Lets face it, if you have ever written code at 3AM and found yourself ready to kill someone if one more error message was thrown at you, then you can probably relate to this next story.

While walking through YouTube’s source code, it was discovered that maybe some of YouTube’s programmers might have spent a bit too much time watching bad Karaoke videos.

Professionalism

Honestly, the language isn’t “that” bad (I did a bit of creative editing), but the fact is this sort of thing should have been removed before the program went live. Even if it is an artifact from an early version of the program, a code audit by the Google staff after acquisitions should have turned this up and taken it out.

Your average person would never run across this little bit of mischief, so on the great, big scale of corporate faux-pas’ it ranks rather low. That doesn’t really matter though, the blogosphere is vast and if something can be found, it will be. This illustrates the fact that when dealing with the internet, one should just accept the fact that all the content you produce will eventually find its way into the public eye, so plan accordingly.

[Credit to Chad Upton for the discovery]

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