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Over the course of Discord history there have been various methods to crash discord, some that have been patched out include special unicode characters, a special image I couldn't get a hold of myself, and a special gif that used to crash IOS users.

NOT patched out are videos that abuse -going in with a RGBY color editor and changing to an invalid color -editing sound above the sound barrier -using (I believe) FFMPEG to stitch together videos of different resolutions together.

Now about the last one; chromium does not account for the possibility of a video changing resolution mid-way through, so the video player "throws up an error, shits itself, and takes down discord with it--in some cases even your operating system too" - paraphrased.


This method only effects browser and app discord.

Damage ranges from stalling discord, crashing discord, logging you out of discord (very annoying for 2FA users), or even crashing your entire computer (||some link it with low amounts of free ram but there seems to be more to it than that, my old ass laptop with 8gigs total only experiences crashing as a side effect, yet discord can eat right through 5 gigs for others.||)


Now I would like to point out that these can be easily interpreted as breaking discord ToS.

  • engage in conduct that is fraudulent or illegal or otherwise harmful to Discord or any other user;
  • upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or transmit) files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files or data, or any other similar software or programs or engage in any other activity that may damage the operation of the Service or other users' computers; - https://discord.com/terms
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looks like we must click the gif and it will crash the computer/discord?

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Damn I can't believe someone found this. I'm not sure whether or not they still work with all the changes that are happening

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All of these no longer work btw

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