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Exploring YouTube Comment Issues and Bots

Yo, what's up? There's seriously something wrong with the comments on YouTube. Half the time you have people saying, I'm first!

Pin me! Pin my comment! When it has nothing to do with the video.

But that's not even that bad. And I know all of you who are watching this right now are probably commenting that to mess with me, but that's fine. Because those are perfect comments compared to the ones that we're gonna look at in this video.

I know you guys have seen those bots that say, Great video! Or, wanna be friends? So...

What's wrong with the comments on YouTube? Why do people post these stupid comments? And why do people get bots to write comments for them? We answer all of these questions in today's episode.

You can help me clean up YouTube by subscribing to my channel. Plus, I'm trying to get to 1 million subscribers, so help a brother out. Also, follow me on Instagram or Twitter if you want to talk to me or give me any video ideas. I want to start this video off talking about comment bots.

Who else loves DJ Cook? I'm gifting my next 62 subscribers. Like, what does that even mean? I think it might be like gifting skins in Fortnite, but what does that have to do with the video?

People will be watching a video about a hospital and then someone's gonna say Gifting my next 23 subs! Like that makes no sense. There's a problem that's even worse that you might not even see with comments.

Like have you seen the channel Logan or Tom or something like that? They comment on every single video pretty much and they always say good video I like it or here's my favorite one they say want to be friends? Now you may just be thinking, DJ, what's wrong with them asking to be friends?

It's actually a lot worse than them just asking to be friends though. I mean, for one, the person who's commenting isn't even a real person, it's a bot. And the bot does not want to be friends.

Even though it says it does, it doesn't want to be friends. It doesn't want you to subscribe to them. They just want to take your YouTube channel.

And if you do something as simple as reply to their comment, or if you like their comment, they can steal your channel. But how does that work? How can they just... Get your channel info from a simple like on a comment. Let's figure this out.

Even though the YouTube comment section is flooded with people begging for subscribers, people making fun of the YouTuber, or just posting stupid comments in general, none of that is as bad as what Tom and Logan are doing. They post something on your video like, wanna be friends? And then if you like the comment, or watch one of their videos, or subscribe, or just click like on one of their videos, they might be able to hack into your account. Now personally, I have no idea how they can do that.

That's crazy to me. And if it's really true, YouTube has to fix their security. But just think about that.

People made a bot that acts like it wants to be your friend just so they can steal your YouTube channel. People say that these channels like Tom and Logan use websites and programs to spam their comments. and it's that easy.

Now here's the fun part, I'm gonna upload a video on a random channel that I made, and I'm gonna hope that one of these comment bots like Logan or Tom comments on my video, and then I'm gonna subscribe to them. I'm gonna like the comment, I'm gonna like his video, I'm gonna comment on his video, I'm gonna do whatever I can to try to get that channel hacked, and no, I'm not gonna use my main account, because why would I let them hack my main account? So right now I'm creating the account that we're going to use for this.

Let's just continue our journey as Andy the 8 year old from our last video. If you haven't seen the last video, we dove deep into a bad YouTuber's messages. We tricked him into thinking I was a little kid. It was super funny. Let's go ahead and watch that.

I set up the name and I created the account. And this time I didn't have to worry about a phone number. I just used my mom's. Now I had to create the video. What video would I post to that channel that would hopefully get their attention?

Does anyone want to play Fortnite Battle Royale together? We could play Fortnite Battle Royale. And if you want to play, just comment down below. We can be friends if anyone wants to be friends.

Comment down below. We could play Fortnite Battle Royale and I could buy you some skins. Yes, I decided to talk about Fortnite because that's what their channels are about.

And also, I mean, everybody really watches Fortnite. Fortnite's like pretty much still the biggest thing on the internet right now. So why not?

Who knows if they'll end up commenting on my video though. I mean, it's just a random video. I'm going to go onto their channels though anyways.

Like I'm not going to wait until they comment on it. I'm just going to go on their channels and click like on every single one of their videos. I hate doing this because they're scammers and they're clickbaiters and they're just horrible YouTubers and I hate liking their videos. But I'm going to do it for the sake of this video.

So, I just got done liking and subscribing and doing all that stuff on my little kid account. And hopefully, when I check back in a couple of days, my account will be hacked. Now let's do some research into how they actually can hack these accounts. I mean, I've seen so many...

many people claiming that they've been hacked by Tom and Logan, but I actually don't really believe it. I think they're lying. I don't understand how somebody can get your information, your account information, just from a like on a comment. That makes no sense to me and it should never be.

even be possible so therefore it has to be fake unless my 8 year old account gets hacked though I won't believe it. In the meantime while we wait for them to hack a hopeless 8 year old's channel who just wants to play Fortnite with somebody I want to look at some other comments on YouTube that are just straight up a problem. Anytime you upload a YouTube video you're going to have a comment saying I'm gifting my next 20 subs. I know you guys have all seen those.

I'm going to try to find one of these comments, figure out a way to talk to some of the people who made those comments. And I'm going to ask them why they do it and how they do it. And what do they do it for?

Because I see a lot of people doing this, so I want to see what they get from doing it. Please pray for me and hope that they don't hack into my channel. Here's a bot comment on one of my videos. It says, who's been a huge fan of DJ Cook before 2020?

I'm gifting my next 67 loyal subs that have notifications on. What? I went ahead and commented on a couple of these people's videos to ask them if I could talk to them.

And once they answer me, I'm going to ask them if it's a bot or if they just copy and paste that comment. And I'm going to ask them why they do it. And I'm just going to ask them a whole bunch of questions and kind of just become a little detective.

This is probably going to take a couple of days or about a week or so for them to answer me. So wish me luck. So it's been about a week since I uploaded that.

fake little Fortnite video onto the eight-year-old account. I expected Logan or one of those Tom hacker bots or something to comment on it, but they literally didn't even see it. If you remember, I also liked every single one of their videos and I subscribed and commented on every one.

So my channel should have been hacked by now. I mean, according to all those people that have been hacked, that's what they did and they got hacked, but I did it and nothing happened. I guess we can wait a little bit longer.

This sounds really weird, but I want my YouTube channel to get hacked. So while I wait for about a week or so from for my channel to get hacked and wait for these people to talk to me, let's go ahead and read some actual bad comments on YouTube that are so rude. This is a part of the comment section problem that I was talking about. YouTube comments are filled with spam comments, bots, and hate comments.

And if you've ever commented on one of my videos, you might just see yourself in this video. So the comment we're going to look at was actually posted on my video where I exposed Mr. Top 5 and in that video I exposed him for being a clickbaiter and like lying to his subs and stuff. Somebody commented, I like his videos you fat poop. I don't know about you but I've never been called a fat poop before.

That's the problem with YouTube comments, you know, nobody really knows what an opinion is. My opinion was that Mr. Top 5 was a bad YouTuber, but that kid thinks I'm a fat poop because I didn't agree with him. Somebody else commented on my Meet the Rudest YouTuber video, the one I just uploaded, and he sent a big message, but it doesn't make any sense at all. He says, do you know what you are saying could be fake?

Because I want all your videos look like they're scripted. What? You're just making stuff up so you can make YouTubers look bad.

bad even though you're supposed to support them what is wrong with you you need to get Siri just because you think those videos are fake what if your videos are fake do you like when I say that to you no so don't say it to other people now I tried to you know clean it up as best as I can and I'm completely lost I have no idea what he's talking about and the funny part is in that video the dude was faking youtubers deaths so how was I lying how was I the fake youtuber I was exposing somebody for being fake how was I the fake one And you can't ever make a video about YouTube comments without showing an internet tough guy. On my morgues video, somebody commented, shut up or else. Okay, dude, chill out, bro. I'm scared. I'm just going to delete that video, bro.

So remember when I messaged three different people about their spam comments where they say, oh, I'm gifting my next 386 subs. Yeah, I asked them what it meant, if it was a bot. I also asked why they were doing it and they answered. So let's see what they said. So the first guy I messaged didn't really understand what I meant, or maybe I didn't understand what he was talking about, but either way, here's how it went down.

I asked him about the comment, and I said, is it a bot? or is it like copied and pasted? He said, a comment or YouTube video. What?

I asked him again about the comment and he said, the video's comments are just my friends. Once again, I was so confused. I did not know what this dude was talking about at all.

I then said it for like the eighth time. No, I'm not talking about a YouTube video. I'm talking about when you comment saying you're gifting your next subs.

Like, what does that mean? He said, oh, it's probably a bot because I stopped doing YouTube. Oh, so you have a bot that comments for you.

Okay. No, I'm too poor for that. Like, make up your mind.

Is it your friends? Is it a bot commenting? Or was it you? I told him I was so confused.

And then he finally broke in and told me. He said, I saw people doing it, so I did it too. He also told me that he gave somebody a gift.

I'm not sure what that means, but he actually ended up doing it, so props to him. So one out of the three spammers didn't use a bot, but let's see about the other two people who messaged me. Once again, I asked him, what does it mean? He answered and said, yeah, I used to self-promote my channel.

I asked him, what does gifting mean? Like the gifting in Fortnite? And I just had to make sure.

He told me, yes, that's what it is. And he also told me that he didn't use a bot. He just copied and pasted every single video he watched. I tried to ask him if he still did it and I told him I hope you don't do it because you guys know me I just want to clean up YouTube so I made sure he was not doing it and the last guy He also said that he copied and pasted the comment on every single video he watched so I guess these aren't really bots But speaking of bots I want to check for the last time if any of those channels Commented on my little kid video or maybe they even hacked my channel by now who knows I went to their channel I liked every single one of their videos, I subscribed to both of them, and I still haven't been hacked yet.

They haven't even commented on my dang video. Well, I'm about to go take my like away from every one of those videos, probably dislike them all, and I'm going to go unsubscribe. I mean, a lot of people were saying that those channels hack people, but I gave it a week or two, and they didn't even do anything to me.

Come on. I just assumed they hacked channels with more subscribers, because who wants to hack a channel with zero subs? Or, like I said earlier, they can't actually hack into a channel.

It was just a- a huge stunt to get some free subs and views. Hold on, don't click off the video just yet. On screen right now, there are three more amazing videos that I uploaded as well as a link to my Meet the YouTubers playlist where you can find every single one of my exposing videos.

So go ahead and continue watching.