Webdriver Torso

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.

Early videos were called "aqua",[8] which was then changed to "tmp", an abbreviation for the word "template" or "temporary", followed by random characters.

It shows an episode of the American adult cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force dubbed in Spanish.

Hypotheses about the channel's purposes included spy messages,[14] contact by extraterrestrial life-forms,[15] construction plans[16] and a Cicada 3301 recruitment program.

These include the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode, the Rick Astley silhouette, and the Eiffel Tower footage.

An Italian blogger named Soggetto Ventuno found out that Webdriver Torso belongs to a network of accounts called "ytuploadtestpartner_torso".