I feel honored to see the title when it’s still exactly accurate and counting
Watching in 2024, the title was accurate to the exact view, crazy
I love how this video periodically gets recommended to us when the title is exactly right
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
At this point I would be more surprised if the title was wrong.
As of now its wrong the title says 32,870,178 while the actual views is 32,870,305
this keeps getting randomly recommended every now and then and its still always spot on
Who else keeps getting recommended this and seeing how much it goes up?
This guy's a genius. This video is the ultimate clickbait, except it isn't a clickbait!
It’s 100% right, at this moment, we miss you Tom.
This has to be the greatest timing of recommendation yet
If it’s 100% right then it’s a miracle
Everyone in the comments: I’ve witnessed a miracle
This video is getting so many views from people coming back to see if it’s still accurate
"If the title is 100 percent correct, its a miracle"
Seems like it's been a very long miracle
I checked the views 3 times. 1. Correct. 2. Incorrect (had more views). 3. Correct.
4 years later still spot on accurate.
Tom: “The title won’t be exactly right”
The Title: Exactly right
UA-cam: So you think you’re smart do you?
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
“The title will not be exactly spot on”
“That statement is exactly spot off”
four years later and it's still spot on
The title won’t be spot on, it’s a miracle if it is
The title: has always been spot on no matter what
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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
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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.
So according to him, this video will never stop being a miracle.
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
this is insane to me how it’s still working 4 years later
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.
Well, in the south pole. its rare to find people with non-clickbait titles, you earned a penguin's respect
@@hansamitamajee1930 Yea you can identify yourself as anything you want
Btw i am a *TREE*
People literally pushing UA-cam's limit no matter what.
Not really the limit, just a bot renaming the title to the video views in simple
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.
Tom: *says title will be a bit off*
Viewers: *reality is often disappointing*
"It's a miracle if it's right"
It's literally exactly right
I was so weirded out for a minute. (Not to mention, 3,203,203 seems like a bit too much of a patterned number)
4 years later and its still going actually insane
i thought the title and views is just luck and meant to confuse one person and i got so happy
This title went from a cool experiment to a massive flex.
Him: *I flexed on 20M people because I simply changed the title too: "This video has 20M views."*
Honestly, this is the coolest “Monument” on UA-cam.
Fun and Games apart from the 8 year old video that still has 301 views.
The title, once again, is perfectly correct
This has been recommended to me twice, and the title has been exactly right both times. Tom, you clever clogs.
"If it's actually accurate then it'd be a miracle"
Title: Is accurate all the time for over a month
This feels like his final message to humanity before some secret organization got to him.
Who knows... Maybe students have to analyze his words in the future 👀
this was a very wholesome video the number is still spot on
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
@@sherr6847 same still for me, maybe you guys caught it before it refreshed. Remember Tom said it doesn't refresh quickly
Fun fact: This title is probably the most refreshed title in all of UA-cam
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
You boys have any idea why did this video explode recently? Remember it being at 32m views like a week ago
4 years later and its STILL spot on everytime i rewatch the video
i did not expect this video to make me feel hopeful and warm inside. thank you so much, i'll make sure to rewatch it in the future when i feel down. the concept of entropy is the closest thing to a divine entity to me, so hear that humanities' goal is to defeat it changed my brain chemistry in a happy and motivated sort of way. even if your code breaks eventually, thank you for making this video. it had value to me
It's incredible how comments made an hour ago are getting 1000s of likes
(Updated) 1 year, 3 months, and 6 days later, and it’s still accurate.
@@danishahmed1029 well i mean... It started with 1 and from there it went on
4 years later, its still spot on
I just wasn't expecting something so deep and philosophical, you're a mad lad.
I don't know why this got recommended to everyone all of a sudden, but it's unbelievable how it's still exact.
I come back to this every time it comes up on my feed. I'm always hopeful that this serves as an entry into your videos for new viewers. DAMN good.
I will be back a year later to see if it's still 100%.
Edit : I'm impressed , still 100%.
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
spot on brother
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)
“The title of this video won’t be exactly right”
Comments: *_are you sure about that_*
4yrs later and it's still 100% accurate
Oh hey! We're on the recommended page again! Codes still good!
I was recommended this at 8.2 million. Then at 12m. Then at 18m. And finally 21m and now I’m finally watching it.
I’ve been here since around 100k and I’m astonished on how much it’s grown
Tom: “The title of this video won’t be exactly right”
Me every time I come back to check it: ‘You lied to me’
@The Tailor ツ bro nobody is changing this on purpose, have you watched the video?
That's british people for you. Set our expectations low so they don't disappoint when they don't deliver
"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.
ITS SPOT ON! I love how you did this. more people need to do thing like this!
When the title is correct:
Impossible
@@lol_txch the owner of the vid has the setting to chang the numbers or they can pause the views
Not sure how many times I’ve gotten this recommended but always cool to see
People are going to be amazed by this when they're recommended this in a couple of years.
The perfect title doesn’t exist
This video title: *Hold my codes*
The title and views were actually wrong for me
Edit:it just fixed itself.
I don’t like how exact it is and he’s saying it might not be exact
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
just popping by to say it still works
I'm watching this. And I'm noticing. This means something more than just code.
“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
"The code was never the important part"
Sounds like the pivotal part in a film where the protagonist has a deep realization.
Who's watching in October 2024?
The title says that it is 80 more views than it was 10-12 hours ago
“If it’s actually 100% spot on, it’s a miracle”
Its still 100% accuarate
@@nightcrawlerwagner9806 it's not try opening a video then coming back to it
"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
Tom scott is the kind of kid who sits in school never saying anything but doing the best presentations
I wonder if this is one of those videos where UA-cam themselves customized it to display a specific way? Like that Numberphile video about why UA-cam views stop at 301. And it seems like there's another one but I can't think of it off the top of my head.
Seeing this 2 years later with complete accuracy even though he didn't think it would be is very uplifting
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.
"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.
What I mean is the UA-cam view count says the last theee digits being 288 but the title says 180
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 :)
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
4 years later and it’s still accurate :D
It pops into my recommended and its exactly right so thats a W in my books.
Your Local FBI Agent If your my Local FBI Agent, do you know what I’ve been searching up right?
I feel like he’s a time traveler just dropping by every now and again to hit me with me some heavy life and coding facts.
Its the nostalgia that gets me. I completely forgot about all those coding "toys" back in the fun days of the internet.
"Don't bother refreshing and refreshing"
The true master of reverse psychology.
I got it spot on after one single refresh!
Guess it's more likely to get it right now that the video is years old and doesn't get as many concurrent views all the time.
It's still working, this code is way better than he actually thought.
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