disturbing youtube bug remains unfixable

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THE WEIRD CORNER OF YOUTUBE YOU WEREN’T SUPPOSED TO FIND
For years, YouTube has tightened its algorithms to filter out disturbing, offensive, or rule-breaking content. But what if one small glitch let you bypass all of it?

In this video, we explore one of the strangest and longest-lasting loopholes in YouTube’s search system – a bizarre phenomenon where typing a single dot (.), a dash (–), or even a weird character like ø could lead you to truly unsettling videos, disturbing thumbnails, and cryptic titles in foreign alphabets. What do these search suggestions mean? Why do they show up at all? And how has this gone unnoticed – or unpatched – for so long?

We’ll dig into the strange case of the so-called Full Stop Punctuation, the mysterious channel “Federico,” and how some search terms unlock nightmarish results that have somehow survived YouTube’s increasingly strict content moderation. Along the way, we’ll also take a look at TikTok’s own broken search suggestions, and how advanced Google search tricks (aka Google Dorking) can uncover things you were never meant to see.