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2022 Jun 24, 2:14pm   923 views  6 comments

by Hircus   ➕follow (1)   💰tip   ignore  

One thing I've really noticed lately on youtube is the bot presence. I'm not certain of the motives, but it feels like I see at least two very common trends when it comes to very popular youtube pages, like for popular songs, or songs for popular artists.

- recycled comments like "this song just hits different", "this is a total masterpiece", "popular opinion: XYZ", etc... there's lots of variations, but these trite comments seem to get lots of upvotes, and so they get posted on tons of videos. I suspect the purpose is to give the account some kinda reputation which will then get cashed in some other way on a later date.

- mood or opinion setting and influencing. I think people, especially younger crowds, are wired to adopt an opinion compatible with the crowd, and bots take advantage of this by setting the mood and by asserting opinions on discussion topics / pages / videos etc... I seem to notice that when a new anticipated song/video is published, I think there's companies that deploy bots to flood the comments with opinions, helping to establish the mood early so that human posters will be influenced by reading the comments, and thus making their own comments more compatible with what the bot team wanted.

I mean, we know the twitter / fakebook et. al. have huge bot armies spreading propaganda too, so this isnt surprising at all. I just wanted to share my observation.

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1   NuttBoxer   2022 Jun 24, 3:48pm  

The Dead Internet theory is less theory, and more reality.
2   richwicks   2022 Jun 25, 5:14am  

Hircus says

mood or opinion setting and influencing. I think people, especially younger crowds, are wired to adopt an opinion compatible with the crowd


Of course. Was this song ever ACTUALLY popular?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kjettm41LU

No, but it was endlessly promoted as being popular.

Kids don't form their own opinions, they never have. It's always been a social pressure group. Remember the "top 100" - that's artificial. It's always been marketing for our entire lives. Bots are just another form of PR.
3   AmericanKulak   2022 Jun 25, 11:04pm  

Twitter has never been more populated by under 100 follower accounts claiming to be 2,4,8, even 12 years old.

FirstnameBunchanumbers.
4   Bd6r   2022 Jun 26, 12:03pm  

AmericanKulak says

FirstnameBunchanumbers.

rubyrobinson555
6   Ceffer   2022 Nov 27, 3:11pm  

Is there a the new support umbilicus for the 300 pound computer perv in underwear in the basement? Keep a huge farm of cell phone bot swarms for hire in his basement and channel the bot identity feeds from the Intels?

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