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How do you know those two channels are "fake" or "scammers"? I think I have a good eye for these things and worryingly they just look like the normal low effor

• Nition 2y ago
  Some common indicators (though this may have changed - I can only speak for ~7 years ago): - Weird view counts. Strangely consistent, random sudden dropoff to near zero views, etc. - No voice commentary. Can't steal videos from different channels if your "voice" changes I guess. - A whole set of videos uploaded at once. This was more obvious when the linked channels were still active since you'd see like two rows of "2 days ago", then a bunch "1 week ago", then a bunch "3 weeks ago" etc. - Social media etc links either missing or super basic. - Few and generic comments vs. amount of views. - Channel description generic, sometimes copied from other channels. - The two I linked haven't done it, but some I saw were uploading long-plays of games split into many parts, I guess to easily pad out their total number of videos. Another thing they were doing at the time, was changing their channel name and banner after a few weeks or months and then emailing again pretending to be a whole new channel. Easy to spot if you still had the old link and it was the same. The second one I linked also mysteriously turns Russian if you scroll back far enough. Bit unusual for someone with their location listed as USA.