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The tone in this is... Less than stellar. This is standard operating procedure, mainly dealing with deleted accounts, and reducing spam or bot actions on the s

The tone in this is... Less than stellar. This is standard operating procedure, mainly dealing with deleted accounts, and reducing spam or bot actions on the site. 3.9M removed over the course of 500+ videos for a global account for one of the largest countries isn't all that surprising. They also remove likes and comments for spam reasons as well, which this "article" (if you can call it that) just so happened to ignore, I can't imagine why. YouTube prunes accounts quite often, even streamers and boy bands will have their numbers rapidly changed to deal with spam or bots. This has been normal operating procedure for over a decade.

rootusrootus 5y ago
> The tone in this is... Less than stellar. Agreed. I got down to the "So odd for the most popular resident ever!" and realized I got duped into reading some ideologue's rant against the other team and now I have to question the data provided and wonder what context got casually discarded.
- jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 5y ago
  This whole "Youtube deletes dislikes on White House videos" has been part of the alt right narrative for some weeks now, right next to "if masks work then why do we need to stay at home".
phzoe 5y ago
The data shows they deleted: 9005 Likes 3.9 Million dislikes 750,000 views You're welcome to think that nearly twice as many diskikes were removed as remain is normal. I disagree. Thank you.
- duxup 5y ago
  > is normal. I disagree. Why though? What's normal and can't abnormal things happen?
- happytoexplain 5y ago
  Personally I have no idea how likes vs dislikes are likely to be distributed in any given set of artificial operations. Why are you so sure about it?
president 5y ago
Do you know how the sausage is made? I would assume only certain Youtube employees would know the actual truth. If you look at the About page for 81m.org, he writes about how he verifies with other large Youtube channels. Not that I disagree but the quickness of your dismissal is a bit unfair to the OP.

rootusrootus 5y ago

> The tone in this is... Less than stellar. Agreed. I got down to the "So odd for the most popular resident ever!" and realized I got duped into reading some ideologue's rant against the other team and now I have to question the data provided and wonder what context got casually discarded.

jk7tarYZAQNpTQa 5y ago
This whole "Youtube deletes dislikes on White House videos" has been part of the alt right narrative for some weeks now, right next to "if masks work then why do we need to stay at home".

phzoe 5y ago

The data shows they deleted: 9005 Likes 3.9 Million dislikes 750,000 views You're welcome to think that nearly twice as many diskikes were removed as remain is normal. I disagree. Thank you.

duxup 5y ago
> is normal. I disagree. Why though? What's normal and can't abnormal things happen?
happytoexplain 5y ago
Personally I have no idea how likes vs dislikes are likely to be distributed in any given set of artificial operations. Why are you so sure about it?

president 5y ago

Do you know how the sausage is made? I would assume only certain Youtube employees would know the actual truth. If you look at the About page for 81m.org, he writes about how he verifies with other large Youtube channels. Not that I disagree but the quickness of your dismissal is a bit unfair to the OP.