*"And then he said to the glitch man "i want to learn how to discover glitches", but the glitch man didn't answer, he just kept on glitching"*

1:06 "Glitches'n'stuff has been discovering glitches for over a decade." Okay, but how long has he been discovering stuff?

That wall of names is pretty powerful. The amount of dedication in the community is so amazing!

Thanks for correctly explaining the situation surrounding the ToT skip. Some people outside of the OoT speedrunning community tried to make out there was some kind of credit war surrounding the trick which was never the case. When it reality their was some animosity from some in the speedrunning community who were trying to make out that I kept the trick secret in bad faith. Not realising that the TASing community works differently where people prefer to see such discoveries implemented in a final run. Nowadays given both communities have more or less merged. I would have made my findings public right away.

Dude, you got me shivering when the nicknames started to appear one by one.

Maybe the real glitch hunters were the friends we made along the way.

great stuff. So many memories rushing at me from that final screen :)

Loved this. I recognized some names at the end; they are some real epic people!

In the 90’s I loved randomly finding glitches, it was like a side quest to every game. Was huge into glitches. Eventually middle school & high school came along, and some party days after. The past year, I came back to this. Speedrunning and glitching. Missed you guys. Can’t believe how big the community is and I couldn’t be happier.

Wow, I wasn't expecting to find my name on the list at the end. As someone who loves finding new things in the games but doesn't really speedrun anything it felt so nice to be included in that group of people. Thank you Gymnast!

so glitch hunting is like the scientific breakthroughs, huh? At the end, everything we take for granted has been studied and discovered by thousands of other people, each relying on the knowledge of the previous one.

I've been wondering about this very thing for years

I did not expect to see my name to pop up at the end, but seeing it appear there was the most amazing feeling. I had no idea it would feel this good to get recognized for the effort put in. Thanks for an amazing video, and thanks to all the glitch hunters out there!

This is such a wonderful video. I can't put into words how incredibly proud I am of everyone in this community. Glitch hunting comes from a pure passion and love of what we do. The thrill of discovering something new about a game, and the excitement of sharing it with others. But what makes it so so special is the collaborations and friendships that we look back on. Those names at the end... some still active, some no longer with us. But to each and every person on that list we owe so much. There is so much history behind every single one of them, both for speedrunning as a whole and for my personal journey. These are the people who have made me who I am today and I cannot be more grateful. Thank you so much gymnast for making this amazing video

It's also worth mentioning that a lot of the attitude of glitch-hunting has its roots in videogame Quality Assurance (also known as bugtesting). In QA, you are expected and encouraged to try and break whatever game you're working on. Yes, you're expected to play the game as intended, and make sure everything works as intended. But you're also expected to poke and prod every corner of the game, to make sure nothing was overlooked. To make sure there aren't areas of a level with no collision, for example. Or to make sure that a certain combination of behaviours doesn't cause the game to come apart at the seams. A good QA tester needs the mindset of a scientist. You poke and prod a game's systems, until you notice something unusual occurring (a glitch). Then you try to replicate the unusual behaviour. Then you test every permutation of the initial conditions, to see where and when the unusual behaviour occurs. By doing this, you can start to pinpoint what the actual cause of the behaviour is. The difference between a QA tester and a speedrunner, is that the tester is trying to pinpoint the fault so it can fixed by the developers. Speedrunners, meanwhile, are trying to pinpoint the fault to help them understand the underlying logic of how the game works. Because that knowledge can help them predict where else the glitch might occur in the game, allowing a glitch found in one part of the game to be exploited to greater effect elsewhere. Also, if you practise glitch-hunting (or QA) for a while, you'll start to learn which parts of games are the most fragile and prone to errors. Almost anything to do with physics modelling tends to be full of glitches, for example. Because most systems for detecting collisions between objects, and modelling momentum, are reliant on all kinds of approximations for the sake of speed and efficiency. So there are often all sorts of rare edge-cases that produce bizarre behaviour, which a speedrunner can exploit.

The funniest thing is when someone accidentally discovered a big glitch during a run that ends up making it a wr.

You crazy lad with your anime "power of community" stuff, you had me genuinely crying at that last part. I'm no speedrunner nor glitch hunter, I'm just a fella who really loves videogames, but that last part of the video really had the sense of community around these games hit me like a truck. This was an insanely cool video that provided excellent examples as answers to a question that many of us asked ourselves through years of watching people do the impossible to finish games as fast as possible, and I'm not sure if I'm exaggerating when I say that this video is a love letter to the gaming community as a whole. Give yourself a pat on the back, Gymnast, I believe that I'm not alone when I say that you did a really good job with this.

That ending was incredible. Glitch hunting is one of the most unsung roles in speedrunning, so it's really cool to see a video dedicated to it with even just a fraction of the names involved.

"If I have seen further than others, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." -Isaac Newton

I remember when WWHD was released and everyone got disappointed to find out that the Wind Waker Dive (at the time the only known practical way of getting Superswim) had been patched... And then Item Sliding was discovered. It was only made more amazing by the fact that it was such a simple trick that it felt like it had been right in front of us the entire time.

WHEN THE NAMES APPEARED ONE BY ONE OMG I ALMOST CRIED

This video really hits home as a glitch hunter. My short time of glitch hunting with skater during ledge clip discovery and also the master quest stuff was a really awesome time and proud that I was a part of it. Its so much fun trying to push a game to its limits and finding new things. i see glitch hunting as a puzzle without a reference image, you need to try different pieces, combine two or more pieces that might not work, another person might have that piece your missing, its a big community effort to glitch hunt. To everyone i've glitch hunted with, thank you and keep being awesome!

7:04 Imagine that feeling. The realization that, you not only found something, not only something big, but you found something that makes you think, on the spot, that you just "killed" the game right then and there

I think this is the first time I actually understood what exactly SRM is.

Glitches are rarely intentionally found, and that just makes them even more legendary

we all know that it is gonna be a good video

“It my name was on the end of the video, I would’ve been damn proud of myself.” That is what I thought after finishing this video, and in the future when I decide to dedicate myself to something, I’ll look forward towards getting such recognition from others. Thank you for the video

What's really disappointing is when you find a really cool skip in a game but it's barely slower than current strat so it's not used at all this actually happened to me when I found a really cool skip in ghostrunner to unload a part of a level that you spawn into then you can just jump through some walls to the end but it was only 4 secs slower than the current strategy for the level so it's not used at all even though it would be a much easier strat to learn and execute

It happens when your mind goes "Hmmmm I wonder what happens if i..." when you are playing a game

Hell yeah, been waiting for a new upload!

I love seeing all the recognition at the end. Thank you so much for recognizing such an amazing group of people!

It's the speedrunners mother's. They tell they moms they can't find any glitches, and them the mother uses theirs mother power to find the glitches

Honestly, at 13:30 I started crying. I love seeing the community show its love and support for its members, and it reminds me of how large of a community we are.

Link really be smoveing at the beginning

The intersection between speed running and computer science is fascinating

6:56 Susslord 📮

I clicked so fast, I traveled at least 4 parallel universe

That ending was very powerful, with Gym's voice, the Skyward Sword music and all the names appearing almost moving me to tears. Got serious goosebumps from that! Thank you glitch hunters, and thank you Lowest Percent!

so glad that GNS is getting the real credit he deserves. he has been the most vital part of the zelda speed running community for a long time. his glitch hunting skills has brought oot/mm speed running, not to mention so many other games, to be very optimized.

your ability to tell an engaging narrative, and the quality of your production are really exceptional. Being able to pull out a strong emotive thread from what could have been a more dry and technical topic is a real talent

Very well put together video! I'm glad you ran the point home that it's a community effort to get where things are today with glitches and speedrunning. No matter how many years go by, no matter how big or small a find may be, each person has a part played in the bigger picture of the amazing achievements we see today in Speedruns.

question: who's getting the silver play button?

Finally, someone who will answer the question I've been asking for YEARS

Gosh, what an amazing video, It touched me a lot to see so many names I know at the end of the video. So many people that can be active or inactive now, that I am following or have followed for so many years... Thanks for this !

Maybe this video topic could be turned into a miniseries where the different Lowest Percent commentators each do different case studies on glitch hunters from their own area of expertise and could possibly be continued into games that they aren’t experts in and instead they do research into other games’ glitch hunters

Finally I would get confused how someone would figure out how to do a glitch

This video is beautiful. My heart was warmed at us being in the credits at the end. Brought a tear to my eye, really. I just want to thank the community for consisting of such amazing people, you always never fail to make us feel loved and laugh a lot. Here's to a lot more great things happening in the glitch hunting and speedrunning community!

I love your narration!! You use such a particular inflection & enunciate very clearly... it's super nice to listen to :)

Glad to see u guys are back, love your channel!

Nothing like being the first among millions of players to find a new glitch, technique or sequence break. Hopefully this video inspires others to start glitch hunting.

The sequence with the names popping in is freaking beautiful Who could've known that, what's basically a PowerPoint slide, can be executed so perfectly to induce tears when there's one obvious place for a name to go, somewhere completely outside of the established area of the screen a new name pops up and many more follow quickly after *chef's kiss

Ngl you’re one of my favorite channels I’m not even that much into speedruns but the way that this channel just kinda tells me a story while also bringing those runners in to tell said story just feels like you’re bringing the community even closer together and bringing even more into the community like me

Every single speedrun stands on the shoulders of legends.

Maybe the real speedrun WR is the friends we made along the way.

The wall of names, the whole speech, and especially the thank you reeeeaaaallly pulled at my heart strings. God damn

Excellent video! Love these videos going into how the routes & how things are done are explained, & hearing about what was necessary to do what, & hearing who found what! Thanks again for uploading! Super eager for your next video!

Ocarina of Time was my first Zelda game, and I loved it, but little kid me was terrified of a lot of the enemies and spooky music in the game. I remember going to the Temple of Time out of desperation to get through he door somehow (and because I knew it was one of the few peaceful areas in the game) and I noticed the tiny gap too. I looked up a video to see if I could get past it and tried to replicate it myself, but I only managed to fall in the void once. Haha, good times.

11:34, Take a shot everytime he says "Time"

This channel is so cool, I was already following quite a few of the creators on here so it’s cool to see a combined effort. Gymnast is such a good runner and does an awesome job at explaining stuff. I will probably never do a speedrun myself but these documentary type videos on how a run works is super interesting to me

I really love that you included all those names at the end there. Even though I am only a viewer, I still love being related to this community in my very small way. Also, great video! It is really nice to learn the history of some of the glitches I've grown accustomed to seeing and playing with.

Man gymnast has been the MVP of Lowest Percent so far. Keep it up!

There's a glitch I personally discovered in Darksiders 1, which after a year or two of initially finding it, I decided to see if anyone else also found it. Turns out one person did a few years before I did and uploaded a video of it, but it didn't really have any views. I love hearing about things that two people independently discover without any knowledge of the other person or their findings, and come to the same conclusion. It's almost like in our real world history where every culture on earth just decided to let fruit rot then crush it down and they got happy juice from it, and most independent of each other (look at the Americas). Or like how Chrome in Dr. Stone, despite essentially toying around with stuff he finds around, creates primitive inventions that Senku explains were made before (and at far further technological states than where Chrome's tribe was at), and was impressed that he was able to do it without any foreknowledge of the inventions. Speedrunning history is so much fun to look at.

Showing all the names at the end was truly beautiful. I'm not even that big of a speedrunner myself, and I still recognised a few of them! Fantastic work!

this is what makes speedrunning so great, all the different communities coming together to try and beat the game as fast as possible, it’s a beautiful thing

So wholesome, my heart is melting rn

I honestly keep checking back to see if you've put out more videos, I really love these. The first one I saw recently got me obsessed with speedrunning.. I always knew it was a thing but I didnt know there was so much to it, it's so interesting and fun

This video was fantastic. 👏 I've contributed to finding many glitches in games and it is often hard for non-speedrun people to understand the time and effort put into this hobby. Thank you so much for making this video as it demonstrates how awesome it is to explore the world of video games (and break them). 😁

This is starting to become my new favorite KZfaq channel. Keep it up guys, you‘re doing an outstanding job!

Nah, Girtana was sliding because of Joy-con drift.

Did homeboy just pronounce it ”jerudo?”

I so love these videos. You guys do an awesome job. It's unbelievable what you guys do, both glitch hunters and speed runners. Kudos to everyone!

Great video! It's been real fun watching OoT progress throughout the years. 😎

ive always wondered how people find these glitches... thanks for telling us!

glitch hunters sound like some mythical legends from ancient time they changed the world as we know it

love this video! great work gymnast! my favorite lowest percent vid!

Very cool video :) the ending was beautiful and had me almost teared up :D I love this and I hope that people like you will get mor recognition in the future

Yeah I was wondering how people press X and then jump in the void with frame perfect spot. Then after reloading holds a bomb and then uses a bow to shoot a wall and that arrow goes through the wall while holding zl at the same times. After pressing and then press the map to wrong warp to the final boss room.

The ending giving feels to anyone?

i am legitimately tearing up at the wall of names. like, the video was already awesome, but the mass credit, especially of people who weren't mentioned in the video itself? it's that spirit of cooperation and respect for everything and everyone that goes into a run that has me absolutely in love with speedrunning and the community.

I sometimes tear up a little seeing how passionate of an ambition/hobby speedrunning is. The fact that glitch hunting and speedrunning and all of this are older than I am and that some of these discoveries were made before I was even born is amazing to me.

I don't know how this got so wholesome at the end or why I'm crying

Can't believe controller drift caused one of the biggest discoveries in zelda speedrunning

This is by far my favorite video you guys have made

This has the quality of a documentary, amazing script, editing, amazing video, got me subscribed.

I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!! SO GLAD YOU UPLOADED

If it’s a sonic 06 speedrun, then everybody found the glitch

This channel introduced me to gymnast, and I have never gone back. Thank you!

I send a hug to every single glitch hunter, you peeps blow my mind. I've been thinking about finding glitches on my own but I don't know where to ever start.

For a second I thought you guys forgot the password of this account

Apart from just "trying random things", if you can crack the game code you can search bugs there too. (best example is minecraft)

Awesome video, a beautiful tribute to this amazing communities of speedrunners, glitchhunters and so many more :)

people coming together to find these glitches is one of the coolest things ever. I genuinely love watching speedrunning so much.

cool video but in the end the video tried to make look as if speedrunning is something important to the world lol

Hey what is that song called at 13:45 I've heard it everywhere but don't know what it it is

Such a good ending. Thank you guys for all the effort you put into this. I’ve loved glitches in video games my whole life and it’s great to see some real recognition put on the people that do it.

I love the wall of honor at the end, what a fantastic way to tie everything together by showing just how many people work together to make the games we run and watch exciting.

It pains me how gymnast pronounces gerudo with a soft g.

6:40 Joycon drift is a real problem, Nintendo.

Good Lord, this was so good! Although I've watched some speedruns in the past, never even imagined I would be amazed by this kind of stuff. It feels almost like a scientist paper, it's overwhelming the amount of hard work involved into this. Cheers to all the people who feels passionate about this world, they are true science researchers. And congrats to you, the video really transmitted the love you feel for this world, I enjoyed every minute.

That ending was amazing and highly appreciated. It made a tad emotional seeing so many people given reconization for something you didn't even need to include. Way too often the people who don't make the final big thing are left forgotten. You earned a subscriber.