Lud held onto his mic for 43% of this video

oops

Interestingly, the video likely didn't really make any money, due to embeds not having ads on them, thus indirectly costing KZfaq even more than hosting a 600 million view video normally would.

hey ludwig that mic had a stand attached to it you don't have to hold it

0:54 Lily catching strays 💀💀💀

Between Discord accidentally viewbotting their way to a world record, Landfall releasing their own version of Lethal Company, and Team Cherry revealing the Xbox store page and ESRB rating for Hollow Knight Silksong, this has definitely been one of the more whacky April Fools days that I've experienced.

I have the unfortunate situation of my birthday being April 1st. I get the "haha your life is a joke" comment about 3 times a year.

This is like when fextralife embedded their stream into their wiki but this worked way better

6:00 - Just an FYI - KZfaq would only transmit the video a single time to each user, the player will cache the video (particularly one that short), so it can loop it forever without transmitting much data, but the counter still ticks up every loop. It's still likely been sent to a few million people who would never have clicked on it though. Also, I don't think it was monetized, so it's unlikely that there's really all that much damage involved here, other than them setting a record that no one's going to break (since presumably KZfaq is going to be pretty upset with whoever pulls something like that again, else everyone will do it.. imagine Microsoft having a popup background video player in Windows, so that every single person on the planet with a Windows PC and access to KZfaq burns through thousands of loops a day).

I feel like ive been fooled, i asked for mogul mail and i got ludwig.

Ludwig, as a content creator that makes short clips, that video is not in the shorts category but in normal videos, and normal videos don't get ads until they're above 30 seconds, so that video probably hasn't even made 10 dollars.

This seems like an unintentional loophole exploit from Discord. Unfortunate for Mr Beast, but it brings in an interesting point about how views on KZfaq can be artificially inflated. There should be a threshold for repetitive views from the same user on a single video.

The best jokes are always the unintended ones. This one and the Volkswagen to Voltswagen saying this is not a joke then getting sued for it

I wrote the music in this Discord video. To think a track I wrote in 30 mins is now one of the most viewed on youtube is INSANE.

it now has 1.4 billion views btw. it's been 23 hours till release. holy shit

Discord devs not knowing how youtube views work is honestly one of the least surprising things i’ve heard

My buddy was so stoked about this... showed me it. Got all the lootboxes and all he has to show for it is a Clown frame for his profile picture.

Dude, I didn't even register what this was when it popped up yesterday, let alone that it was an April Fools joke. Discord's self-advertising with nitro and shopping have efficiently conditioned me to automatically dismiss their popups without even thinking lol

The best April Fools joke was when Dan Harmon tweeted that Rick & Morty Season 3 was premiering on Adult Swim that day. Then Rick & Morty Season 3 actually premiered on Adult Swim that day.

I love that the Dev is just confused. 🤣

I think your enjoyment of April Fool's day depends completely on the people whose jokes you're exposed to. Everyone I've interacted with today made great jokes

As far as i know embedded youtube videos on other sites aren't supposed to count for views anymore. So it's understandable that the discord devs were confused. It's litteraly not supposed to be able to give them views on the video.

0:50 This is legitimately the worst.

Hard to say if it's just because I was a young bright-eyed kid then but I remember liking April's fools day a lot up until around high school. I feel like the fun parts of it are irl pranks (changing the time on a clock, a teacher having a gag pop quiz, so on), and it's really the social media age that has sucked the fun out of it.

for the record, based on the video size at the vp9 encoded 1080p (some views will be lower so keep that in mind) at 1.4 Billion views as of now, it used about 4.3 petabytes of data. this doesn't include audio, or the various extra bandwidth used by youtube's extra features, and google's tracking stuff. so it's likely the number would be closer to 5 petabytes of data, in a day, or nearly 57 Gigabytes per second, half a terabit per second, for an entire day.

0:50 Lud really made a whole mogul mail just to call out Lilypichu huh?

Sad seeing all these people mistaking this guy for Ludwig. Smh.

Although the video was played hundreds of millions of times, the bandwidth part is a little misleading because you probably wouldn't need to redownload it every play.

It has 1.4B views now . . . at this rate it'll be the most viewed ever

Damn, Discord pulled a fextralife. Not exactly viewbotting, embedded viewers...

Embedded videos only show ads if the original video was monetized, which I'd be surprised by. Because otherwise people would've been spammed by ads and I'm sure someone would have complained about that, but also you'd think about this beforehand how horrible this would be as experience. The data transfer is definitely something, but after sending the video once, the rest of the loops do not require to be downloaded again (else Shorts would insanely expensive), the only thing transmitted is information about when it was stopped etc.

Luh calm 1am upload

Since it's looped, it likely wasn't actually served 600m times. most of it was just pulled from local caches.

Ludwig: has fancy microphone stand. Also Ludwig: holds microphone.

ludwig casually getting the one drop i never got

The whole situation with Discord is hilarious to think about

It's now at 1.4 fucking *billion* views in 22 hours😭😭😭

Lud saying he hates April Fools gives "im not like the other guys" energy

Depending on KZfaq’s optimization this may not have been as bad as it seems for them. 18 seconds is short enough that the entire video can get loaded into a buffer and if they’re looping it VIA KZfaq’s API I would HOPE that buffer doesn’t get refreshed every loop. Essentially that would mean they only had to pay to load the video for each actual person that watched it rather than the total number of views, which is likely drastically less than 600,000,000 people

"Country music bangs" My respect for lud has plummeted

I just hate how so much of it just doesn't mention it's an April Fool's joke. Some stuff is obvious, some stuff is more subtle that it could be real, and some stuff just unfortunately ended up being released/announced/whatever on what ends up being April 1st.

its somewhat poetic how even the devs of discord itself cant type any more than like 8 words per message hate that shit lol

This reminds me of how Opera GX viewbotted the debut stream of their VTuber Aura by including her stream in the new tab page of Opera GX, so a "new" viewer was added to the OperaGX Twitch channel whenever a new tab was opened.

Speaking of April fools day.. do you maybe want to do a video about the marriage-instagram post that broke the internet, because it was posted on April 1st? Shayne and Courtney from Smosh

It’s now 1.4 billion views. That’s a nice chunk of humanity

on April the first, i saw a post about how an actor in a show i liked had died in a motorcycle accident, and i thought to myself "that's a really insensitive April fools joke, that's not ok" and it turns out they weren't kidding 💀

I wish that the minecraft potatoe update wasnt an april fools joke.

Embedded videos don't show ads, they probably didn't make much adsense

wow this entire video is so good. i watched all 6 minutes and 32 seconds of it. wow so good mogul mail you did it again.

1am Mogul hits diff

the lootbox event also gives you a limited profile decoration when you get all nine items

I quit my job on Monday and am so thankful no one thought it was an April fools joke.

TBF ever since like 2006, april fools online has just been preparing us for the AI content spam that is our reality today. I, for one, am super thankful of all the creative people who put in the effort every year.

discord pulling out the fextralife strats

I actually like it so much that you gather the right infromation befor the video, so you can do it with almost no cuts, it looks so clean

The video is at 1.4 billion views now. Just for perspective how how absurd this is - Mr Mogul Mail got 250k views on this video which is 0.018% of the views on the discord video.

they call me stinky pete but the stink aint from my feet

In Poland, we call it Szmigus Dingus, basically, everyone just splashes everyone with water. Some people just spill water bottles on others, or spray them with hoses. But I've once been thrown into a hot tub when I was younger.

Company’s spending more money on April fools day then they do for the whole year.

My birthday being 4/1 is honestly the only reason I actually make sure I'm off on my birthday. I'm not dealing with the same jokes I've heard every single year.

bro it's now 1 billion views 💀

I love April Fools, it let's me completely disconnect and ignore the internet for a whole day because of how obnoxious it is. It's so rare to have an actually good video on April Fools.

I'm sooo with you on April fools, I just close all socials on april 1st

Sanji is the best character in One Piece. I agree and have been saying this all the time. Bene waiting specifically for this video, he is easily the best written character and one of the best written characters in anime, and really happy this video finally released, to shine some light on the best written character in the series. He isn't my favourite, but he is an amazing character, maybe not on the surface, but he is truly kind, and an unbelievably deep character. When he attacked Luffy on whole cake island, if he didn't Luffy and him die on the spot. He was ready to die for his crew many times, not seeing his self worth, and even when almost becoming an emotionless robot for his crew, we got to see how truly kind he is. Amazing video, my favourite series on KZfaq.

Lily catching strays

In Germany we made it, at least I hope, we made the 1. April to the day weed was legalized xD

“SorryJimmy it happens” I’m still laughing lmaooo

The best thing about april fools to me is the video game april fools updates. They're so much fun usually.

Don't know how people enjoy April Fool's Day, 95% of the jokes are just lying, I'm not the fool if I were to fall for falsely represented information??

Totally random, but I'm still mad about Discord ruining the mobile layout.

4:50 FISH!

0 views in 3 seconds, fell off

23 hours in, it's at 1.4 billion views now, holy shit

I love April fool's on yt. It's one of the longest lasting traditions on the site, it gives creators a chance to be cheeky with their audience, and it's overall a bit of clean fun.

Video went from 1.4 billion views to 3 million views in 2 days. Can't believe so many people unwatched it.

the caitlyn clark thing is so real she did so good in that game against lsu, 40 POINTS IS WILD

I totally agree. April Fools is just a waste of time, I don’t want my feeds flooded with videos I’m not going to touch, or weird texts from friends that I’m not going to bother responding to. The only positive we get every year is a cool Minecraft update and even those haven’t been that good since 2020.

Lets go, Caitlin Clark mention 🔥🔥🔥

discord calmly making slight performance boost for their easter video: top 10 moments before disaster

the example video was a short, a 20 second short vs a 20 second video has different RPMs, So if youtube actually pays out for the amount of views they got they'll be raking it in

lud fell off prime mogul mail would have 1B views by 10 minutes

Project Mogul (sometimes referred to as Operation Mogul) was a top secret project by the US Army Air Forces involving microphones flown on high-altitude balloons, whose primary purpose was long-distance detection of sound waves generated by Soviet atomic bomb tests. The project was carried out from 1947 until early 1949.

"I just wanna see Caitlin Clark highlights" Ludwig is so based

sitting at 1.4BILLION view now after 21 hours

Ah, ye foul, treacherous scallywag! If I were to count the myriad of ways in which ye have plagued me existence, it'd take longer than the entire saga of Beowulf, and that's sayin' somethin'! Ye betrayed me kin, plundered me village, and made me life more miserable than a sheep lost in a peat bog. I'd rather sup with a rabid dragon than share one more breath of air with a scoundrel like ye! Ye've brought more havoc upon me clan than a horde of berserkers on a mead-fueled rampage, and that's no small feat, I'll tell ya. Ye're the type of villain that even Odin himself would shake his head at, cursin' the day you set foot upon this cursed land. If revenge were a haggis, ye'd be the moldiest, most inedible piece of tripe in the whole of the Highlands! And let me tell ye, that's sayin' quite a lot, for I've tasted haggis that's turned me gut less than your treacherous ways, ye rapscallion! So mark me words, for I swear by me kilt and the ghost of William Wallace, I'll see ye vanquished and cursed to a fate worse than wearin' a kilt in a snowstorm, ye dastardly knave!

Wouldn’t shock me if in the future KZfaq changes the partnership payout system. To only count for views on the official platforms and not third party ones.

Lint roller on that mic would really help

honestly, I don’t think we should actually count that for the real record

i honestly didn't know they had a video. i just did their little game and got a clown avatar frame

Thanks for shouting out my tweet!

its a 1.5 BILLION now

Did you check with hasan before posting this?

the problem with April Fool's Day currently is that people use the opportunity to try to be funny rather than realizing that it's just a licence to be annoying. the true joy of the day is the schadenfreude of watching people get mad about something as trivial as an April Fool's prank.

Maybe this will finally be what pushes companies to recognize imbeds as view bots.

We aren't gonna forget the 4v1 mr. mogul.

No views in 39 seconds you've fallen off Ludwig

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they pulled an accidental fextralife

0:50 Arcade Assassin:

Now MrBeast is going to launch a chat app randomly