Everyone says not to buy views or subscribers on youtube, because (A) it will get you banned, and (B) even if it doesn't get you banned, the lack of views the subscribers give you and/or the low average view duration of the subsequent views would result in your videos being algorithmically demoted.
The websites that purport to sell views and subs give us a rather well-thought-out counter-argument to the first of those two problems. If buying views and/or subs would get you banned, then what's to stop bad actors from simply killing off a channel they don't like simply by sending bot views their way?!
Of course, those sites never address the latter of the two problems: Algorithmic suicide for your channel.
But them bringing up the idea of killing off a competitor's channel does indeed raise an elephant in the room. Maybe Youtube won't actually ban your channel because there's no direct evidence that the views came from you specifically. But couldn't an anonymous bad actor still algorithmically sabotage a competitor's channel by sending low-retention views and/or dead subscribers their way?
How exactly does Youtube safeguard against THAT while still penalizing youtubers who really are trying to simply game the system?
The websites that purport to sell views and subs give us a rather well-thought-out counter-argument to the first of those two problems. If buying views and/or subs would get you banned, then what's to stop bad actors from simply killing off a channel they don't like simply by sending bot views their way?!
Of course, those sites never address the latter of the two problems: Algorithmic suicide for your channel.
But them bringing up the idea of killing off a competitor's channel does indeed raise an elephant in the room. Maybe Youtube won't actually ban your channel because there's no direct evidence that the views came from you specifically. But couldn't an anonymous bad actor still algorithmically sabotage a competitor's channel by sending low-retention views and/or dead subscribers their way?
How exactly does Youtube safeguard against THAT while still penalizing youtubers who really are trying to simply game the system?
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