An Engineer Tries to Serve 5 Terabytes at Google
Benjamin Staffin · Comedy · 4 min · 2021 · YouTube title: I just want to serve 5 terabytes.
Why it's here
Used as a shorthand joke for Google-scale bureaucracy and the difficulty of simple tasks at large companies.
What it covers
A short satirical video, originally titled Broccoli Man, in which an engineer who only wants to serve 5 terabytes gets tangled in Google's internal resource and production processes. It is the source of the phrase about forgetting how to count that low.