Viewers notice YouTube comments are filled with bots
15 posts across 2 communities in the last 60 days; 93% from r/youtube.
“uh oh, someone doesn't know that fake OF girl porn comment bots exist on youtube lol [re: Why is everyone talking about these?]”
“Everywhere I go, I see porn bots in comment sections. It's always some unoriginal, copy-paste comment that isn't even trying to blend in with the rest of the comments. I can't stand seeing them everywhere. I can ignore them for a some time, but after a while, it becomes…”
“If you ever see these bot comments on YouTube with a profile picture like this, do not click on their profile. This is a major issue and they are even appearing on content meant for kids.”
Users report a decline in genuine human interaction within YouTube's comment sections, observing that the majority of comments appear to be generated by automated bots. This diminishes the sense of community and authentic engagement on the platform.
SOURCES (23)
“Maybe it’s how the real bots communicate [re: Youtube ads have become out of control.]”
“YouTube isn’t stopping these NSFW and malicious comment bots, so I built Kalm. Some paste normal-looking replies, then hide spam links in their bio or point to another channel with an explicit avatar. Kalm checks comment links, public bios and visible channel promotions before showing the comment. It also blocks ads and trackers, including YouTube ad filters, using uBlock Origin Lite. Free and open source. I’m looking for testers for this early release: try loading more comments, opening replies”
“This was captured by me in a video about Minecraft, it specifically shows a literal GIF of, well, bad content. This is really concerning; I don't know how they managed to bypass filters. By-the-way, I blurred the image in the screenshot. submitted by /u/robbie678554 [link] [comments]”
“uh oh, someone doesn't know that fake OF girl porn comment bots exist on youtube lol [re: Why is everyone talking about these?]”
“The past two days I’m seeing them in popular videos. It’s like some massive bot storm that all have that word in every comment. Strange just how many bots are out there. submitted by /u/joethafunky [link] [comments]”
No they don't. They have obvious bot channels they haven't gotten rid of.
“This spam/comment bot has been a plague on YouTube Gaming Channels. Preferably. “Female Only” which I find to be really creepy and weird.. The comments are all on repeat, it comments the same thing. Over, and over, and over again. It’s 100% not a real human. Who or what do you think this is? As of September 2026, YouTube has become full of AI Garbage, spam, scammers, ChatGBT bots, comments bots, and stupid people.. Looking back, yeah I can see why people said YouTube died in 2015/2016 I miss the”
“So your only proof is “others have done it”? Got it lmao. Botting views is not alien to me, I just find it funny how it’s every redditor’s go-to response. Everything is a bot, everyone is faking views, “dead internet theory”, etc. I personally don’t find it unbelievable for a video about Mr beast controversies to do well on YouTube. These video essays slop channels do very well, I think the more obvious answer is it got pushed by the algorithm. Keep your conspiracy theories up though”
“WARNING IF YOU SEE THIS BOTS DON'T CLICK THE PROFILE THE SUBSCRIPTIONS ARE EXPLICIT REPORT THE BOT ACCOUNT DON'T LIKE OR REPLY TO THE BOT COMMENT AND NEVER EVER CLICK THE LINK THE BOT HAS IT WILL STEAL YOUR INFORMATION OR INSTALL A MALWARE ON YOUR PHONE The bots target YouTubers that make meme shorts. submitted by /u/thefallensoldire [link] [comments]”
“I was looking at the comments on a Reckless Ben video and scrolled down to have a little laugh, and I saw a comment that everyone said was from a bot. When I went to his channel, I found that he has a list of several channels with pretty explicit pornographic images, and each of those channels leads to an even larger list of similar channels. and within those, there’s nothing but a link that I can’t access since it’s blocked in my country, but based on the name in the link, I can assume it’s som”
“Can anyone recommend some good videos exposing the huge epidemic of social media comment bots? Apparently over half the traffic online now is bots, and i was wondering if any youtuber has done a deep dive into this topic. thanks!! submitted by /u/Throwaway7733517 [link] [comments]”
“Everywhere I go, I see porn bots in comment sections. It's always some unoriginal, copy-paste comment that isn't even trying to blend in with the rest of the comments. I can't stand seeing them everywhere. I can ignore them for a some time, but after a while, it becomes unbearable. I report them every time I see them, but they never seem to go away. It's like I'm fighting a hydra, the number of bots seems to go up the more I report them. Does just YouTube not care that much?”
“These positive phrase/emoji spam bots are getting out of control! Creators are even liking and hearting these comments.. why? It’s clearly a bot. No human person is behind the account. This account, it’s on 12 Channels repeating the same comments on videos for 2 years now… WTF submitted by /u/KawiWarrior [link] [comments]”
“If you ever see these bot comments on YouTube with a profile picture like this, do not click on their profile. This is a major issue and they are even appearing on content meant for kids. submitted by /u/Strange_Angle_3696 [link] [comments]”
“There were a bunch of comments with hundreds of likes on this post, but youtube still decides to always put these stupid children/bots on top. submitted by /u/SoliTheSpirit [link] [comments]”
“So I was watching a video and looking at the comments when one of those annoying comment stealing bots with the inappropriate profile pictures popped up. As normal their profile links to another account with an even worse profile picture, and a link to an adult website This then got me to wonder: Why don’t they just have the bad link in all of the comment bot’s about section instead? Can YouTube ban specific links from appearing in the about section? Is that why they have to hide in another acco”
“Usually a person with probably over 1k subs or such gets these comments from bots with inappropriate pfps. I’ve been wondering if the YouTube can see the bots in their comment section? submitted by /u/JamaicanBlue5 [link] [comments]”
“The bots are 🌽, they copy some other commenter's text, and have a lascivious avatar. The bio behind that avatar refers to various types of channels with explicit🌽. When I tried reporting one such account, then for the first time, I got a warning, that "false reporting will get your YouTube account terminated." This discouraged me from reporting, and I returned to doing regular YouTube things — watching, commenting, and liking normal videos and comments (instead of reporting bot a”
“Are these people bots or what. Bro it's a music video, alot of people listen to them daily, do they think they are special or something and think they are the only one listening to them? These type of comments pisses me off submitted by /u/Pregnant_Hippo [link] [comments]”
“You also have to consider that reddit is proven to hosting a huge astroturfing campaign from the US military (which was accidentally shown when reddit posted about their most active communities, the winner was a US military base lol). Add that to all the bots and other countries governments messing around That's why I take disagreements on the Internet way less serious now, and why I prefer my kebble sub. Got automatically invited in the closed community and since then it's my most activ”