Hi guys,
so I have this annoying troll on my Youtube channel. I'm on Youtube since 2006, with almost 2000 subs on my channel now. I Just started being active on Youtube for half a year or so.
I'm a musician and upload my music on my channel. I won't reveal it, just for protection because the troll might read here on this board, too, so I remain anonymous for now.
I've been featured on a video of a a huge Youtube channel, and since then, that troll hangs around on my channel, since beginning of 2021.
He won't give up to bug and pester me. Once I'm blocking him, he will just create a new Youtube account and continues his trolling.
That alt troll is also setting up traps, for example:
Troll "Hey, I like your music!"
Me: "thanks"
Troll: "I really love it!"
Me: "yes, thanks"
Troll: "but my music is much better than yours, hahaha!" (his channels are always empty)
Me: Eh,.. okay?"
Then I block him.
Troll with new channel and channel name: "awesome music!"
Me: "hey thanks! I'm glad you like it!"
Troll: "I'm glad you're glad
Hey It's me again! Speak to me! come on, we're best friends right? I love your music! and remember: my music is better than yours hahaha!"
Me *blocks him*
And so on and on... It's extremely annoying, because he just won't give up.
Also, he mimicks my video description texts and comments, like when I write on my video: "Hey guys, stay tuned for more of my music!" Then the troll writes comments all over my videos randomly, like "and remember guys, stay tuned for more music on this channel here!" and such stuff.... it's beyond annoying! He won't leave me alone! I block him, then he's back with a channel of the same or different names, with 0 subs.
The perfidious thing is, that he never uses swearwords. I already set up a list of over 1000 words to be blocked (and that list works) but he never uses any swear words so I can't just block him like that.
Is there a way on Youtube to shadow-ban him or something? Meaning, not directly blocking him but making ll his comments invisible for me and my fans and visitors, so nobody will ever read him, except himself?
Could it be that this is a bot (robot, computer) or something? Or is that a kid that doesn't have anything else to do?
I just don't want to delete my channel altogether to get rid of him (maybe that's his goal) Also, people who visit my videos, will see all his trash comments.
As said, he doesn't directly insult me or anything, but he writes comments that have no content or subject matter at all. He doesn't address anything in my videos, like "oh, nice melody, and nice synth, what synthesizers do you use if I may ask?" or anything of interest. He's just copying my words and sentences and writes that stuff like a parrot. I feel totally silly, because I work hard on my channel and I invest a lot of work in my music and videos, only to get comments from that troll, like "oh, I forgot to comment "first! this time, hahaha!"
I can't just ignore and block everyone on Youtube who writes on mychannel, just because it might be a troll account. Also, this guy makes fun of me in his comments once I ignore him completely. That guy makes me totally paranoid!
I've written already to Youtube but they don't reply (as usual). Any tips, suggestions, tricks, ideas? How do you treat such trolls?
I'm a long time Youtube user and creator, but I've never met such a troll. If I change my profile picture a bit, he will comment! "oh, you changed your profile pic, I see!" etc. He even finds my comments on other peoples videos and will comment there, and I obviously can't delete his comments on other peoples videos. Please help me, guys! Thanks a lot!
so I have this annoying troll on my Youtube channel. I'm on Youtube since 2006, with almost 2000 subs on my channel now. I Just started being active on Youtube for half a year or so.
I'm a musician and upload my music on my channel. I won't reveal it, just for protection because the troll might read here on this board, too, so I remain anonymous for now.
I've been featured on a video of a a huge Youtube channel, and since then, that troll hangs around on my channel, since beginning of 2021.
He won't give up to bug and pester me. Once I'm blocking him, he will just create a new Youtube account and continues his trolling.
That alt troll is also setting up traps, for example:
Troll "Hey, I like your music!"
Me: "thanks"
Troll: "I really love it!"
Me: "yes, thanks"
Troll: "but my music is much better than yours, hahaha!" (his channels are always empty)
Me: Eh,.. okay?"
Then I block him.
Troll with new channel and channel name: "awesome music!"
Me: "hey thanks! I'm glad you like it!"
Troll: "I'm glad you're glad
Hey It's me again! Speak to me! come on, we're best friends right? I love your music! and remember: my music is better than yours hahaha!"Me *blocks him*
And so on and on... It's extremely annoying, because he just won't give up.
Also, he mimicks my video description texts and comments, like when I write on my video: "Hey guys, stay tuned for more of my music!" Then the troll writes comments all over my videos randomly, like "and remember guys, stay tuned for more music on this channel here!" and such stuff.... it's beyond annoying! He won't leave me alone! I block him, then he's back with a channel of the same or different names, with 0 subs.
The perfidious thing is, that he never uses swearwords. I already set up a list of over 1000 words to be blocked (and that list works) but he never uses any swear words so I can't just block him like that.
Is there a way on Youtube to shadow-ban him or something? Meaning, not directly blocking him but making ll his comments invisible for me and my fans and visitors, so nobody will ever read him, except himself?
Could it be that this is a bot (robot, computer) or something? Or is that a kid that doesn't have anything else to do?
I just don't want to delete my channel altogether to get rid of him (maybe that's his goal)
Also, people who visit my videos, will see all his trash comments. As said, he doesn't directly insult me or anything, but he writes comments that have no content or subject matter at all. He doesn't address anything in my videos, like "oh, nice melody, and nice synth, what synthesizers do you use if I may ask?" or anything of interest. He's just copying my words and sentences and writes that stuff like a parrot. I feel totally silly, because I work hard on my channel and I invest a lot of work in my music and videos, only to get comments from that troll, like "oh, I forgot to comment "first! this time, hahaha!"
I can't just ignore and block everyone on Youtube who writes on mychannel, just because it might be a troll account. Also, this guy makes fun of me in his comments once I ignore him completely. That guy makes me totally paranoid!
I've written already to Youtube but they don't reply (as usual). Any tips, suggestions, tricks, ideas? How do you treat such trolls?
I'm a long time Youtube user and creator, but I've never met such a troll. If I change my profile picture a bit, he will comment! "oh, you changed your profile pic, I see!" etc. He even finds my comments on other peoples videos and will comment there, and I obviously can't delete his comments on other peoples videos. Please help me, guys!
Thanks a lot!