*To Mt Wilson from the Magpie Cage*, I have a tale for you my friends. A tale of a VOD I NEVER SAW. It started when, low and behold, Vaush's Wisconsin debate coverage ran a little late. As I clicked, I saw a loading screen. Chat still going, refreshed. Same. I saw the man himself in the chat apologizing he has to read donos later, and that he had to leave. Discouraged, I left for a time.

Then, noticed the VOD still dominating my feed with upwards of 2K viewers. When I returned, what happened cannot be described in the common tongue. I found I was not alone. I found love. I found brotherhood, sisterhood. I found heartbreak, triumph. Went off to war, came back... CHANGED. We few, we INTREPID & BRAVE few, soldiered on into the morning hours, possibly keeping the VOD itself ALIVE. But that was only the beginning.

A few of us quickly realized ads were still working, this only fueled the flames of legend. We liked and chatted our way to glory, emojis the likes of which have never been seen. We broke bread together, we coerced as giants.

A man with a screen name akin to ididntchangemyname said he was in fact, The Hulk. Then he revealed he was actually Mark Ruffalo! My mind was blown enough at that point. But after I pointed out he did, in fact, change his name, what he said next changed everything. He admitted the truth. He was, in fact, Leonardo DiCaprio.

This started a stream of consciousness Hulk Marvel Disney Universal discussion that rivals podcasts, that fared long after Mr Changedname thought better of the whole situation and deprived us of his company. I was deeply saddened by this, but his effect on the chat reverberated until the very tail end, when the magic and the VOD finally sunsetted - which I saved below. You can see the moment where it happened, the VOD comes to a close and with precious little time, the remaining intrepid few said final goodbyes on this magical, historic event:

12:15 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: Creating the true omnisegment

12:15 AM — KILLROY23: Mega somewhere in there

12:15 AM — ARDON3499: our power grows by the second

12:15 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: One stream's afterchat becomes the next stream's prechat

12:16 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: And Vaush just keeps changing the title

12:16 AM — KILLROY23: I'm now worried this chat is so impossibly long that no one ever could read all of it

12:16 AM — AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS: when can we start with the vaush late comments?

12:16 AM — CRYSTLFOX: lol

12:16 AM — KILLROY23: VAUSH LATE

12:17 AM — DEATHSTORM501: that's all moderately popular stream chats

12:17 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: It's not the same without the pepe scream 😔

12:17 AM — BENELLI9479: Hes stuck frozen for all of eternity 😺

12:17 AM — KILLROY23: Well, theres gold in these hills. Damn shame really

12:17 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: Also I was genuinely shocked someone in vgg didn't know about pepe

12:17 AM — JOLYNEHARRIS: is the stream not loading for anyone else

12:18 AM — DEATHSTORM501: we're all we got buddy

12:18 AM — DEATHSTORM501: 1 thousand people spinning our wheels like the little buffer sign

12:18 AM — AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS: it's all chatters down here

12:18 AM — KILLROY23: DEATHSTORM501 feel that 💯 🧍🧍 🧍🧍

12:18 AM — JOLYNEHARRIS: ohh shit

12:18 AM — JOLYNEHARRIS: i just got here i didnt realize

12:19 AM — KILLROY23: AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS hahaha we float?

12:19 AM — JOLYNEHARRIS: can we blame netanyahu

12:19 AM — AFQWA423: Still going strong

12:19 AM — FIRESTARAWESOME: wth is going on the stream wont play.....am i tripping here?

12:19 AM — AFQWA423: Oh he accidentally left the stream up

12:19 AM — DEATHSTORM501: we can ALWAYS blame netanyahoo

12:19 AM — KILLROY23: FIRESTARAWESOME imagine if you will, you have entered a realm

12:19 AM — CRYSTLFOX: yea, just start at the beginning, stream is over but its broken lol

12:20 AM — JOLYNEHARRIS: oh so we are just stupid

12:20 AM — THEALAINARILEY: did he watch the debate? I watched part of the stream earlier but now it won't load any of the rest of the stream.

12:20 AM — DEATHSTORM501: but then why is title different??

12:20 AM — KILLROY23: or Brave, Intrepid... whichever

12:20 AM — AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS: KILLROY23 "Corps are the real monsters."

12:20 AM — AFQWA423: Yeah stream ended hours ago

12:20 AM — THAENAA: yt bugged

12:20 AM — AFQWA423: Because he watched the debate and changed titles midway

12:20 AM — DEATHSTORM501: ughhhh

12:20 AM — IANMCEWAN3326: bed bugged

12:21 AM — AFQWA423: I just arrived home myself from work and happened to check youtube

12:21 AM — KILLROY23: AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS reminds me of that documentary "The Corporation"

12:21 AM — DEATHSTORM501: alright no late night debate stream ig goodnight buds

12:21 AM — FIRESTARAWESOME: KILLROY23 hmmm is it Alice in Wonderland? 😂😂

12:21 AM — XDTHX: fix it thaena

12:21 AM — KILLROY23: FIRESTARAWESOME we have control of your TV set! The horizontal, the vertical!

12:22 AM — KILLROY23: this is what I call the Vaush Loading Nexus, or VLN

12:23 AM — KILLROY23: it's catching on

12:23 AM — AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS: KILLROY23 I'm personally thinking Bladerunner 2049 sort of vibe. line must go up

12:24 AM — KILLROY23: Line Goes Up... reminds me of that doc...

12:24 AM — DYRAFALLEN: omfg I force disabled my YouTube and it did nothing

12:24 AM — DYRAFALLEN: I just wanted to watch the rest of the stream😭

12:24 AM — AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS: or Aeon Flux

12:25 AM — NULLY-1987: Has Vaush really been live this whole time or is this just a straight up bug?

12:25 AM — HUNTERROWLAND-B6O: is it actually still up

12:25 AM — KILLROY23: DYRAFALLEN but what you found instead, is there no grace to be found here?

12:25 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: on desktop rewinding works for me, on smartphone its stuck loading forever

12:26 AM — FAIT231: just an endless loading screen?

12:26 AM — KILLROY23: on desktop I am stuck loading, I got here after zero hour though

12:26 AM — NEVERNAMEDWONDER: Sometimes I can still hear his voice…

12:26 AM — DYRAFALLEN: KILLROY23 so it seems.

12:26 AM — KILLROY23: there will be no going back....

12:26 AM — NEVERNAMEDWONDER: He went offline hours ago, this is YouTube having a stroke

12:26 AM — DYRAFALLEN: moooooods

12:26 AM — DYRAFALLEN: YouTube moooooods

12:27 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: stream going on forever was promised to us 3000 years ago and it will be going on for another 3000 years

12:27 AM — KILLROY23: DYRAFALLEN I'm not saying there is grace here btw this might be drooling idiot capitol of the internet for all I know/am

12:28 AM — DYRAFALLEN: in another news we have a cool hawk that made it's nest right next to our house and it's fighting with the magpies

12:28 AM — DEREKะ: 1,300 people watching a spinner for two hours

12:28 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: I have a seagull nesting on my roof that threatens me when i go outside at night

12:29 AM — LAVI8174: This stream will bridge the time until he sets up his stream in Shenzhen

12:29 AM — KILLROY23: 🎶 from Mt Wilson to the Magpie Cage 🎶

12:29 AM — DYRAFALLEN: KILLROY23 yeah I'm afraid not.

12:29 AM — AUSTINLOSTINTHEWOODS: I gotta go for a bit, but I'm leaving stream up on my phone. I'll either see y'all on the other side, or I'll be back in a bit. Much love forever chat

12:30 AM — DYRAFALLEN: seagull does sound like a pain to have nesting on ur house

12:30 AM — KILLROY23: DYRAFALLEN you mean I'm not a drooling idiot 😃?

12:31 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: jap. Seagulls sometimes cry like a cat that hurt itself, ran into the living room panicked more than once thinking one of mine was hurt

12:31 AM — KILLROY23: \*hope fills sore eyes like a warm blanket\*

12:32 AM — THATONECRAZYBROWNGUY3631: I was here

12:32 AM — DYRAFALLEN: killroy I was talking ab grace. But no I bet your not lmao

12:32 AM — KILLROY23: oh dang I had a bunch of crying emojis ready LMAO

12:33 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: its ok, there are enough other reasons in the world for crying rn

12:33 AM — DYRAFALLEN: no no don't let me take this away from you lmao

12:33 AM — KILLROY23: ok here goes!

12:33 AM — KILLROY23: 😢😭😿😭🥺😭😢😭😭🥺

12:33 AM — ROCCOGONZALEZ6747: !like don’t forget to like the stream 🌊☢🍑💨🗿🥝

12:33 AM — NIGHTBOT: Like👍 the Stream to Transgender Everyone!

12:34 AM — DYRAFALLEN: thank you nightbot

12:34 AM — KAWHILENORD: GUYS what is going on why is vuash on so late 😭

12:34 AM — DYRAFALLEN: for your contribution

12:34 AM — KILLROY23: OMG in all this I actually forgot to like the stream 😥

12:34 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: nightbot being true to its name and doing a night shift

12:34 AM — DYRAFALLEN: it's bugging

12:35 AM — DYRAFALLEN: it's been like this since stream ended some three hours ago

12:35 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: there are no bugs, only features

12:35 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: This is Vaush testing out offline yt chat

12:35 AM — DYRAFALLEN: well it sure is buggin me

12:36 AM — KILLROY23: Ok I 👍'd the stream now we're good

12:36 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: also there are no bugs anymore because of climate change either

12:36 AM — ROCCOGONZALEZ6747: KAWHILEONARD didn’t know you were a Vaush fan that’s cool

12:36 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: maybe vaush is staying on until everyone liked stream

12:37 AM — KILLROY23: the 🐝 are DYING OFF, COLONY COLLAPSE

12:37 AM — ROCCOGONZALEZ6747: He knows if you didn’t like the stream

12:37 AM — QUEENBEELOLA: 🧑‍💻🎧🧑‍💻🎧

12:37 AM — KILLROY23: anyone remember the old Ian Crossland/crossmack?

12:38 AM — KILLROY23: He's on Tim Pool now, but oh boy does he have a history on YT

12:38 AM — DYRAFALLEN: eh I'mma go watch a movie, any recs? 😮

12:38 AM — KILLROY23: One Battle After Another

12:38 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: project hail mary

12:38 AM — BRUFOXX: some say it's the longest stream ever

12:38 AM — DYRAFALLEN: I've seen one battle after another it was great 😆

12:39 AM — ROCCOGONZALEZ6747: Alien Romulus

12:39 AM — KILLROY23: Meta Analyses confirm there is consensus on this being the longest stream ever

12:39 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: BRUFOXX They say no one else has streamed like I have. Some people say that AZAN streams more than me, but that's fake news!

12:39 AM — DYRAFALLEN: is project hail Mary very much worth watching? I saw like the first 20minutes but kinda forgot to finish it

12:39 AM — TUXEDOTUXEDO293: Still here eh?

12:39 AM — KILLROY23: DYRAFALLEN absolutely knocked my socks off

12:40 AM — KILLROY23: Hail Mary is great

12:40 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: its great, I loved the book as well. At least if you are into hard science fiction

12:40 AM — BUBBAFETT225: Vaush vaush vaush vaush

12:40 AM — DYRAFALLEN: I was just thinking I need to watch the alien series from start to end 😆. I've only seen the first two and it's been some time.

12:40 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: bubbafett225 bubbafett225 bubbafett225 bubbafett225

12:40 AM — KILLROY23: It's like what Spaceman could have been, I kinda like both honestly

12:40 AM — AYMENSALEEM6531: is there going to be more streaming today??

12:41 AM — THEKID377400: what is going on??

12:41 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: stream vod is bugged

12:41 AM — THEKID377400: lol

12:41 AM — KILLROY23: DYRAFALLEN Alien series, proceed with caution. It's a bumpy road

12:41 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: Trump is gonna give a speech at 1AM EST and Vaush is gonna come back 🤣

12:41 AM — IANMCEWAN3326: stream got bed bugs

12:42 AM — VICTORLUNA2847: why are we up so late ? What's going on

12:42 AM — DYRAFALLEN: killroy I've heard lmao, but I also hear there's some diamonds in the rough

12:42 AM — KILLROY23: STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE LOL has there ever been a speech at that hour?

12:42 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: notging going on, vod is bugged and showing as live

12:42 AM — ROCCOGONZALEZ6747: Don’t watch alien 3 or resurrection everything else is great or just ok

12:42 AM — NAMEBLANK00: ofc it ends as I click on

12:42 AM — DYRAFALLEN: Victorluna talk for urself its 8am here lmai

12:42 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: KILLROY23 I think latest was when he delayed to 11PM iirc

12:43 AM — IANMCEWAN3326: stream is bed bugged

12:43 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: NAMEBLANK00 its been offline for hours, its bugged

12:44 AM — DYRAFALLEN: ROCCOGONZALEZ6747 no but Robert on btb was making jokes ab alien 4 and I wanna get them😂

12:44 AM — MR.OAKTREE2016: I was like "What is he pulling an all nighter for?" lol.

12:44 AM — KILLROY23: and then it covered the lands in a second darkness

12:44 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: MR.OAKTREE2016 Address to the Union 😫

12:44 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: I still remember staying up for that

12:45 AM — JOHNNNSWIFTY: vaush hasnt been on in hours and there are STILL OVER 1000 PEOPLE HERE, YALL HAVE A PROBLEM

12:45 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: JOHNNNSWIFTY We're addicted to the offline chat

12:45 AM — B3HR3NS: damn, I thought there was some late night shit or something

12:46 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: most are probably asleep tbh lol

12:46 AM — JARV9701: Ehy I just came back from a trip

12:46 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: It's cause ppl can still join this livestream. So for every person we bleed we can recover another

12:46 AM — JOHNNNSWIFTY: aahh sleep, thats a good idea. go to sleep yall

12:47 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: its almost 7 am here though

12:47 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: i need to go to work

12:47 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: but ok, Ill tell my boss you saiod I need to sleep

12:48 AM — KILLROY23: SEALOFDARKNESSTV staying is the only way forward

12:48 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: Don't ever take advice from yt chat 😭 Even Vaush doesn't listen to us

12:48 AM — KILLROY23: STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE the midnight oil will not burn itself

12:49 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: Follow yt chat advice and see how long it takes until you end up on the street challenge

12:49 AM — ANIMATED\_\_FREAK: I usually watch you stuff after it aired at work in the morning, don’t usually catch you live

12:50 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: sorry to tell you, but he isnt live. Its bugged and vod is showing up as live. Hesb been off for hours

12:50 AM — ANIMATED\_\_FREAK: Damn

12:50 AM — SIRALEXANDER-98: 😂

12:51 AM — KILLROY23: But this chat is where its at

12:51 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: You can join forever chat. Noone leaves us. At least not alive.

12:51 AM — KILLROY23: I wonder what Vaush is actually doing at this very moment

12:51 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: buying clothes

12:52 AM — KILLROY23: with lapels that are too small

12:52 AM — AHMEDALMADANI-P3D: I missed the stream, I wanna watch it now but I can't for some reason 😞

12:52 AM — BRUHV7390: typical vaush

12:52 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: It's like 9:52 where he is

12:52 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: Are clothing stores open that late

12:52 AM — KILLROY23: AHMEDALMADANI-P3D we are all in the same boat man, and we have found strength through the sharing

12:52 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: i wonder if hes getting payed by youtube for the viewers rn

12:53 AM — KILLROY23: 🧍🧍

12:53 AM — JOSHSTANTINOPLE: Did vaush forgor tho end his stream

12:53 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: Im watching VOD rn, on desktop rewinding worked for me

12:53 AM — PETEHEYBOER6906: I just got off of work

12:53 AM — EYEPODX: Wait so im not the only one who’s not seeing anything

12:53 AM — AGENTSUNSHINE8275: Hey everybody!

12:53 AM — JOSHSTANTINOPLE: I went to sleep and he's still live

12:53 AM — CRYSTLFOX: wow

12:53 AM — KILLROY23: SEALOFDARKNESSTV I sure freaking hope so

12:53 AM — KILLROY23: planting gold records in the desert has to count for something

12:54 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: vaush left stream on to pay for his shopping addiction

12:54 AM — KILLROY23: EYEPODX I'll go you one better. You have taken your first step into a larger world

12:54 AM — AGENTSUNSHINE8275: More suede!

12:54 AM — AZURESPOON: HELLO PEOPLE

12:54 AM — AZURESPOON: I SEE THE PARTY IS STILL GOING

12:54 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: SEALOFDARKNESSTV Nah, Vaush would spend more time yapping about clothes than actually buying it

12:54 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: welcome to forever chat

12:55 AM — AZURESPOON: eterna-chat

12:55 AM — AGENTSUNSHINE8275: This is great, usually I listen to Vaush while working so I never get in the chat.

12:55 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: IDF created an illegal settlement in vaushs stream chat

12:55 AM — KILLROY23: I thought Nothing Forever/Seinfeld AI would have improved by now

12:55 AM — KBIND54: Is... \*anyone\* seeing anything?

12:56 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: nah, its bugged

12:56 AM — KBIND54: cool thanks!

12:56 AM — TIANAMAYCRY: I'm 3.5 hours behind on the stream and I see things. 🤷‍♀

12:56 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: PC can rewind I think

12:56 AM — GOOGLESUCKS-P8Y: What going on it froze

12:56 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: yeah, rewinding vod worked for me but stream is offline for hours

12:56 AM — GOOGLESUCKS-P8Y: Israel hacked the stream!!! Damn you chuck schumer!!!!!!!,q

12:57 AM — KILLROY23: it did freeze, but it's fine, this glitch has started a sub cult

12:57 AM — TIANAMAYCRY: I think Vaush ended stream a while ago, but forgot to actually end the stream.

12:57 AM — STARSTRUCK\_CELESTE: Vgg is offline, yt still says Vaush is live

12:57 AM — EDEN-LENTZ: lmao

12:57 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: Im watching haley stevens rn, be happy rewinding vod doesnt work for yall

12:58 AM — TIANAMAYCRY: We carry the flame!!! 🔥🔥🔥

12:58 AM — KILLROY23: I'm rewinding watching the part where Mike from PA calls vaush on Skype and Vaush gets him to admit he's a hack. Came out of nowhere!

12:58 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: I think vaush did end and it is bugged. Otherwise there would be a blackscreen or something with normal stream vod working and getting longer, but its stuck loading forever if you try to watch live

12:58 AM — KILLROY23: TIANAMAYCRY I been sayin it!!! ❤‍🔥🔥🔥🔥🚒🔥🔥🔥

12:59 AM — GOOGLESUCKS-P8Y: I’m eating a hotdog right now y’all

12:59 AM — ROSHA-Q2Q: Listing On Ebay

12:59 AM — SHTORMIE: KILLROY23 what's the timestamp?

12:59 AM — ROSHA-Q2Q: I'm at the part where he's raging at the bot

12:59 AM — SHTORMIE: i just got here

12:59 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: GOOGLESUCKS-P8Y Is that what we call s\*cking dick now ?

1:00 AM — KILLROY23: SHTORMIE ummmmmmmmmmm 03:43:78

1:00 AM — GOOGLESUCKS-P8Y: KILLROY23 hi

# 1:01 AM — KILLROY23: woah mine just ended

1:01 AM — KILLROY23: GOOGLESUCKS-P8Y hey

# 1:01 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: yeah same

1:01 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: I dont know if i can live without forever chat

1:01 AM — GOOGLESUCKS-P8Y: Oh shit oh fuck it’s happening Israel is nuking us

1:01 AM — KILLROY23: what does this mean are we on borrowed time

1:01 AM — SEALOFDARKNESSTV: guys im scared

1:01 AM — KILLROY23: me too

1:02 AM — KILLROY23: somebody, I don't care who.... HOLD ME right now

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Final End Screen Totals just as the VOD collapsed asunder:

https://preview.redd.it/irtgyj8wx3gh1.jpg?width=742&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8d88148b14a4c28969d37f7692cab6b9168b45f

https://preview.redd.it/ycphpt5hy3gh1.jpg?width=321&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a5494e56d41decfe817ea9ea33d96102c7a409fc

In the words of a great great person, we're all chatters down here.

I think there's a lesson there for all of us.

Vaush pulled an All-Nighter, and didn't even have to be there!