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I don't see that on the videos I watch. For example, this section from a song I recently listened to. Very nice comments. The Beatles - Within You Without You

I don't see that on the videos I watch. For example, this section from a song I recently listened to. Very nice comments. The Beatles - Within You Without You https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsffxGyY4ck Do you see a bunch of spam comments? Maybe my ad blocker is blocking them?

david_allison 4y ago
I see "Video unavailable" + "Comments are turned off"
- labrador 4y ago
  Very strange. Yours must be from a different cache.
jahsome 4y ago
I think the targets for the spammers are are generally influencers/solo creators. The spammers create imposter profiles to announce phony giveaways, or otherwise appeal to the creators' fan base.
- johnnyanmac 4y ago
  Yup, I watch a lot of critic channels and gaming playthroughs and it's gotten obnoxious. I try to report a dozen but it's surprising they stay up to begin with. That seems like anti-spam 101, don't paste the same message with a suspicious link everywhere (even if it's using 70 burner accounts). Some even try to impersonate the creator, using some weird V to pretend to be a checkmark.
- runevault 4y ago
  I see it on sports content too and not just solo. Feel like not long ago I saw the garbage on ESPN video comments but I don't pay much attention of late so maybe they went away?
bmarquez 4y ago
I don't think music videos are the top target for spammers. Most finance videos (like general technical analysis, I don't watch crypto content) I watch are full of Whatsapp or Telegram scammers. Even a history channel I follow had to warn that the creator would never solicit money through Whatsapp or Telegram.
wildrhythms 4y ago
Probably referring to the spam accounts that Marques Brownlee called out many months ago[0] tl;dw It's the fake accounts that impersonate the content creator and request users to privately message them. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y

david_allison 4y ago

I see "Video unavailable" + "Comments are turned off"

labrador 4y ago
Very strange. Yours must be from a different cache.

jahsome 4y ago

I think the targets for the spammers are are generally influencers/solo creators. The spammers create imposter profiles to announce phony giveaways, or otherwise appeal to the creators' fan base.

johnnyanmac 4y ago
Yup, I watch a lot of critic channels and gaming playthroughs and it's gotten obnoxious. I try to report a dozen but it's surprising they stay up to begin with. That seems like anti-spam 101, don't paste the same message with a suspicious link everywhere (even if it's using 70 burner accounts). Some even try to impersonate the creator, using some weird V to pretend to be a checkmark.
runevault 4y ago
I see it on sports content too and not just solo. Feel like not long ago I saw the garbage on ESPN video comments but I don't pay much attention of late so maybe they went away?

bmarquez 4y ago

I don't think music videos are the top target for spammers. Most finance videos (like general technical analysis, I don't watch crypto content) I watch are full of Whatsapp or Telegram scammers. Even a history channel I follow had to warn that the creator would never solicit money through Whatsapp or Telegram.

wildrhythms 4y ago

Probably referring to the spam accounts that Marques Brownlee called out many months ago[0] tl;dw It's the fake accounts that impersonate the content creator and request users to privately message them. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Cw-vODp-8Y