Webdriver Torso

by L. Dani, 6th grade

Webdriver Torso

On March 7, 2013 Webdriver Torso uploaded it’s first video. Since then it has more than 620.000 videos. Exactly 624.701 videos. Some people said that it’s controlled by aliens and that this is the way they try to communicate with us, but later Google told us that it’s their channel. Great, no aliens or government or anything interesting. Now you might ask: ’Why does Google need this channel?’ and the reason is it’s for testing the website’s performance *cough* according to Wikipedia *cough*. In 2016 time between uploads was only an hour. The channel has three videos that are not the typical blue and red squares. One is called ’tmpP IQhI’ the other one is called ’00014’. ’tmpP lQhl’ is normal for a few seconds (if you can call these videos normal) but later Rick Ashley is going to dance on the screen. Don’t ask. If you search ’webdriver torso’ in Google the Google logo will change to a gif of webdriver torso. In the Android version L, the android version Easter egg is webdriver torso. Once Youtube replied when someone asked about the webdriver torso:
"We're never gonna give you uploading that's slow or loses video quality, and we're never gonna let you down by playing YouTube in poor video quality. That's why we're always running tests like Webdriver Torso”