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Why are YouTube comments so much different than any other comments made online (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by Touching_Grass@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of obsequious people

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[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 62 points 2 years ago (3 children)

One word: bots

[–] Decoy321@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

That's what I figured, too. YouTube comments are infamous for being absolute cesspits of the internet. This must be Google's way to drown them out.

[–] cannot@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I don't think so really. Google accounts are pretty hard to bot. I think they're just idiots and children and with Poe's law you can't really tell the difference.

[–] starman@programming.dev 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Google accounts are hard to bot.

Not to google itself. They might use those bots to create fake engagement, like on reddit. We can never prove if google is doing it or not, but they would certainly benefit from doing so.

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The conspiracies never end with you people..

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Star people?

[–] blackbrook@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

I knew it! Aliens!

[–] original_ish_name@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

I'm pretty sure "tap for segs and free bobux!!!!111!1!1!1!1!" Is a bot

[–] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Google accounts are pretty hard to bot

If you do a quick search you can find sites selling google accounts in bulk at prices ranging from a few cents to a couple dollars a piece, depending on the account attributes. I guess SMS-verified accounts with a US phone number costing over a dollar might constitute "hard to bot", but spammers don't need one of those to comment on youtube.

[–] cannot@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

That's usually from credential stuffing, which I guess you could consider botting, but what I was referring to was automatically creating accounts. Sorry for the miscommunication.

[–] Lammy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That’s three words.

That means you are also a bot!

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