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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 63 points 1 year ago
[-] cannot@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] cypherpunks@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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 1 year 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.

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