[tarotuser]

This is the "Tolarian Community College" (a play on words from the MtG card game).

Without having to watch the video, this Youtuber does a lot of reviews and content on the game. During the course of reviews, he gets a lot of free merchandise. To that end, he then gives it freely to his subscribers.

The problem: there's a deluge of bots that nearly-instantly post on comments and threads in Youtube that redirect unsuspecting users to scammer Telegram channels, Discords, and etc. The common scam is "pay for shipping and you get free stuff". (this youtuber pays for the shipping if sending free product)

To compound this, this is definitely an automated bot driven attack on not only current videos, but also all his historical videos. And Youtube/Google/Alphabet doesn't provide anywhere near the tools to counter these types of botstorms.

He pleas for anyone working at Youtube etc to get in touch and/or make tools available to disable these scammers.

[heyyyouu]

Someone from YouTube creator team commented back but on the thread but it's pretty generic -- that they're working on new tools and they're just as frustrated.

It's a well done video explaining the problem and really the frustration of creators who are fighting these bots and haven't given up.

[LegitShady]

I've seen this sort of telegram bot attack on dozens of channels. It's not targeting him so much as its across all of youtube for channels with enough subscribers. Youtube is completely failing to keep the bots out of the comments.

[jareklupinski]

literally every public instagram post has a number of "first 5 people to DM me gets 5000 bucks!" with links