Webdriver Torso

A typical Webdriver Torso slide. Quality loss is visible in the text and along the rectangle edges.

Webdriver Torso is a YouTube automated performance testing account that became famous in 2014 for speculations about its (then unexplained) nature and jokes featured in some of its videos.

Created by Google on March 7, 2013,[1] the channel began uploading videos on September 23 of the same year, consisting of simple slides accompanied by beeps. It was brought to public attention in 2014 when it became a source of speculation for viewers who discovered it and noted three atypical videos featuring jokes. It remained a popular mystery until YouTube humorously acknowledged that the channel exists as an internal testing utility.[2] The channel stopped posting videos at its same rate after 624,774 videos as of May 4, 2017, though it continued to post intermittently over the coming years.[3]

  1. ^ "Webdriver Torso/About". YouTube. Retrieved August 1, 2016.
  2. ^ Jane Wakefield (June 10, 2014). "Google behind Webdriver Torso mystery". BBC. Archived from the original on July 1, 2017. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
  3. ^ "Webdriver Torso YouTube Stats, Channel Statistics". Socialblade. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved June 29, 2017.