My theory about the easy to spot bots in YouTube comments (beehaw.org)

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I want to share some thoughts that I had recently about YouTube spam comments. We all know these early bots in the YouTube comment section, with those "misleading" profile pictures and obvious bot like comments. Those comments are often either random about any topic or copied from other users.

OK, why am I telling you that? Well, I think these bots are there to be recognized as bots. Their job is to be seen as a bot and be deleted and ignored. In that case everyone feels safe, thinking all bots are now deleted. But in reality there are more sophisticated bots under us. So the easy bots job is to get delete and basically mislead us, so we don't think that any is left, because they are deleted.

What do you think? Sounds plausible, doesn't it? Or do I have paranoia? :D

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

oh yea there are definitely bots, some try to pretend to be actors of the shows in youtube video commenting themselves. for instance, iSAIP i was commenting on how bad the show has become and magically the poster had a pic of the actor on it to try defend said video. you can tell with the broken english they use, which makes think its a troll account from a certain country that is well known to use propaganda.

this post was submitted on 25 May 2025

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