How Discord Accidentally BROKE YouTube

Discord introduced loot boxes for their April Fools Day prank. In the process, however, they accidentally created one of the biggest YouTube viewbots in history, breaking YouTube guidelines and setting a record for most video views in 24 hours. How did Discord get a billion views in such a short amount of time?

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[FinsterRoblox]

The fact that it replayed over and over again on mistake still gets me 😭

[richard]

The funniest part is that not a single dev thought this would happen when they added the video to discord, I imagine they accidentally made it repeat indefinitely and it was only supposed to play once

[Jonathan_Collins]

When a prank sends YouTube staff into a frenzy, you know it's a good prank.

[PlayerOne.StartGame]

Discord: *Makes a YouTube viewbot*

MrBeast fake channels: "Our battle will be legendary!"

[BitTaco.]

I can’t believe an April Fools video accidentally broke several YouTube records

[richard]

This has to be the funniest April fools event of this year, it managed to even surpass skibidi toilet on trending

[captaintheanims]

It’s so shocking to me that discord accidentally broke a record because of one april fools video

[PlayerOne.StartGame]

Interestingly, the video likely didn't really make any money, due to embeds not having ads on them, thus indirectly costing YouTube even more than hosting a 600 million view video normally would.

[FourPlushie]

Its a once in a lifetime to see a company managed to break another company

[Jonathan_Collins]

For April Fools they went the full nine yards and gave us two broken websites.

[sashamurashi]

The fact this wasn't planned makes it all the more funnier

[jare]

for a second thought, this was about YouTube activity on Discord still being a buggy mess (me and my friends can type out a full YouTube video name still not find video we want)

[the_mr_clean]

Imagine you’re at the Discord company seeing 1.4 billion views on an April Fools video 💀

[KeebeThePlush]

How ironic that this happened on April fools of all things

[skyenight-byyh]

Wow, a *billion* views in just 24 hours. That’s gotta be a new YouTube viewing *RECORD!*

[LivingFire_BurningFlame]

What do you guys mean? OBVIOUSLY everyone just loves lootboxes and discord updates so very much that they watched it over a billion times in anticipation of it~

[kirbykirbykirby.]

*I couldn't believe this **_wasn't_** an April Fools prank!*

[headegg]

At first, I thought this meant YouTube stopped working temporarily.

[maxordman]

Totally wild! You always deliver the wildest scoops! That sounds like quite the April fools event! Sorry I missed it but I will certainly look it up when I have time.

[valorvid]

I love how you put on the stand users!