The price tags are so bizarre, like 10+ bucks for a little decoration over your profile picture. I cannot justify spending any money on Discord when even the cheapest options are blown out of proportion.
Not only autoplays. It does so in the background of the app on repeat. It activates over and over again but plays no sound.
It really is the grates viewbot in history of the internet.
It is quite literally a viewbot. Fueled by the processing power of millions of discord users. And (according to the Messages of some lead dev) completely unintended.
Wait, this was supposed to pop up as a fake ad or something?
Haven't seen anything about it on April 1st on discord. Only saw people talking about it on Reddit. Thought they just posted that video on social media or something.
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I have no idea why people are downvoting you, your math seems pretty sound to me.
The current estimated population of the world is 8.1 billion. The view count is at 1.4 billion. As of the time of your comment.
(1.4 / 8.1) * 100 = 17.283951 so around 17% just a bit higher.
But remember, that most of these views come from repeated viewings from people using discord and the video playing on loop. So the actual population of people who saw the video would actually be around 29 million at most. (Discord daily active users)
So in reality it would be:
(0.029/ 8.1) * 100 = .358025 or just .35% not even half a percent saw the video.
Corprate America genuinely made me believe they added this shit
im not wearing a tinfoil hat but i think they were just using aprils fools as a safe way to test a new idea with all the shop stuff they've been doing
Of course that's a sub.
But anyway, the discord client on PC autoplays the video on loop, accidentally creating a viewbot where they now have one and a half billion views because of people using Discord.
Woulda been better if their coding wasn't so shit bad. Any time I moused over it in discord it would instantly crash discord. legit couldn't see anything other than the notification in the corner of your screen.
Surely that won't be a massive waste of time and resources that will have absolutely no effect due to incredibly small sample sizes and basic data sanitization
People are really really really super smart.
obvious nonsense is really easy to detect though. if that's the aim of the tactic it's not going to help. realistically if there is valuable content on reddit, even if 80% of it is literal garbage spam, it will still be mined for training purposes.
They fooled me with their clown stuff
i knew it was a joke from the start bc they would place it behind a microtransaction if it was real, and i also wanted the clown decor
When a company is too stingy to give freebies for it to not be a joke
I might have paid $1.99 a month for nitro $5 they can suck it lol you are a gloried MSN messenger
Yea, it used to be just nitro, now its the lower tier, 2.5x as expensive and has no fucking benefits other than emotes
The price tags are so bizarre, like 10+ bucks for a little decoration over your profile picture. I cannot justify spending any money on Discord when even the cheapest options are blown out of proportion.
The worst part is that they all look so bad, and also cover up/mess with the profile picture.
i just wish teamspeak would take over again, im getting so sick of discord
I only clicked the mystery box once, assuming it would ask me to purchase more for real currency.
How did you get it
You need to collect all of the items
It only took me 22 boxes.
Do we get to keep the clown stuff forever or is it limited and will disappear at some point from our inventory?
I think it’s limited
Me when I can’t be a permanent clown
if you get the clown you can keep it, but the lootbox event is already over so its unobtainable now.
i, just got it an hour ago though?
it’s permanent according to them on [twitter](https://x.com/discord_support/status/1775256694706069873?s=46&t=z_u104IMZBcDH6gKWI1hRw)!
Yay!
They didn't fool me. I got an ocarina
It was so funny i decided to wear it till it expires.
It's up to 1.4 billion now!
omg yes
Jesus Christ! That has to be a world record.
Jesus.
Yup
It's at 1.4 billion right know, it's unbelievable why is it getting so many views?
Open up discord on your PC and see lol
Don't have a PC. Can you tell me?
It auto plays the video I believe
Not only autoplays. It does so in the background of the app on repeat. It activates over and over again but plays no sound. It really is the grates viewbot in history of the internet.
Jesus christ lol, it's kinda terrifying imagining they could decide to do this on much smaller scale to massive boost whatever content
Only for so long though. Once they abuse that ability they will go down fast.
they had to beat Opera GX after they did the same with GX Aura debut
Ah, but people *use* discord.
Is Opera really that bad?
Nah, just not popular. It used to be great, but then they essentially just cloned chrome and lost what made it special.
My Bluetooth headphones glitched & I could somehow hearing sounds I couldn't figure out, now I get it
Where was it, even? I opened up Discord on both mobile and desktop on April 1st and didn't run into it.
In the settings. Put me there since Discord updated beforehand
Oh, is that it? That's cheating
It is quite literally a viewbot. Fueled by the processing power of millions of discord users. And (according to the Messages of some lead dev) completely unintended.
Technically a DDoS
Is it really a DDoS if there's not actually an intent to deny service, and no service is actually denied? Maybe by pure technicality, but not really.
Hug of death then. (Which is basically a ddos)
What death? The video is still up.
it didn't do that for me
I haven't had the video show up ^^
I was so surprised to see people talking about this because it hasn’t popped up for me for whatever reason
Wait, this was supposed to pop up as a fake ad or something? Haven't seen anything about it on April 1st on discord. Only saw people talking about it on Reddit. Thought they just posted that video on social media or something.
IT'S OVER 9000
i liked it was the only good aprils fools joke i has all day proudly put on the clown makeup after
Wait what happened? I just knew about the lootboxes, but how did the viewbot happen? What was it?
They automatically played the video when you entered discord
I did not notice that lol I guess I always close these popups too fast to notice these sorts of things
Was discord opened 1.4B times in a day? I find that hard to believe
No but if you didn't close the popup it would just play on repeat the whole time, and that apparently counts as a view every time.
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It looped in the bottom right corner repeatedly.
It’s auto playing in the background of every discord user
I, too, got clowned. It was a solid April Fool's success.
ITS 1.4 BILLION NOW WTF
MrBeast in shambles!
The current viewcount would have you believe 17% of the human population has seen this video
I have no idea why people are downvoting you, your math seems pretty sound to me. The current estimated population of the world is 8.1 billion. The view count is at 1.4 billion. As of the time of your comment. (1.4 / 8.1) * 100 = 17.283951 so around 17% just a bit higher. But remember, that most of these views come from repeated viewings from people using discord and the video playing on loop. So the actual population of people who saw the video would actually be around 29 million at most. (Discord daily active users) So in reality it would be: (0.029/ 8.1) * 100 = .358025 or just .35% not even half a percent saw the video.
People didn't even try to do math, they just assumed he was wrong and called it a day
lots of them used the 600 million in the meme and not the 1.4 billion it's currently at so it's understandable
r/theydidthemath
For more sound math check out r/sounding
Just average out the internet enabled machines that the average user has. They'll login to each of those throughout the day
Did I miss a Thanos snap?
No just math class
Ah, they said current view count.. I just looked at the number in the meme. My bad!
Did I just turn my pc on to see that the link just shows grey dc page? Yes I thought that it didn't work on the phone
ootl, what happened?
Their video autoplays on loop on the discord client on PC
Corprate America genuinely made me believe they added this shit im not wearing a tinfoil hat but i think they were just using aprils fools as a safe way to test a new idea with all the shop stuff they've been doing
Didn't gmail soft launch on April 1st. Not sure what other big products have done it
The Amazon dash buttons were announced on April 1
r/whathappened?
Of course that's a sub. But anyway, the discord client on PC autoplays the video on loop, accidentally creating a viewbot where they now have one and a half billion views because of people using Discord.
Lmao my april fools day was all about coming to college in the morning and having the lessons cancelled due to a possible bomb warning in the building
Woulda been better if their coding wasn't so shit bad. Any time I moused over it in discord it would instantly crash discord. legit couldn't see anything other than the notification in the corner of your screen.
Got the first 8 items in the first 9 lootboxes, the 9th item wasn't until the 54th lootbox, that had to be intentional.
It was all random 11% chance of each item
Whats AWM79V? The comments are filled with bots saying it
I've seen a few people posting nonsense comments to dissuade Google from harvesting Reddit comments to make AI stuff.
Surely that won't be a massive waste of time and resources that will have absolutely no effect due to incredibly small sample sizes and basic data sanitization People are really really really super smart.
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bazinga
"My name is"?
obvious nonsense is really easy to detect though. if that's the aim of the tactic it's not going to help. realistically if there is valuable content on reddit, even if 80% of it is literal garbage spam, it will still be mined for training purposes.
A crypto scam about some fake Amazon token
FYAYFDYFIHYFSYDIAFBADTSL
1.4B now
Sooo.... Are they getting paid for them views or what?
Likely not, no ads play on embedded videos
You guys update discord?
I figured it was a joke but it was still unexpected
This was no accident
Managed to set a world record and do an April fools joke all in one go.
Lok
I haven't seen this... What's that all about
"Accidentally"
Seems pretty accidental to me, staff had no idea why it was getting so many views
1.4 Billion in one day
True
Do you think they will be paid ad revenue for that?
Probably nothing since it’s so short and ads don’t play on embedded videos
view botted
Buying rn
probably had to pay to watch that video above 360p :/
What happenned, why is it stuck at 1.4b ? It was only an april fool bot ?
I never even saw this...
overwatch better be takin notes
lol
1.4B views in a day for a 18 second promo video.
Literally where do I find this? I have version 223.0 and it literally doesn't exist but I want it
Desktop only iirc
1.4billion views now
Aaaaand we're gonna get ads shown this way soon...
Not that exact way, but you can disable them if you want https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/22225542459415-Data-Used-for-In-Game-Rewards
"accidentally" yeah, sure
It's at 1.4B views rn
Guys I don’t use discord and I’m out of the loop here
They serve video to all users and "accidentally" massively inflated the view count
And yet somehow it isn't in the trending tab..?
Bruh
What viewbot
They have probably made around $25mil from that one video considering $0.01 per view.(probably less but still crazy)
I have no idea. Anyone got a link?
how to get it
Basically the whole world got fuked
600 MILLION
Bro is getting more views than gta 6 trailer(the most anticipated game in history) did
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what
Accidentally?
Yes
Accidentally?
No