For those wondering, this video is a remake of one of my oldest videos. It features new content, new production, and additional things to find. ;)

“Deepest corners of the internet”. Does that mean page 2 of google results?

Who knew Sailormoon saved a comapny and got someone fired at the same time.

I’m just imagining someone buying simcopter on Friday the 13th and having their first experience of it be...that

"Set the game to Friday the 13th" >Sets clock to Tuesday the 16th

The original idea of Gex actually sounds pretty cool

I knew an engineer for a company that made software for security systems. Their control center application had multiple languages, including "Canadian English". He added that language. It was just US English, except he put "Eh?" at the end of random lines. It took a few months for a customer to notice and when they called in to tech support it was hilarious. Poor guy, just had a bit of fun...

Normal company: we hide easter eggs in our code to prevent it from being stolen. Bethesda: we use hard to fix bugs

the last story reminded me of an easter egg / 'feature' that was left in to a demo copy of 'the sims'. the production budget from ea for the sims was drastically cut and it was expected to flop at e3 because no one saw a niche for a social simulator. the lead designers, after much debate, wanted the game to be family friendly and cut same-sex relationships. but, near the end of dev, a new employee was given old docs to work from, and accidentally re-added same-sex relationships. during the reveal of the game, which was far from ea's main stage, a live simulation of some pre-determined scenes with live encounters was played. during a wedding scene, two of the female invitees suddenly leaned in to make out. obviously, this made huge waves at e3 and no one could stop talking about the sims. so, the developers went with it and it made it to the final game with a bit of polish.

That last story was crazy haha could you imagine the look on the guys face when he pulled that picture of sailor moon up?😂

i can't believe it but someone managed to make a top 10 channel without rendering themselves completely intolerable

If the last one is true, then it would have been amazing to have been in that room to see this guys face going completely white as he was being exposed for fraud and theft, by a sailor moon picture easteregg.

I've actually played this version of "Show do Milhão" and the correct answer was "immense", it was actually a monthly subscription game the show was so popular they had to update the game every month. So in conclusion it's impossible to know exactly what version was that since many other games showed up cuz not everyone was able to afford approximately 17 dollars a month

I actually had the same situation as your last clip with a piece of software I scripted for a client while working for a multimedia department of a bigger company. It was a piece of software showing some locations on maps provided by the client. In short; I created a very very basic version of Google Maps. In beta, I also entered a map of a non existing country with very weird city names, popping up while looking for a very specific phrase in the search bar. After beta-testing I found it too clever and funny to remove (and it was not offending at all, just silly). Later my department was dissolved during a reorganisation. It was a very big mess and our client smelled a opportunity to save some money.He claimed we never created it. The company lost all track of us creating it during the reorganisation, so my old manager called me at my new job to see If I could remember creating the app. I could hear her grin on the phone when I told her about my childish easter-egg. Since it was already a court case, you could say the weird map was a pretty awesome silent witness.

There was another instance of the last thing, a knockoff printer had a code entered into it and printed out the names of all the developers in the middle of a court.

"We lost 3 months of revenue cuz of you" No you lost revenue cuz you thought that 7 words were worth stopping production entirely

If someone said "4 numbers and Sailor Moon saved my job" I would've called them crazy. But you showed me that it actually happened.

Like the last one. Was a smart unintended security measure most companies who program should use :)

The picture of sailor moon is a nice touch

“But someone did get fired, so I didn’t trick you” Lmao

Fun fact: Bethesda claimed that the Westworld Mobile Game basically took an older version of Fallout Shelter and basically gave it a reskin. Bethesda then proved it by doing a glitch in the Westworld Game, that was possible in an older copy of Fallout Shelter. "Beyond the surface similarities between how the two games look and play, Bethesda claims that there are programming bugs and defects that are present in both games. It cites as one example an apparent bug in the “demonstration” mode of the Westworld game. “Specifically, the view is out-of-focus and the scene that appears is far to the right and below the targeted landscape image,” the company writes. “It is as if a camera capturing the scene had been inadvertently pointed to the lower right foreground and then slowly refocuses on the central image. The identical problem appeared in initial versions of Fallout Shelter but was addressed before Fallout Shelter was released to the public.”"

That last one reminds me of cartographer’s use of paper towns. Fake towns, roads, etc. are sometimes added to maps so it can be proven if they were stolen. Google does the same thing to prevent their search engine being copied.

As a gamer, I go LOOKING for Easter Egg, programmers should be rewarded for the more obscure and difficulty in finding it!

I did the same thing as an editor of Game Informer magazine. I used the big letters at the start of each Classic GI retro game review to make little words. Nothing controversial, but it took about 6 issues before anyone higher than me even noticed.

The first one made me a little sad, because I want to go into game design, but I am reluctant to work in a team because I am 150% sure that they would say "that is a ridiculous idea, we're not doing it" even though the game would be my idea in this scenario. I actually refrain from telling people my ideas and just show them if I ever come through with it, because for me it's the easiest way to get something done and done on my standards. Almost every time I tell someone an idea (except for my dad) I get put down. Then they go on and say "this won't work because dududududu...(maybe laugh a little)" and I just think "DO YOU THINK THAT'S HOW THE GAME IS GONNA BE LIKE? WORD FOR WORD?" Instead I just say "yeah uh-huh okay", in that time I feel like leaving, but people will take it the wrong way so I can't, and on top of that I can't think on my feet so I am terrible at debates so I am unable to defend myself in these situations. I'm sure other people have these issues too.

The last clip reminds me of the recent news with the Westworld app, it had some obscure bug that was present in Bethesda's Fallout Shelter, which is how Bethesda was able to see they stole code from them. Maybe a beneficial bugs video or something?

Many years ago, I was writing software for the British stock market. My employer was not a fan of my work even though the app that I developed basically kept the company afloat. I left the company one step ahead of being fired and went to work for Microsoft in developer support. A few years later, I had a phone call from a dev that was trying to do a particularly odd thing with a grid control in a stock market app and it was very familiar. I had coded the special functionality myself. Fair enough, I thought. I told him how it worked. He told me that there was no way something that clunky could get into production code. I had him start my app, go to the about screen, press ctrl-h, alt-h, ctrl-h and he got to see a message that I had left for him - nothing scandalous, just a hidden message saying that I had coded the app.

The reason/excuse that Microsoft and the other big houses give as an excuse for a lack of Easter eggs in their software is due to government contracts. The belief is that Easter eggs can be considered to be security risks. Thus why we no longer have Clippy either.

Gex was gonna be stuntman before the stuntman game even came out.

To be fair, on Amiga's case it's their fault. You don't justfreaking recall 10k units for such a simple message. It's an easter egg that will be found by only a handful (especially when there was no internet) and won't give a damn about it.

I probably should have been fired for writing my name inside the driver's side rear door of thousands of Ford Edges and MKX's.

The hidden Gex text was basically just "Please call my boss and tell her to fire me".

I have done report development for a couple of different companies over the past decade. When asked to put the report in a spreadsheet I always add a tab for the query and an extra tab labeled "Do Not Use." It is always fun having a discussion with someone trying to find out what I had hidden on the tab. I've also used it to see if someone is taking credit for my work by hiding the tab or not removing it before slapping their name on the report.

You forget with the marvel one, he also had Kitty Pride's face cut off a sign so it said in big letters next to her "JEW"

There was a russian MS-DOS game inspired by TV show that included surnames of scientists working on top secret nuclear program. The player had to guess them letter by letter. They all had to be fired after the game went viral.

3:46 I used to love FedEX. Glad this never happened to me. Dude just TOSSED that TV over the fence, looked back, and kept walking. Wow.

about the show do milhão one its a lie, this is a urban legend that run through all the schools in 2001 but it's just a childrens story

2012-2015 I used to work for controller chaos - company that makes custom x box / playstation controllers. I was a tech / assembler. The work was repetative, boring, and underpaid. Me and several of the other techs took to writing or drawing things inside the controller casings. Anything from the mundane to the absolutely inappropriate. Dont know if any of them were ever found by the end user.

Oh, hey - I can confirm that last story as being true! The person who did it is someone I know from an IRC channel, and they've told the story in there at least twice according to my logs, most recently in 2015. All the details match, including the statement of having hidden something in every closed-source program they've ever written. So I can assure you it's real, the person in question is not someone who'd make up a whole story just like that.

"almost always usually viewed as time wasters". So almost always, or usually?

heh. Reminds me of an Easter Egg that I put in the product of a client that was really starting to p!$$ off my boss. This was back in the days of MS DOS The owner of our client was a big fan of the University of Michigan. With that in mind, I decided that the desktop background would be blue with yellow "M"s. He was happy with this, but obviously not enough to be less of a jerk. I was kinda annoyed because I had done some really innovative work on the software, using innovative functions and subroutines that I had originally developed on my own time, and modified specifically for the intricate project. So, for a minor bit of childish revenge, I created two more background screens. One was Ohio State themed, and the other was Michigan State themed. Those two colleges are MSU's kinda official rivals. I used a random number generator to set it up so that one of the alternate backgrounds would be used about 1% of the time. I'm almost disappointed that the two companies burned bridges later, because the bug report would have been amusing. "OK. We'll look into it. How do you reproduce the issue?"

About the brazilian game, I'm brazilian , and I never heard about this EE , and I also googled it about in Portuguese and I've found nothing, the show used to be very famous, if you ask any brazilian about this show, it will definitly know what it is, and because of this, this EE would be known by a great part of brazilians, if the EE was true, I think there would be at least one brazilian youtuber talking about it, that is not the case. I think the closer you will find about an Easter Egg and Brazil, it's the E.T one on cs_rio And great job about the video, +1 sub ;)

The last one is the equivalent of your friend changing up answers he got from you a bit so the teacher doesn’t think you cheated, but the teacher finds out because you got the same wrong answer

sailor moon,the supporter of good guys

The Slenderman in Gravity Falls Easter egg at the very beginning of the video is fake

I was fired for an easter egg too. We had a company intranet page with all of our ERP procedures and HR stuff etc... (It was all just basic HTML web page linking to documents) I was bored and made it so that the periods at the end of some sentences on the home page would link to goofy meme type pictures starring me (nothing NSFW). No one noticed for far too long, until I showed one friend, it spread like fire and everyone was hunting for more of my pics instead of working. I was fired pretty soon after for "Tampering with company property" (that i created?) and was asked to remove it, I did except for one I forgot, which was still there for like a year after i left. (It was for the best, less than 2 weeks later I found a job at almost twice the pay.) Cool video, but now I wonder how often this happens!

LOL THATS THE MOST JAMES MAY THING JAMES MAY COULD DO XD

When James May got fired. Oh no, anyway.

God, this is up there as one of my favorite channels, you REALLY deserve more popularity

I don't usually subscribe to a channel, but man, so few videos and yet so much quality and content. Nice.

The last one reminded me of a story I came across well over a decade ago. Someone (the person who submitted the story to the site referred to him as 'my boss') wrote programs for the Archimedes platform, and started selling a more popular one as a side business. Archie software was sold as source code, and then compiled locally. He was at an Archie conference and someone was touting a new program. 'My boss' studied it, and it was just like his, only the front end had been altered. So he pestered the sales drone into hitting a specific key combination.. and the original copyright notice came up. Sales drone wasn't aware of the perfidy and was shocked.. apparently it was the best joke of the conference.

I love Easter eggs, I particularly like the ones that are hard to open.

The last one reminds me of companies that make dictionaries and maps. Sometimes they will intentionally add a fake word or a street that doesn’t exist, so when another company rips off their version they can easily tell because it contains said fake word or street.

The last Egg, Cartographers, do the same thing, to protect there work.

There are examples in other industries of easter eggs being used to catch thieves. Dictionaries sometimes include ghost words or Nihilartikel to catch plagiarists that have simply copied the dictionary and are selling it as their own. There are also papertowns or trap streets on some maps; these are towns that don't actually exist or streets that aren't real to catch people copying maps. I'm sure it was a bigger issue back in the day when paper maps were popular.

With the last case it really makes you wonder if the guy who got fired was the true issue or if someone used him as the fall guy, either way at least it demonstrates that an easter egg can be useful that and I think its actually neat to find hidden extras in software or games so long as its not malicious e.x say a backdoor in some firmware or other nastyness.

That last one was really cool

can you point me to the forums where you found that last egg? I work for the microelectronics corporation and I heard that one guy who worked the sharonville call center back in the 90’s accidentally found the egg and panicked a bit.

1:35 *Good job finding this egg!*

Your hardwork with editing is astounding. All these fun short clips and even the panning and transitioning is amusing.

1:35 Why, thank you, I have good reflexes.

Hey dude, enjoyed the video! That last bit is actually a really good idea, throwing in a calling card so no one can steal your work! I once reprogrammed my companies entire part# database. The previous code must have been copied/pasted off some website, as there were big chunks that would repeat 4-5 times right after one another. The manager that had asked me to do this ended up giving credit to her recently hired husband and I was livid. Shit took like 2 weeks to sort out.

Respect to that SimCopter dude.

What would have been nice was a "what happened after that" or a "where are they now"

You said "Show do Milhão" and it sounded like you said "Show do Milho" Milhão is the portuguese for million Milho is the portuguese for corn Which means that "Show do Milho" would translate to "Corn Show" Also, seeing it as a brazilian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire", it would become "Who Wants to be a Corn Owner"

And what's ironic most of these game designers were actually right.

Heh, didn't think I'd ever see a "somenumber something that whatever" that's actually delivering. Good job.

I personally got fired from pilgrimages office for putting an Easter egg on their website. Psycho boss got angry and fired me. Funny thing is the Easter egg is on their website to this day.

2:05 thats an eastr egg right there.

About the last one. It reminded me of when I learned that map makers would implement fake roads somewhere random so they would know if other map making companies stole someone's work.

Someone mentioned the gravity falls thing is fake, but here's a fun little easter egg that totally wasted my time because my friend is obsessed with My Little Pony and just had to show this to me and it took her about 40 minutes to show me On episode 100 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (It hurts to even type the name) if you pause at a certain freeze frame you can find an image of all the directors wearing the rubber gag horse heads. I didn't believe her, and she showed me and it got a chuckle out of me. Only time I laughed at MLP. Apparently you can also find images of Bill Cipher throughout Rick and Morty so I thought that was pretty fun since Alex Hirsch and the creator of Rick and Morty are close friends

I love how you put awesome clips for visualising the things that you're talking about. Your videos are awesome, they give me the warm feelings of 2000s programs 😊

Sounds like Justin's easter egg didn't get him fired. Being right got him fired.

Never knew that about James May!

Just found you, and I love these Easter eggs, out of bounds and whatnot stuff. Keep it up!

“How dare you have fun which improves productivity”

4:07 Insane that they were forced to recall all those ROMS. That's toothpaste out the damn tube

My god I laugh so hard when I heard *Show do Milhao*, oh this is a classic that I used to play a lot. Unfortunately I never saw the Easter egg, and I don't have a copy of the game, and don't know if there's a download or something. But I know some one that probably can test this.

That last one was genius. You create a hidden easter egg as an extra layer of author passcode.

Can you imagine doing your own Easter egg to pretty much SAVE the company, semi-embarrass yourself (cause it’s funny) and then shortly after they’re like “Ehhhh yeaaahh... We’re gonna let you go buddy...”

Jesus christ i have been binging your videos for a solid 2 hours and i finally saw that you only had a few videos and only had 58k i thought this channel would have had millions of subs if i never checked

What a great channel!

Thanks for the content. And also thank you very much for making subtitles for the video, thanks to which I can use the translator built into KZfaq and enjoy your videos in a more or less tolerable translation

Didn't expect to see a clip of Kummeli in an oddheader video. Nice job!

A video on pokemon specific stuff could be cool. I know there's tons of stuff in those games. New subscriber btw, thanks for these interesting videos.

You're welcome my good man, great work on the video too :)

that last one reminds me of something i learned about maps a while ago now. every map that a company makes, like google maps etc, will actually make little innacuracies, or put random joke town names in the middle of nowhere. kinda like easter eggs but nowhere near as fun. these are put there specifically for the same situation that happened in that call management software. sometimes, if you make a map, another company could just copy your map instead of going out there and mapping the areas themselves, so in a lawsuit they could point out that the fake towns are still there, just like this guy finding the same easter egg in the reskinned software.

A lot of these clips are from my favourite shows, hahah. Some of them are pretty obscure too. You've got great taste in media!

Is 7:55 genuinely in windows 95 or is that just a joke program?

The last one kinda reminds me of how the westworld mobile game ended up having some of the same bugs as fallout shelter and that's how the realized they just ripped the games code and changed the textures.

lots of companies put easter eggs in their things to catch people trying to copy them.

Great video! Amazing, and informational. You're the best, odd!

As a Brazilian I really didn't expect to see Show do Milhão here 😂😂😂 The host would often make inappropriate jokes on his shows. Maybe he still does them, I don't know lol

That comic book easter egg makes me really sad. :(

That last one was freaking cool! Sailor Moon dishing out justice!

If you ever do another video of this, be sure to include the easter egg in Devotion-it's definitely the craziest one that I've ever seen! It caused the video game to be completely banned in China because it pissed off their leader, the game to be taken off of Steam, and the company is now in a very very difficult position.

Lovely video man better than the first edition

I almost lost my job at a bakery, when i was 19. All because I labeled a bread that had no actually label “lame bread” when my manager ask why I should keep my job and I should apologize to the customer who found it, I told her Kay, I can tell the customer sorry explained to her that I asked to not come in that day since they found my friend who been missing for 3 days dead hanged in his closet and was feeling distraught but they still told me to come into work because it’s not fair to the other workers and I should put in time for work like them. Had the most awkward pause. Ended up quitting months later thinking what a shitty work environment it was.

FANTASTIC WORK M8... always great content from your channel

That's really interesting about the last story. You're right that even if it's not true it's an amazing argument for including even super obscure easter eggs in all software -- they are kind of the perfect low-key digital watermark