[tyingq]

It seems like it sort of counts as an amplification DOS. Enough people uploading smallish videos that unravel into terabytes could probably create an issue. It's bypassing the YouTube limits of 256 GB/12 hours.

I would guess YouTube will do some sort of fix or sanity check.

[smoldesu]

That makes sense, thank you. I'd assume a data engineer at Google somewhere has a small yellow light that goes off whenever someone exceeds those limits, but FAANG infrastructure never fails to disappoint me.

[ikiris]

More like a graph that a single person generally can't hope to move unless they have a following to the level of xcow. If someone burns a tire in the middle of the rain forest.... can anyone tell until its 50,000 people doing it?

[usmannk]

What is xcow?

[chedabob]

I think they might've meant xqcow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XQc

[usmannk]

Strange reference. Is that just meant to be an arbitrary celebrity or does xqcow have some particular relevance here I'm missing?

[smoldesu]

Most people would probably name-drop him if asked to list off the 10 biggest streamers they could think of. I wouldn't consider his ilk a household name, but I'm just playing it as it lies.