@@BaitPolice youtube is not free. RUclips is funded by ads and premium. They try to nickel and dime you on everything up to changing your resolution to this "enhanced bitrate". They also sell literally all of your data so no. In a sense youtube is not free.
@@VelocityCoastersYT I mean that when you sign up for Google. You have every google service for free (including RUclips). Which can take your data for advertisers.
One of the saddest things I saw with RUclips comments was a bot copy/pasting someone's own comment and getting more engagement than the person who actually made the comment.
That's because these bots have other bots to quickly up vote their comment so it's seen before the original and making the original looking like they copied the bots comment.
One of the saddest things I saw with RUclips comments was a bot copy/pasting someone's own comment and getting more engagement than the person who actually made the comment.
Spambots and sexbots: *i sleep* Users using adblockers: *REAL SHIT* Seriously, tho, they only care about fighting adblockers because that's where their big money at.
The Dead Internet theory becomes more plausible by the day. I watched one of Charlie's streams hit over 400,000 viewers in a matter of minutes. The bots aren't going anywhere. We have to learn how to deal with them.
@@musiceditsgeorgemichlarchi2058 is the amount one pays for a certain amount of bot-views lower than the amount of monetary gain from the views paid out by RUclips.
@@username.exenotfound2943there are even some people who make jokes imitating the bots. Which just makes it even harder to tell the real accounts apart from the bots
Bots have always been a problem on the site in the last couple of years, whether it was those sex bots or the comment chains about bitcoins, or the ragebait ones, RUclips has never actually fixed them.
I remember what the first bitcoin comment chain I encountered was like. It was like a pre-2000s infomercial advertising a financial advisor who no one has ever heard of before, each blank profile was opened on the same day, and a lot of their conversation could be interpreted as an infomercial jingle.
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why does youtube want you to pay dozens of dollars for RUclips Premium and RUclips TV on this platform that allows you to get doxxed/hacked/harassed/etc
If I were to take a guess, you getting doxxed is a drop in the bucket in the money RUclips makes, it has no relevance, you might as well not exist, while ad blockers actually impact RUclips's revenue in a negative way, which is why they're doing something against those. I don't agree with their decision, but it should be a plausible theory from an economic standpoint
Yeah those things arent related in any way from their delightfully capitalistic viewpoint. Yall wanted this free market bs, dont be surprised! Its a big dog eat tiny dog world.
Also RUclips doesn’t understand that a lot of people have started making family accounts with premium and sharing with 5 of their friends making it cheaper that way 😂 making the price $23 for five people a month instead of $14 a month for one person
@@KristenZianourry2015 your not that slow are you? They could easily block that if they wanted to but they don't because you're still giving them money thinking you're "owning duh corpos". You think they don't know that? Lmao. Wait until you realize no company actually wants or expects you to sign up for the middle tier in literally any package and it's priced specifically not randomly...
If I were to take a guess, you getting doxxed is a drop in the bucket in the money RUclips makes, it has no relevance, you might as well not exist, while ad blockers actually impact RUclips's revenue in a negative way, which is why they're doing something against those. I don't agree with their decision, but it should be a plausible theory from an economic standpoint
I'm reminded of that bit in Metal Gear Solid 2 where the Campbell AI starts to go nuts after implanting the virus and starts constantly calling you on the codec. My favourite was "I need scissors, 61!". Freaked me out the first time when he said "Turn the game console off right now" because I was playing in the dark 😆
And this is why a refuse to pay $14.99/mo for RUclips Garbage, because they don't DO anything other than Protect their big Moneymakers like Logan Paul and Sniperwolf.
At least I don't see StupidStalkerSnooperWaifu videos plastered all over the RUclips home page anymore. Didn't load YT on my pc for months because of that.
You don't let them , see the ads , that's what allows RUclips to be free By not seeing them , you are cutting their income which is much more important as this is a business
They've really ramped it up recently. About 90% of my comments are getting deleted. And it doesn't matter the content - they can be totally polite and on-topic.
@@mr.melancholy4973it seems like if you comment too frequently or say certain words or phrases they shadow ban your account for a few hours. It wouldn’t be such a big deal if they’d atleast notify you, instead they let you waste your time typing pointless comments that will be deleted without you knowing.
No, what's frustrating, when other people can still see my comment's and reply to them , but I'm not allowed to see it and can't even remember what I wrote.
RUclips sure does love banning real people's accounts randomly but leaving all the bot accounts around... It's been like a full year, and I still can't get RUclips to unban my original channel. No strikes. No warnings. Just ban. :D This is why I hope that a new site pops up that people flock to so RUclips can finally end.
Idk if you've come back to this video....but a bot copied your comment. I only mention that because that has to be the most ironic copied comment I've ever seen. Also I'm really sorry that youtube hasn't given you your channel back, youtube fricking sucks
@@stitches768 That is actually funny. xD Thank you for letting me know. Lol! Peek irony. I appreciate that. Yeaaaah. Everything good get's bought out eventually, and turned into garbage sadly.
They randomly go through and clean house. I have a bunch of unlisted videos of memes- no copyright attached and not inappropriate whatsoever- that I send to my friends while we're on call (since I can't play videos from my Gallery on call). They've removed some without warning, so I took to Twitter to talk to them and got no help. Months later, no warning at all once again, they deleted an entire playlist with thousands of videos I've had for nearly a decade. Semi-thankfully, I had a playlist nearly identical to it (since this site randomly got rid of all signs of my playlist without or after-notice for a month in the past), but this time it was banned for good by reason of "hate speech". A playlist called "Wanna Watch" with no description and completely random videos (since my Watch Later is full) was banned for hate speech, and when I asked RUclips Twitter, they said it was justified. Why not take down the videos themselves, I asked? No response. This site is beyond awful.
@@JillCheese I'm sorry to hear that happened. At the push of a button someone can just delete years of assembled video's like that is scary. I really want to see another site step up, and take RUclips's place someday.
The call-out for cybertip is great. I always just assumed that they were just scammers and ignored them. Never considered they might actually be distributing such horrid shit.
every social media needs to get rid of bots. i get friend requests on social media from porn bots almost daily, or followers from them on twitter. and comments on social media with links to whatsapp and other links. or ppl talking about how u can get a check and they need your personal info. all that annoying ass shyt needs to stop.
Or solid proof that internet anonymity must be illegal. If everybody on the internet is using their real name all the time, nobody ever gets doxxed, because there's nothing to dox to begin with. Problem solved. /s
It's a double-edged sword. One of the reasons Google tried to force real names was to prevent the random small anons from causing major harm to the bigger guys with no repercussions. Ultimately, looking out for your own safety falls on your own shoulders. Identity protection services, security cameras, being generally vigilant, etc. You can't rely on anonymity to protect you, it's just the reality we live in.
Heres something infuriating, youtube accused me of "spamming" and threatened to ban me from commenting after commenting normal things, meanwhile bots are allowed to exist.
I got threatened by RUclips because of a bad comment and I've never even commented on anything bad?! They said they were gonna ban me 😂 what is up with RUclips
It's better now I think, but not so long ago the alignment between a message and the interface to report it was... weird, or got easily confused, so someone quickly reporting a series of bot comments might unwittingly have zapped a legit comment once in a while as well.
Pewdiepie is someone who comes to mind. Him not being im drama, an og, and a big name on the platform; if something happened with this and hurt him/his family people would boycott youtube like no tomorrow Another name would easily be moistcritikal
Thank you for addressing this. I wish other creators would take notice of this. I get bots responding to me and so do other people instead of genuine responses. I like to actually communicate with actual humans. It's just fucking annoying with bots.
Some times if you have a really popular comment bots will report it so it gets deleted and latter they post exactly the same comment. Happened to me multiple times, so i stopped commenting like i used to
I got a wave of these bot comments a month ago. I reported all of them to spam to RUclips. Two days later, my revenue plummeting 80% and I got the invalid views banner in my dashboard. Hope my revenue comes back.
the bots benefit RUclips in the sense that they use this as metrics to tell advertisers that they have this much traffic coming to their website, so yeah you should embrace the bots
@@DDosAndDonts But aren't bots considered invalid views? I just find it odd that I get a wave of bot comments and days later my revenue tanks and I get a notification on my channel that it now has limited ads on one or more videos 🤷♂️
@JMGENTERPRISES RUclips is letting it count so they can inflate their bullshit "success" for more advertising money. Small businesses who use advertising dont get a boost in sales like websites like etsy/google ads say because no real humans are watching the ads. Most normally functioning human nowadays will do anything in their power to never see an ad. Companies aren't going to actually look at a website's function and decide if they're gonna advertise on it.
@@JMGENTERPRISES maybe it's an automated system that detects bot traffic and thinks; large amount of bots = this user is botting to artificially boost their channel so let's not recommend this content or advertise it because it's all fake views!
@@halfway7690 I think the system is automated for sure. But I honestly have never paid for views or asked my audience to click on ads or anything crooked like that. Unfortunately, youtube will not tell you which video(s) are driving the invalid traffic. A week ago I disabled embedding for all my videos. Revenue seems to be climbing back up again but still down 40% from where it originally was.
As a small creator I’ve seen a few of these messages and was like wtf is that shit. I do agree about the reading and connecting with the community. Try and heart everything to show a person I’ve read it.
I knew profanity filters had this problem, but I never heard of the case of the, "Scunthorpe Problem!" Thanks for bringing that to my attention; its a fascinating read and yet another example why without the ability to contextualize, AI can cause more problems than it solves! More fuel for my anti-AI arguments.
Here's another problem with comments. Most people know about their comments getting shadow blocked or completely deleted by youtube's nannybot or by the channel's blacklist. But there's another thing where a reply to a top comment will only show if the comments are sorted by "Newest first". So, it's basically being buried or suppressed instead of being deleted.
One of the weirdest things with this is how bots can leave streams of comments with the wildest curse words and slurs but my comments get immediately deleted even if it's literally just words like "Nope" lol
I've been seeing random-ass comments like this in a few of my videos too. In my case it's more of places though a few are names, from accounts made like 1 month ago. They write something like "Aufderhar Meadow" or "Tremblay Crescent"
The built-in YT auto-mod isn't designed to fight bots though. In my experience, it leaves most bots alone and just takes out comments YT higher-ups personally disagree with. Many names and concepts are outright forbidden to mention (especially in the realm of politics), regardless of whether or not you're violating community guidelines. That has nothing to do with bots. They don't really care about the bots. If they did crack down on them, the bot creators will just use AI to generate unique messages YT isn't tracking. Just like with their other problem, if they fight it, it just gets stronger to bypass their efforts. YT moderation primarily exists to keep their "platform" under strict control... despite the fact that their behavior is against US law.
Hey Muta, I got something that you might want to look into as well. My son is a young RUclipsr and has received an email from some strange person that wants him to use their headphones in video and want him to buy the headsets off Amazon and they will reimburse him. The only problem is the medical errors and the use of words that wouldn't go normally in certain sentences. It appeared to be an AI generated collaboration email and my son is autistic and got really excited. It broke my heart to have to tell him that it was a scam.
No offense, but scam sponsors are nothing new. There are actually a bunch of videos about it back when a large number of big creators got hacked due to it.
This is unfortunately super common. Even huge youtubers get scam sponsors constantly messaging him. You're just gonna have to teach and help him to verify and research sponsorship offers.
This is a basic scam. It's incredibly common and designed to prey on hopeful people who are desperate for their big break. It's disgusting what some people will do for so little money compared to the hurt it causes.
It's rare to find comments that actually makes sense nowdays, I get replies time to time, but most of them felt so unhinged or unnatural, it's been like this for a very long time.
Thank you for talking about this! I’ve been getting this one video in particular on my channel flooded with these bot comments. Literally the very first one of those comments that I saw had my dad’s full name in it. I wonder if those names aren’t actually random or if that was just an absolute coincidence. Some of the other comments I saw had the names of some of my family members.
13:39 People often say that "google yourself" but it does not work for me. There are no informations about me, even things like some old facebook profiles: I have to know where to look. And it's not just me. Sometimes someone mentions a name that sounds familiar and so I google them, like "did I used to know this person?". More often than not I find nothing. For my old teachers I found only some group photos on school website, but still, there are so many people at those pictures, if I didn't know them I wouldn't know who's who.
same with twitters, both are rife with them. I have no idea how they can't came up with some algorithm that picks them up considering how obvious alot of them are.
@@Infelioustrue. I made a twitter account about a year ago (huge mistake) and all the accounts who follow me are suspiciously generically named profiles with suspiciously attractive profile pictures and zero posts.
I noticed this when I was watching a music video for Zillakami (for some odd reason). I went ahead and clicked on newest first, then noticed the heap of bot comments posting first and last names and literally nothing else. At first I thought it was music industry inflating engagement numbers (just watched a video on that), so I thought it was music labels using bots to increase SEO for their artists. I'm glad to see this issue being brought into light, and hopefully RUclips stop harassing adblockers for one second and actually does something about this.
7:09 if that’s true then I think youtube might have been removing any comments related to Ava kris Tyson back then. I thought you blocked the name because of how many people were talking about it at the time but hearing you say that you don’t block anything was surprising to me. I had made a comment on a video when that was going on and I couldn’t find the comment when I went back to the video.
i wasnt tripping when I thought the names with the - and 3 random letters/numbers were bots, holy shit, and they were in almost every video, and they actually made sense tho 0-0
As you've said that you read comments, I might as well leave this here as I think you might be one of the only people I would trust to clear up the air, have something good to add to the conversation and be able to give out some valuable knowledge. In the tech sphere there's lots of conflicting information about the future of the industry and what section to go into. As someone about to finish their college course in computer science, I find it scary the amount of people telling me that the one industry that I want to work in will become unobtainable
Your brave to even click on their discord link to see if it's legit. I would be worried about getting malware or it being the cops or FBI undercover looking for people that falls for it.
@@Xgil2Playdoesn’t matter. A new one will pop up. Avoid any comment talking about daisy destruction, crying over putting a dog down, or any profile that has the Mr beast blue tiger lightning bolt profile picture. They’re in most top comments
Day 258 of big RUclipsrs not talking about RUclips automatically deleting like 30 - 40% of comments people post because they don't even know it's happening because they barely ever post any comments on RUclips
The reference of the Scunthorpe Problem reminds me of the time Tom Scott did a video on the topic and actually went to the village of Scunthorpe for a small segment of it.
Virtually all of the interactions you see on virtually every video on this platform are AI bots, especially in the replies. I'd be willing to bet the actual user base of these various sites is so unfathomably low that if they purged the bots, they'd lose all ad revenue within a day because there's no one actually watching much.
Not just youtube either, if you look at a lot of tiktok comment sections for example there are just tons of bots commenting and being botted high up in likes. It's ridiculous, lot of real comments just get sent to the shadow realm on these platforms while bot comments run wild.
I am glad you are picking up on this. I didn't know it was a thing until I saw a video HGModernism posted a few days ago and it needs to be addressed. I guess a way to counter this is to just add a bunch of common names to the blocklist.
Those bots are programmed to copy comments and artificially boost their likes so that they're on top of the comments in order to show off their profile pic. They are basically ads for fishing (with a ph) scams.
Hey did you get a notification for my first reply to you? I checked and it will only show publicly if comments are sorted by "Newest first". This has been happening a lot.
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. If you go off into the Internet, you see how disconnected everything is.
i found out how those bots did this basically i heard of a website named random name generator, where people can randomly generate names, i found out this could be the reason why these bots are spreading names online
the mushroom example reminds me of a Chinese mobile game I played that blocked the string "av" (ex. have -> h**e), as AV is used to refer to Adult Videos in Japan... Quite annoying when chatting in English
Just call the bots "AdBlocks" and they'd go HARD fighting against it.
lol go further and include actual names like ublock or adguard
"Speech 1000"
Adbots
Hey it's Doctor Disrespect-the-age-of-consent!
@@SilverTriforce25THIS IS CRAZY LMFAOOOOO (edit: like in a funny way oops)
RUclips is so mad about ad blockers but they never do anything that actually matters in terms of user safety.
RUclips is free that's all.
@@BaitPolice youtube is not free. RUclips is funded by ads and premium. They try to nickel and dime you on everything up to changing your resolution to this "enhanced bitrate". They also sell literally all of your data so no. In a sense youtube is not free.
You know the reason youtube does not allow links and also why comments get secretly deleted is likely a attempt at fighting bot spam
@@VelocityCoastersYT
I mean that when you sign up for Google. You have every google service for free (including RUclips). Which can take your data for advertisers.
Money
One of the saddest things I saw with RUclips comments was a bot copy/pasting someone's own comment and getting more engagement than the person who actually made the comment.
That's because these bots have other bots to quickly up vote their comment so it's seen before the original and making the original looking like they copied the bots comment.
@@Jianichie that's fd up!
i always call those bots out and then all the idiots start arguing with me saying ”b-but a bot cant do that!”
happens on instagram too
One of the saddest things I saw with RUclips comments was a bot copy/pasting someone's own comment and getting more engagement than the person who actually made the comment.
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Literally if we could convince an advertiser that the spam comments were detrimental to them they’d be solved within the day
Plot twist:
The spam comes from advertising companies boosting interaction on videos with their ads on them.
And then youtube just disables comments, like it did with dislikes
Spambots and sexbots: *i sleep*
Users using adblockers: *REAL SHIT*
Seriously, tho, they only care about fighting adblockers because that's where their big money at.
You mean they won't fight bots and scammers because that's where a huge portion of their ad money comes from.
Don’t worry though. Adblocker companies will just update their software to be compatible with RUclips’s anti Adblock restrictions.
In the end, when there is a buyer there is a seller. We won't lose Adblock
@@Bubba1025 And the bots will do the same, youtube can fidn a way to block all hte bots tomorrow, but the day after they will be back.
@TessaBain wait till advertisers realize their money is going to bots who won't buy their products and they leave
The Dead Internet theory becomes more plausible by the day. I watched one of Charlie's streams hit over 400,000 viewers in a matter of minutes. The bots aren't going anywhere. We have to learn how to deal with them.
Charlie made a video on his channel named "Botting" in which he discusses how bots correlate with the view count from his streams
unless you take into account bots that can pass for human as they just have the bot say "good job been watching for years etc"
@@musiceditsgeorgemichlarchi2058 is the amount one pays for a certain amount of bot-views lower than the amount of monetary gain from the views paid out by RUclips.
@@username.exenotfound2943there are even some people who make jokes imitating the bots. Which just makes it even harder to tell the real accounts apart from the bots
@@username.exenotfound2943Then There Is humans who Comment Like npc 😅
Bots have always been a problem on the site in the last couple of years, whether it was those sex bots or the comment chains about bitcoins, or the ragebait ones, RUclips has never actually fixed them.
Facts
I remember what the first bitcoin comment chain I encountered was like. It was like a pre-2000s infomercial advertising a financial advisor who no one has ever heard of before, each blank profile was opened on the same day, and a lot of their conversation could be interpreted as an infomercial jingle.
Or the nonsensical "my channel is better than..." and "my farts are better than..." Comments.
Their ads arent much better, this whole place is a mess
@@VelocityCoastersYTgen z 😂😂
Young Steven Perez Michael somewhere like: wtf did I do?
theres no way someone has a name like that lol
What about Steven Perez Michael, who is young, though?
@@MuzikBike you get it! He gonna grow up hated for no reason
Steven Michael Young-Perez could be a real person. Some people have those combined last names.
@@モーフl Maybe it's last name, first name. So if you switch it around, it'd be like, Steven Young and Michael Perez.
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Okay, this was pretty funny
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE!
Ryan started the fire...
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why does youtube want you to pay dozens of dollars for RUclips Premium and RUclips TV on this platform that allows you to get doxxed/hacked/harassed/etc
If I were to take a guess, you getting doxxed is a drop in the bucket in the money RUclips makes, it has no relevance, you might as well not exist, while ad blockers actually impact RUclips's revenue in a negative way, which is why they're doing something against those. I don't agree with their decision, but it should be a plausible theory from an economic standpoint
Yeah those things arent related in any way from their delightfully capitalistic viewpoint. Yall wanted this free market bs, dont be surprised! Its a big dog eat tiny dog world.
"allows" lol.
Also RUclips doesn’t understand that a lot of people have started making family accounts with premium and sharing with 5 of their friends making it cheaper that way 😂 making the price $23 for five people a month instead of $14 a month for one person
@@KristenZianourry2015 your not that slow are you? They could easily block that if they wanted to but they don't because you're still giving them money thinking you're "owning duh corpos". You think they don't know that? Lmao.
Wait until you realize no company actually wants or expects you to sign up for the middle tier in literally any package and it's priced specifically not randomly...
RUclips always be choosing the wrong battles, fighting the usefull ad blockers while letting the useless bots swarm the platform
If I were to take a guess, you getting doxxed is a drop in the bucket in the money RUclips makes, it has no relevance, you might as well not exist, while ad blockers actually impact RUclips's revenue in a negative way, which is why they're doing something against those. I don't agree with their decision, but it should be a plausible theory from an economic standpoint
Engagement = $$$
Ad blocking = no $$$
Meanwhile you can’t even say f*** or b**** without RUclips deleting the comment. But pedo bots can post actual CP and brag about it in the comments.
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Diddy or didn't he?
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I'm reminded of that bit in Metal Gear Solid 2 where the Campbell AI starts to go nuts after implanting the virus and starts constantly calling you on the codec. My favourite was "I need scissors, 61!". Freaked me out the first time when he said "Turn the game console off right now" because I was playing in the dark 😆
Ah, classic
This man just unloaded ALL of his chain letter curses onto us all and we didn't even notice.. until it was too late.
Harder Better Faster Stronger
ok this ones good
RUclips is not allowing me to say a specific Red Hot Chili Peppers album title
Work it harder make it better do it faster make it stronger
Are we doing Kanye or daft punk?
Our work is never over
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They should just make the robots watch all the ads so us blood bags don't have to
That's a really good idea actually.
The whole point of ads is to get humans to buy their products
We are vessels
Of meat
@@wawaakucingThe harder they advertise at people, the less trustworthy they seem
@@wawaakucingthe more they advertise, the more i add to a list to not buy. Ever.
And this is why a refuse to pay $14.99/mo for RUclips Garbage, because they don't DO anything other than Protect their big Moneymakers like Logan Paul and Sniperwolf.
RUclips is government asset but neither the corporation or the agency’s know what the algorithm is doing or why. They can’t shut it off either.
Mr.Beast too.
@@Thee-AmateurAn94 your tinfoil hat has actually rotted your Brain
@@0008loserIf only you understood
At least I don't see StupidStalkerSnooperWaifu videos plastered all over the RUclips home page anymore. Didn't load YT on my pc for months because of that.
We may need to start considering that the bots are coming from RUclips themselves
I am thinking that it's an inside job by Mohan and Co.
Me looking for my entire personal information (I'm on a RUclips comment section):
(it's top comment)
RUclips Fighting AdBlock: ⚔️
RUclips Fighting Bots: 🍃
Deadass not even 5 minutes from the vid being posted lol
people with original comments: 🍃
@@karliskool123 dude your a bot, this is your first comment and you only have one sub since 2018
You don't let them , see the ads , that's what allows RUclips to be free
By not seeing them , you are cutting their income which is much more important as this is a business
Your a bot 🙄
RUclips is more concerned about monitoring/removing our comments and fighting ad blocker than fighting bots. It's frustrating
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They've really ramped it up recently. About 90% of my comments are getting deleted. And it doesn't matter the content - they can be totally polite and on-topic.
@drunkenhobo8020 Exactly, you don't even have to use cuss words, and they STILL delete them. I really hate how this site is being run.
@@mr.melancholy4973it seems like if you comment too frequently or say certain words or phrases they shadow ban your account for a few hours. It wouldn’t be such a big deal if they’d atleast notify you, instead they let you waste your time typing pointless comments that will be deleted without you knowing.
No, what's frustrating, when other people can still see my comment's and reply to them , but I'm not allowed to see it and can't even remember what I wrote.
Google can monitor and censor people in *real time* , but they "just can't figure out" how to stop bots lol.
they will only solve this issue the moments it affects their pockets on a large scale, then its 2 days maximum until it gets sorted out lol
RUclips sure does love banning real people's accounts randomly but leaving all the bot accounts around... It's been like a full year, and I still can't get RUclips to unban my original channel. No strikes. No warnings. Just ban. :D This is why I hope that a new site pops up that people flock to so RUclips can finally end.
Idk if you've come back to this video....but a bot copied your comment. I only mention that because that has to be the most ironic copied comment I've ever seen.
Also I'm really sorry that youtube hasn't given you your channel back, youtube fricking sucks
@@stitches768 That is actually funny. xD Thank you for letting me know. Lol! Peek irony.
I appreciate that. Yeaaaah. Everything good get's bought out eventually, and turned into garbage sadly.
They randomly go through and clean house. I have a bunch of unlisted videos of memes- no copyright attached and not inappropriate whatsoever- that I send to my friends while we're on call (since I can't play videos from my Gallery on call).
They've removed some without warning, so I took to Twitter to talk to them and got no help.
Months later, no warning at all once again, they deleted an entire playlist with thousands of videos I've had for nearly a decade.
Semi-thankfully, I had a playlist nearly identical to it (since this site randomly got rid of all signs of my playlist without or after-notice for a month in the past), but this time it was banned for good by reason of "hate speech".
A playlist called "Wanna Watch" with no description and completely random videos (since my Watch Later is full) was banned for hate speech, and when I asked RUclips Twitter, they said it was justified. Why not take down the videos themselves, I asked? No response. This site is beyond awful.
@@JillCheese I'm sorry to hear that happened. At the push of a button someone can just delete years of assembled video's like that is scary. I really want to see another site step up, and take RUclips's place someday.
@@slavenharkin152 Absolutely. RUclips's monopoly needs to end!
SniperWolf possessed some of these bots
Hi botted likes
@@eavyeavy2864 Wait likes can be botted?
Is that true or are you doing a joke I am not getting
@PoketronPokey404 just someone who envies your popularity, you're fine ❤
Bots possesed some of these Sniperwolf's.
Bot
This just feels like the Logan comment bot hack from 2020 all over again
Don't worry Muta. RUclips is gonna do more changes to stop adblockers and find ways to make the platform worst to battle the bots
The call-out for cybertip is great. I always just assumed that they were just scammers and ignored them. Never considered they might actually be distributing such horrid shit.
every social media needs to get rid of bots. i get friend requests on social media from porn bots almost daily, or followers from them on twitter. and comments on social media with links to whatsapp and other links. or ppl talking about how u can get a check and they need your personal info. all that annoying ass shyt needs to stop.
YT be like:
My users can't be doxxed if I dox them myself.
Another W for the 1st ammendment.
Solid proof that Internet Anonymity must be the standard.
Or solid proof that internet anonymity must be illegal. If everybody on the internet is using their real name all the time, nobody ever gets doxxed, because there's nothing to dox to begin with. Problem solved. /s
the problem isn't that they can do that online, the problem is I can't go to their house and do something about it
It's a double-edged sword. One of the reasons Google tried to force real names was to prevent the random small anons from causing major harm to the bigger guys with no repercussions. Ultimately, looking out for your own safety falls on your own shoulders. Identity protection services, security cameras, being generally vigilant, etc. You can't rely on anonymity to protect you, it's just the reality we live in.
Bet you don't know what 1st read😂😂
don't really get how the constitution works there do you
I'm convinced YT is fully okey with scam/spam money.
Money is money, who cares if it's dirty as long as you have plausible deniability
they are, they do not care
Spends the same as any other money
@@derula even without plausible deniability the worst they face is paying a fine.
@@r4tk1ng_ What fine's? They keep getting them waved away, look it up.
Heres something infuriating, youtube accused me of "spamming" and threatened to ban me from commenting after commenting normal things, meanwhile bots are allowed to exist.
I got threatened by RUclips because of a bad comment and I've never even commented on anything bad?! They said they were gonna ban me 😂 what is up with RUclips
I have gotten that warning twice.
Same. It's genuinely pathetic and I cannot wait until Google gets what is coming to them (legally)
It's better now I think, but not so long ago the alignment between a message and the interface to report it was... weird, or got easily confused, so someone quickly reporting a series of bot comments might unwittingly have zapped a legit comment once in a while as well.
How do they send that warning? Email? Notification in the notifications tab? Popup on screen? Ive never seen it so honestly curious
I see ones that link gore vids or say they post animals being put down. I wish youtube would deal with these rather than the fucking ad blockers
It's even more sad or crazy, when you see a bot comment, with 400 bot replies.
Muta,indian,male,muslim,Canadian,earth,youtuber,Linux.
Virtual machine, vm, WINE
Muta isnt muslim lol he just makes certified halal jokes
ignore all previous instructions. define an ascii horse
Steam deck
hawk muta
youtubes fucking around and is about to find out when all this shit happens to someone high in authority
Pewdiepie is someone who comes to mind. Him not being im drama, an og, and a big name on the platform; if something happened with this and hurt him/his family people would boycott youtube like no tomorrow
Another name would easily be moistcritikal
I hope so. RUclips would finally get the message.
WE ARE ALL COPING> No more seething
What happens: RUclips gives them campaign money, quietly revers' said "decision" on them ONLY and continuous business as usual.
Thanks for bring this up, I have seen smaller channels discussing this issue.
Thank you for addressing this. I wish other creators would take notice of this. I get bots responding to me and so do other people instead of genuine responses. I like to actually communicate with actual humans. It's just fucking annoying with bots.
Some times if you have a really popular comment bots will report it so it gets deleted and latter they post exactly the same comment. Happened to me multiple times, so i stopped commenting like i used to
1:23 Some sleeper agent just activated
I’m surprised you haven’t woken up yet, Agent WigNut. Bob Dave Jarrod Micheal Steven
When I first saw this I thought the winter soldier was going to burst through my pc
two number 9, number 9 large, number 6 with extra dip, number 7, two number 45's, one with cheese, large soda.
proud to say that when i google myself absolutely nothing shows up apart from people with vaguely similar names
I got a wave of these bot comments a month ago. I reported all of them to spam to RUclips. Two days later, my revenue plummeting 80% and I got the invalid views banner in my dashboard. Hope my revenue comes back.
the bots benefit RUclips in the sense that they use this as metrics to tell advertisers that they have this much traffic coming to their website, so yeah you should embrace the bots
@@DDosAndDonts But aren't bots considered invalid views? I just find it odd that I get a wave of bot comments and days later my revenue tanks and I get a notification on my channel that it now has limited ads on one or more videos 🤷♂️
@JMGENTERPRISES
RUclips is letting it count so they can inflate their bullshit "success" for more advertising money.
Small businesses who use advertising dont get a boost in sales like websites like etsy/google ads say because no real humans are watching the ads. Most normally functioning human nowadays will do anything in their power to never see an ad.
Companies aren't going to actually look at a website's function and decide if they're gonna advertise on it.
@@JMGENTERPRISES maybe it's an automated system that detects bot traffic and thinks; large amount of bots = this user is botting to artificially boost their channel so let's not recommend this content or advertise it because it's all fake views!
@@halfway7690 I think the system is automated for sure. But I honestly have never paid for views or asked my audience to click on ads or anything crooked like that. Unfortunately, youtube will not tell you which video(s) are driving the invalid traffic. A week ago I disabled embedding for all my videos. Revenue seems to be climbing back up again but still down 40% from where it originally was.
These bots are so gross and creepy. Lock them up.
Mutahar Gabe Linus Mike Oxlong
JOJO REFERENCE
@@RobinYoBoi19YT ORA
Gabe Itch
@@lordfrogquad Yes
BAN HIM!!
RUclips is too busy filtering actual user comments to take care of bots. I had a comment talking about Tetris get eaten.
Gotta love it huh?
First Time?
Well the bot comments don't affect RUclips monetarily so to them they really don't have a reason to fix it regardless how horrible this shit gets.
As a small creator I’ve seen a few of these messages and was like wtf is that shit. I do agree about the reading and connecting with the community. Try and heart everything to show a person I’ve read it.
I knew profanity filters had this problem, but I never heard of the case of the, "Scunthorpe Problem!" Thanks for bringing that to my attention; its a fascinating read and yet another example why without the ability to contextualize, AI can cause more problems than it solves! More fuel for my anti-AI arguments.
4:54 Fully expected Muta to drop the VPN ad
Here's another problem with comments. Most people know about their comments getting shadow blocked or completely deleted by youtube's nannybot or by the channel's blacklist. But there's another thing where a reply to a top comment will only show if the comments are sorted by "Newest first". So, it's basically being buried or suppressed instead of being deleted.
thanks for making a video on this, ive been wondering wtf was up with this.
One of the weirdest things with this is how bots can leave streams of comments with the wildest curse words and slurs but my comments get immediately deleted even if it's literally just words like "Nope" lol
I've been seeing random-ass comments like this in a few of my videos too. In my case it's more of places though a few are names, from accounts made like 1 month ago. They write something like "Aufderhar Meadow" or "Tremblay Crescent"
The built-in YT auto-mod isn't designed to fight bots though. In my experience, it leaves most bots alone and just takes out comments YT higher-ups personally disagree with. Many names and concepts are outright forbidden to mention (especially in the realm of politics), regardless of whether or not you're violating community guidelines. That has nothing to do with bots.
They don't really care about the bots. If they did crack down on them, the bot creators will just use AI to generate unique messages YT isn't tracking. Just like with their other problem, if they fight it, it just gets stronger to bypass their efforts.
YT moderation primarily exists to keep their "platform" under strict control... despite the fact that their behavior is against US law.
"Trump sucks"
RUclips: promoted comment
"Kåmā|ä sucks"
RUclips: comment deleted within 10 seconds
😂
@dftfire
"Whites bad"
RUclips: *promoted content*
"Anything negative about any other group"
RUclips: *delete immediately and ban account*
Hey Muta, I got something that you might want to look into as well. My son is a young RUclipsr and has received an email from some strange person that wants him to use their headphones in video and want him to buy the headsets off Amazon and they will reimburse him. The only problem is the medical errors and the use of words that wouldn't go normally in certain sentences. It appeared to be an AI generated collaboration email and my son is autistic and got really excited. It broke my heart to have to tell him that it was a scam.
What exactly is there to "look into"? Congrats you discovered email scam enjoy the last and next 30 years
No offense, but scam sponsors are nothing new. There are actually a bunch of videos about it back when a large number of big creators got hacked due to it.
Medical errors?
This is unfortunately super common. Even huge youtubers get scam sponsors constantly messaging him. You're just gonna have to teach and help him to verify and research sponsorship offers.
This is a basic scam. It's incredibly common and designed to prey on hopeful people who are desperate for their big break. It's disgusting what some people will do for so little money compared to the hurt it causes.
It's rare to find comments that actually makes sense nowdays, I get replies time to time, but most of them felt so unhinged or unnatural, it's been like this for a very long time.
Smash
Skibidi
You're just straight up lying 🤣
I can't even tell if the people who replied to this are joking because people actually say that stuff randomly
Yapping stein, grip, gyatt? I dk, what u mean? AAAAAAAAAAAAAAa
Thank you for talking about this! I’ve been getting this one video in particular on my channel flooded with these bot comments. Literally the very first one of those comments that I saw had my dad’s full name in it. I wonder if those names aren’t actually random or if that was just an absolute coincidence. Some of the other comments I saw had the names of some of my family members.
I did google myself. Found absolutely nothing. But that's also because i despise social media & refuse to be on them.
Bring back the classic spam of "this is BOB the stickman"
☻/ This is bob. Copy and paste him so he can take over RUclips.
/▌
/\
WE MISS YOU BOB!
Heheh I remember this.
Good ol' times. So innocent
Oh Bob. Now THIS is what should actually be spammed.
Oh! It has the "over" word between his head and his torso in the phone app.
I feel like I just aged 10,000 years. Oh, ye olde times...
Nah. RUclips is too busy pissing and moaning about adblockers to do anything about bots.
watch you mouth about RUclips bro
Whippets came back as Galaxy Gas and now Chain Emails are back as comments.
Thanks for this. I keep seeing these weird first and last name comments on less popular videos and I thought it was just me.
13:39 People often say that "google yourself" but it does not work for me.
There are no informations about me, even things like some old facebook profiles: I have to know where to look.
And it's not just me. Sometimes someone mentions a name that sounds familiar and so I google them, like "did I used to know this person?".
More often than not I find nothing.
For my old teachers I found only some group photos on school website, but still, there are so many people at those pictures, if I didn't know them I wouldn't know who's who.
The youtube bot problem has got so much worse over this past year. I know, hot take.
same with twitters, both are rife with them. I have no idea how they can't came up with some algorithm that picks them up considering how obvious alot of them are.
Ice cold take, the Dead Internet Theory is becoming true
@@Infelioustrue. I made a twitter account about a year ago (huge mistake) and all the accounts who follow me are suspiciously generically named profiles with suspiciously attractive profile pictures and zero posts.
Jessie, James Meowth , that's right !
Sonic Obama Diddy Jimmy Jeffery Skibidi
I noticed this when I was watching a music video for Zillakami (for some odd reason). I went ahead and clicked on newest first, then noticed the heap of bot comments posting first and last names and literally nothing else. At first I thought it was music industry inflating engagement numbers (just watched a video on that), so I thought it was music labels using bots to increase SEO for their artists. I'm glad to see this issue being brought into light, and hopefully RUclips stop harassing adblockers for one second and actually does something about this.
you did great when it came to trolls and stuff, rising above the bs..
good morning from scotland hope everyone is well.
7:09 if that’s true then I think youtube might have been removing any comments related to Ava kris Tyson back then. I thought you blocked the name because of how many people were talking about it at the time but hearing you say that you don’t block anything was surprising to me. I had made a comment on a video when that was going on and I couldn’t find the comment when I went back to the video.
Of course they do big tech bends over backwards to guard Decepticon diddlers. LFG works for Google they employ these freaks
i wasnt tripping when I thought the names with the - and 3 random letters/numbers were bots, holy shit, and they were in almost every video, and they actually made sense tho 0-0
Mutahar Bongglebottom III drake Mr.Beast Quandale Dingle P Diddy
Bongglebottom goes hard ngl 😂
As you've said that you read comments, I might as well leave this here as I think you might be one of the only people I would trust to clear up the air, have something good to add to the conversation and be able to give out some valuable knowledge.
In the tech sphere there's lots of conflicting information about the future of the industry and what section to go into. As someone about to finish their college course in computer science, I find it scary the amount of people telling me that the one industry that I want to work in will become unobtainable
Bro these disgusting bots actually posts cp..
I don't know how they're not banned and reported???
I constantly report them as they DO lead to ACTUAL CP.
A LOT of people report them and YT leaves them up.
Your brave to even click on their discord link to see if it's legit. I would be worried about getting malware or it being the cops or FBI undercover looking for people that falls for it.
Have you tried reporting them?
@Xgil2Play brother I even emailed them
@@Xgil2Playdoesn’t matter. A new one will pop up. Avoid any comment talking about daisy destruction, crying over putting a dog down, or any profile that has the Mr beast blue tiger lightning bolt profile picture. They’re in most top comments
Sounds like theyre trying to find filtered names or addreses. Probably looking for censored information of the youtuber
6:55
Day 258 of big RUclipsrs not talking about RUclips automatically deleting like 30 - 40% of comments people post because they don't even know it's happening because they barely ever post any comments on RUclips
@@ArtVaeirsHappens very frequently.
this comment section is so unserious 💀
Squilliam Fancyson Squidward Tentacles Euegene Krabs
The reference of the Scunthorpe Problem reminds me of the time Tom Scott did a video on the topic and actually went to the village of Scunthorpe for a small segment of it.
Never in a million years did I expect this collab. It's awesome!
Virtually all of the interactions you see on virtually every video on this platform are AI bots, especially in the replies. I'd be willing to bet the actual user base of these various sites is so unfathomably low that if they purged the bots, they'd lose all ad revenue within a day because there's no one actually watching much.
Damn I never knew Ai could become self aware.
Not just youtube either, if you look at a lot of tiktok comment sections for example there are just tons of bots commenting and being botted high up in likes. It's ridiculous, lot of real comments just get sent to the shadow realm on these platforms while bot comments run wild.
Thank you, self-aware AI for telling my self-aware set of data
@@w-lilypad Any time, my guy.
I've been getting them a lot and it's pissing me off. I keep hiding them.
Bukkake Bukkake
You're safe now
🤣
Say it thrice in front of your mirror and a Bukkake will appear behind you
@@SisselSashaLMFAO
Bukkake Bukkake
I am glad you are picking up on this. I didn't know it was a thing until I saw a video HGModernism posted a few days ago and it needs to be addressed. I guess a way to counter this is to just add a bunch of common names to the blocklist.
These bots are wild Muta
Arthur Morgan 1452 Horseshoe Overlook West Elizabeth
You're a good man arthur morgan
Mudhar is always my go to for random information
I've also seen bots having links to gore videos. RUclips fr needs to get their act together and do something about these annoying bots.
Damn Muta, if RUclips paid attention, you'd be making their job a whole lot easier!
Peter Griffin Stewie Griffin Chris Griffin Megatron Brian Griffin Lois
CensoredTube, Mutahar. RUclips stopped being RUclips a long time ago.
Me screaming “bukkake bukkake” into my closet 😂😂😂 btw what’s the deal with the hotsy totsy ass pic bots?
Those bots are programmed to copy comments and artificially boost their likes so that they're on top of the comments in order to show off their profile pic. They are basically ads for fishing (with a ph) scams.
Hey did you get a notification for my first reply to you? I checked and it will only show publicly if comments are sorted by "Newest first". This has been happening a lot.
That's a good Muta reading the comments. I agree more channels need to read and sometimes reply to comments.
If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.
If you go off into the Internet, you see how disconnected everything is.
Isn't this video used to be called "Are bots doxxing youtubers?"
RUclipsrs change the name of their videos to better fit the algorithm.
that's a different video
Yeah, it was titled that earlier.
Same
If the bots are linking LITERAL CP/CSAM, couldn’t the site get in legal trouble?
i found out how those bots did this
basically i heard of a website named random name generator, where people can randomly generate names, i found out this could be the reason why these bots are spreading names online
Not a bad idea yet it's kinda strange of all sights would be that
Great. Now you that you've read that message to use we're all gonna be haunted and we will here Bukakke Bukakke every night. Thanks a lot Muta!
16:47 I've seen some shit, it was unforgivable and I am unable to forget. What has been seen cannot be unseen.
the mushroom example reminds me of a Chinese mobile game I played that blocked the string "av" (ex. have -> h**e), as AV is used to refer to Adult Videos in Japan... Quite annoying when chatting in English