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Topic: I have been exposed as a 74 IQ regard internationally as if I should care it doesn't outrank me amon

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs started this discussion 3 months ago #129,892

-gst Scottish yade, let alone pregadigu.

Ama.


retard*

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Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) double-posted this 3 months ago, 34 minutes later[^] [v] #1,395,332

I've been banned from alogs.space I think. Look, Happablap would've failed foundation tier outside of American overeating habituations so Irdc

Meta joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 1 minute later, 35 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,333

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
How many times have you been banned from facebook?

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 3 minutes later, 39 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,335

@previous (Meta)
A lot. I'm on non-lists for membership rhety-temnentationally. Ban/removal on sight.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) double-posted this 3 months ago, 4 minutes later, 43 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,336

I stole this tablet from a retard btw loooooooolll

Green !!bO/s3MBcD joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 26 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,338

Welcome back! Good to see you as coherent as usual! How are you?

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,341

@previous (Green !!bO/s3MBcD)
I'm unfine. The retard home I was sent to is run by an insaner retard, Meghan Weisenphalt, who believes in ultra new Aspergers with put on imbecile IQing and xiet (anxiety therapeutic denial) and this is standard so I no longer don't call spergs retarded. I'm a schizophrenic back in Livingston. This home is known for a warrul reputation so doesn't persuade psychiatry that well memory of my sister's blog serving.

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Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) double-posted this 3 months ago, 5 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,342

Don't know if mentioned but I refuse autism's existence. I'm just a schizophrenic in my personal identity.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) triple-posted this 3 months ago, 11 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,345

To say I'm being abused isn't a far call from reality.

McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 58 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,355

Slightly sweet, like strawberries. Thanks.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,360

@previous (McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw)

> Slightly sweet, like strawberries. Thanks.

Any word from Chakalakazulu beyond his SVU vanity stunt? I'm immensely cross at him for even trying or not rejecting comment because he seems to be swept easily by low yagadigu pseudo-sixth-formers like Emmerston even when he's trying to be weak, neurodiversitarian and nice-to-a-rhety to him...

McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw replied with this 3 months ago, 9 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,362

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
I haven't heard a peep from the schemer, no. I'm sure he can be found frolicking throughout the comments section of an egotistical Israeli.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 12 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,364

@previous (McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw)
I don't care that he can play a piano, get a pretend yagadigusphere grade of 3 on a trial or is ever beleivably depicted as an 103 IQer on what of his test appears in the show let alone considering how badly his English has degraded to upper-pennyterrible quasi-scransion of a transsexual false literature spinspokesist.

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McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw replied with this 3 months ago, 29 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,365

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
What sort of neopagan larp is the "dark empath" chakalakazulu up to now?

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,366

@previous (McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw)
He's a musician. He goes to the future to steal my autism denialism. Pretending to be cool with all of my school enemies on facebook. He doesn't have deep beliefs is almost it; sure, sure, he has access to them and can seemingly reservoir them bulllshitically but is meaningless Pedro -pagically if I'm stupidly honest. Even he is a retard in the end is the tear jerking reality of ULSULFAISM.

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McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw replied with this 3 months ago, 11 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,368

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
I can only imagine the cacophony.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 5 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,372

If he could or couldn't, it's an ULSULFAic trick.

Erik !saAqdaazn2 joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 40 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,384

Hey Sophie. You should meet our newest poster Niganon, I think you'll get along

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 4 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,385

Ah, Autphag. This doesn't surprise me for an individual of your haplogroup and indeed, your skull shape. You are, frankly, one of the more negroidial posters who has been here.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 15 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,387

@1,395,384 (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
Is he the dull one with all the existential questions? LOL I couldn't GI' that he would try to 80-IQ so unhard even...

Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 3 months ago, 6 hours later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,412

@1,395,341 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
So you live in a home now? Are you still trans?

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Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 49 minutes later, 11 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,415

Does Haselgrove still torment you?

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 31 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,418

@1,395,412 (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
Not that anyone gives a fuck; I'm a fraud according to home management. Er, they sort of go through the motions pseudoacknowledgementally to my face. I may be retired (if unsoon).

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) double-posted this 3 months ago, 24 seconds later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,419

@1,395,415 (Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU)
If I'm strict she was never an issue...

Green !!bO/s3MBcD replied with this 3 months ago, 24 minutes later, 12 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,422

@1,395,341 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
At least you have somewhere to stay.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 22 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,425

@previous (Green !!bO/s3MBcD)
That's common as fuck above the Hadrian. There's no real homelessness (except as such; eh, that would be nearly everyone) here.

Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE replied with this 3 months ago, 18 seconds later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,426

@1,395,341 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
> I no longer don't call spergs retarded
My gosh... But what of Asperia?

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 2 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,427

@previous (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
I hate spergs and my retarded mentor Chac too much to care anymore. I know I'm better than most/all of them so realise in wasted time priorities elsewhere are wanting...

Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 3 months ago, 7 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,428

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
Can you do more.of your voice record things you use to do

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 2 minutes later, 13 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,429

@previous (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
I'm not on a worthy device. I'm on stolen retardfolk's faux-tablet kit so I can't get caught.

Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 3 months ago, 37 minutes later, 14 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,433

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
How long can you keep this device? We can't afford to lose another poster. Becky, dw and ninjj has already quit.

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU replied with this 3 months ago, 2 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,450

@1,395,419 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)

Didn't you get dragged off to the funny farm for stalking her?

Green !!bO/s3MBcD replied with this 3 months ago, 39 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,455

@1,395,425 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
Well I'm glad your back anyway. I always liked you as a poster.

+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 36 minutes later, 17 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,465

@1,395,418 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)

> Not that anyone gives a fuck; I'm a fraud according to home management. Er, they sort of go through the motions pseudoacknowledgementally to my face. I may be retired (if unsoon).

Is it possible that huge amounts of Tylenol, might be helpful.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 5 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,467

@1,395,433 (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
Lol I liked none of those people anyway.
@1,395,450 (Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU)
No, prison, even; and, as it was yagadigu model psychiatric care, effectively prison.
@1,395,455 (Green !!bO/s3MBcD)
Why, same here. Thanks.
@previous (+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os)
I was cut off my codeine by a corrupt Indian GP I impersonate in the nighttime to take the piss out of her retardation.

Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 47 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,481

retard

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 52 seconds later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,482

@previous (J)
I ken you are looolllll

+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os replied with this 3 months ago, 11 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,489

@1,395,467 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
WTF? You did not answer my question.

Also re Ericks question re gender change.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 5 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,492

@previous (+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os)
You had no question. You just mentioned a brand of codeine is what I see...


Right, this question was answered in 2017 by the BBC showing a future video of me in 2036. Go ask someone for it if you can't find it.

Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 1 hour later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,502

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)

> You had no question. You just mentioned a brand of codeine is what I see...
>
>
> Right, this question was answered in 2017 by the BBC showing a future video of me in 2036. Go ask someone for it if you can't find it.

John Mccane foreskin

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Meta replied with this 3 months ago, 1 hour later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,506

@1,395,433 (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
Kook is MIA too!

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 12 minutes later, 21 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,509

@previous (Meta)
She's here in recent history of my name's use according to a search...
Not that I value her. She's more than sort of unbright.

Meta replied with this 3 months ago, 29 minutes later, 22 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,512

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
Who, besides yourself, is the brightest Minichanner?

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 7 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,568

@previous (Meta)
That would be no one remaining apart from yourself I think...

Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 3 months ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,569

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
I like to think im fairly bright.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 43 seconds later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,570

@previous (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
You might be. You might be...

Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 3 months ago, 1 minute later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,572

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
Thank you. I always thought we had some similar politics.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,574

@previous (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
I have next to none of my old politics from even 5-8 years' ago, even, but merely put it to your manner.

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McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw replied with this 3 months ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,610

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
How much do you want to bet Chakalakazulu still rattles on about that infantile picture book by James Mason?

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 12 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,611

@previous (McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw)
I'm not that up on Chac drama. My sister was playing SVU downstairs, badly muffledly...

I just know he's turned into one of those ultra low spergesque people who can (a little) more than sort of speak but not particularly "write" recognizably in any way...

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 7 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,632

Wb, I still can't understand most of what you say and I never will.

Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE replied with this 3 months ago, 58 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,641

@previous (Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU)
Yeah, I'd, also, arrest the entirety of that Draval social work team and send them Fentonically. A retard man shouting "Sean Vie" because of G4S uniform can't be worth this.

Fake anon !ZkUt8arUCU replied with this 3 months ago, 2 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,642

@previous (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
I was just thinking those exact words the other day.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 2 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,691

@1,395,641 (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
Defending a low pregadigu in a G4S uniform is a new low for you...

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) double-posted this 3 months ago, 8 minutes later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,693

I mean, it was even a false, odious call from Geoffrey Stygamer to misreport a malignantly-placed noise complaint in the end.

Meta replied with this 3 months ago, 4 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,728

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
Wait it was Stygamer who was a temnically named “pseudo” sophistrate this whole time?!

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 4 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,729

@1,395,641 (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
Lol I'm going to come out right with it. You basically are rawly a retard man. Plainly. Your results from England and even your accent and England pre-planted family are frauds from Scottish councils. You are something beneath a Gypsy. A pre-pregadigu shitskin whose raw shit exudes through his skin.

Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 3 months ago, 2 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,746

@previous (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
He's not English, he's Cornish

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 6 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,748

@previous (Erik !saAqdaazn2)
That's a Jennyland to him and it's as if I quite gave a fuck unlike it.

Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE replied with this 3 months ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,759

@1,395,729 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
Look you were the reason this shit-hole became a DHL-premium pay-wall for a while. I'm not asking you to lay off, but rather, try to field off into aspects of philosophy other than... generalia, trivium. It's not a reflection on the incuriousness or absence of inquisity your posting style that, in the substantiative, you actually don't write a lot, or think, at all; you really are quite myopic, and yet, you had tried to wield hind-administrativism in order to ensure I was not only ousted, but umpiaed, also.

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 15 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,765

@previous (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
I may even confess openly to being unaware of what "umpiaed" means before admitting you're an unretarded recyclesmith of inveterate garbage...

Anonymous M joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,776

Banned from 4chan & Zzzchan

McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw replied with this 3 months ago, 2 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,809

@1,395,759 (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)
Bros speaking Fr*nch 💀💀💀💀

Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 18 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,811

@previous (McWalter !m2cp3rR5zw)
I belatedly realise he's stolen an old gibe of mine to an anonymous hassler lol.... He's spoke in fuck all but ULSULFA and drool.

+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os replied with this 3 months ago, 7 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,836

@1,395,492 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)
New question. Do you date and if so which gender and yes I know this opens up wayyy to many other questions.
Are you bothered about such questions?

Erik !saAqdaazn2 replied with this 3 months ago, 53 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,840

@previous (+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os)
Are you asking her out?

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Autphag !MLHqI35Srs (OP) replied with this 3 months ago, 2 hours later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,860

@1,395,836 (+Syntax !/bdKkAN1Os)
No, I don't and I may say I wouldn't or would never if it wasn't fuck all as to your business; I know my entire future pdpfically, and know you don't play a role in it so perhaps think up a less invasive or even boring question?

Anonymous N joined in and replied with this 3 months ago, 46 minutes later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,868

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZnaequOW00
Star Trek Starfleet Academy is the Alex Kurtzman Star Trek designed to bring in new younger viewers to Paramount+. Yet considering Star Trek Discovery and Strange New Worlds couldn't capture a new audience, Zoomers in Space doesn't look like it's going to change that anytime soon. But it does seem to be an absolute treasure trove of comedy for the future series, totally accidentally of course. It's always funny to see what Hollywood thinks it's like to be "down with the kids", and generally highly insulting. Starfleet academy looks like every 2020 show at peak message, totally unaware of what's about to happen to it. Already renewed for a Season 2, it just goes to show that no matter how many IP's Kurtzman drives into the floor, there is always one more he can get greenlit, with no-one understanding why. But what did you think of what you saw? Let me know your thoughts down below and as always, thanks for watching :)

Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU replied with this 3 months ago, 1 hour later, 2 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,887

@1,395,811 (Autphag !MLHqI35Srs)

So if he just copied and pasted what you said, and you didn't remember that it was you that wrote it, and you replied telling us all that you don't know what "umpiaed" means...

Meta replied with this 3 months ago, 12 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,942

@previous (Oatmeal Fucker !BYUc1TwJMU)
To be fair I don’t know what “umpiaed” means either!

Anonymous I replied with this 3 months ago, 5 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,395,988

@1,395,759 (Killer Lettuce🌹 !HonkUK.BIE)

> Look you were the reason this shit-hole became a DHL-premium pay-wall for a while. I'm not asking you to lay off, but rather, try to field off into aspects of philosophy other than... generalia, trivium. It's not a reflection on the incuriousness or absence of inquisity your posting style that, in the substantiative, you actually don't write a lot, or think, at all; you really are quite myopic, and yet, you had tried to wield hind-administrativism in order to ensure I was not only ousted, but umpiaed, also.

Reminds me to ask. Didn't you once plan on being a Philosopher (As in paid to Phil~off)

Anonymous M replied with this 3 months ago, 3 hours later, 3 days after the original post[^] [v] #1,396,022

MAY 1, 2019
A Conspiracy To Kill IE6

The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago, a small team of web developers conspired to kill IE6 from inside YouTube and got away with it.

I do not recall the exact triggering event that led to our web development team laying out plans to kill IE6 over lunch in the YouTube cafeteria. Perhaps it was the time I pushed out a CSS stylesheet that included an attribute selector on a semi-supported HTML element. Any reasonable web developer would expect this to be ignored by browsers not up to the task. This was not the case with older flavors of IE. Under very specific conditions, an attribute selector on an unsupported HTML element in IE would create an internal recursion that would at best, cause the browser to crash and at worst, trigger a blue screen of death. Or perhaps it was the hundredth time one of our software engineers had innocently pushed out an <img> tag with an empty src attribute. Nobody joining the team could be expected to know that in early versions of IE, the browser would load the root path “/” for empty src attributes. The <img> tag would suddenly behave like an <iframe>, loading our homepage and all of its dependent resources in what could become an exponentially expanding recursive loop. Whenever an empty image tag found its way on to the homepage, it was all-hands-on-deck emergency to locate and replace the offending code before we melted our servers into paperweights.

Regardless of whatever the event at that time was, it had been brutal and it had been IE6 related. IE6 had been the bane of our web development team’s existence. At least one to two weeks every major sprint cycle had to be dedicated to fixing new UI that was breaking in IE6. Despite this pain, we were told we had to continue supporting IE6 because our users might be unable to upgrade or might be working at companies that were locked in. IE6 users represented around 18% of our user base at that point. We understood that we could not just drop support for it. However, sitting in that cafeteria, having only slept about a few hours each in the previous days, our compassion for these users had completely eroded away. We began collectively fantasizing about how we could exact our revenge on IE6. One idea rose to the surface that quickly captured everyone’s attention. Instead of outright dropping IE6 support, what if we just threatened to? How would users react? Would they revolt against YouTube? Would they mail death threats to our team like had happened in the past? Or would they suddenly become loud advocates of modern browsers? We openly daydreamed about cubicle workers around the world suddenly inventing creative “business” reasons for needing upgraded browsers. Grandparents would hold their technically savvy grand-kids hostage, demanding they fix their “YouTubes”. What had begun as a team therapy session started to materialize into an actual plan, a plan we quickly realized we were uniquely positioned to execute on.

The plan was very simple. We would put a small banner above the video player that would only show up for IE6 users. It would read “We will be phasing out support for your browser soon. Please upgrade to one of these more modern browsers.” Next to the text would be links to the current versions of the major browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, IE8 and eventually, Opera. The text was intentionally vague and the timeline left completely undefined. We hoped that it was threatening enough to motivate end users to upgrade without forcing us to commit to any actual deprecation plan. Users would have the ability to close out this warning if they wanted to ignore it or deal with it later. The code was designed to be as subtle as possible so that it would not catch the attention of anyone monitoring our checkins. Nobody except the web development team used IE6 with any real regularity, so we knew it was unlikely anyone would notice our banner appear in the staging environment. We even delayed having the text translated for international users so that a translator asking for additional context could not inadvertently surface what we were doing. Next, we just needed a way to slip the code into production without anyone catching on.

YouTube IE6 Deprecation Banner

The IE6 Deprecation Banner on YouTube in 2009
It turned out that a handful of us had entered YouTube at an interesting time… several months after YouTube had been acquired by Google but before Google had begun deeply integrating YouTube into their larger organization. The early YouTube engineers were rightfully territorial and initially hesitant to adapt to Google’s infrastructure and norms. With their penchants for gray-hat hacking, fast cars, and hard whiskey and an uncommon number of piercings, tattoos, and minor arrest records, many had been rejected during previous Google interviews. Ending up at YouTube instead, they found themselves breaking their backs to stay ahead of exponentially growing traffic while having to constantly defend against critics explaining how Google Video would imminently kill them. By the time they were acquired into Google, many of these engineers had come to view their outcast identity as a critical component of their eventual success.

To cement their authority over the YouTube codebase during the integration into Google, the early engineers created a specialized permission set called “OldTuber”. OldTuber granted you the ability to completely bypass the new Google-oriented code enforcement policies, enabling anyone holding it to commit code directly to the YouTube codebase, with only the most glancing of code reviews from anyone. No need for code readability. No need for exhaustive tests. No need for maintaining code coverage. If you broke the site by improperly wielding OldTuber status, it was on your head and you would lose the privilege immediately, if not your job. So you just had to be a good citizen and never break the site. Our boss, an early YouTube engineer himself, had gone out of his way to ingratiate the web development team with the rest of the early YouTube engineers. Through his efforts, a couple of us eventually found ourselves in possession of OldTuber status, despite never having been a part of the original team. It was like we were just walking down the street when someone mistook us for valets and handed us the keys to their Ferrari. For better or for worse, we were not exactly the types to just hand the keys back and walk away. We saw an opportunity in front of us to permanently cripple IE6 that we might never get again. If this went at all wrong, a number of us would surely be fired. Our most renegade web developer, an otherwise soft-spoken Croatian guy, insisted on checking in the code under his name, as a badge of personal honor, and the rest of us leveraged our OldTuber status to approve the code review. The code merged into production and our banner went live a few days later.

The first person to come by our desks was the PR team lead. He was a smart, dapper man who was always bubbling with energy and enthusiasm. Except this time. This time he was uncharacteristically prickly. He had come in on an otherwise normal day to find email from every major tech news publication asking why the second largest website on the planet was threatening to cut off access to nearly a fifth of its user base. Fortunately for us, the publications had already settled on a narrative that this was a major benefit to the Internet. By their call, YouTube was leading the charge towards making the web a faster, safer experience for all of its users. The entire PR team had Macs running Chrome and could not even see what we had done, let alone issue comments to the press on any of it. They were caught completely unaware. We eagerly told them everything about what we had launched and helped them craft the necessary talking points to expand on the narrative already established by the media. Satisfied that he could get back in front of the story, the PR team lead turned and warned us to never do anything like this without telling him first. He did not want to let great public relations opportunities like this slip by ever again.

Next came the lawyers. Two senior lawyers sprinted over to our desks in a state of buttoned-down panic. They immediately demanded that we remove the banner. We explained how we would need the SREs to do an emergency push and that it would take at least a few hours to do. Frustrated, one of the lawyers asked “Why did you have to put Chrome first?” Confused, I explained that we did not give any priority to Chrome. Our boss, in on the conspiracy with us, had thoughtfully recommended that we randomize the order of the browsers listed and then cookie the random seed for each visitor so that the UI would not jump around between pages, which we had done. As luck would have it, these two lawyers still used IE6 to access certain legacy systems and had both ended up with random seeds that placed Chrome in the first position. Their fear was that by showing preferential treatment to Chrome, we might prick the ears of European regulators already on the lookout for any anti-competitive behavior. While the lawyers conceded that nothing we had done would have likely risen to that level of offense, it had happened on their watch and they did not appreciate that. I repeatedly cleared the cookies in my copy of IE6 and showed the browsers reshuffling with each refresh. Content with the demonstration, the lawyers quickly retreated back to their desks without any further concerns.

I expected the next people to be the engineering managers and that they would be the angriest given how clearly we had abused our OldTuber status. Suspiciously, nobody came by that day. The next day, a handful of engineers stopped by to congratulate us on the launch of the banner after reading articles around the Internet, but that was it. I asked my boss if he was getting any blowback and he shrugged, indicating that nobody had pulled him aside yet. It seemed that for the moment we were in the clear. Surprised and unable to make sense of this, I probed one of the managers about what he thought about the banner launching. He responded “Oh, I just figured you guys copied the banner that Google Docs had put up.” I was confused. How could Google Docs have beaten us to the punch on this? I opened up Google Docs in IE6 and sure enough, a banner very much like ours was showing at the top. It implored their users to upgrade to avoid breaking features in terms similarly vague to ours.

I had met a few engineers on the Google Docs team while working on some shared Javascript libraries. I reached out to one and asked how they had arrived at the decision to launch their own banner. He explained to me that they had been wanting to deprecate IE6 support for a long time but their managers would not let them for the same reasons we had always heard. One of their engineers testing in IE6 had noticed the YouTube banner pretty shortly after it went live and immediately took it to their manager as evidence as to why they should do the same. Shortly thereafter, the Google Docs engineers whipped up their own IE6 banner and pushed it into production, presumably under the mistaken assumption that we had done our diligence and had received all of the necessary approvals. The first time many Googlers heard chatter about IE6 banners was from email threads where other teams had begun asking if they could deprecate IE6 like Google Docs had. Luck would have it that this had included many of our managers. Amazingly, we had somehow bypassed detection as the originators of the IE6 banner inside of Google.

Eventually the YouTube engineering management did ask themselves how the decision to deprecate IE6 was ultimately made, given it happened so quickly and seemed conspicuously premature for a media site of our scale and with such a wide user base. Once they realized what had happened, they cornered our boss for details, grappled with the consequences of our actions and begrudgingly arrived at the conclusion that the ends had justified the means. Between YouTube, Google Docs, and several other Google properties posting IE6 banners, Google had given permission to every other site on the web to add their own. IE6 banners suddenly started appearing everywhere. Within one month, our YouTube IE6 user base was cut in half and over 10% of global IE6 traffic had dropped off while all other browsers increased in corresponding amounts. The results were better than our web development team had ever intended.

Historical IE6 browser share

The Historical Share of Different IE Browser Versions (https://www.w3counter.com/trends)
We somehow got away with our plan to kill IE6 without facing any meaningful corrective action. Few people even knew we were involved at all and those that did, did not want to bring attention to it or risk encouraging similar behavior. At a beer garden in San Francisco, our boss, winking his hardest, made us swear to never do anything like this again. We agreed, toasted IE6 falling into single digit percentages, and never snuck anything into production again.

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