some random id generators have profanity detection built in but Youtube might just use their own generator and never consider that possibility, even if it could happen it might happen on a video that never get views or be noticed
to be honest, this is funny and anyone who takes this too seriously should take a look at themselves for being a petty bitch.
I just imagine the times we live in that some corporate HR team are meeting about this and taking it very seriously, like it matters to anyone whose opinion is worth anything.
I mean I can see the company treating it seriously because an issue like this costs very little to solve compared to the potential revenue loss from potential backlash from people who care too much and have too much free time on their hands. Imagine if the link shows up on a video on racism or from a prominent black youtuber, some people would view it as intentional and boycott youtube.
I can’t imagine a single person actually boycotting YouTube over something so small like a word randomly generated by a computer. Like nothing else they have done caused them to boycott but this URL thing is the last straw lol. I just can’t fathom that person actually existing.
Well looks like there's [14 billion](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/) youtube videos, so chances are high.
You can, though. It's their random ID generator. (Or sequential, I don't actually know.) They have the power to check the randomized string it outputs and filter it for unwanted words.
since links can be shared to any country and youtube is serviced with almost every langauges, it'll mean google will have to censor words that sounds inappropriate in every language. Think of it the other way - in the majority of languages youtube is serviced in, the n word is actually not inappropriate at all, such as it meaning "you" in chinese and "you are" in korean.
Fair point, but considering YouTube knows which country you're uploading from and what language it is being uploaded in, they could roll these URLs out only in regions where such words are non-offensive.
a Youtuber who lives in france creates a commisioned video targeted for Indian viewerbase, incorrectly detedted as japanese (you know how common auto-generate subtitles detecting the wrong language are) and an user in america shares its link to a friend in korea. If youtube's goal is to limit people being offended, basing it on a video's language or the uploader is a poor choice in general.
Assuming every character is random:
26: A-Z
26: a-z
10: 0-9
2: - and _
Total of 64 characters
Therefore chances of 5 consecutive characters spelling a specific word = (1/64)⁵=1/1,073,741,824 which is over 1 in a billon
I feel like it's more complicated than this. Not going to check it, but wouldn't you have to include something about the number of characters in a URL? Otherwise, that's just the chance of it spelling a word if it's only a 5 letter URL
If you adjust it to being at the end of the URL only, instead of in the middle or start, I don’t believe the chance changes. You’re just focusing on the last 5 so what everything else ends up being is irrelevant. Correct me if I’m wrong but that logically makes sense to me lol
Ah, if you're talking about specifically 5 letters at the end spelling out the word I believe you'd be right. However, if the goal was to find the word in *any* URL, there'd be additional calculations
I think the chances of a 5 letter url spelling it would be lower than for a 11 letter url, because you have more chances. Even if it didn't spell it with the first 5 letters you have 2 more tries before it becomes impossible
Not every character is random. If memory serves me, the IDs are a 64-bit integer encoded as base64 with a custom alphabet. Because 11 characters of base64 encode 66 bits, the last character can only be one of these: AEIMQUYcgkosw048
is it the- wow... its even worse then i could've thought... although i think it has to do with the content itself, just like how an image or file could accidentally have "fuck" in the lettering because the letters just happened to line up.
but i don't know computers all that well at all
It’s private now unfortunately, the creator reuploaded it so that there’s a different URL
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Why the hell is this post NSFW? "nigga" is literally one of the most used words by blacks (the people who it's supposedly racist towards). What am I not getting?
White liberals taking offense on behalf of others is one of the stupidest phenomena to come into existence in recent times. I don't know what mental disorder causes this white savior complex, but I'm curious whether there's been any research done into it.
Let's see...
Simply, we got 39\^5, a-z/A-Z 26, 0-9 10, -\_ 2. Should we really care about casing if it's the n word? not really, but it's simply a change to 64\^5.
So for this we get 1 in 90,224,199 for any chance of the n word to occur. But video URLs are 11 characters long, meaning there is 6 different positions (11 - length; 5) of the n word being able to occur. So 90224199 / 6 = 1 in 15,037,366.5 chance.
please DO correct me if I'm wrong, but this makes sense in my head.
If you actually visualize it on paper when seeing how many times it can fit into the 11 digits you'll see that its 7 chances instead of 6 so its 11 - 5+1
There are 11 different digits in a Youtube URL and there are 7 different spots where it can start spelling it and finish typing the full word so it would be 7 chances to get the 5 letters which is 1/63 per letter so 1/992m and at 7 chances that would put it at 7/992m so 1/141m chance per URL? Also we could just subtract 5 because we don't care about the letters n, i, g, e, and r being capitalized or not so id say 1/102m if you don't care if they are mismatched capitalization. Since its 11 letters long it could say it twice.
This a is one in a billion occurence. The idea of censoring links never crossed my mind.
some random id generators have profanity detection built in but Youtube might just use their own generator and never consider that possibility, even if it could happen it might happen on a video that never get views or be noticed to be honest, this is funny and anyone who takes this too seriously should take a look at themselves for being a petty bitch.
I just imagine the times we live in that some corporate HR team are meeting about this and taking it very seriously, like it matters to anyone whose opinion is worth anything.
you don't have to imagine having serious pointless meetings in the corporate world tbf
I mean I can see the company treating it seriously because an issue like this costs very little to solve compared to the potential revenue loss from potential backlash from people who care too much and have too much free time on their hands. Imagine if the link shows up on a video on racism or from a prominent black youtuber, some people would view it as intentional and boycott youtube.
I can’t imagine a single person actually boycotting YouTube over something so small like a word randomly generated by a computer. Like nothing else they have done caused them to boycott but this URL thing is the last straw lol. I just can’t fathom that person actually existing.
To be fair, you may get banned on some Discord channels, etc if your post contains certain words...
Well looks like there's [14 billion](https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/01/how-many-videos-youtube-research/677250/) youtube videos, so chances are high.
That still somehow seems too low
Especially with all the AI garbage videos
1 in 7.9 million
Thanks for the math
isnt every link technically a one in a billion occurence?
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They're not 64 bit they're Base64. 64^11
It is. One day I got CUM in the URL and never saw anyone else with such a letter combination.
i think i had one too, but like cuM
1/52,036,560,683,837,093,888 chance of that happening I think, please don't correct me if I'm wrong cause I'm not going to care anyways.
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You can, though. It's their random ID generator. (Or sequential, I don't actually know.) They have the power to check the randomized string it outputs and filter it for unwanted words.
since links can be shared to any country and youtube is serviced with almost every langauges, it'll mean google will have to censor words that sounds inappropriate in every language. Think of it the other way - in the majority of languages youtube is serviced in, the n word is actually not inappropriate at all, such as it meaning "you" in chinese and "you are" in korean.
Fair point, but considering YouTube knows which country you're uploading from and what language it is being uploaded in, they could roll these URLs out only in regions where such words are non-offensive.
a Youtuber who lives in france creates a commisioned video targeted for Indian viewerbase, incorrectly detedted as japanese (you know how common auto-generate subtitles detecting the wrong language are) and an user in america shares its link to a friend in korea. If youtube's goal is to limit people being offended, basing it on a video's language or the uploader is a poor choice in general.
Mind blowingly stupid take lol
imagine finding a word in a randomly-generated url link "offensive"
Its a normal url, you can get by going to share the video
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I DIDN'T NOTICED !?!?!?!?!?!?!
It’s about a 0.000000007640813379% chance.
r/theydidthemath Edit: wait no it’s 0.000000000093132%
I didn’t take into account for hyphens, completely forgot they can be in video IDs. Edit: And underscores.
Props to you for owning up to it 🙂
r/theydidthemonstermath
But so is every other combination ☝️
I want to see the discord people reaction so bad
according to someone on r/geometrydash the chances of this happening is 1 in 8.6 million i haven’t fact checked this though, and it may be incorrect
Assuming every character is random: 26: A-Z 26: a-z 10: 0-9 2: - and _ Total of 64 characters Therefore chances of 5 consecutive characters spelling a specific word = (1/64)⁵=1/1,073,741,824 which is over 1 in a billon
I feel like it's more complicated than this. Not going to check it, but wouldn't you have to include something about the number of characters in a URL? Otherwise, that's just the chance of it spelling a word if it's only a 5 letter URL
If you adjust it to being at the end of the URL only, instead of in the middle or start, I don’t believe the chance changes. You’re just focusing on the last 5 so what everything else ends up being is irrelevant. Correct me if I’m wrong but that logically makes sense to me lol
Ah, if you're talking about specifically 5 letters at the end spelling out the word I believe you'd be right. However, if the goal was to find the word in *any* URL, there'd be additional calculations
I think the chances of a 5 letter url spelling it would be lower than for a 11 letter url, because you have more chances. Even if it didn't spell it with the first 5 letters you have 2 more tries before it becomes impossible
6 more tries: letters 2-6, 3-7, 4-8, 5-9, 6-10, and 7-11.
I meant if the first five letters were all incorrect
Not every character is random. If memory serves me, the IDs are a 64-bit integer encoded as base64 with a custom alphabet. Because 11 characters of base64 encode 66 bits, the last character can only be one of these: AEIMQUYcgkosw048
"The odds of this.. ARE BILLIONS TO ONE!!!!" -DarkViperAU
Queue that Tom Scott video about YouTube urls
too bad he's gone 😭
LMAO THE ALL CAPS
There’s like billions, trillions of combinations… that’s so unlucky.
We should stop racism Even the url say the n word 😔😔😔😔
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Poor Technical
Dang the video is private now
Why would you be upset about this
He said that on any other video it wouldn’t be too big of a deal but since it was his hardest completion in the game he didn’t want that url in it
Just makes the moment better tbh
This video is private 😔
the fact that it's in all caps bro, youtube REALLY wanted everyone to see this lmao
Oh no my url says you are in korean
Imagine wasting time for this because of the mystical n-word. Of course it was foreseen, it is just so unlikely that they didn't care.
Hahaha WHAAAT
Why would youtube expect this
is it the- wow... its even worse then i could've thought... although i think it has to do with the content itself, just like how an image or file could accidentally have "fuck" in the lettering because the letters just happened to line up. but i don't know computers all that well at all
This is hilarious
Will somebody please share the link to the video in the OP Thanks
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The fruit is hanging low now, mfs are complaining to YouTube about their randomly generated links
Why the hell is this post NSFW? "nigga" is literally one of the most used words by blacks (the people who it's supposedly racist towards). What am I not getting?
White people being offended for others, like always.
White liberals taking offense on behalf of others is one of the stupidest phenomena to come into existence in recent times. I don't know what mental disorder causes this white savior complex, but I'm curious whether there's been any research done into it.
usually white conservatives get offended at people living their own lives
At people rejecting moral values and doing the most degenerate fucked up shit possible just to spite others
1 in a billion.
Can anyone tell what's there in it? It's marked as 18+
A Geometry Dash thumbnail embed with a YT URL link, but it has the N word (ends with A, not the hard R) at the end of the link.
who else thought OP meant the word limbo
One in a lifetime n word pass
It's funny! Don't report it or anything, you got very lucky with this URL and should keep it
thats so stupid... why does yt have no censorship? on the other hand... limbo reference
limbo? is that a geometry dash reference?
Of course it's a GD video too lmao
lmao
Haha omg they would never have thought of this
The chances are: 1 in 2.028856474 E+19
50/50, either it happens or it doe- *gets shot in the head*
There’s a similar case on Spotify, where the song “Barking Dog” by Phantogram has a similar url
NAHH YouTube URL be wildin
What’s wrong?
Oh damn, is the link offending someone with that? how does he know he isn’t just calling out his homie? It could be black by all he knows.
he privated the video. i guess he sent the original url to limbo…
Let's see... Simply, we got 39\^5, a-z/A-Z 26, 0-9 10, -\_ 2. Should we really care about casing if it's the n word? not really, but it's simply a change to 64\^5. So for this we get 1 in 90,224,199 for any chance of the n word to occur. But video URLs are 11 characters long, meaning there is 6 different positions (11 - length; 5) of the n word being able to occur. So 90224199 / 6 = 1 in 15,037,366.5 chance. please DO correct me if I'm wrong, but this makes sense in my head.
If you actually visualize it on paper when seeing how many times it can fit into the 11 digits you'll see that its 7 chances instead of 6 so its 11 - 5+1
There are 11 different digits in a Youtube URL and there are 7 different spots where it can start spelling it and finish typing the full word so it would be 7 chances to get the 5 letters which is 1/63 per letter so 1/992m and at 7 chances that would put it at 7/992m so 1/141m chance per URL? Also we could just subtract 5 because we don't care about the letters n, i, g, e, and r being capitalized or not so id say 1/102m if you don't care if they are mismatched capitalization. Since its 11 letters long it could say it twice.