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I was just watching Spacex official stream and at ignition they switched to Musk hawking cryptocurrency. What just happened?? edit: wild I just realized take o
by namaria 3y ago
I was just watching Spacex official stream and at ignition they switched to Musk hawking cryptocurrency. What just happened??
edit: wild I just realized take off is 50 minutes from now... what had I been watching?? they did a countdown and there was ignition... was that a time wrap? Am I going insane?
edit2: @spacex034 is not @spacex... today I learned...
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- cam72cam 3y agoSpaceX does not stream on YouTube, you are watching an old launch on a fake channel. Please report them.
- namaria 3y agoDang I got got. Thanks for letting me know
- bluescrn 3y agoYou weren't the only one, I clicked on it too, as did thousands of others, before finding a real stream
- sneak 3y agoYouTube does a bad job of real time takedowns of spoofed live streams. You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by and monitoring social stuff so that things like this don’t happen. Then again you'd think one of Amazon's 1.5M employees would have the job of finding fake USB sticks for sale on the site, but apparently nobody has that title either.
- dylan604 3y ago> You’d think for big events like this they would have somebody just standing by This implies that YT has humans that are not in sales. It feels like YT just has bots building more bots at this point.
- dpcx 3y agoIs that new? Because SpaceX has streamed launches on YouTube for years.
- TOMDM 3y agoYes, the official stream is only on Twitter now.
- greedo 3y agoThey also stream the launch live on the spacex.com website.
- sneak 3y agoThat’s a Twitter embed on the SpaceX website. It’s still streaming from Twitter.
- ta1243 3y agoThank you I tried signing up for twitter but gave up at the "match these dice with these symbols (1 of 10)" stage. It's not a great interface compared with youtube etc, not rewinding etc, but at least it works
- mavhc 3y agoyou were not watching the Spacex official stream?
- jfoster 3y agoThere's a fake SpaceX YouTube account that looks official because they included videos from the real channel in playlists to get verification ticks & have managed to harvest thousands of subscribers. YT's interface is a bit dumb for including the verification ticks in that use-case.
- smallmancontrov 3y agoYT's interface fights negative feedback harder than a spoiled toddler. Hiding downvotes, squirreling the "block channel" feature into a dot menu, breaking it completely on recommended pages, and then breaking search pages... it's almost like they don't want to fight spam.
- sph 3y agoThey're in the ads business - watched hours = money. Why remove spam and clickbait when it means less money? Youtube is the stereotype of post-hype company that is just milking its users to increase their bottom line, driving the entire product to a slow death.
- dylan604 3y agoThey get paid to serve that spam. Why would they reduce the avenues to serve the spam?
- trollied 3y ago> looks official because they included videos from the real channel in playlists to get verification ticks That is not how it happens. The account is verified because it is a stolen account that had lots of subscribers & views. They hide/delete the existing videos & rebrand the channel. It famously happened to Linus Tech Tips last year after a staff member fell for a spear phishing attempt.
- sph 3y agoYou got bamboozled by an AI Elon deep fake.
- namaria 3y agoOh man and I had just downloaded the top result when searching app store for bitcoin wallet to send him bitcoin so he would double it for me!
- b112 3y agoWait, double it? Would you please link me?
- fallingknife 3y agoScrew that! I'll triple any BTC you send to this address: fjreisorhsksjshsjsjsj
- b112 3y agoI'm sorry sir, but my software won't take that address, a typo? Please resend.
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- elif 3y agothis is probably exactly why x started doing video. youtube is so full of fake channels that it readily presents fake ones at the top of search results. the x stream has been great and had a far greater reach (2.5 million) than any of the youtube streams by a factor of 10x or so.
- ajross 3y agoTwitter is awash with garbage too, likely even worse. Every major account, without exception, has multiple fake clones (often many created per day) running around trying to steal clicks and occasionally phish users. The Internet is just hard. You're just saying that the Twitter official account is official. No reason you can't have an Official Account anywhere else, SpaceX just doesn't.
- elif 3y agowhen you search spacex on x, you are presented the official account first. when i searched spacex on multiple youtube apps this morning, i couldn't even find the official spacex account after going through pages of menus.
- ajross 3y agoAgain, because there is no official SpaceX feed on YouTube, they deleted it. Can you link to the channel you think you should be seeing? To be clear: if you search for "SpaceX" on Google, you get the corporate website as the first link and the Twitter account as the second. But YouTube has nothing to show you, by SpaceX's choice.
- ghufran_syed 3y agoThis is what shows up for me: https://www.youtube.com/spacex https://www.youtube.com/spacex
- elif 3y agoyou are searching channels. that is not available on, the roku app, for instance. if you search by channels on x, for fair comparison, there are no spoofed spacex accounts to be seen anywhere. https://twitter.com/search?q=spacex&src=recent_search_click&f=user https://twitter.com/search?q=spacex&src=recent_search_click&...
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- cchance 3y agoya theirs a shitload of fake spacex streams with AI generated crypto scams
- cruffle_duffle 3y agoDude, we encountered that yesterday. Somebody really figured out how to successfully pretend to be a spacex livestream! It was super weird, right?