I have the longest channel name on YouTube.
Yes, this is a legitimate real channel that exists.
The normal character limit for a username on YouTube is 50 characters,
but using a simple YouTube glitch,
I managed to get a username that was 382 characters long.
Since I made this video all about that username,
the channel has since reached well over 100,000 subscribers,
which means that after several weeks of annoying YouTube over and over again,
they eventually agreed to send me this play button.
Inside this box is the most ridiculous silver play button you will ever see.
I thought that I got the longest possible username on a play button
in this video many months ago.
As you can see, this username is 50 characters long,
but this is absolutely nothing compared to what is inside here.
This video is also sponsored by Honey, more about them later on.
But for now, we're going to go about five weeks in the past
to begin my journey of trying to get my hands
on this ridiculous play button.
Here we are.
We're on my YouTube channel dashboard.
Now, if YouTube wanted to give me this play button,
a little thing would pop up at the top saying,
"Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers.
Here's a code to redeem yourself a play button."
But as you can see, we do not have any of that.
We do have some nice achievements, though. Look at that.
10,000 hours of watch time, a million views.
What was the first one? 200,000 subscribers.
We've gotten to 200K
and we still haven't received our play button code.
Because we haven't received our play button code,
we need to do a JackSucksAtLife classic,
which is annoy the YouTube staff on YouTube live chat.
Chat with a member of our team.
Enter your channel URL.
Not a problem, start chat.
I'm number one in line. Here we go.
Oh my God!
I'm connected with Venice.
"Hi, my name is Venice, how are you doing today?"
I am great, thank you
[SAYS QUESTION MARK] Venice, what about yourself?
"That's good to hear!"
Great stuff, Venice.
"I'm doing good too. Thank you."
Fantastic.
"How can I help you today?" I'll tell you, Venice.
I'll say, "my channel reached 100,000 subscribers a couple of months ago,
but I'm yet to receive a code in my YouTube studio
to redeem my silver play button."
Send.
I have no idea what this silver play button is going to look like
because there is literally nowhere near enough room for the actual username.
Venice has said,
"Congratulations for reaching such an incredible milestone."
Thanks, Venice. It took a lot of work.
"May I know who I'm chatting with by the way?"
That's a suspicious question.
I've done this like 12 times.
They've never asked me that before.
I'm slightly concerned.
Shall we send them my username?
My name is Jack.
My YouTube channel is...
I've accidentally put the sub count at the bottom.
That was an accidental copy and paste.
I'm sorry about that one, Venice.
He says, Thanks, Jack.
Is he going to acknowledge the ridiculously long username?
No, he's not.
He's just putting the chat on hold for 3 to 5 minutes.
I've said yes, that's no problem.
Now, we wait.
[MUSIC PLAYS]
Oh my God! He's typing.
He's typing.
Here we go.
"Thanks for waiting. Good news!"
I'm putting an emoji. I'm really excited.
Oh my God! They gave me the code right now!
So for reference, every single time I've done this previously,
they have to contact the awards team and I have to wait four days to hear back,
but they must have made their system more efficient.
"To redeem your Creator Award,
head to the Creator Awards redemption website
and enter your unique code.
Once you signed in,
you'll be asked to enter your channel name as you'd like to see it on your award."
Hopefully, there isn't a character limit on that bit
because I have a feeling there definitely will be.
2You can expect your awards to be delivered in about two or three weeks.
In addition, did you know that your team could buy extra awards?"
Yes, I did, Venice.
I've been trying to buy extra awards for months,
but every time I bloody email them, they kick off at us.
All right, we thanked Venice for their help.
They've said, congratulations.
What a delight.
He's asked if there's anything else. I'm going to say nope, that's everything.
Do you know what?
I'm going to give him a little kissy face
because I'm feeling a bit wild about it, to be honest.
"Looking forward to your gold play button."
Am I getting a gold one? Bloody hell.
Hang on, I need to fill in this survey.
I am extremely satisfied.
Right, here we go.
We're back here again.
All right, enter my little code.
I'm not a robot. Click continue...
Oh my God! Is it there already?
It's already there. The whole thing's there.
The whole thing's there.
Just don't even touch it. Just click Continue.
Oh, no. No, no, no, no, no.
I just keep getting switched back again.
No, I verify it. It's perfect.
When I click continue, nothing's happening.
It's just putting me back to the website.
Obviously, they think that it's a bit dodgy or something,
so they're like, 'nah, that can't be right.
Can you please double-check?'
Now, we've hit a stumble.
I saw this coming, to be honest.
I guess at this point,
I should try emailing Society Awards and see what they say.
I've written out a little email,
I guess I'll get that sent off and we'll hope for the best.
Probably take them a couple of days to get back to me.
I then waited about 48 hours
and I got an email back from Society Awards.
As expected, it was not good news, but I had a cunning plan.
Guess what?
It's been 24 hours and no surprise, it's not good news.
"Thank you for reaching out.
We are sorry to hear about the problems you're experiencing.
Please reach out to Creator Support team
who will be able to assist you with your question."
Then they've linked you to Creator Support team.
That's dead end. Clearly that's going nowhere.
It's time to get a bit more creative.
I was staring at these only moments ago and I was thinking to myself,
what if the same glitch
that allowed me to get this ridiculously long username on YouTube
also worked on this website?
Because yes, they fixed it on YouTube after my video,
but we're not on YouTube right now.
Inspect.
Is the max length thing...
Oh my God! It says max length.
This is exactly how I did it on YouTube.
I just changed the max length to, I think, 700.
I've clicked okay.
Now, I'm going to click continue and see what happens.
I really thought that was going to work.
It just refreshed the page. Nothing happened.
Just in case, let's see exactly how many characters this username is.
It's 382.
Just for the fun of it,
I'm going to change the max length to that.
Then we're going to click continue and hope for the best.
Are you ready?
Still no-
Wait, what happened?
Did I do it?
It took me back to the home page.
Well, we'll enter our code,
we'll click I'm not a robot and then let's continue.
We're back here again. Continue.
No, nothing. Not happening.
I'm not really sure what to do.
I mean, at some point we're going to have to accept
that this username is not fitting on a play button.
But not just yet.
Stay tuned.
And so, I went back to YouTube live chat.
I entered all of the same old information.
I explained the scenario to a new YouTube support employee.
At that point, they said the unforgivable.
"Do you have an option to enter a shorter name?"
How dare you, Ceej?
How dare you?
A shorter name?
No, I absolutely do not!
Once I politely reiterated that, they said,
"Since you like to keep your name,
I will need to check this with our Specialist Team."
They needed to send an email to the technical team.
It was not looking good for our 382-character username.
A few days later, I got another email.
But before we read that email,
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I have now received my email from the technical department
and as expected, it is not good news.
"Thank you for your unending patience and I hope this email finds you well.
I was able to read the correspondence you had with my colleague
and I believe this is about your Creator Awards.
Please note that we take all our feedback seriously
and I'm more than glad to check on this for you.
As promised, I'd like to inform you that our internal team has responded
and confirmed that in order for you to claim your Creator Awards,
you will be needing to change your channel name.
Kindly follow the steps below."
They literally show us
how to actually change our YouTube channel name.
Absolutely not.
I will never change my 374-character username ever.
They fixed the bug that I used,
so if I changed it, it would be gone forever.
"In addition, please know
the maximum character count is only 50 characters
and understand that this cannot be adjusted."
Youtube, you may have won the war, but you have not won the battle.
Is that the phrase?
I've come up with a plan and it's a good one.
As you can see, this is a 50-character username on a play button
When we look, there is not really any room on either side.
That's what? Like less than an inch?
Just because we can't change how many characters go on this username
doesn't mean we can't still make the username even longer.
For example, we've got
JacksEpicYouTubeChannel FullOfFunTimesAndFunHiRickX
written in front of me.
That's 50 characters long.
But watch what happens when it's written in capitals.
Oh, it's suddenly a lot longer.
Already, I don't think that this name in capitals would fit on that play button.
The reason for this is different letters are different widths.
For example, this is the letter I 50 times but this is the letter M 50 times.
Look how much more space it takes up.
Then this is the letter M in capitals uses about the same amount of space this time.
But this is the letter W in capitals, quite a lot longer.
A beautiful capital W is the widest letter that we can have.
I understand there are some obscure characters
from other languages and stuff that I could potentially use,
but there's no point trying that because YouTube would just decline me.
It's a waste of time.
Let me show you my proposed 50-character super wide username.
Are you ready for this?
Oh, no, it's the wrong one.
Are you ready for this?
Both of these usernames are 50 characters long,
but look how much longer this second one is.
I've got some symmetrical Ms and Ws at the end
just to add a bit of width.
Then this is basically the initials of my super long username.
We've got Jacks Epic YouTube Channel Full of Fun Times and Fun.
Hi Rick X.
By the way, this isn't the entire initials because that just literally wouldn't fit.
Has nothing on me more characters than all of Jack's YouTube channels combined.
JackSucksAtLife, stuff, Massey Welsh, geography, clips,
SamSmellsOfApricots, Pop-up Pirate, and then some more Ws and Ms.
What are we doing?
Yes, that's 50 characters long, so YouTube have got to accept it.
If this is how much space this username has left,
I'm very curious about how much space that username is going to have.
What on Earth will they do?
Will they put it on a separate line?
Will they make the font smaller?
Will they just decline me?
I've got absolutely no idea.
Well, I guess it's time to find out.
We have to delete this super long username, which is very, very sad.
But realistically, we all knew it was going to happen.
There it goes.
Now, I paste in my new one.
I'm hoping that it will allow the underscores.
I guess we will find out.
Let's just make sure that looks about right.
We got our Ws and Ms at the beginning.
We got JacksEpicYouTubeChannel FullOfFunTimesAndFunHiRickX.
This is just complete mumbo jumbo, but I think we're good.
Let us click Continue.
We have made it to the shipping details.
This is the furthest we've gotten.
Oh my God!
Award level silver.
Our username is there.
I'm so excited.
Let's confirm my order. Here we go.
Your order will be handled in three to four days
and shipped to your address within one to two weeks.
I cannot wait.
That is, of course, unless Society Awards have an issue,
which I'm guessing they probably will.
Either way, though, let's find out.
At this point, you would think I wouldn't have any more issues.
Well, guess what? I had many more issues.
But why?
We've agreed to do a 50-character username.
It's technically a lot longer than this, but it's still 50 characters.
What's the problem?
I get an email a couple of days later.
"I saw you recently redeemed a Silver Award.
Congratulations."
Congratulations.
"I just wanted to double-check
that you wanted the name to be [...]."
Of course, I said,
"Yeah, I would like the name to be [...]."
24 hours later, we get this email.
"I just asked YouTube if it was approved
and they asked if you would be okay if the awards said [...]
because we don't typically allow the underscores on awards.
Would that be okay?"
They want to remove my big, wide Ws and Ms and the underscores,
but they only said they don't allow underscores.
I said, "Sorry! I didn't realise that.
In that case, you could remove the underscores.
Please print the following on the award."
Then I shoved in an extra M and a W to replace the now-removed underscores.
This is so ridiculous.
By the way, if you're watching this far in,
please subscribe because this video was a right faff on.
Another 24 hours later, I have another email.
"Youtube got back to me and they approved the name
as long as the MWMWMW at the beginning and the end are dropped.
Do you approve [...]?"
No, I absolutely do not approve [...]
because that is only 36 characters,
and I'm trying to get a username that is longer than
JacksEpicYouTubeChannel FullOfFunTimesAndFunHiRickX.
I kick back and I say, I do not approve that name.
If I'm not allowed the Ms and Ws, then can I please have...
Then I give a full extended abbreviated version of the username,
which I was not happy about doing.
That username was Jack's epic YouTube channel
full of fun times and fun hi rick kiss has nothing on me.
I am the superior channel.
I have more characters than JackSucksAtLife, stuff, Massey Welsh,
geography, clips, SamSmellsOfApricots, Pop-up Pirate.
I don't even remember what these stand for, but it does stand for something.
Even though it's not as long as my username with all of the Ms and the Ws,
as we can see,
it's still quite a lot longer than
JacksEpicYouTubeChannel FullOfFunTimesAndFunHiRickX,
which is what's printed on this award.
It will still be the new longest award on YouTube.
The Society Awards got back to me another day later
and they said,
YouTube has finally approved this. Please never contact me again.
I got this really hilarious-looking email with the original name.
Before I knew it, this arrived at my door.
I'm very excited to open it up.
I've got the new play button in front of us.
But if we grab our original long play button username,
let's grab our tape measure and work out specifically how long this is.
That is an impressive 22 and a half centimetres.
Providing what's in this box is longer than 22 and a half centimetres,
we've successfully gotten the new longest username play button on YouTube.
Of course, I'm very nervous about this.
Potentially, the username could be spread across two lines.
I'm sure it's not going to be.
I think that's somehow going to manage to fit it in.
But truly, it's going to be very close to the edge.
Okay, take the lid up.
It is right under this felt.
Oh my God!
Are we ready, everyone, for the new longest username on YouTube?
Oh my God!
Look at that.
Let me grab it so you can see it better.
Oh, I've not opened a play button in ages.
This is so nice.
Well, you know what?
It actually fits very, very nicely.
It looks absolutely ridiculous, but they've bloody managed to make it fit.
Have they skipped a character? I'm counting this.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50.
Fair play Society Awards.
Is that a new felt?
It is, guys.
You can tell I've opened too many play buttons
when I can recognise it's new felt.
Look, it's a slightly less deep black.
That's very nice. I like it.
Before we're going to do the moment of truth
and work out if it's longer than 22 and a half centimetres
because I don't think it's that much longer.
But as long as it's longer, that still counts.
I realised that I have not yet checked who packaged this award.
Where's me package by Rick card?!
What the hell? Where is it?
You are joking me.
Every single Society Awards award that I've ever opened
has come with a little package by Rick card.
Look, I literally made a little plaque for them all to go.
I can only assume that Rick saw this and he was like,
I am not giving that little English moron
the satisfaction of getting one of my cards.
I can't believe it. I'm outraged.
God, that is so funny.
Do you know what?
I know you packaged it, Rick,
because I have a commercial invoice on the back of the box
and it's got your bloody name on the back of it.
But either way, here we are with two long usernames.
I can't help noticing there's a mucky fingerprint there as well, guys.
They're taking the mickey and what's going on?
Oh my God!
When you put them side by side,
you can see that they've actually had to make the font smaller.
This typeface is so much thicker than this typeface.
I wonder if that's the first time they've ever had to do that.
Did they have to do that specially for me?
I've got my tape measure. This is it.
22 and a half to beat.
Yes, we're 23 and a half!!
We did it.
We've got the new longest username on YouTube.
Thank you so much for watching, everyone.
Subscribe to JackSucksAtLife.
Subscribe to this channel.
Click that like button and I will see you all next time.
We did it.
Oh my God!