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I wish more people thought like you. I don’t get mad about what YouTube does either (although maybe I would if I was a YouTuber). I do get irritated when peopl

• tombert 8y ago
  I have personally found the whole "he/she is a bot!" thing to be needlessly dismissive and irrelevant. Even if the entity making these claims is a bot/troll, the claims are still out there, and if there's any evidence that a sizable number of people are going to believe them, then these claims should be addressed appropriately. An example that comes to mind are the flat-earthers; a lot of people say that the ones making the YouTube videos are trolls, and most of them might be, but the fact is that there is evidence that a fair number of people fall for it (or at least are so in on the joke that they spend a lot of money for merchandise, and convention tickets, and funding Patreon accounts). I have no idea of your political leanings, but I do visit Donald Trump's Twitter account almost daily (because I'm apparently masochistic), and I see the "Russian Bot" insult hurled at any of his supporters, which I always find annoying.