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thamer | 1 year ago
Good job, the new red is a huge improvement.
Meanwhile the YouTube comment sections are still getting pummeled by bots, trying to scam viewers with fake crypto offerings (90%+ involving an "Elon Musk giveaway") or writing entire threads praising the great investment returns from a genius trader named "Mr Definitely A. RealName" who operates only on WhatsApp.
Take a look at the comments under this video for example, all the references to AMZ6OP are for a scam crypto token that they pretend is being launched by Amazon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRd_wNHJG4o.
I'm having doubts even reposting this link… please do not believe for a second that any of these claims are real.
I guess changing red to red-ish magenta was apparently more important than addressing the widespread issues that have been plaguing YouTube for years.
ziddoap|1 year ago
I have a suspicion that the color and design folks are not the same people in charge of comment section spam/bots.
recursivecaveat|1 year ago
throwaway314155|1 year ago
It's somehow substantially less surprising to me that a video deep dive on cryptocurrency has these comments. Youtube should address it, but to a degree it's very much expected/comes with the territory.
I don't follow cryptocurrency on YouTube (and in fact I made sure to "not interested" the link you posted, no offense). Anyway, I don't follow crypto and as such haven't had the issue you described.
YouTube comments have been and always will be a cesspool. You should consider yourself luck that they actually improved quite a lot (at least in terms of toxicity and "stupidity") when the thumbs down button was nerfed.
ripped_britches|1 year ago