didn’t expect this to blow up
who else is always coming back to check if it’s still correct
I just exited and played it again, it ended in 702 ( the title) and the actual view count was 438. (The last three digits)
Me
Me
its correct now
I am
Still working and exact to the last character 73,104,088 on Nov. 4,2024
This has been recommended 3 times and hasn’t wrong once.
Sameee
I got wrong one
it’s wrong for me now 💔
It's only been three months, after a year or two it'll slip
Wow same broooooo
Came here for the title, left with a existential crisis.
Ikr
Same
funny seeing you here!
at least the code still works... :-)
Yep.
This feels like his final message to humanity before some secret organization got to him.
AAAAAAAAAAAAA
Could be
Who knows... Maybe students have to analyze his words in the future 👀
Would love to like but its at 911 likes
Fr
Spot on
If it’s 100% correct it’s a miracle.
Well Tom, its a miracle then.
Yep
Ikr
Nah the last digit is 4 not 3 for me 😅😅
This dude is a Matrix hacker
Ikr, as soon as i refreshed both the title and viewcount changed and it was exact
People are going to be amazed by this when they're recommended this in a couple of years.
And I will be here waiting
This video has 30 million views
@@GhostlyOnion After all this time?
Yup
poop
When you think the title is clickbait but it’s actually not:
What's the ":" for?
alie804 a typo?
alie804 misclicked?
Well it is clickbait because look at the description the views aren’t exactly the same??
Idk daddy
100% spot on!
"This title won't be exactly right. If the title will be spot on - it's a miracle"
Today, mother, I have witnessed a miracle.
Spot on for me too
Same
@@RashadSaleh92 same
Same
Same
Tom: Nevermind the code
*Us: MIND THE CODE, THE TITLE IS RIGHT*
YES
"If its actually 100% spot on its a miracle"
0:18
“If this is 100% correct, it’s a miracle”
Looks like miracles are happening
Amen
Pauline Vanchhawng no
@@ghstly5257 no what?
Pauline Vanchhawng no
@@smolboi522 no what?
It is spot on... crazy
Still 100% spot on, even more than a year after release.
Yea it's still now
@@babukajimaharjan2299 same
Yea
it still the same
Fr
"The code was never the important part"
Sounds like the pivotal part in a film where the protagonist has a deep realization.
Sounds like "I am always angry" but in matrix.
Wow stole my comment
The real code was inside us all along...
Someone's watching Westworld
The real matrix was the friends we made along the way
"It's a miracle if it's right"
It's literally exactly right
It's a miracle then
I was kinda blown when I checked up on it today
Hey same with mine!
I was so weirded out for a minute. (Not to mention, 3,203,203 seems like a bit too much of a patterned number)
kirjian right rn too
Exactly 72.902.713 views. Title is exactly correct for me
"If its actually 100% spot on it's a miracle."
Perfect for me
It's Perfect for me
Same
Same
Same
'sgood here
I’m actually surprised UA-cam hasn’t terminated this video yet,
Because that’s what they do to every cool video
Ya
:(
I want my 50 bucks
Spot on at the moment
This guy: "it won't be exactly right"
Title: *We dont do that here...*
Did you seriously call Tom Scott “this guy” ?
@@Jack-mu6ev JACK?!!?
@@annsofieisaksson3269 ANDROID?!?!?
@Muhammad Lo MUHAMMAD??
@@jakeramirez883 JAKE?!?
Tom: “The title of this video won’t be exactly right”
Me every time I come back to check it: ‘You lied to me’
I was about to say something similar
@The Tailor ツ bro nobody is changing this on purpose, have you watched the video?
It failed once for me
That's british people for you. Set our expectations low so they don't disappoint when they don't deliver
@@requiem165 Screenshot or it didn't happen.
“Just because something is going to break in the end doesn’t mean that it can’t have an effect that lasts into the future”
I needed this
I am a simple german. i see a bavarian, i like.
That effect is me spending nights trying to fix what just broke.
It’s literally spot onnn
This dude has the type of energy that a timetraveler would have
shungite
How do we tell him?
Shungite
i think ur onto something
Shungite
When the title is correct:
Impossible
I've seen it correct 20 times
the views and the title changes 0-0
Melissa Belmar Davis did you watch the video
@@lol_txch the owner of the vid has the setting to chang the numbers or they can pause the views
I know it cause iam a youtuber
"If the title is 100% spot on, then it's a miracle"
then is it just me or have i witnessed about 20 miracles so far
Aye me too
Right lmao
8y8x same
Flyingcat 655 it’s not actually
Aaayyy me too
Last time I saw this, it was at 30,000,000 + views and still today, it went up and still spot on
Tom: "It will break. *Eventually*. Nothing lasts forever."
Commenters: "One week later, it still works."
Tom: facepalm.
@Horizonshot Not necessarily. There's nothing wrong in the code, it's not something you can fix. Some day youtube will stop supporting a particular function, let's say, modifying the title of a video, or reading the number of views via code. Until that day, the code will read the number of views and write it in the title. Code doesn't "rot".
7314347 now...
Someone hasn't heard of the 320 view video
This is going to be the most viewed video on youtube
It still works! :O
This has been recommended to me twice, and the title has been exactly right both times. Tom, you clever clogs.
yep
It’s not right
It’s correct rn
Off for me.
It’s right atm
Tom: Title won’t be right
Title: Actually right
Tom: 🗿
4 years later and its still going actually insane
pov: you're refreshing aggressively to see the title change
🅿️🅿️
🅿️0️⃣0️⃣🅿️
🅿️0️⃣0️⃣
Did it change?
Maybe its really a miracle
k