Deleting the “h” from “/watch” in any YouTube link redirects to a creepy video

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Explanation appears to be here: https://old.reddit.com/r/dankmemes/comments/w68nhm/dont_ente...

This doesn't seem correct.

The same action happens when deleting the c and leaving the h. That could be explained by the user could have two channel redirecting, if the explanation were correct. The explanation doesn't seem correct, though. This supposed redirect doesn't happen when actualy going to the channels directly using https://www.youtube.com/c/watc or https://www.youtube.com/c/wath.

If those channels were setup to automatically redirect, then they would redirect, which they aren't. The explanation doesn't seem true.

Unless using a /c/ formatted url skips redirects, directly using https://www.youtube.com/watc or https://www.youtube.com/wath does link to the video

YouTube video it redirects to: https://youtu.be/1hfk8kh75ic

Another interesting thing is then when you go to the channel page of the uploader's video, they're subscribed to an account named iluomo, and if you go to that account's channels page, it keeps loading the channel itself over and over again

That channel iluomo is the 40th channel ever to be created on youtube if you believe the about page. However the channel was created on Apr 30, 2005 which could track for the 40th channel. I suspect this 666 and 69 channel redirect, and yop/iluomo, are legacy site exploits/easter eggs from the actual original developers of Youtube. yop/iluomo also had various other easter eggs through the years, like this one. https://www.reddit.com/r/TimeworksSubmissions/comments/oidgv...

Anyone else got anything interesting to add about this? edit:exploit is a better word for this, as easter egg implies something else entirely

try 2atch

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