Network of suspicious youtube channels

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TheBookofRonald

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Anyone here know anything about a network of youtube channels possibly using a bot or manually leaving comments on each others videos? Most of the people seem like legit channels but a couple of them are a bunch of nonsense possibly made by an AI to get views. They have a very small numbers of views yet pages of comments, it doesn't add up. I'm kind of worried cause there could be hacking going. I'm not sure if I want to draw attention to whatever these people are doing right now so I don't want to post the links here. I'm just wondering if this is something that small youtubers do with each other to push the algorithm in their favor and I just stumbled upon it or its something worse. I'm not a youtuber btw, but I think Ill stick around cause I need more channels to watch and this seems like a good place to find them.
 
I would not be surprised. There's bots for all kinds of things nowadays, however, Google would penalize them in the end. Google can find out everything over a period of time. By the way, I am NOT affiliated with such tactics in any kind of way! I'm just giving my opinion. I also think Google could very well be able to "understand" a sub / like request coming from a forum like YTTALK, ( especially if using Chrome I guess!) and its algorithm probably has a way of adding that "detail" onto a user's profile history ( could be a bad thing or not - who knows ). Just my 2 cents. I would definitely stay away from anything like bots / sub requests and stuff. The best way is growing naturally, like weed.
 
More comments than views, yeah, something's fishy. But what's the point? I can't imagine the YT algorithm being fooled when nobody is watching the vid. Lots of people trying to game the system, but in the long run it's virtually impossible. I've seen channels with thousands of subscribers, but nobody is watching the vids. Unless you have a LOT of eyes on your contnet, you can't make any money anyway. YouTube pays for views, not for subs, or comments, or likes, or eating your wheaties - lol!
 
You could have more comments then views without cheating the system.
lets say you get 100 unique views and out of that 60 unique people comment.
You can reply to all your comments from Youtube Studio without watching the video so suddenly you have 120 comments and only 100 views.
Then they can reply to your reply in their notification section without watching the video so suddenly you have 180 comments but still 100 views.
Not to mention on some popular 'educational' videos I reply to other people comments too. So with 1 view I might reply to 5 comments answering questions people in that community may have missed and stuff.

I have a video on Youtube where the comments has basically been a conversation between me and someone else because they liked a project I was building as a hobby and I kept asking them questions because they already finished building the thing and I wanted to learn some tips and tricks from them.

Without a link it's hard to say if it was a hack or not. But OP hasn't posted since Feb 1... I'm hoping they haven't forgot about us.

RidingWithStymie said:
YouTube pays for views, not for subs, or comments, or likes, or eating your wheaties
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(I'm going to derail from the main post to reply to you, I doubt the OP will mind.)
You are right, but
  • you might be able to get a better sponsorship if you have 1 million subs.
  • Or charge more for your marketing firm consulting service since you have "proof" that you can build a channel since you've done it.
    • This is more common then you think. there's a lot of stories of marketing companies buying subs and views to seem like the know what they are doing and also buying views for their clients to trick them into thinking it's working.
  • Or getting more investors to buy into your company because there's already 'hype around your brand'.
    • also stories of this. Investors buy into company and then the channel gets shut down for buying views and investor realized the company didn't actually have all that buzz.
  • Or an even more negative one, scam more people into joining your pyramid scheme because clearly you are intelligent since you have lots of subscribers
    • I don't have any stories of this, but I'm 100% sure it's happening. Probably shouldn't say 100% without proof but 'come on'. The only reason I can't have proof is because it's really hard to legally prove something is a pyramid scheme

 
I would not be surprised either. One of my videos got a comment where someone posted a link to a camgirl site. One with a really shady url too (it was like .xyz instead of .com or .net). The way the post was formatted made me think it was a bot posting it as well.

I like to keep a light hand when moderating my comment section, but I couldn't have deleted that comment faster lol.
 
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