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
not too long ago, YT comments were some of the most toxic on the Internet
One word: bots
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.
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.
I’m pretty sure “tap for segs and free bobux!!!111!1!1!1!1!” Is a bot
Or a bad actor hoping to draw in vulnerable folks online for their scams, like children.
More than one YouTube channel has been attacked by folks pretending to be them in the comments of their videos, scamming their viewers out of money. And no matter how obvious the scam seems, it always seems to catch a few people.
I also know scams will often intentionally use poor grammar or misspell simple things, because they want to catch the kind of person who would overlook those things, like the very naive or the very old, because they’re more likely to get money out of those groups.
Not saying botting on YouTube isn’t a thing, I just don’t think it’s as prevalent as one might initially think.
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.
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.
That’s three words.
That means you are also a bot!
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Who else is here in 2023? ✌️
the amount of coments I’ve seen that simply go something like “isnt it amazing that x creator is out here entertaining/educating us for free” is huge. once i saw one video where nearly every comment was like that.
Same, which is why I don’t look at comments. It was funny looking at them a couple years back when it easily turned into fights over mundane shit. But somewhere around the time when people stopped commenting and just started commenting vacuous support was also when the whole thing stopped having aggressive interactions.
It’s so utterly bizarre. I don’t generally see comments like this, but there is this one channel that I had been watching recently where every single comment of every video on their channel is like that. Feels like I’m in some sort of weird bizarro world.
Self-selection bias. The YouTube algorithm is very good at showing you things you want to see, so generally speaking, most people who comment are going to like the content. Especially music.
That said, it’s not all positive everywhere. I assure you Gamer comments can just be as toxic there as they are everywhere else.
When I still used YouTube it recommended me crap I could hardly have cared less about or even things I actually disliked.
To me, Youtube was always synonymous for faulty algorithms.
I believe the channel is able to hide comments and basically gets rid of any negative ones.
The content creator can delete comments from their own videos.
Removed by mod
YouTube also took steps a few years ago to clean up the comments cesspool.
small channels especially for niche stuff you have people who actively sought out the material and are happy to offer thanks or constructive comments. large “mainstream” channels comment sections are a mixed bag of rants, irrelevant nonsense, sometimes a comment on the subject matter, abusing other commenters and people who can’t help wedge their politics and toxicity into any bloody conversation
I have the opposite experience. I can’t count how many time I got insulted over a simple opinion
The comments in the early years of YouTube were entirely filled with childish flame wars. I honestly think the only reason that this didn’t kill the site is because they started purging the negativity. Nowadays I’m sure it’s a lot easier for them with the developmental upgrades in bots.
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