YouTube Bots and Policy Shifts Are Eating Creator Stats
17 posts across 3 communities in the last 60 days; 77% from r/youtube.
“You can ask me any questions about this problem caused by YouTube because I need help”
“I capture this to bring attention to an issue where spam/bot accounts are abusing YouTube’s @mention system in Community Posts to target small creators and spread phishing links. What is happening on that photo: - Fake Giveaway Phishing: Accounts (like "Bluff") create Community…”
“Always leads me to a blank Mentions page on click, so I assume that either the post or the channel mentioning me is being removed. Getting kinda annoying as of late”
Multiple posts express frustration and concern regarding YouTube's evolving policies, including the removal of dislike buttons, bot mentions, thumbnail plagiarism concerns, and difficulties in getting approved for monetization programs like Mediavine. Creators are also grappling with changes to discoverability and audience engagement.
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“instead of controlling the bot population they decided to do this. Typical youtube submitted by /u/randomusername12308 [link] [comments]”
“I just noticed some guys with a police officer pfp mentioning me in every post saying that im homophobic but i didnt even say anything is this bots or what submitted by /u/Mean_Expression620 [link] [comments]”
“Bish What? I swear these AI bots are getting crazy day by day. [re: Successful YouTuber Starting Over: Month 1 Update]”
“How do you know the nationality of these said bots? [re: What's going on with this sub? Some Obervations]”
“EXACTLY They’ll instantly strike or demonetize a creator for a harmless mistake, but completely ignore thousands of actual bot accounts spamming everywhere.”
“Thanks, will do that. I was curious to know where can I see the bots. And why would a bot subscribe to my channel 😆”
“I just wish YouTube would grow a backbone and get rid of these bots especially the 18+ one instead of finding new ways to steal or data.”
“I just got tagged in the description of a video about some user being "exposed" for being racist. The comments told me it was just some guy tagging random users illogically (another reply said "1ST WARNING KID" which leads me to believe this is UTTP related), but this is not the first time this happened. I was tagged in a post made by a similar user accusing me and other random users of being racist. I reported the video (and the post) to YT, saying this shouldn't be allo”
“They’re actually bots, I had them sometimes where they made multiple similar accounts from a group of UTTP”
“You can ask me any questions about this problem caused by YouTube because I need help submitted by /u/QuasariusLovesReddit [link] [comments]”
“Yes exactly, I wonder why creators are liking, hearting, and interacting with it. That only fuels it keep going..”
“Since when did the bots do that?? I thought they only comment. submitted by /u/STOPBADRANDOMS [link] [comments]”
Bots maybe. Or maybe these people are big outside of the West.
“Wow I've seen this same profile spamming the comments, looks like it's bots all over youtube”
“I capture this to bring attention to an issue where spam/bot accounts are abusing YouTube’s @mention system in Community Posts to target small creators and spread phishing links. What is happening on that photo: - Fake Giveaway Phishing: Accounts (like "Bluff") create Community Posts claiming that "you won $2,500", tagging long lists of handles, including my channel (@CANVAS-Hivemedia) to drive traffic to external phishing sites. - Copy-Paste Drama Spam: Multiple unrelated ch”
“So I was going through shorts comments and mass reporting the NSFW bot accounts so YouTube’s very mild bot detection will actually pay attention for once and I’ve noticed that some bot accounts are putting real channels in there subscriptions where they put their normal nsfw stuff. I think they are catching on to people reporting them because of the subs in there about page and are now using real accounts as human shields so they can’t get dealt with easily or kill off real channels in crossfire”
“Always leads me to a blank Mentions page on click, so I assume that either the post or the channel mentioning me is being removed. Getting kinda annoying as of late submitted by /u/Mark_a_Philip [link] [comments]”
“So I'm not allowed to have a different opinion without being called a bot? The internet might actually be ruined by people too afraid to have unique opinions bc ppl like u before the bots take over”
“This bot (Or at least I think it's a bot) keeps tagging me over and over in unknown posts that I CAN'T EVEN SEE BECAUSE HE IMMEDIATELY DELETES THEM. Because YouTube is dumb, I can't click on his profile from the notification center, unabling me to block him. Does anyone else have this problem? Solutions?? It's tiring me submitted by /u/Technical_Flower5765 [link] [comments]”
They use it for everything noways and it's annoying as hell.
yeah I know it's just getting annoying seeing them everywhere
“Yeah, like you said below bots definitely sound like the more likely answer. I’m just at a loss as to why or how this happens.”
“I swear why are people censoring words like die and death? It wasn't this bad a long time ago. submitted by /u/Anon_feline [link] [comments]”
“Has anyone noticed the increase of bot accounts telling people to "get premium" on this subreddit ? submitted by /u/AurumVespa [link] [comments]”