OpenGriefing

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OpenGriefing is a Team Fortress 2 community dedicated to the [Wiki:Griefer griefing] on the game. The community is known for uploading most of the known and most powerful exploits of Team Fortress 2, mostly found by members outside the community.

About
The channel is run by various members of the team, and uploads different series (mostly centered on the griefing), and only few videos talking about the channel/community in general. These series include Tutorial, Griefing, LiveTester, and TV.


 * Tutorial videos showcase the exploit and its required steps to perform. These exploits may be about any game's feature (e.g. a class or a weapon) and even a map. These exploits are performed on a singleplayer server, and sometimes require an additional player as teammate or enemy.


 * Griefing videos are identical in most part to the Tutorial series, the only difference is that a player performs a known exploit on a multiplayer server (aka against real players).


 * LiveTester videos are identical to the Griefing series, the only difference is that it first showcases a small tutorial about a new exploit at the beginning, and the rest of the video showcases players making use of them on a multiplayer server.


 * TV videos are commentaries about the channel and/or the community. They may be about the current status of the community or a QnA.

The community used to be very active since EngineersGriefingTeam until the fall of 2014. The releasing of videos rate has then become lower over the years.

History
Before OpenGriefing, there was a channel named EngineersGriefingTeam, which instead of being a community, it was a team. The team / YouTube channel was created on July 14, 2011. Unlike OpenGriefing, EngineersGriefingTeam was founded by 3 persons: Nastykill, FICO, and SaSSolino, while OpenGriefing is founded by only one on them (FICO), but it still has some of the members from the previous team.

That channel's videos were, in most part, tutorials about exploits, and occasionally simple videos of making use of these exploits on multiplayer servers.

Due to a problem related to the copyrighted songs they used in their videos, the team had to move forward with a different name and a new YouTube channel, and becoming an open community so other members could join and support it by sharing exploits and glitches on their Steam Group.

On early 2015, said Steam Group, which was accessible for years (even before OpenGriefing was created) got disabled by Steam moderators for containing threads with reproduction steps to perform an exploit, which is listed as forbidden on the Steam's rules and guidelines. A video was published by OpenGriefing explaining the situation and announcing an upcoming forum that they've first announced back in late 2014.

A few months later, the community finally launched their website where community members can share exploits. The forum is also used by administrators/moderators to announce future projects and in-progress videos.