- By Vikas Yadav
- Wed, 04 Oct 2023 03:38 PM (IST)
- Source:JND
YouTube Bug Exploited To Upload Adult Videos: YouTube is a popular medium to watch videos and stream live content. While it is a great medium for absorbing information via interactive visual content, a group exploited a bug to host adult videos on the platform. The bug allowed them to host the content even after the deletion of the associated channel.
According to a 404media report, the person who found the exploit and outlined how it works in a video posted that the bug was fixed by the company. However, the videos continue to be there on the platform. One of the videos was scrapped when 404 author Emanuel Maiberg shared the link to YouTube.
The journalist also shared an instance when he encountered a thumbnail of an adult actress on Discord and the hardcore adult video was uploaded on YouTube. Plus, the report added that the video title, channel title, views, likes and comments do not load on these videos. The names of these accounts were visible in the Discord preview.
YouTube is working on a fix to address this bug. (Image:Unsplash)
More channel admins on Discord also revealed that these videos cannot be removed but did not share details about how they managed to do this. "We use a glitch that makes it so the video cannot be deleted," the report cited an admin.
In a conversation with </Angled>, who shared a working mechanism in a video, the author found that YouTube's video tagging apparatus (where YouTubers add tags) is exploited in this case using 'newline'. By spamming these characters, it is tough to change the visibility settings.
Based on the observation of the news outlet, videos involving live performers were deleted by YouTube. "We're aware that a small number of videos may have remained on YouTube following a channel termination. We're working to fix this and remove the content from the platform," Jack Malon, a Google spokesperson, told the outlet.