We've always thought that YouTube assigns a 11-character base64 video ID randomly to each upload. However, the video The ATM Glitch That Made a Millionaire by Joeseppi has the ID m4Fi_a9QATM
that ends with ATM
, which is a 1 in 262 144 chance . The first 6 characters are also kinda sus.
Do you think joeseppi write a script to repeatedly start uploading the video, check the URL and abort if it didn't contain the three letters? Or found a glitch similar to the one used by bad apple but it's a QR code that links to this video? Or is it pure luck?
I could not find an official statement on that, and was unable to contact him.