Our YouTube channel recently reached another milestone: 1.5 million subscribers and over 325 million total views. It’s only been two years since we reached 1 million subscribers and we are forever grateful for your continued support over the past 15 years of making videos on YouTube. We are always open to new ideas and appreciate our community and their contribution. Your comments on our videos are a great form of feedback – we can say what you liked and what could be improved for future projects and try to read as many of them as possible.
1.5 million subscribers and counting
YouTube is the largest video platform out there, and like all large social media sites, it has its own problems. The YouTube comments below our videos are full of spammers pretending to be us and using our logo and image for their own benefit. These people are trying to scam people via Telegram and WhatsApp by lying that you have won a prize from us and asking you to cover expenses such as shipping costs.
One of the many spam comments
An obvious little scam to be sure, although we feel YouTube isn’t taking things seriously enough which is why we’re enabling a hard comment filtering option on our channel’s videos. YouTube’s current spam comment moderation tools are quite outdated and require us to review each spam comment individually.
The problem isn’t isolated from our channel – it’s prevalent across the platform and affects numerous creators and celebrities. MKBHD made a great video on the subject which you can see here.
Various spam comments
These scammers are creating multiple accounts with our name and image. They are free to comment as many videos as they can physically simply because the YouTube system doesn’t have a comment rate limiter. Kind of like the story of the Lernean Hydra: you cut off one head and two more appear, comment spammers can keep creating new accounts with our name after they are reported and banned.
To sum up the situation, YouTube’s spam comment moderation system falls short, and the new, more aggressive comment filtering system will target spam comments that may flag some of your genuine comments in the process. We are sorry if you are having trouble expressing your opinion on our YouTube page and we can only hope that YouTube will pay more attention to the issue in question.
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