This Youtube Iceberg Explained

Shoutout to recent_silver8509 for making this iceberg, It's really interesting.

This video is for educational purposes. It's purpose is to document and explain pieces of YouTube's history and lore.

[gregatim]

the "？！" video can't be searched because those exclamation points are using the Japanese kana format ( for reference see how those 2 are different "?!" from the English setting, and here is the kana setting "？！" ), basically, they're different formats in the code (and also visibly), and google forgot this and used the normal format instead, youtube then doesn't read the ？ and ！ making the searchbar see it has invalid and empty, but youtube code see the string of invalid characters there as something and try to search for the video, but it doesn't find, making the video essentially unlisted from youtube.

[metaloom]

Longest ad I've ever seen was about 2 hours and it was literally the entire lego movie

[carletonfisher]

Tip of the iceberg: literal footage of a suicide victim...
Way lower: mariokart wii

[richierios]

“Im going to get some of that Minecraft gameplay to help lighten the mood”

Sound of a true gamer

[thatonehandguy]

someone probably commented this already but asuba bawana was an entry on the iceberg that was skipped.
basically the search term “asuba bawana” brings up multiple obscure videos with disturbing thumbnails. sometimes these videos consist of something unattractive or gross or sometimes even gore.
apparently asuba bawana is a buddhist meditation practice that is supposed to get rid of lustful thoughts by viewing something disturbing or gross.

[FableLFS]

Bruh mans is playing minecraft peacefully while talking about kidnapping, suicide forests and a channel named 666...

[realbytezo]

Top of the iceberg: Suicide victims, abductions, gore.

Bottom of the iceberg: mariokart, zoo guy, monke haters.

[louisalzate]

i like how when he reads out "monke hate" the joyful music stops playing

[aylaclem]

i love how people always say 'probably fake' but the world is so big and messed up that you never know

[michaelroy]

Ah yes, my favourite nursery rhyme: *monkee destroy animals at full speed*

[Miumiu]

The fact that someone has to debunk the "medieval found footage" is hilariously sad.

[vellerisyy]

"extremely disturbing"
*monke with text saying "i are other beby"*

[poltermist]

The “.” actually refers to a much deeper thing. Youtube removed it but a few years ago if you searched it autocomplete options would appear. they were mostly jumbled characters and zalgo and some were random emojis. The emoji ones would lead you to videos like “SUMMONING DAME TU COSITA 3AM” and other garbage like that. But the jumbled garbage actually lead to some really creepy videos of shadow people dragging children into the forest. They were mostly those but some were more creepy.

[coolskr]

I'll add to the iceberg that there's also a decent sized community of fake animal rescue videos: basically, they pretty much abuse an animal and then pretend to "rescue" it. You can tell it's the same one as they use it in multiple videos, but keeps coming back in worse condition, some of them end up dying which is then docummented by a "out rescued dog/cat/squirrel/whatever died" video. Youtube doesn't do much to them because these videos technically still don't contain animal abuse, just an abused animal being rescued. A lot of these channels also come from third world/middle eastern/middle asian countries, which don't have strict animal abuse laws, so pretty much most of them don't face any consequences. (But sure, spend your time demonetizing people for saying "fuck" instead, that's way worse than any of these channels :/)

[Kindred_Lamb]

Remember being a 13-14 year old thinking that creepy pastas were just the scariest shit and biggest problem you have ever faced in your life?

[tweaker.carlean]

i got a fucking heart attact when the guy started laughing

[eskibileyci]

24:19 hardest beat drop of all my life, gives me chills

[kingchriswell]

10%-focusing in the iceberg
90%-focusing in the minecraft gameplay

[marrcoke]

the 5 hour ad story reminds me of the story about how The Lego Movie 2 got advertised by putting the entirety of the first movie as a YouTube ad.

[whatareyousmilingatbro]

youtube kids is more scary then dark web