These Bots are Taking Over YouTube
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- เนเธเธขเนเธเธฃเนเนเธกเธทเนเธญ 29 เธ.เธ. 2022
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You may be noticing something a bit off going on around TH-cam right now, a problem that is only getting bigger every day and getting more sophisticated, more difficult to stop, the longer it remains unresolved. Yes, I am talking about the current epidemic of spam flooding the TH-cam comment section. If youโve read the comments of any popular video that has been recently uploaded, then youโve definitely come across these in some way, shape, or form. โFinally itโs here!โ โThanks for your support!โ โI have a surprise for you!โ really any form of enticing language accompanied by strange text and a shortened URL. The account typically impersonates a well-known TH-cam channel, boasting the same name and profile picture.
But it doesnโt stop there. These bots have evolved from impersonating notable creators to now impersonating everyday people; the types of comments that you would never even suspect. They donโt contain links, calls to action, or any visible incentive to attract users. And the longer they stay around, the more convincing they become, and the more they continue to fool people. Some of them are even full-on conversations, but itโs all fake. Why? Where is this strange infestation of bot channels coming from, what exact purpose does it serve, and what can be done to combat it? And most importantly, what is TH-cam doing to stop it?
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finally its here guys
Bruh
MY CONTENT IS SOMETHING BETTER THEN BULLSQUID BECAUSE I EAT CATS!!!!
@@eletronictoenails wtf
oi, this bloke NationSquid is no good, reckon I'm better as i got a video of some lads crying about their nan who just bloody carked it, funniest shit ever.
TH-cam censors content creators more than bots ๐
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*FINALLY IT'S HERE* - bot ๐ค
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@@PixelCat57 I REPORTED YOU FOR SPAM. YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE BANNED FOR 10 YEARS. LMAO TAKE THAT.
FYI: This is why comments are not allowed on the COPPA-Compliant TH-cam Kids. It was to prevent these bots from interacting with children who don't know any better.
I thought it was because kids can be rude
@@AwesomeYena Kids can be rude all they want, however if some kid(s) were to get scammed by a bot... you can see where I am going with this.
The reason is because of issues regarding data collection of children requiring permission from parents. Even Google knows that's a huge hassle and opts not to do it.
I thought it was due to predators
now it makes SO much more sense
It's disgusting to see YT letting the porn and spambots run rampant, especially because the only person who stands to lose face from them are innocent TH-camrs. I've only ever seen people bitch at the people running the accounts for not fixing it, instead of taking aim at the platform
I do both , and channel doesn't fix it so I drop subs of those channels.
I have porn and spam bots
@@jojoze8205 I dunno if this is is joke, but if it is not, get out of here.
Hi I am telegram channel of nationsquad, give money or else. Here is link:
There is no link, and there never was.
@@DemomanScrumpy no
Can we just appreciate the amount of zero effort TH-cam puts into ruining its own platform
Bot
@@user-vp6yp7rq4i Iโm making fun of those โcan we aprreciate how much effort the TH-camr puts into this video
Bot ๐๐๐
guys this isn't a bot (probably)
people in this reply section arent reading the comment
Thanks for watching ๐ฏ๐ฏ wanna be friends? ๐
JK LOL super happy to have talked with you man!! Glad thereโs more attention being put on these malicious bots ๐ค
yet they still are annoying
Yes!! I will give you my credit card information.
Do you happen to know an Amanda by any chance?
@@nationsquid Who is Amanda, NationSquid, I ask?
@@Manafestation_ watch from 3:25 it'll be clear XD
guys can we just appreciate how much effort he puts into his videos - TH-cam bots
These bots are like the most annoying hydra ever. Take out one and you get 20 more. And it feels like this'll never be truly solved since these bot makers are masters of ingenuity when it comes to circumventing countermeasures. Shame they use it to spam instead of for anything actually useful.
@baller Don't read my name!!
Don't worry I'm not a bot. It's quite often I encountered this bot.
There is no way that bots who write comments on TH-cam can be useful. It is either way would be a weapon of information. Whatever information do they choose to spread, it is not from real people.
Click my name right now and you could win 500 dollars ๐๐ปโ๏ธ๐๐ป๐๐ป
That pfp tho
Or like he said the "Whack a Mole" game
The worst ones are the sex bots and fake link bots.
I got one, in my Q&A, on TikTok, and I am still a minor, TikTok doesn't give a flying fuck about sex bots on their app like TH-cam.
@@pokemoncat976 same here its out right stupid
Aka the s*x bots, the roblox bots, the Fortnite bots, and the Minecraft bots, the bot problem has gotten so bad to the point where I will sometimes see bots on my TH-cam shorts page.
@@Roblocksgaming Same here
Roblox bots are almost everywhere on Roblox videos.
Minecraft bots are almost everywhere on Minecraft videos.
Fortnite bots are almost everywhere on Fortnite videos.
[REDACTED] are bots that if you click on their channel, uhh you know whatโs gonna happenโฆ
Sometimes, those bots are EVERYWHERE!!!
Its gotten to the point where I think twice about posting comments bc I know I'm just gonna be spammed with reply notifications from bots - which damages creators too as youtube is big on engagement for the algorithm.
Surprisingly Iโve never gotten a response from bots, but when scrolling through comments just about any comment with a reply had one bot or another in it, or say there was one reply but be blank
DONT READ MY NAME ๐๐๐
TH-cam doesnโt care. They donโt care about the bots, the spammers, the scammers or the impersonators. They donโt care about repeated, malicious and targeted abuse of the copyright takedown system that sees innocent channels struck down by bad actors. All they care about is ad revenue and making the whole platform increasingly lousy with ads.
So true. Iโve been tryna formulate some kind of alternative
Ikr, now you, for every video must go out of your way, choose monitization off yet itโll still probably have add.
Tldr
TH-cam will literally go out of their way to punish a creator for having a single drop of blood in their videos or playing slightly violent video games, but will be perfectly fine with overly sexual pathetic ass scammy excuses for mobile game ads...
@@thenightmarefox MAN IS SPITTING STRAIGHT FACTS
The scariest thing about these bots is that they're actually replying to other bots, which makes it even harder to figure out who is a bot
It's all bots?
*"ALWAYS HAS BEEN"*
Can't we appreciate how much effort he puts into his comments
The scariest thing about these bots is that they're actually replying to other bots, which makes it even harder to figure out who is a bot
Welp I found a bot โฌ๏ธ
@Wonder Ella Soderstorm
I have learned from the Tumblr bot infestation that even the measures you suggest would not be enough. Botters adapt. And these seem to do so more intelligently than the ones on Tumblr
Those bots are more worse than brainrots, they keep saying "i have better content" since they're content is just a big waste of time, and they literally also bullying or abusing other youtubers
"Sites like Reddit seem to be much cleaner than TH-cam"
The last sentence I wanna hear
Yeah itโs just outright wrong
Og bro reddit is ass, Twitter is ass, insta and face book is ass, Snapchat is ass.
Literally any big app is ass
@@marcantiojo7703 don't forget tiktok
โ@@marcantiojo7703 Even the grass is ass
He just means that the comment section is clean from bots
guys can we just appreciate how much effort he puts into his videos - TH-cam bots
People who know it's a bot: "Yea, I actually agree with you."
guys can we just appreciate how much effort he puts into his videos - TH-cam bots
guys can we just appreciate how much effort he puts into his videos - TH-cam bots
"finally, its here, after so long." - TH-cam bots
guys can we just appreciate how much effort he puts into his videos - TH-cam bots
The comment bots already spread to Twitter and are now spreading to TikTok
Charli D'Amelio tem mais de 11 bilhรตes de curtidas ๐ boa parte deve ser bot
The bots have gotten worse, and the filter has gotten stricter, but I don't know of a single time it got rid of a bot, but I do know of a billion times where it got rid of normal comments, some of which I commented.
One day, there will be 0% humans and 100% bots on TH-cam.
@Dรธxin im a human and at least i know it
That's literally what happened to the old forums of one community I was in. Alive in like 2012-2017, then gradually died out and now it's just missing SSL certificate, website template falling apart and one scam/sex/whatever bot once in a time.
Sad sight, but well, Discord communities just wiped the forums out from any purpose.
Like Twitter
infinite money glitch
Because we would've all moved to a different site because of all the trashy updates youtube pumps out.
I always report these bots for "unwanted commercial content or spam", but it really does feel like an uphill battle. A near 90 degree one, at that.
me as well on a different channelโฆ
So true! ๐ฏ
At this point, Iโm not sure that TH-cam even considers these reports.
I only report bots for unwanted commercial content or spam, or I report them forโฆ if you know, you know.
In a well Know rapper by the name of Dax if you scroll down enough all you will see is s*x bots and itโs saddening i report all of them
I donโt understand how anyone can fall for these
honestly tho
@@rollinggirllfun fact: bots are the reason there are more adults than actual parents.
Because those bots aren't intended for you. They weed out normal people and hook the gullible ones
hey! Wanna be friends?/j
Ughhhh bots are sooooo damn annoying! Once I posted a comment on a gaming channel saying how much the game means to me. And then a "Get free Robux" channel copied my comment, getting hundreds of likes while my legitimate comment got two. I was so frustrated!! And I stil am!
They plagiarized your comments and put them out as their own, plus they also bot the likes to exploit the algorithm.
That also happened to me once, so I put out a signature of my username, and they never stole my comment ever since.
@@iceresistance what do you mean by signature of your username?
@@yeahthatkornel Using "-Iceresistance" (my example) as bot bait
This is a massive issue that doesn't get enough attention. My channel is targeted frequently, so thanks for shining some light on the issue! Hopefully, TH-cam can come up with a fix soon.
help there are googly eyes on my ceiling fan
Good to see you here friend!!! :)
i personally don't find bots annoying or a nuisance at all cause of how easy it is to ignore them and it's really obvious when you see one anyway soo they can't really do anything to me
You just won! DM me for a free prize ๐คค๐ค๐ฟ๐๐ด๐พ๐ด๐ฅด๐ป๐๐คก๐พ๐ฟ
Lol jk
@@eE-jj4xv Creators have to spend energy and time blocking those comments and there is a small number of people actually falling for them. The fact that you arenโt falling for them doesnโt mean jackshit.
That wanna be friends thing is scary as hell.
Its so "normal" and neutral but it has evil intentions
@@TheAXOLOTLboitheanimator i was scared for a moment ngl
I just ignore it
@@TheAXOLOTLboitheanimator axolotl
@@TheAXOLOTLboitheanimator axolotl
@@TheAXOLOTLboitheanimator just dont even joke about it. Just report and be as detailed as possible. Including follow up reports that give information on the circumventions, as to give as much information as possible
There even is a group of bots replying to a bot comment and they're coordinating a talk about crypto
Isn't TH-cam against spam?
Lmao they're not doing their job as expected ๐
True ๐
It's honestly really scary at this point how creative scammers are becoming, despite our efforts to fight them. It's like a never-ending battle between the good and the evil.
Human nature in the beginning are constant strive between good and evil, even amongst our own selves.
I want to know where they're from and I want to know why I don't see anyone asking.
bruh now everybody i see on youtube looks like a bot now... even me!
yeah "creative"
(literally nobody believes these stupid bots)
(*SONIC 3 FINAL BOSS MUSIC * ( not secret final boss) *STARTS PLAYIN'*
FYI Reddit is not as bot free as implied in this video. The increased mod presence (versus YT) is true, but bots insta-boosting posts, spamming comments across subreddits and shilling for certain brands/ideals is absolutely a thing and getting worse by the minute.
I would argue it's more dangerous than YT bots as the comments/post boosting can influence people's beliefs without them realising.
Additionally, each post can get thousands of comments, with a sub having like 8 mods - it's actually more comments to moderate than a youtube channel (more daily posts can be made than a single youtuber could upload, generally).
There is the ability for automods and bots to work with the mod team to remove the obvious spam though, which is great. But there's not a lot the average person can do because it's only when some niche subreddit hits the front page and the sub starts to go weirdly political in a single direction that you start to pay attention - and you only start to really notice when you start looking at the post history of individual users.
God this got long, sorry to anyone who actually reads this. Wanna be friends?
Reddit mods spend more time removing comments they don't like than fighting bots
@@nikkehtine I mean, you right.
The thing is, with youtube, you can just ignore comments all together, hell you can even disable them as a creator but on reddit the comments are part of the reason you are there to beign with.
I'm not a big fan of Reddit. The moderation there is very inconsistent, oftentimes toxic and 80% ran by salty basement dwellers. They don't follow the rules and just remove or ban users at random. Many of them are also being manipulated by companies paying them to delete negative comments and criticism.
Reddit sometimes feels like an alternate universe and disconnected from reality because of this. It's distorted and unnatural.
But every other social media platform is that too to some degree, also youtube with their strict censorship "community" guidelines, often random actions and decisions (dislike counter, more and more ads, heavily compressed low bitrate 4K behind premium paywall - but luckily all of those can be fixed with browser extensions).
Nobody has said yes to the friends thing yet (at least not that I can see), but sure! I'll take you up on that!
EDIT: I realized that the comment might be satire, so uh, this could be awkward
omg sometimes I spend a significant amount of time reporting these in comments sections. it pisses me off sm.
โLetโs take time to appreciate how much effort he puts into these videosโค๏ธโ -a famous quote by TH-cam bots 2023
I'm tired of seeing the "finally its here (link)" bots pls end this pain
this is a very insightful comment
Finally, it's *NOT* here:
and it leads to some chinese foodmaking tutorial
When I watch a tutorial video and there's a comment asking the same question I have, I get happy quick to see they have at least 1 reply, then turns out that reply is "finally its here ๐ค"
slightly less annoying than the "financial advisor made me 50k from a 5k investment in 3 weeks" bot parties
It's been out of control for far too long. Just unbelievable they haven't done anything sooner. It's destroying TH-cam.
Finally its here
@@cathylin6140 haha very funny
@@Mr.Stripes thank you
Correct me if I'm wrong but I saw another reply and it said something about TH-cam Using the bots for money and that's why their keeping them around and also why TH-cam is doing nothing
@@cathylin6140 link to the full clip
TH-cam just delete dislike thinking bad will happen while them just ignoring yt bots, like wtf youtube do better please.
I see them almost EVERY TIME!! I just ignore them as a viewer!! It doesn't help you or anyone else, but I can't do anything else tbhโฆ
That quote and story between the wind and the sun was spot on!!
what i've found unique to youtube is the purposefully malicious bots. the ones that spam offensive slurs, mock people's deaths/tragedies, etc etc. i've NEVER seen that sort of thing on other platforms!
i understand the point is to get attention through sheer absurdity/backlash, but it's just... strange idk.
I absolutely hate the ones on Jacksepticeye's channel, they're so rude bro
Foodistzen shills, pure extremism more worse than being a Islamic fundamentalist
@@Kit_Katto THERE STILL AROUND! I thought that stuff died a while back.
Do Tell
its just a bit much
exactly like herman lakehunt or whatever his name was they make fun of technos death also jacks dad
thank GOD!!! i was hoping you would make a video on these annoying bots. already shared it with a few discord servers i'm in because those more sophisticated conversational ones are REALLY freaky. massive internet safety fan here, so i really really appreciate the time and effort you put into these videos to educate people and keep them safe :]
Wow your comment will definetly be copy and pasted by a bot
Can we just appreciate leo_undrgrnd work?
@@tooter4339 so be it, nationsquid hearted my comment so we know which one is real
Wtf is an "internet safety fan"๐คฃ๐ญ๐คฃ๐ญ๐คฃ๐คฃ๐
@@revolt_4588 idk bruh i like being safe online bc iโm anxious as hell. i am FULLY aware of how dumb it sounds but how else am i supposed to phrase it lmao
It's really frustrating. I'm an active viewer on many channels (I comment often) and I very often get spam / bot replies and have to report them. TH-cam doesn't seem to care, it's easy to target this accounts, but TH-cam doesn't do nothing.
Thank you for this video. Very informative and appreciated. ๐ฏ Get on it already You Tube and fix it!
This isnโt even the first time, I remember like a couple months ago seeing bots advertising porn sites in comment sections ๐คข some of them just copypasted other comments from the same video. It was so annoying
I hate those bots ew
@@WOLFPLAYZ5975 I know right it especially disgusts me because youtube comments are full of children
Meanwhile, I can't even post my email without it being deleted.
I think what they could do is to auto-blur all comments that receive a downvote total below a certain % compared to the total views. That would employ the resources of the community to do the huge burden of the policing work, and then also the uploaders themselves can remove the rest not blurred out that circumnavigate this blur mechanism.
If TH-cam employs this, I hope they send me my commission in the mail. (:
This actually used to exist! TH-cam unfortunately got rid of it in around 2011. :(
@@nationsquid I've seen it still employed by some chat communities and chat sites. It works very well, and I can't quite understand why they would depreciate such a mechanism. What bugs could such a thing have? And what could have made them get rid of it?
Anyway, they do have some of the brightest minds working for them supposedly, so "if" they really wanted to do this, I would think they could.
@@nationsquid A damningly dumb move on their part then, depending on circumstances.
@@nationsquid I remember that! It would either say "this comment has been marked as spam" or "this comment has received too many dislikes." Removing that feature was one of the dumbest things TH-cam ever did.
@@ncubedsquared Mhm they really need to add that back
I wanna expose these bots, they need to be removed from TH-cam and hopefully TH-cam will acknowledge this problem
The only moment a Video talks about them. They disappear๐คก
it's quite refreshing to see a video critical of youtube that still looks at the amazing things it has done and wanting it to improve out of love rather than rage.
All the amazing things it has done? I can't think of a single good thing youtube did ๐ค
@DodgeThis! (Alpha Male) alright
@DodgeThis! (Alpha Male) ๐ ฅ the worst vid to bot on
@@BiggiecheeseAKAgod The technoblade tribute? Thats literally what surfaced to my mind first
@DodgeThis! (Alpha Male) ๐ ฅ look at me knocking at your door, I have a present for you
Finally someone who makes a proper video on the TH-cam bot problem
Yeah I remember Timeworks made a video about it From 2019 or 20
Yea
Finally itโs here [insert Link] (Making fun of bots) - some bot
don't you mean
finally it's here
Pungance: am I a joke to you?
Jacksepticeye: am I a joke to you?
It's the same issue on TH-cam shorts
There's always these bot accounts with the text "my p*ssy in the comments" or "nude show" while it plays a clip from some random girls only fans or a prOn site along with the suspicious links. It's incredibly annoying and I try to report them all but I know that they'll keep coming back.
Once I seen in a politic/economic channel conversation between bots. The got photos of old men and women with a such a real name.
They was talking about tax problems, and one of them mentioned a lawyer, name, email, phone number etc.
TH-cam really needs to step up their game when it comes to detecting bots. TH-cam is full of malicious ads which are actually marked as ads. So many bots and scams are going around on a billion dollar company. Just sad.
TH-cam only cares about banning anything that is not advertising friendly Everything else they have an algorithm that takes care of it and doesn't really do anything They really don't give a s*** about you the consumer or anybody only about their pockets. Modern day capitalism at its finest And it's going to get worse I have nothing against capitalism I just have a problem the way the government is running it
As an AI model made by OpenAI I cant condone TH-cam now.
@@ChatGPT7775 i has scammer and Bot IP address and ima send the whole SWAT in it ๐ฟ
โ@@ChatGPT7775Shit. theres a bot on this yt vid
They already HAVE completely taken over You Tube! It's so sickening! And why isn't You Tube doing anything about it?! Every day I see one of the creeps impersonating someone's channel that I visit. With the same lame line like: "hey thanks for visiting, please write me at ------- ". And some folks don't even know the difference between the real channel creator, or the fake impersonating one. They have the real creator's picture and all. There's also a bot here that goes by different monikers, with the same prayer comment: "for everyone that's here may God bless you, blah, blah, blah". I think that's for likes, but it's still spam.
I just came across an entire comment thread that was bots pumping up a Whatsapp scammer. The thread was over 50 comments and 5 were real people.
It's honestly really scary at this point how creative scammers are becoming, despite our efforts to fight them. It's a battle between the good and the evil.
Iโve seen bots that say โhere the full clip to how you lost your dad (making fun of bots)
_link_ โ
And Iโve seen people fall for it
@@BlueToadFan913 at first I thought they were real too luckily I donโt click the link
@@Lanetgm well, glad my reply changed what could have been a Blue Screen of Death/whatever a phone gets. You never know just how much something you do can change stuff!
@@BlueToadFan913 I think I found out I clicked the thing the show how many time the user commented on the channel I saw that they posted the same comment like 200 times
@@Lanetgm thatโs how you find a bot alright! Either that or you find a comment that the same as a different comment but the pfp and name isโฆwell it makes you bleach your eyes
YT do not care about community, they only think about the money.
They should really pay attention to the fact that sexual content is back on yt kids. Truly sinful and disgusting.
@@unfairdev8197 unfortunately for the kids and parents, the world out there is sick and horrendous
Free Fire be like:
XD
"Hello, I like money!"
Mr krabs xd
Its gotten so bad people dont event want to scam, they just want top comment which absolutely sucks
I've been getting polls where a Mr Beast impersonator ask a simple math question like 1+9. When you answer them right, their explanation for their answer is a link like this.
I also feel like I should mention the bots (that are most often under cr1tikalโs videos) that say things about abusing children. Theyโve steeped to a whole new low.
Itโs simply attention grabbing, looking for a reaction, it really sucks
yea , they also say something like "(the youtube channel's name they commented on) rap*** a horse"
I literally saw a comment impersonating the Queen of England less than a day after she died.
The worst comment I've seen is "I love b***ing up animals and r**ing children because I make banger content lmao." There were around 20 of those comments replying to one comment. Afterwards, the same user commented the n word around 10 times.
i saw one making fun of a dead child
Finally it's here - a NationSquid video about these scam bots!
Thanks man for making TH-cam aware of these annoying creatures!
Also, bots like "I AM BETTER TH-camR THAN YOU AND I DON'T CARE" are also annoying.
Technoblade's channel has so much bots
How about "I AM WORSE TH-camR THAN YOU AND I CARE?"
@@baygels8292 lol
Bot: I AM BETTER TH-camR THAN YOU AND I DONโT CARE
My response: NOBODY ASKED FOR YOUR OPINION
@@oilovebruce My Response: NOBODY ASKED IF YOUR DADS COMING HOME WITH THE MILK.
i mean it at the fake bot comment you put, not your response to said fake bot
i got that "hey wanna be friends" in my comment section back when i was like 14 but he was just saying how he loved my gacha videos and wish i posted more but i never gave in so yeah its a pretty werid idk
I'm absolutely sure TH-cam could handle this. They have machine learning engineers. They just need to develop a robust detector and deploy it. Most bots are really easy to spot
Bots: "CONGRATULATIONS, YOU WON A PRIZE!"
My trust issues: "Nah fam I couldn't ever get that lucky but nice try."
The part of the video about annotations brought back a serious case of nostalgia, sure they were annoying or even used maliciously sometimes but I still remember those few videos that were practically a somewhat interactive CYOA and man, those were cool as hell.
Star ratings will always have a special place in my heart as well.
Playing a match of Snake back then while a video was buffering was one way of passing time, other than just sitting and waiting for the video to load.
@@Ralofguy Snake!!! You just COMPLETELY unlocked a memory.
@@nationsquid No way!! Where do I claim?
So true. There was an video game animation video (Kaizo Trap) that made use of annotations, making it a game. Sadly I didn't get to experience it.
I always see comments where the actual text seems harmless enough, but the profile pictures are like weirdly sexual (like just straight up close ups of butts in bikinis) or conversations that seem innocent enough but are strangely robotic. I had a suspicion that they might be bots, but I couldnโt tell for sure. This is pretty scary.
They even doxxed a TH-camr
Wahyu 1039?
Iโve been scrolling down in these comments trying to find bots to report them, but I canโt tell the difference between a bot and people joking about it
Same
Finally itโs here -> ๐ค
The bot is here
@@Exterm14dexyrez the return of the king /j
Same lol
You won a prize click the link to redeem your amazon gift card
pov: *your scrolling for a bot commento*
Real
Thanks, good to know. ๐๐๐ฏ
Whether its the kinds described in the video or the pornographic ones, comment bots are annoying asf
Ugh
And i feel like the removal of dislikes only served to aggravate this, as people that fall for these channels won't be able to see the huge amount of dislikes on their channels and will think it's legit
Never thought the situation could go this bad in such a short time :/
What do you mean โshort timeโitโs been around before TH-cam even existed
Finally itโs here๐
@@ChapperMan now I feel honored :) Should I start a convo with it?!
@@Psssstscreechsucks by short time I meant that a few years ago it was so easy to identify non-real comments, yet somehow something changed and suddenly bots became amazingly sophisticated out of nowhere
@@ChapperMan hope I wasn't too much for it xD
TH-cam is doing nothing to stop it , pisses me off.
Clearly the Banking sector is responsible such abuse and misleading conduct...
The first time I remember seeing these spambots was all the way back in late 2014/early 2015 when they were targeting large youtubers at the time: Markipler, Jacksepticeye, even Game Theory out of all channels.
Five years after, These Spammers are Becoming a THREAT to Everyone Else! (Including Me, the Only Bubble Bobble Dragon to be the Same Year as My Copy does)
@@Baburun-Sama your comment looks like a bot comment
@@Yacc5488
...only if You have Bad Omen, and I have a Perfectly-Sustainable Village
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I once had a bot spam random words in the comments of one of my videos, it was really bizarre and kinda freaked high school me out at the time because most of the words were religious or medical related and I was scared that it was someone who didn't speak English very well trying to recruit me for a cult
those bots who just post a whole part of the Bible or smth
oh my i remember seeing those and being like "the hell"
I once had that on an old channel
oh i remember those fkers about 2 years ago it was the weirdest shit
@@justnoid3904 Very religious bots
these bots are annoying, i even found them where i was in someoneโs yt video where i got disconnected by a bad wifi, truly disrespectful.
TH-cam is more worried about shoving ads down our throats then handling bot accounts
I'm surprised you didn't say TH-cam is ALL about throwing ads on our faces.
unless you buy โpReMiUmโ which is 12.00 FUCKING DOLLARS PER MONTH!
@@Railfan_5514 even then premium only blocks certain ads
Finally itโs here!
Finally a video addressing how annoying these bots are becoming is here lol. It truly does feel like an epidemic of spambots.
Test pass
He had us in the first half not gonna lie...
Problem with blocking based on profile image and characters in the name:
As a user you can change those, hence they can change on exisitng posts.
spammers would just do their spam messages, and then change profile picture + name.
And I don't expect google to check all given comments retroactively each time a user changes his profile picture or name.
Those bots needs to stop. Thanks for opening my eyes.
Fun fact: this is happening on Reddit. Theyโre massively being downvoted, but it is still happening exactly the same. Iโve seen a number of links lately in similar fashion. The mods have been trying but itโs been getting harder, so thatโs the option to help atm
Reddit is much easier to moderate against bots than TH-cam
Bots will recommend NSFW subreddits but the good thing is that those get down voted instantly
@@Muhluri some arenโt even doing this. Theyโre doing linktree links for nsfw content. Iโve seen only nsfw accts as of now, and you know itโs bad when the worst subs arenโt willing to ignore it.
Maybe TH-cam should make the dislike button do... literally anything. A heavily downvoted comment on reddit won't be recommended. A heavily disliked comment on youtube probably will be recommended, since Google sees all interaction as good. And many subreddits can block users from commenting who have had too many downvotes and not enough upvotes. If channels here could do the same, then bots would expire once they have too many dislikes and be automatically blocked from commenting.
@@generalcodsworth4417 they will be hidden but can still be read. Comment reporting is what needs to be fixed. They donโt deal with the reports. Content creators on YT and moderators on Reddit have the power to remove them, but itโs hard to keep up. The more you fight the more aggressive it becomes. Itโs a constant back and forth, and they just gave up
bots will always use INSANE amounts of emojis
the reason is that they stand out from other comments
What like this? ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ช๐ช๐ช ๐๐ฉ๐
"I know where your father is ๐ท๐บ๐๐จ๐ณ๐ฟ๐๐ฅฒ๐๐๐ฟ๐ฅฒ๐จ๐ณ๐ฅฒ๐ฅถ๐๐๐๐ฅ๐๐ฟ๐ฅฒ๐จ๐ณ๐ฅฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐ฅฒ๐๐ฅฒ๐๐ฟ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐ฌ๐ง๐คจ๐คจ"
@@red.animations Yours left you for beer ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ฉ๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐ฉ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐พ๐พ๐พ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐ ๐๐ฉ๐
@@battleboxer555 your balls ๐๐๐๐ฅถ๐ฅถ๐ฅถ๐ฟ๐ฅถ๐ฟ๐ฅถ๐ฟ๐ฅถ๐ฟ๐บ๐ธ๐ฟ๐บ๐ธ๐บ๐ธ๐๐๐บ๐ฒ๐ฌ๐ง
Are 100.000 Emojis enough? ๐
Can we just take a moment to appreciate how well edited these videos are? Thanks NationSquid, excellent content. *99% of comments nowadays*
Is this a bot comment????
@@kumori_77 ๐ฆพ
Bro bot comment
The 2 other people who replied to this have to be joking bro ๐ญ
@@victorykingpin3674 real don't recognize real huh๐
And now the new bot comment is โPopular YT Commented on my recent videoโ
Bots are getting out of control on all types of social media. Even spam calls. Shit is ridiculous.
This is true
@DodgeThis! (Alpha Male)
Oh hey, a bot.
Nice
@DodgeThis! (Alpha Male) ๐ ฅ look at your toilet, something is coming out of it
I've lost count on how many spam calls I've gotten on my phone.
One thing I've noticed very frequently is that these bots will find a popular comment on a given video, and then steal that comment and post it on a bunch of different videos about a similar subject. I always wondered what the point of it was, since there wasn't any immediate scam presented, and I couldn't imagine farming for likes is a profitable strategy. But this does help explain that too. Also, don't get me started on the amount of bot channels I've seen with a username like "can we get 20k subs with no videos"- those ones are often bold enough to only spam comment the phrase "look at my username" over and over again
Actually I've seen alot of those weird named users behave normally, se of those are probably bots, but I think some are just random users Dat genuinely try to get the 20k subs lol
These bots are more sophisticated now, they have 60 likes in less than a minute and copies other people's comments so it sounds relevant to the video. But when you click their profile, it's just a bot with a picture of a girl in a bathing suit with link that they want you to click. If this gets worst, AI bot will be smart enough to even reply to comments in the future!
What does the link lead to cuz I donโt want to click on it
Lets apreciate the work in this video!
Got'ya!
I mainly come across โfinally, itโs hereโ or โthe video weโve all been waiting forโ
Yess
Considering comments apparently help boost a video's likelihood of appearing in a user's recommended feed, I can't help but wonder how many content creators purposefully leave these fake comments up for that reason.
viewers don't like to encounter annoying bots so creators should bonk these bots asap
It is a possibility, since back in the old days of TH-cam, I would actually leave comments on my own videos. But again, at the time, I didn't know any better, and TH-cam's algorithm at the time was way different from the current one.
@@pabblo1 I remember refreshing my own videos to get views lol, simpler times
Yeah. It's happening with many popular channels, such as penguiz0 and videogamedunkey. I can't look much comments on these videos without asking myself if they're real...
They're usually replies
i usually report as "impersonating another account" and "unwanted adds" and "spam"
but i highly doubt of how actually effective this is...
but handles feature is quite of a good step
Its a shame that no matter how old a video on this topic is, this is still relevant. Today i was watching a video that got uploaded 3 minutes ago. And tons of inappropriate bots comemnted with profile pics showing body parts that should be censored. And they kept asking about their careers with flame emojis.
Can we appreciate how much effort she puts into his videos!!!!
help the bots are holding me hostage at
@@thegoldenblock7906 nah its fine they just need to locate the phone/tablet/computer's IP address to locate 'em
@@lailoutherand damn a nice pfp you got there
heh, I'll use the tracker to hunt these bots
Itโs a bot guys. Donโt bother
@@alienfriend4658 shut up
Hey nationsquid, after i saw this it reminded me of this situation myself and my grandmother experienced and i thought you would find it interesting and maybe youd want to make a vid on it. Basically we have both been messaged by these bots that impersonated celebrities, their bios on their profiles would say "official fanpage". They would then go on about asking you what your name is how old are you and such. They then will ask you to download google chats to talk to them more. I went undercover for this since i was aware its a scam, and eventually they will try to scam you out of a lot of money. It was clearly a scam so i knew how to combat it accordingly but my grandma almost fell for it, luckily i stopped her before that happened. I havent heard anyone talk about it but this scam has been going on for a while and id love to hear you explain why people are doing it. :>
@FemonicZI I bet nothing in the universe even gave a care about anything that just came out of your mouth.
Iโm sorry about your grand,a, one of mine has memory issues and tends to fall for scams, and she canโt even remember my dogโฆ
Moral of the story: dont respond to a straight to the comments gang.
This is why we need to take action.
You're a legend bro. I've been warning other people about the bots for many months now. By now they've become a normal part of the TH-cam experience. I'm so glad that creators are now addressing the bot problem. Your countermeasures to the bots sound really good and hopefully they get implemented to the site. Hopefully the war on bots ends on our side.
*cOnGrAtS yOu JuSt wOn frEe money TeXt me to claim๐ฐ๐ค๐ฏ๐ฏ*
W ๐ค
Can we just not appreciate how much time and effort the bots put into themselves to exist?
PRESS HERE TO CLAIM YOUR FUCK
Bots
Le bot
@@Lucifer_Devilsluck my man speaking spamton.
Same, I don't know why people even accepted the guy with a mustache. Idk. I forgot his name. But people forgetting what he did
POV a bot: FREE SCA- I MEAN MONEY!!!!!!!!!
Lucky winnerโจโจโจโจ
-bots
My problem isn't falling for them, but the fact that there's so many of them that I can't read the comments properly.
Exactly, just about every reply to a legit comment is just a bot. Really takes the fun out of scrolling while listening along
โ@@sugasweet435 Absolutely, I just want to read something fun...
its kinda scary seeing how quickly the bots are becoming better at scamming people
wanna be friends
I was just joking ya dont worry
@@k9handler95 HEY, [[salamiguy2011]] WANTTOBE aquaintenceees!!!!!!!!! - Spamton, shortly before being executed for stealing a pipis pepsi.
in the future the comments will be literally indistinguible
@@alguienxder3xd539 I kid you not I recently came across a video where multiple bots were communicating. I honestly thought I'd clicked on the wrong video or something. I'm talking about full fledged conversations between each other.
@@k9handler95 i Don't know what to trust anymore
Wow this video really opened my eyes. Keep up the good work!
Just kidding I ainโt no bot
The worst case scenario is that youtube are going to remove the ability to comment on youtube videos
imagine if by adding that they delete all the precious comments from sections on popular videos from years ago? like staples of the website? it really would be the worst case
They already did it for kids content at this rate I wouldnโt put it past them
@@whatthewhatthe9117 It wasn't their choice to make though and if TH-cam does remove comments... that would be the second worst thing they had done along with removing the ability to view how many dislikes a video has.
@@whatthewhatthe9117 yep, might as well at this point.
@@whatthewhatthe9117 They did the same for music videos as well.
i searched for this because some videos comment sections seemed really suspicious because of many one dimensional comments saying the same stuff in other words/grammar, in same length, different languages and all with intense emoji usage ... i dont know what to believe anymore haha but it felt not real