The Spiffing Brit



The Spiffing Brit is a YouTuber who specializes in finding exploits and Good Bad Bugs]] in games (and occasionally other systems, including YouTube itself) which can be used to gain outrageous advantages in play. While he is skilled at identifying combinations of features which produce unexpected advantageous effects, he also welcomes and showcases exploits discovered by others. His videos tend to focus on demonstrating the results of using these exploits, mostly in real-time strategy games and usually humorously, but with simple (or iconic) enough exploits he will take the time to demonstrate on-screen how to invoke or activate them.

The Spiffing Brit joined the Yogscast in 2019.

His YouTube channel can be found here.


 * Acceptable Targets: Todd Howard of Bethesda Games is the frequent target of Spiff's mockery, usually disguised as effusive praise for a bug-free and perfectly balanced game.  Spiff has also appropriated Howard's infamous line "It just works" for highlighting particularly broken combinations of features or misfeatures.
 * Author Avatar: A top-hatted, monocle-wearing Quintessential British Gentleman with a Badass Mustache, usually holding a cup of tea.  Sometimes seen in armor, sometimes in a suit, and sometimes as a stick figure.
 * Catchphrases:
 * "Just sit right back, make sure you have a warm cup of tea, and watch as we ."
 * "It just works."
 * "It really is that easy."
 * "...Spicy..."
 * "It's perfectly balanced."
 * "Beans."
 * "With the power of Yorkshire Gold!"
 * Drink Order: Yorkshire Tea.  And only Yorkshire Tea.
 * Fan Nickname: "The Time-lapse Guy", for earlier video content in which he provided commentary on grand strategy games run in time-lapse.
 * Fake Upper-Class Brit: Although his online persona is supposed to be an upper-class British gentleman, his use of Received Pronunciation is spotty at best, with elements of what seems to be an Estuary accent slipping through here and there.
 * Game Breaker: Explaining and demonstrating these are his stock in trade.
 * High-Class Glass: His avatar.  The page image could practically be his avatar.
 * Nice Hat: His avatar's topper.
 * Playful Hacker: Essentially takes this role for video games and YouTube itself.  He usually doesn't alter code itself, but rather uncovers and employs unexpected behaviors in the user interface.
 * Product Placement: Thoroughly averted, although not by choice. Spiff would really love it if Yorkshire Tea chose to sponsor him.
 * Quintessential British Gentleman: Spiff's online persona.
 * Rouge Angles of Satin: Spiff demonstrates a verbal variety, frequently misreading or mispronouncing words one would expect to be common or well-known.
 * Running Gag: "Reanu Keeves", Keanu Reeves' "beautiful cousin", a grotesque figure Spiff recreates in every game where he has the option of controlling the player character's appearance.  Occasionally he uses a different name, such as "Seymour Clevarge".
 * Sarcasm Mode: His online persona's default personality.
 * Stock Footage: Spiff's videos are filled with a set of stock images, many if not most of which have a "SpiffCo" watermark applied to them.  The regular viewer will come to associate many of these with certain catchphrases and behaviors.
 * In early 2021, some generous soul redid a number of the stock photos as artworks depicting the Spiffing Brit's avatar as their central figure in a near-photographic style.
 * Unusual Euphemism: "Beans!" Uttered whenever he makes a mistake or something unexpected happens.