Overview
- The video's listing displays a runtime of 1,234,567:30:00, but playback reveals an actual length of 12 hours, 34 minutes and 56 seconds.
- The clip, a blank black screen with no audio, has attracted about 2.8 million views despite YouTube's typical 12-hour upload cap for verified accounts.
- Users on X and Reddit quickly identified the mismatch and have speculated about a display glitch or metadata manipulation, with no confirmed cause.
- The ShinyWR channel wrote, "why are my videos getting recommended to people? this channel was supposed to be a secret," and has since posted a brief "billionhours" livestream and a multi-day Short.
- The account lists North Korea as its location and features other unusually long uploads, though the location is unverified and YouTube has not explained the anomaly.