On the subject of breaking YouTube information, you have most likely heard of MrBeast and his report of most subscribed particular person creator on the platform. MrBeast additionally as soon as held the report for many seen YouTube video in a 24-hour interval after one in all his uploads from August 2023 obtained almost 60 million views in a day.

MrBeast’s 24-hour view report would rapidly be bested by the long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI trailer which dropped simply this previous December. The GTA 6 trailer garnered greater than 74 million views to seize that report from MrBeast.

Nevertheless it looks like nobody shall be breaking the brand new record-holders view depend any time quickly.

On Monday, April 1st, 2024, the favored messaging platform Discord dropped a video asserting a brand new “Loot Containers” function. Whereas the “function” existed, Discord wasn’t severe about it. It was an April Fools’ Day joke. Discord Loot Containers have already been faraway from the platform.

However, one way or the other, Discord’s 18-second April Fools’ Loot Containers video obtained a couple of billion views in a 24 hour interval.

Sure, you learn that appropriately. One billion views.

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The video obtained so many views, it truly acquired caught at 628 million views at across the 16-hour mark as YouTube struggled to maintain up with the depend earlier than updating to 1.4 billion at across the 24-hour mark.

To actually drive this new report residence, Discord beat the report by round 1.3 billion views.

How did this occur?

So, how did Discord obtain this not possible feat?

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The corporate is being coy about it on social media, posting “oops” on Elon Musk’s social media platform X on Tuesday in a obscure reference to the video. Discord additionally posted a couple of snarky replies to some customers who commented on the publish.

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Mashable reached out to each Discord and YouTube for remark however have but to listen to again from both firm. We are going to replace this piece if we do.

Nevertheless, one software program developer named Marvin Witt shared a really convincing breakdown of what seemingly occurred. Mainly, it seems Discord might have by chance (or purposefully?) created a “working YouTube view bot” as Witt described it in a thread on X.

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This is what went down

When Discord pushes out a brand new function, the platform typically pushes out a pop-up announcement for customers on the underside right-hand nook of each the desktop app and internet app.

Discord did this for the Loot Field joke function on April Fools’ Day. Witt shared a screenshot of the pop-up. Mashable may verify that we noticed this pop-up when logging into Discord on Monday morning.

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In response to Witt, who additionally runs an impartial information and updates useful resource about Discord, the Loot Field video from Discord was embedded on this pop-up by way of an iframe. 

“Loot Containers have arrived!” the pop-up reads.

Nevertheless, as Witt reveals, the YouTube video was not viewable for customers until they hovered their mouse over the pop-up message, wherein case the video would then pop-up from the message like toast in a toaster oven.

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Discord’s 18-second YouTube video was apparently auto-playing on loop within the background of the app whereas customers spent numerous hours messaging their associates and even simply letting their laptop idle.

So, that leaves yet another query: Did Discord do that on function?

There’s some fairly convincing proof from Witt that it was certainly an accident.

On his X account, Witt posted a screenshot of a Discord publish from a “excessive up developer” working on the firm from April 1st.

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“How the fuck is that this video getting so many views,” it says.

Later within the day, some customers began to note that the pop-up’s code within the Discord app had been modified to repair the problem, switching from the YouTube video to a video file. Nevertheless, as Witt famous, lots of the views have been coming from customers who saved Discord open and weren’t actively utilizing the app, which means the issue would stay till these customers up to date the app, or the pop-up message not appeared as a result of April Fools’ Day was over.

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The Discord Loot Field video will seemingly grow to be the supply of a lot debate inside the YouTuber neighborhood too, since there’ll inevitably be controversy about whether or not the report ought to depend. Even when it does, there’s more likely to be an enormous asterisk on this report.

Both method, Discord got down to idiot everybody on April Fools’ Day. It seems they did that, however not within the precise method they’d deliberate.