Steam Users Kill Their Accounts With One Of The English Language's Longest Words
Last week, a Steam user made a very curious discovery. We don't know just who that Steam user was because upon making this discovery they disappeared from the platform, but we know that it happened because of a particular YouTuber who decided to repeat the mistake and showcase it to the world.
The Spiffing Brit posted a video last week called "One Word Kills Your Steam Account." That word turned out to be one of the longest words in the English language. It wasn't THE longest word, which is "pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis," but it was still the very long "antidisestablishmentarianism." Change your Steam profile name to "antidisestablishmentarianism," and you'd effectively have kissed your Steam account goodbye.
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What actually happened is a glitch made your Steam Profile go dark. You wouldn't be able to access groups, friends, profiles, inventories, or anything related to the profiles page of Steam. You couldn't be searched by others looking for you to either trade items or invite to a game in progress, and you wouldn't be able to access your inventory of saved Steam items to trade or use. The glitch also crashed the Steam mobile app.
You could still access your game library, and you could still play games with other people, but you couldn't be invited to play with anyone else. People who tried to look at your profile would just see a blank page.
It turns out, this wasn't even necessarily a Steam glitch. Spiffing Brit discovered that searching for your profile on Google brought back an "Access Denied" error message, indicating it was the server itself that was blocking access. After a bit of digging, that server
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