That's me presenting the biggest YouTubers
in the UK with their very first Guinness World Record.
You're probably wondering how I got here.
Well, it all started 11 months ago when I was
watching the Sidemen play football
with the likes of MrBeast, IShowSpeed, and Randolph.
This was all streamed live
on their channel in the aid of charity.
With over 2 million concurrent viewers,
I thought to myself, wow, that must be some kind of record.
Now I've got a bit of experience helping YouTubers
get Guinness World Record titles.
So I decided to reach out
to Simon and ask if they wanted one.
And then once I got approval,
I immediately filled in an application form
for the most-viewed YouTube livestream.
A few weeks later, Guinness World Records got back
to me and said they would approve the record
providing YouTube could confirm it was actually
the most viewed livestream ever.
So then a few weeks after that, someone at YouTube got back
to me and they confirmed it was not the most
viewed YouTube livestream ever.
For some reason, YouTube wouldn't tell me who had the record
for the more concurrent viewers.
But after doing a bit of research,
I think it was the Red Bull fella that jumped from space.
But that didn't matter.
I could still sense there was a record here.
I just needed to be a bit more specific.
So I did a bunch
of research on the Guinness World Records website
and eventually I stumbled upon this.
There was a record for the most viewers
of a charity live stream, and that number was 698,000,
which is a lot less than the
2.5 million that the Sidemen were boasting.
So I applied to beat this record on the Sidemen's behalf
and a few weeks later it was approved
but I didn't wanna end there.
The Sidemen are some of my favourite YouTubers.
So I wanted to get them as many records as possible.
And so I immediately began researching any
possible other records that they could have broken.
I applied for literally anything that I could think of.
And while the Sidemen were running
around a hundred million dollars
super yachts, making incredible Christmas songs,
closing down shopping centres and urinating on each other,
- Oh, it's coming.
- I was working hard in the background back and forth
with Guinness World records, desperately hoping I
could get something else approved, which I did.
One extra record, which I will reveal when I'm
at the Sidemen studio.
To make things even more special, I commissioned
some custom awards, first of which celebrated their most
viewed video recently, surpassing 100 million views.
Oh, that's pretty cute.
It's so much shinier than I thought it would be.
Followed by a fancy double vinyl showcasing their
Christmas charity singles,
and most importantly, my favourite Sidemen moment.
- To be fair though.
- To be fair though what? - To be fair though what?
- A custom, hand engraved "to be fair though"
Vikkstar crystal.
(laughter)
This is in incredible. Look at the 3-D.
So now I had two Guinness World Record titles
and three custom awards ready to give out.
But I decided I wanted to take things to the next level.
Previously in this series,
I've given YouTubers their records over a Discord call.
So this time I wanted to give them their record titles
in person and with an official
Guinness World Records adjudicator.
So Becky and I got the train down to London
and visited the actual Guinness World Records office.
It was full of loads
of delightful bits and bobs from previous records.
And of course, most importantly,
the actual Sidemen certificates.
You'll see I had seven certificates printed
so that each Sideman could take their certificate home
and hang it up in their house.
It was at this point I got some very sad news.
KSI would not be attending the presentation.
He was just too busy training
for his big fight, which is next month.
So that's fair enough, and it doesn't matter
because I had an idea with that anyway.
But finally after 11 months of planning
all that was left was for me to meet the Sidemen
and give them their Guinness World Record titles.
- Oh hello.
- Hello, you all right?
Hello. Hello.
- Hello. Hello everybody.
- Oh wow.
- That's actually official.
- It's a serious thing.
- We've got an adjudicator and everything.
Well, this is nice and intimidating.
Hello the Sidemen.
- Yay!
- Come on.
- I'm here today to present you
with your first joint Guinness World Record title.
- What did we do? What did we do?
- Don't worry, don't worry. It'll all happen, it'll all happen.
- ...find out.
- But first, I've got three custom awards
that I'm gonna go through.
- I hope I've got one.
- Same.
- Yeah, I hope I've got one.
- Just lower your expectations slightly,
'cause these aren't official Guinness records.
- Okay.
- These are things that I've bought off Etsy.
- Okay, custom award's still good.
- I'll take it, I'll take it.
I'll take a Jack award.
- So to begin with, this is a recent Sidemen achievement
ladies and gentlemen, first video to surpass
100 million views.
(cheering in unison)
- Josh.
As organiser. Congratulations.
There you go.
You enjoy that. - Well done.
- He's buzzing with that-
- Hundred million.
That's really cute.
- You'll see you weren't actually in that...
I had to photoshop you. (collective laugher)
Two more custom to go.
- This one's the big one.
- This one looks nice, isn't it?
- I really want one.
- I'm gonna take you back to December 2022.
This was to celebrate the Sidemen charity singles!
Tobi, get up here.
- "This or That" is on there. (laughs)
- Congratulations to you both.
- That's cool as well.
Really cool.
- Thank you, thank you.
No problem.
Congratulations.
- Alright, so there's one left.
- I want one.
- I want one for the one for the gaff.
- Last one. What's this little fella?
What could this be? It's only a tiny little box.
- Okay. Okay.
- This is my personal favourite Sidemen meme.
Vikkstar get back up here.
- It's the "to be fair though" award.
- No.
- Look at that.
- No.
- Jeez.
It's like lasered.
- Hey, we can share this one.
- No, no.
- We were in it.
You ain't even in that.
- Oh, look at that.
That's it.
- That is very sick.
- Yeah, it's 3-D.
- Watch the face move, bro.
- Oh my God.
- Bro, you look so sus, mate.
- His gormy face...
- Normally that award is it's, it's not an award.
It's for when you gran dies
They get the picture and it just says like the
- 3-D grandma.
- Still with us grandma.
- Now the moment that you've all been waiting for
your official Guinness World Record title.
However, I am not an official
Guinness World Records representative.
So I'd like to pass you over to the official
adjudicator, Jo, who's going to introduce.
- What have we won?
- Hello.
- Hello. Nice to meet you all.
It gives me great pleasure to be here
on behalf of Guinness World Records
because I've got a number of records to give out.
- Oh, yes.
- So, let's begin with the most viewers
for a charity sports match live stream on YouTube.
Guys-
- Go on, Harry. Take it!
- This figure of 2,558,501 viewers:
Most viewers for a charity sports match live stream on YouTube.
Congratulations.
- You can't snatch the award.
- Oh, that's sick.
- We've got enough for each of you to take home.
- Oh, lovely.
- So come and grab one.
- Congratulations. You are officially amazing.
- It's official.
- Oh, that's really cool.
- Congrats, congrats.
- Oh wow.
- Thank you so much.
- Congratulations on behalf of Guinness World Records.
You are all officially amazing.
- Yes.
- The Sidemen. Congratulations.
- Let's go.
- Unfortunately, one of you hasn't bothered to turn up.
- He never does.
- I'm gonna take this one back.
If he wants it, he can DM me.
- Smart man.
- I'm not gonna lie.
Originally I applied for lots of different things.
Most of them weren't accepted, but that,
that's nothing to do with you guys.
Don't worry about it.
But one of mine did happen to be accepted.
So this is an individual title.
- This is crazy. We've got individual Guinness World Records.
- We have another very special record here
for the most viewed crossbar challenge video
on YouTube.
- Yes! Yes! - 71,215...
- Come on! - ...168 [71,215,168]. wroetoshaw, you...
- Oh yes.
- You are officially amazing.
- Thank you very much.
- Congratulations.
- Oh, yes.
- Thank you everyone.
- Well done everyone.
Great achievement.
- Thank you.
- Thank you very much.
- Let's go, man.
- And just like that, after 11 months, the Sidemen
were now official Guinness World Record holders.
Big thanks to Simon for being my contact
within the Sidemen who allowed me to set
up this whole video.
Thanks to Dom, Thomas, Victor,
and of course, Becky for all of the help behind the scenes.
And finally, KSI,
if you want your certificate, you know where to find me.
Thank you very much for watching.
Please subscribe, and I'll see you later.