Self-aware Video: it knows its own YouTube Video ID?

This video contains its own Video ID.

After I uploaded the video I found out it has been done before:

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[LiveOverflow]

I actually made this video in 2018, because I thought I discovered something cool. But after I made the video I noticed other people have done it before me :D so I never published it. Haxember is a good reason to share it now :)

[kennyotsu]

Nice try, now return the Time Stone to Mr. Strange, please. He's waiting.

[MK]

you reuploaded this video until it matched

[pngyy]

Me, on the mobile app, trusting everything this man says without being able to check the video id

[theCodyReeder]

This inspires me to make a video showing the winning power ball lottery number a week in advance.

[totallyxstylerx]

Changed the comment so idk what r u all talking about

[Kitulous]

Now create a video that contains its own MD5 and SHA1 hashes.

[lordtony]

That is the most lowercase "g" looking "9" I've ever seen.

[alexnefi]

Short and concise. Thank you for not trying to stretch the video to 10 minutes.

[rdalbum]

The "concatenate parts of a media file on the fly" trick is used by podcast servers, so if you listen to a 3-year-old iHeartRadio podcast it'll have current advertisements in it. The ads are concatenated into the stream as it is sent from the server to you.

[Basieeee]

This video was particularly chill somehow.

[jibster]

Fun fact: there are companies that offer services of random numbers by recording a continous bunch of kittens and lava lamps etc. And converting the image files each frame to a number.

Also the randomness of youtube IDs are really important because otherwise you can determine where to find unlisted videos if you were to try hard enough.

[Edit: Changed private to unlisted, mistake on my part]

[thecolonel]

Its quite simple: The solution is to think of Time, not in a straight line, but as a big ball of wibbley wobbley, timey wimey, stuff.

[Aleyfox]

I've had the idea once, but never could realize it. Great to see someone who attempted this

[MattCookesurl]

When you mentioned the importance of truly random numbers I was hoping you would gives some examples like cloudflare's lava lamps or some other fun ways companies have generated their random numbers

[nuclearcatpotatoe]

The "magic trick" is neat, but i was happily impressed by how cool the method behind it was! Beginning to upload a video, then editing and creating a new video whilst that is uploading and swapping to the new video mid upload! The first 10 seconds are 1 video, and then its seamlessly switched to a completely different file!

[Maximus_-qczt]

0:57
“So did I predict the ID? Well actually, no. The answer is surprisingly simple.”

[wambo]

This Video-ID seems to contain 'Thc', feeling high already.

[smidge-J]

I saw this in a book once. The book contained it's own isbn( international standard book number) number.

I'm pretty sure the book was brainjack by Brian Faulkner. Though I could be wrong

[rubenlarochelle]

I thought he did a live stream, recorded the ID part live, then left the whole live on as a video and, finally, used YouTube Studio to cut some portions of the video out.
So I went to the video description to check but no, it was uploaded as a video. Well done sir, well done.