I used to report spam on peoples videos but after doing it a bit everyday for a week I realized it only hides it from me and youtube doesn't actually review the reports.
yeah I found it out by clicking out of the video by accident and coming back to the comment. The spam reply was still there. Also you can refresh the reply section on mobile and it will reappear.
they really need to get better with reports. a huge amount of things that explicitly break tos (misgendering and suicide baiting come to mind) are allowed on here
Even when it’s the most blatant, spammy, inappropriate comment EVER that violates at least 3 terms of services rules, reporting still does absolutely nothing. Say what you want about tiktok but at least their reporting features function properly. They even send you a notification letting you know whether the comment/video was taken down or not
i always think its funny when youtubers preface a complaint about yt with something like "I know i make money from this platform so i have no room to talk" etc bc like.. this is your job right? who in the world DOESNT complain about their job lmaooo. i feel like if anyone has the right to complain abt yt, its the people who depend on it for their income
It's probably in response to people trying to shut down the criticism with "But you're supporting this platform, so you're just as bad". A reasonable person would see it's more complicated than that, but some people either don't get it or are being deliberately obtuse.
It’s UA-cam’s fault they should change their system according to what people actually want instead of all decisions being corporate ones. For instance disabling dislikes no one asked for it, Recently changing the default thumbnail size for no reason on desktop. It’s like companies have no clue how to fix their site
I definitely think the worst is the ones that say something like "I'm better than *youtubername*" because they amped it up at one point and would talk about youtubers who passed away or youtubers family member passing away and would say "jacksepticeye's dad is in hell" and would spam the comments of support. How fucked up do you have to be to do that?
Lately there has been a bot on CoryxKehsin's channel that would spam the n word with the hard r under every top comment whenever he uploads and it's absolutely gross because the bot is not even promoting anything and was just designed to be racist
@@perplexed1783 ugh that's disgusting. It's honestly still designed to promote. Promoting outrage and anger will get people to click your account. It's so fucked up. I hate it here
Looking forward to this video, nothing is worse than trying to read comments and them being full of spam 😐 and the platform couldn’t give a rat’s tutu about it
My big peeve is the repost bots that will take comments from one video on a topic and post them on other videos about the same thing and they post like 30 comments on the same video. And some of them are quite personal too. They'll repost someone saying how important this piece of media is to them because t was their recently deceased father's favourite. Then they'll also repost right underneath a comment where someone will talk about how it's overrated trash and another one where someone directly responds to a question made in a completely different video. It is so annoying and I have absolutely no idea why people make them.
The algorithm that chooses how high future UA-cam comments appear takes into consideration how popular an account's previous comments were. So those accounts are taking advantage of that by copying popular comments in the hope of their future spam comments appearing higher in the comments section.
Add to that, if a bot just botted away. It'd be easy to say with certainity that a user is being malicious to a site. But if the majority of their comments are "good" and only a minor of them are "bad" then oh you can't ban that user with complete certainty
What the bots do is steal real peoples comments and repost and will get way more likes and replies than the original which sucks. I’ve had many comments stolen from bots and reposted. It happens a lot. And is upsetting.
one time, i poured my heart out in a comment section. I wanted to let my fav youtubers know i appreciated them and how they help me. not even 3 hours later i get replies saying "youre comment got copied". PEOPLE JUST COPY AND PASTED MY SAD STORY. WTFFFF
I think I saw you somewhere else before! Hi! It's so awful someone stole your story for that omg 😭 like damn, if it was a joke then it suck but whatever. However, copying a sad story?!! 💀💀💀 That's messed up
@@crazyowlgirlcncowner yeah it was pretty trashy of them. I think they were trying to get attention for their scam. Also thx for recognizing me lol. You seem so nice thank you.
@@12bree4 Yeah I'm pretty sure they just wanted to get noticed so people would fall for their scam. They were hoping to get attention through your story. And yeah lol. I'm thinking i might've seen you on Jake Doolittle's channel? But I'm also a KPop stan so it could've been there as well.
There’s also the weird multi-bot “conversation” where one is like “boy I sure made lots of money through this person” and the others are like “oh please tell us more” and “oh yeah I also use that person” and it’s clearly all the same spammer and no one can stop him. 😡
You are on point with the weird fonts. It would be stupidly easy to automatically flag comments that use fonts from 4 different languages in every word.
@@kylespevak6781 putting 2 words in a comment from a different language isn't a problem, they're talking about mix-and-matching look-alike characters that wouldn't normally be used together in a single word.
@@kylespevak6781 There's a difference between posting something like this, using dos different languages (sorry I am not bilingual) âÑd sɵmɜth!ng lik3 tĥi$
Little advice for live chat modding : if you press the alt(or option) key on your keyboard while your mouse is over the live chat, it will freeze and when your mouse goes over the message you will have large buttons to do the moderation action, saving you from clicking on the tiny 3 dot button.
In my experience with Livestream Chat, the Auto-Moderator tends to hold back actual harmless stream members messages, but completely ignore the bots spam and it's very frustrating.. 💀
I’m glad to see more and more people talking about the spam. I can’t comment on any big UA-camr video without getting “My videos are better than **insert youtuber’s name** “ and also a bunch of slurs??? It’s so annoying.
The worst is when a bot steals your comment. Like Ive written many comments and a few moments later I’ll see MY COMMENT copied and pasted by a bot. I’ve seen it happen to other people too. And it’s the actual worst. Because they get more likes and replies even though it’s not their comment.
The slurs are the worst. The spam and sex comments are still pretty bad, but it hurts to see the slurs on a channel I think of as safe. The amount of times I've had to report a bot for having a Swastika or using the full n-word is unreal
Haven't watched the whole video yet, but my favorite UA-cam spam is when s3x bots will copy and paste someone else's real comment that has a high amount of likes, and sometimes they'll get just as many likes bc no one notices that it's spam
Yeah, ridiculous how sometimes they have multiple normal reply comments, no one seeing it's spam lmao. I sometimes make an effort to report the spam one and find the original and give that an upvote.
I've also noticed that in UA-cam shorts there are a ton of spam inappropriate videos. The most popular ones being weird "workout" videos saying click the link to find out what happens next. Which in my head if you have a younger child or teen looking through shorts... well they are gonna see some weird stuff.
For some reason this tends to happen a lot in Animal Crossing livestreams?? Thankfully these channels have real human moderators on the lookout for spam bots, and it ends up being a mild annoyance at best. I’ve also seen a rise in comment bots pretending to be UA-camrs and claiming that you’ve won a giveaway. I used to see a lot of that type of spam back in the day, and now it’s back for some reason. In a weird sense, it’s almost nostalgic to see UA-camr giveaway bots coming back
a really easy solution would be requiring account verification in order to comment or chat, and/or including a "waiting period" after a new account is created. it wouldn't stop all of the spam, but help with all the bots. also i'm surprised, given google's knowledge and resources, that they haven't made their spam detection AI better. i feel like a decent AI would be able to identify patterns in language, fonts, etc that are 1) highly repetitive in a comment section or chat and 2) don't match the style and content of the other comments.
That doesn't even need AI. The repetitive messages of hot girl/singles can just be filtered with pattern matching; the same thing email servers have been doing for decades. The weird fonts are actually just different character codes. There is for example a set of italic letters for mathematical symbols. There are simple tools to convert these back and forth, which is precisely how the scammers create text with them in the first place. UA-cam just doesn't care.
I love the UA-cam live chat modding being like “Would you like to put someone in the naughty corner for 10 minutes or banish them to the shadow realm for eternity no take backs? No other options 🙂”
It's so annoying that it keeps being a problem. It just doesnt stop and its so simple so solve since the comments are literally half of the time the same. Now dont get me wrong, for a single creator its hard becauses they slightly change up the messages so you often run into filtering normal comments (with the current spam I block the emojis they use and that works, but they constantly use different ones) but youd assume UA-cam with the knowledge of ALL comemnts would be able to solve this easily. Especially that they can post anything into the "about me" or use as username
Hating UA-cam's terrible auto-moderation is particularly personal for me, because one time it locked me out of commenting for a day, supposedly for spam. For context, I have never typed a link in youtube comments on this account, and I've never advertised anything, either. I have never done anything that could realistically be considered spam by any actual human moderator. Like, how did they manage to incorrectly label my comments as spam enough times to warrant a temp ban from commenting and warning about my channel potentially being deleted if it happens again, but very obvious spam accounts remain up? Why should I have to live in fear of having my account wrongfully terminated for no reason at all with no way to appeal it, all because a multibillion dollar company can't handle making a competent bot, or better yet, hiring actual people to keep an eye on the bot?
Admittedly, I always light up a little when I get a spam comment on my uploads. I always thought those were reserved for the big time UA-camrs, so seeing them on my humble little channel makes me feel special
I remember when I was younger I had an art acc and a bot commented "DM me to promote it on (the acc name) 😍" and I was like "someone wants to promote my art!!!" 💀
5:55 YES PREACH!!! I moderate for many gaming UA-camrs (in the 750k-2.5mil sub range on UA-cam), and whenever they ask for input on UA-cam vs. Twitch for livestreaming, the moderation (and subsequently, viewer to streamer interaction) is always my first point I bring up. I absolutely cannot stand trying to moderate UA-cam chats because they just do not have the proper tools for it. UA-cam streams are great when you are large enough to where you don't need to read chat, but if you're a moderately or smaller UA-cam streamer, they can be an absolute pain.
So relatable. I try to tell them to stop bc it's annoying and report for spam but it doesn't really do anything so the only way to ignore it is to block the user.
I am honestly more horrified by these borderline p*rn videos in YT Shorts. I am peacefully scrolling make up videos and all of a sudden I get smacked by a girl in gym with an opened legs. Holy crappppp 😂
It is CONSTANT and reporting the video does nothing. Some time you should look at the list of every video you've ever reported and see how few have actually been taken down.
I think what's especially weird is that gmail autoblocks spam mail just fine. You obviously can't use an email spamblocker for comments but they have the technology in house to block spam, yet for whatever reason they don't. I've always found this really weird
@@kylespevak6781 you say you don't like her channel but you are all up in her comment section dude, 133 comments on this one channel... my guy, i suggest finding a different pasttime
I once made the mistake of reading the live chat of a sleep music live stream, I accidentally read a guy decribing r..ping a woman in graphic detail. It was absolutely traumatizing.
Just one thing! you can hold down alt when in the youtube chat and it will stop the chat and if you just hover over the messages it will bring up the moderation options without having to chase the 3 dots. Still not great but if anyone is planning on moderating on youtube it makes it easier :)
UA-cam should sell Verified status, so everyone can get verified and now the bots need to compete with everyone who wasted money, to get their comments up top!
After learning how relatively easy it is to prevent messages similar to UA-cam spam on Discord it blows my mind how it seems UA-cam is doing nothing :( I am like you and also indulge in relaxing music compilations to sleeping and working and skydiving and showering and to homeworking... My favourite are the video game music ones :)
Btw one thing you can do, but it's a little technical, a famous tech UA-camr ThioJoe created a software script that can delete these spam comments called UA-cam Spammer Purge, it's available on his GitHub account. But I'm not sure how effective it is.
I clicked on one a couple times, you get taken to an escort or cam girl site. Now you know. I have no idea if they are complete scams or if escorts actually would come.
those special fonts they use are unicode characters, if you are able to filter out specific words/phrases you might also be able to filter out these characters to avoid them entirely. but also i feel like someone must have tried this already at some point and if it worked more people would be doing this so who knows, maybe you can't idk
The reason we complain about sites we love is because we want them to keep getting better. I still feel like Google is one of the better companies out there - they might be a bit slow at times, but they tend to move in the right direction. Live streaming wasn't an early focus, but hopefully they start making the chat more bearable. And if you didn't know, Twitch had this same problem years ago. Twitch chat was a scam-filled nightmare.
i specifically hate the spam comments that pretend to be non-creators offering a link to a "video clip." it'll be like "look, it's here: (fake link that looks like a youtube video)." they started by responding to comments asking for a timestamp or link to another video clip, but now it's just random ass replies. i didn't realize they were spam when I started seeing them, i bet _a lot_ of people get tricked by them and click on malicious links 😬
My experience has been that it's promotion of some (unrelated) YT video. But I also wouldn't click on links to different domains if I see them.^^ (I wouldn't normally click on any link in such comments, but I do check when I'm spam reporting.)
A few years ago I got an iPad and decided to have fun and make an unboxing video. Cool, fun, whatever. EVERY comment was a bot for the first week it was up. I cannot imagine what small creators have to deal with regularly.
Or when spam bots go so far as to bully content creators. Like right after Jacksepticeye's father passed away, there were millions of spam bots in his comments saying things like "Jack's dad is burning in hell" and "Jack deserved for his father to die" and UA-cam just did not care. And even aside from the fact that it's immeasurably fucked up, what are you accomplishing by buying bots to harass people?
There was one UA-camr I watched who went through and did videos on his held for review comments and the amount of perfectly fine stuff that was there was wild. Automod has issues.
Every social media platform has this problem. It's awful, and it makes me hate being online at all, which *sucks* because as a teenager these places used to be my escape from the real world hellscape we live in. Kind of sick of it all to be honest. Can't do anything about it other than unplug, yet here I am in the comments whining about being nostalgic about how things used to be better when I was young.
the same happens with the shorts, the moderation about what you can post is really poor. It has happened to me several times that I am down a rabbit hole of shorts over food and out of nowhere a short appears that says "her OF is free 😎+1 edit: about food* sorry English is not my first language
I once replied to a spam bot with some very colorful language and UA-cam deleted my response on the grounds of "guideline violation" and the spam comment got nothing. Can't believe the platform is doing fuck-all about it.
Y'know what's a pretty fucked reason why innocent comments get held but spammers get through? A spammers entire job is to get through filters, while your average person never even thinks about them. So random people get caught in them because they aren't thinking about how a single word they used gets caught by the filters, or how their comment comes off too "hostile" or whatever it is; while a spammer can only operate on the platform *because* they know how to bypass filters, avoiding all the tiny little things that get you flagged. I wouldn't even be surprised if this comment gets caught in the filter because I swore, even though I'm acting with entirely legitimate intent.
Love how your topics are so random. It's nice to see a new generation killing it with making good entertainment on their own terms. Keep up the awesome work.
The problem with spam is that it scales infinitely, but most methods to block it don't. A strategy that leverages the communities affected to list low and high trust accounts but still lets end users choose to filter or not based on their own rules could be a start. Then, you can try various strategies like preventing content scraping from new accounts to stop spammers from seeing if their reach has changed.
I remember there was a UA-camr doing a giveaway for a mobile phone and a spam bot was going around pretending to be the UA-camr replying to people comments saying they won the phone. It got to the point where the UA-camr had to make UA-cam post saying that there was a scammer pretending to be them and only way they would announce the winner would be through the winner UA-cam account private chat
Gabi 🙄 UA-cam is such a small up and coming company now they prolly don’t have the resources or money to deal with this type of thing 🤔…. 😅 Also it’s such a horrible problem and the scams have to be tricking people otherwise why would they keep doing it! Creators can’t even read their own comments or chat with out all the spam stuff 😭
Automated content moderation never works perfectly. Language and meaning is very hard to evaluate automatically, it depends on context and social factors that are unknown to the algorithm or the developer. With a high number of malicious comments, it's guaranteed that some will slip through the verification and that some will be misidentified. When we evaluate such algorithms, we talk about probabilities, like x% accuracy. Lastly, people are creative, they'll find ways to circumvent the measures, such as using strange, but similar-looking characters.
I made the mistake of replying to a spam bot pretending to be Atozy the other day and they have managed to send me emails to two different email accounts and try to G chat me. Very creepy
the problem is the way algorithm promote top rated comments. an huge majority of comments that I post are never shown to anyone, cause buried. that's super unfair. i developed some skills to always get few likes, but... unpleasant community still.
Hopefully with the new youtube username changes, this can hopefully be fixed. It's understandable in the past why it would specifically need the youtube user link, since there can be situations where people have the same name, but now since everyone is locked to one account per username, it will hopefully be a lot easier to find a specific person.
I remember when my innocent soul clicked on a spam link and lived to regret for the next 3 years of her life. The reality of watching Miraculous Ladybug, dubbed in French, on a random website which gave my school laptop more viruses than it needed, or some may say every 11-12 year old in 2021.
11:39 I'm watching this during an unspecified holiday that is celebrated April 20th every year. I also love listening to atmospheric and relaxing lofi beats and vibes to work/study/sleep to! I feel like this problem has gotten a lot better since you made this video, and I'm pretty sure you deserve all the credit for it, so thank you very much.
This shit is seriously crazy, I had an official youtube sponsored ad pop up on my home feed last month where a MrBeast impersonator was claiming to give away money. Literally no clue how this got past youtube, and no clue how it got recommended to me given that ive never watched a Mr beast video and i literally have his channel set to "do not recommend" lol
If you have the ability to look up LinusTechTip’s video on a UA-cam comment moderation software. It’s a piece of software that uses machine learning and it apparently worked very well when they deployed it. Might be worth looking into ❤
What I found odd is the comments that say something about how their ex cheated on them or divorced them but then they met so-and-so and they got their ex back. And then they tell you how to get a hold of that so-and-so and that you should click their link to help you with your relationship! It's so weird and there are often multiple copies of this comment on the same video. I don't understand because at first I feel bad for them but then they tell you they went back to their ex and I was personally confused. If I had a cheating ex I don't know about you but I would not want to go back to them!!!
I’ve been watching UA-cam for about 6 years now, with a perfect track record of never being interested in the sponsored section of a video. But, I hate to admit it, Gabi finally broke me
Can’t wait for fake Gabi to reply to this comment lol It’s so annoying when I get notifications of a reply and it’s an impersonator. That’s what I’ve been seeing the most. One streamer I watch calls the spam bots in the chat “sexy bots” and then made an ad for her business using the same format (business name, link with a bunch of emojis lol) 😂 It’s a running gag now. But it’s died down at least in that aspect.
Regarding the explicit chat messages, they didnt hyperlink to the scam domains, their username is the link, they just only included the host portion of the URL
I used to report spam on peoples videos but after doing it a bit everyday for a week I realized it only hides it from me and youtube doesn't actually review the reports.
yeah I found it out by clicking out of the video by accident and coming back to the comment. The spam reply was still there. Also you can refresh the reply section on mobile and it will reappear.
it's depressing to say the least. like it's blatant bot spam wtf does youtube need to actually do something
It’s pathetic
they really need to get better with reports. a huge amount of things that explicitly break tos (misgendering and suicide baiting come to mind) are allowed on here
Even when it’s the most blatant, spammy, inappropriate comment EVER that violates at least 3 terms of services rules, reporting still does absolutely nothing. Say what you want about tiktok but at least their reporting features function properly. They even send you a notification letting you know whether the comment/video was taken down or not
i always think its funny when youtubers preface a complaint about yt with something like "I know i make money from this platform so i have no room to talk" etc bc like.. this is your job right? who in the world DOESNT complain about their job lmaooo. i feel like if anyone has the right to complain abt yt, its the people who depend on it for their income
It's probably in response to people trying to shut down the criticism with "But you're supporting this platform, so you're just as bad".
A reasonable person would see it's more complicated than that, but some people either don't get it or are being deliberately obtuse.
It’s UA-cam’s fault they should change their system according to what people actually want instead of all decisions being corporate ones. For instance disabling dislikes no one asked for it, Recently changing the default thumbnail size for no reason on desktop. It’s like companies have no clue how to fix their site
I definitely think the worst is the ones that say something like "I'm better than *youtubername*" because they amped it up at one point and would talk about youtubers who passed away or youtubers family member passing away and would say "jacksepticeye's dad is in hell" and would spam the comments of support.
How fucked up do you have to be to do that?
Yes the targeted ones at people are so fucked up
Lately there has been a bot on CoryxKehsin's channel that would spam the n word with the hard r under every top comment whenever he uploads and it's absolutely gross because the bot is not even promoting anything and was just designed to be racist
@@perplexed1783 ugh that's disgusting. It's honestly still designed to promote. Promoting outrage and anger will get people to click your account. It's so fucked up. I hate it here
and there are ones that also that talks about r'ing children and b3@ting animals because their content is better. so sick
It's the internet 😂 If you get hurt by words, don't post
Looking forward to this video, nothing is worse than trying to read comments and them being full of spam 😐 and the platform couldn’t give a rat’s tutu about it
And when you decide to comment, well then you get spammed too. Have fun!
"Rat's tutu" 💀
Rats tutu 😂😂😂😂
then stop watching cause if you watch they have no need to change
Fr and then those bots steal comments and end up getting all the credit for them
My big peeve is the repost bots that will take comments from one video on a topic and post them on other videos about the same thing and they post like 30 comments on the same video.
And some of them are quite personal too. They'll repost someone saying how important this piece of media is to them because t was their recently deceased father's favourite. Then they'll also repost right underneath a comment where someone will talk about how it's overrated trash and another one where someone directly responds to a question made in a completely different video.
It is so annoying and I have absolutely no idea why people make them.
The algorithm that chooses how high future UA-cam comments appear takes into consideration how popular an account's previous comments were. So those accounts are taking advantage of that by copying popular comments in the hope of their future spam comments appearing higher in the comments section.
Add to that, if a bot just botted away. It'd be easy to say with certainity that a user is being malicious to a site. But if the majority of their comments are "good" and only a minor of them are "bad" then oh you can't ban that user with complete certainty
Wait what?! I didn't know about this!
What the bots do is steal real peoples comments and repost and will get way more likes and replies than the original which sucks. I’ve had many comments stolen from bots and reposted. It happens a lot. And is upsetting.
@@clashwithwords that’s so disturbing. That’s peoples actual families dying. Why would someone upload videos of that.
one time, i poured my heart out in a comment section. I wanted to let my fav youtubers know i appreciated them and how they help me. not even 3 hours later i get replies saying "youre comment got copied". PEOPLE JUST COPY AND PASTED MY SAD STORY. WTFFFF
Someone may have been testing a bot? I'd like to think that than be cynical.
@@folkloreofbeing idkk. I think they were trying to get more attention bc their names are like get free _____
I think I saw you somewhere else before! Hi! It's so awful someone stole your story for that omg 😭 like damn, if it was a joke then it suck but whatever. However, copying a sad story?!! 💀💀💀 That's messed up
@@crazyowlgirlcncowner yeah it was pretty trashy of them. I think they were trying to get attention for their scam. Also thx for recognizing me lol. You seem so nice thank you.
@@12bree4 Yeah I'm pretty sure they just wanted to get noticed so people would fall for their scam. They were hoping to get attention through your story.
And yeah lol. I'm thinking i might've seen you on Jake Doolittle's channel? But I'm also a KPop stan so it could've been there as well.
There’s also the weird multi-bot “conversation” where one is like “boy I sure made lots of money through this person” and the others are like “oh please tell us more” and “oh yeah I also use that person” and it’s clearly all the same spammer and no one can stop him. 😡
Apparently saying John Taylor killed my dog, raped my entire famiky or sone fucked uo thing stops ir
You are on point with the weird fonts. It would be stupidly easy to automatically flag comments that use fonts from 4 different languages in every word.
Me, who sometimes posts bilingual comments:
@@kylespevak6781 putting 2 words in a comment from a different language isn't a problem, they're talking about mix-and-matching look-alike characters that wouldn't normally be used together in a single word.
@@dakat5131 they could block alternate English fonts, of course, you can't block other languages' fonts but it might be able to do something.
ص في حال حصول ذلك في حال عدم التوصل لاتفاق حول هذا الملف فانه يجب على الحكومة الاميركية القيام بها من خلال هذه العملية في اطار خطة
@@kylespevak6781 There's a difference between posting something like this, using dos different languages (sorry I am not bilingual)
âÑd sɵmɜth!ng lik3 tĥi$
Little advice for live chat modding : if you press the alt(or option) key on your keyboard while your mouse is over the live chat, it will freeze and when your mouse goes over the message you will have large buttons to do the moderation action, saving you from clicking on the tiny 3 dot button.
Big props to you for being literally more useful than YT in seeing to the effective moderation of YT comments 😂 👍
"Can we just appreciate how *insert UA-camrs name* is always making our day?" No, Mary Hills, we can not.
Nanna Tan, we can.
IT RHYMED YES!!!@@Hoobieguy
In my experience with Livestream Chat, the Auto-Moderator tends to hold back actual harmless stream members messages, but completely ignore the bots spam and it's very frustrating.. 💀
The irony of a fake gabi belle bot being the first reply to your comment is just *chef's kiss*
@@Laurabeck329 I didn't even notice that LMAO that's literally so funny 💀
I’m glad to see more and more people talking about the spam. I can’t comment on any big UA-camr video without getting “My videos are better than **insert youtuber’s name** “ and also a bunch of slurs??? It’s so annoying.
my videos are better than gabi belle
@@chrxstt exactly
@@chrxstt PFFFFFT
The worst is when a bot steals your comment. Like Ive written many comments and a few moments later I’ll see MY COMMENT copied and pasted by a bot. I’ve seen it happen to other people too. And it’s the actual worst. Because they get more likes and replies even though it’s not their comment.
The slurs are the worst. The spam and sex comments are still pretty bad, but it hurts to see the slurs on a channel I think of as safe.
The amount of times I've had to report a bot for having a Swastika or using the full n-word is unreal
I swear i live for this channel, Gabi is so funny😭😭😭😭
I second this
Gabi > Everyone else
@@batmorrigan7616 straight up facts
@💕Mirai stan jypapi forever 😍✌🏻 stream groove✨✨
It's not even the humor that keeps me coming back, but the charisma. She's a good and captivating speaker, the natural gift for gab, no pun intended.
The spam is so cringe. What I find funniest is that everyone knows they're spam but the spammers still keep trying.
Haven't watched the whole video yet, but my favorite UA-cam spam is when s3x bots will copy and paste someone else's real comment that has a high amount of likes, and sometimes they'll get just as many likes bc no one notices that it's spam
Hate this one!
Yeah, ridiculous how sometimes they have multiple normal reply comments, no one seeing it's spam lmao. I sometimes make an effort to report the spam one and find the original and give that an upvote.
I remember Austin John losing his absolute MIND over his spam comments a week or two ago. Insane how youtube is doing nothingggg.
Then people kept sending him support and he said that it was hard for him to stay angry with so much support, awesome guy
@@mamba-do-u We don't deserve him man
they’re always polluting the best creator’s comments and it sucks
Nah, doing nothing is pretty on brand for UA-cam.
BRO IKR I’ve been reposting these spam bots for YEARS yet UA-cam hasn’t done a single thing about it
I think it’s even worse on Instagram. If you look through some influencer’s comments, it’s usually just a bunch of emojis and nonsense
yeah it’s gotten so bad i filter all comments with “send” or “dm”
As an artist on Instagram, I felt this. The second I post I get “dm it on” spam
I've also noticed that in UA-cam shorts there are a ton of spam inappropriate videos. The most popular ones being weird "workout" videos saying click the link to find out what happens next. Which in my head if you have a younger child or teen looking through shorts... well they are gonna see some weird stuff.
For some reason this tends to happen a lot in Animal Crossing livestreams?? Thankfully these channels have real human moderators on the lookout for spam bots, and it ends up being a mild annoyance at best. I’ve also seen a rise in comment bots pretending to be UA-camrs and claiming that you’ve won a giveaway. I used to see a lot of that type of spam back in the day, and now it’s back for some reason. In a weird sense, it’s almost nostalgic to see UA-camr giveaway bots coming back
a really easy solution would be requiring account verification in order to comment or chat, and/or including a "waiting period" after a new account is created. it wouldn't stop all of the spam, but help with all the bots. also i'm surprised, given google's knowledge and resources, that they haven't made their spam detection AI better. i feel like a decent AI would be able to identify patterns in language, fonts, etc that are 1) highly repetitive in a comment section or chat and 2) don't match the style and content of the other comments.
Maybe Google benefits from the spam and bots somehow
That doesn't even need AI. The repetitive messages of hot girl/singles can just be filtered with pattern matching; the same thing email servers have been doing for decades. The weird fonts are actually just different character codes. There is for example a set of italic letters for mathematical symbols. There are simple tools to convert these back and forth, which is precisely how the scammers create text with them in the first place. UA-cam just doesn't care.
I love the UA-cam live chat modding being like “Would you like to put someone in the naughty corner for 10 minutes or banish them to the shadow realm for eternity no take backs? No other options 🙂”
I love that you're hitting on all the issues presently hitting social media.
Hitting on all the issues presently hitting 😭
It's so annoying that it keeps being a problem. It just doesnt stop and its so simple so solve since the comments are literally half of the time the same.
Now dont get me wrong, for a single creator its hard becauses they slightly change up the messages so you often run into filtering normal comments (with the current spam I block the emojis they use and that works, but they constantly use different ones) but youd assume UA-cam with the knowledge of ALL comemnts would be able to solve this easily.
Especially that they can post anything into the "about me" or use as username
Hating UA-cam's terrible auto-moderation is particularly personal for me, because one time it locked me out of commenting for a day, supposedly for spam. For context, I have never typed a link in youtube comments on this account, and I've never advertised anything, either. I have never done anything that could realistically be considered spam by any actual human moderator.
Like, how did they manage to incorrectly label my comments as spam enough times to warrant a temp ban from commenting and warning about my channel potentially being deleted if it happens again, but very obvious spam accounts remain up? Why should I have to live in fear of having my account wrongfully terminated for no reason at all with no way to appeal it, all because a multibillion dollar company can't handle making a competent bot, or better yet, hiring actual people to keep an eye on the bot?
F***g hell.....
Sad but true.
We are so F'd.
Admittedly, I always light up a little when I get a spam comment on my uploads. I always thought those were reserved for the big time UA-camrs, so seeing them on my humble little channel makes me feel special
Haha, kind of how i felt when people started stealing my art for the first time..i was like 12 and i was like "im in the big leagues now baby!"
@@L0rdOfThePies That's a bit more badass than getting spam 😂
I remember when I was younger I had an art acc and a bot commented "DM me to promote it on (the acc name) 😍" and I was like "someone wants to promote my art!!!" 💀
Same, I'm waiting for the day when the Telegram scammers decide I'm important enough to (badly) impersonate lol
lmao I haven’t had that on my channel yet 💀
Spam bots have been a problem on YT for years but I think this is the worst it's been in years
I love the screenshot at 3:00 because the guy above the spam messages basically spells "w i e n e r" in russian
5:55 YES PREACH!!! I moderate for many gaming UA-camrs (in the 750k-2.5mil sub range on UA-cam), and whenever they ask for input on UA-cam vs. Twitch for livestreaming, the moderation (and subsequently, viewer to streamer interaction) is always my first point I bring up. I absolutely cannot stand trying to moderate UA-cam chats because they just do not have the proper tools for it. UA-cam streams are great when you are large enough to where you don't need to read chat, but if you're a moderately or smaller UA-cam streamer, they can be an absolute pain.
Finally, a non-tech-focused creator speaks out on that problem. Bots are ruinining a lot of online spaces right now.
So relatable. I try to tell them to stop bc it's annoying and report for spam but it doesn't really do anything so the only way to ignore it is to block the user.
I am honestly more horrified by these borderline p*rn videos in YT Shorts.
I am peacefully scrolling make up videos and all of a sudden I get smacked by a girl in gym with an opened legs.
Holy crappppp 😂
It is CONSTANT and reporting the video does nothing. Some time you should look at the list of every video you've ever reported and see how few have actually been taken down.
That shit makes money, YT is a corporation, they want money. Their incentives are to condemn that comment, and then leave it up as long as possible.
There's no sexy singles in my area, meaning I AM the sexy single
Maybe the real sexy singles were the friends we made along the way
Nah because I was eating cereal while reading comments and I almost spat out my milk
It’s gotten to the point where I’m practically refreshing Gabis channel cuz she makes any topic interesting and funny
I think what's especially weird is that gmail autoblocks spam mail just fine. You obviously can't use an email spamblocker for comments but they have the technology in house to block spam, yet for whatever reason they don't. I've always found this really weird
Google is big enough that the arm doesn’t know what the eyebrows are doing
We appreciate how Gabi is witty with her statements. She emphasizes a lot of facts in a lot of her videos.
Watch the video first bruh 😭😭
Bruh, she either doesn't know how to use the internet or is ignorant for content 😂
@@cadesmandela1935 wat.
Why am I starting to see you everywhere? TvT
@@kylespevak6781 you say you don't like her channel but you are all up in her comment section dude, 133 comments on this one channel... my guy, i suggest finding a different pasttime
I once made the mistake of reading the live chat of a sleep music live stream, I accidentally read a guy decribing r..ping a woman in graphic detail. It was absolutely traumatizing.
What the
That's my thirteenth reason why I guess
how?
Just one thing! you can hold down alt when in the youtube chat and it will stop the chat and if you just hover over the messages it will bring up the moderation options without having to chase the 3 dots. Still not great but if anyone is planning on moderating on youtube it makes it easier :)
UA-cam should sell Verified status, so everyone can get verified and now the bots need to compete with everyone who wasted money, to get their comments up top!
I sure do love twitter!
BRILLIANT, TRULY FLAWLESS
Sounds like something Elon musk would do if he bought UA-cam
You mean UA-cam will smell of foul smelling Musk.
I genuinely can't tell if this is satire or not-
gabi seems so effortlessly funny and it makes her videos so much more entertaining to watch
After learning how relatively easy it is to prevent messages similar to UA-cam spam on Discord it blows my mind how it seems UA-cam is doing nothing :(
I am like you and also indulge in relaxing music compilations to sleeping and working and skydiving and showering and to homeworking... My favourite are the video game music ones :)
That's Ironmouse: 4:56 I hope that's just something Gabi cobbled together and not a real spam ad.
Btw one thing you can do, but it's a little technical, a famous tech UA-camr ThioJoe created a software script that can delete these spam comments called UA-cam Spammer Purge, it's available on his GitHub account. But I'm not sure how effective it is.
i’ve kinda always wanted to click on spam links just to see what happens, but i don’t want the consequences 😅
I clicked on one a couple times, you get taken to an escort or cam girl site. Now you know.
I have no idea if they are complete scams or if escorts actually would come.
those special fonts they use are unicode characters, if you are able to filter out specific words/phrases you might also be able to filter out these characters to avoid them entirely. but also i feel like someone must have tried this already at some point and if it worked more people would be doing this so who knows, maybe you can't idk
The reason we complain about sites we love is because we want them to keep getting better. I still feel like Google is one of the better companies out there - they might be a bit slow at times, but they tend to move in the right direction. Live streaming wasn't an early focus, but hopefully they start making the chat more bearable.
And if you didn't know, Twitch had this same problem years ago. Twitch chat was a scam-filled nightmare.
i specifically hate the spam comments that pretend to be non-creators offering a link to a "video clip." it'll be like "look, it's here: (fake link that looks like a youtube video)." they started by responding to comments asking for a timestamp or link to another video clip, but now it's just random ass replies. i didn't realize they were spam when I started seeing them, i bet _a lot_ of people get tricked by them and click on malicious links 😬
My experience has been that it's promotion of some (unrelated) YT video. But I also wouldn't click on links to different domains if I see them.^^
(I wouldn't normally click on any link in such comments, but I do check when I'm spam reporting.)
this channel is the only one that does ad reads im actually interested in buying tbh
A few years ago I got an iPad and decided to have fun and make an unboxing video. Cool, fun, whatever. EVERY comment was a bot for the first week it was up. I cannot imagine what small creators have to deal with regularly.
A “Block abnormal fonts” and “Block inappropriate usernames” filter for chats/comments would help I think
Or when spam bots go so far as to bully content creators. Like right after Jacksepticeye's father passed away, there were millions of spam bots in his comments saying things like "Jack's dad is burning in hell" and "Jack deserved for his father to die" and UA-cam just did not care. And even aside from the fact that it's immeasurably fucked up, what are you accomplishing by buying bots to harass people?
The worst is when these spam comments show up on videos that deal with sensitive subject matter, like a news report about a tragic death
0:34 trim your armor and lure you out into the wilderness got me
I always do my best to report the spam comments on YT but MAN it’s gotten bad
There was one UA-camr I watched who went through and did videos on his held for review comments and the amount of perfectly fine stuff that was there was wild. Automod has issues.
Just searched gabi belle to pick which video to rewatch and was thrilled to see she posted one just a single minute before I looked
"There's always sexy singles in my area, where are they?"
*They're on Said the Dreamer's Spotify page duh* 🙄
UA-cam has more bots than every Terminator and Iron Man movie combined.
Every social media platform has this problem. It's awful, and it makes me hate being online at all, which *sucks* because as a teenager these places used to be my escape from the real world hellscape we live in.
Kind of sick of it all to be honest. Can't do anything about it other than unplug, yet here I am in the comments whining about being nostalgic about how things used to be better when I was young.
the same happens with the shorts, the moderation about what you can post is really poor. It has happened to me several times that I am down a rabbit hole of shorts over food and out of nowhere a short appears that says "her OF is free 😎+1
edit: about food* sorry English is not my first language
I once replied to a spam bot with some very colorful language and UA-cam deleted my response on the grounds of "guideline violation" and the spam comment got nothing. Can't believe the platform is doing fuck-all about it.
Y'know what's a pretty fucked reason why innocent comments get held but spammers get through?
A spammers entire job is to get through filters, while your average person never even thinks about them. So random people get caught in them because they aren't thinking about how a single word they used gets caught by the filters, or how their comment comes off too "hostile" or whatever it is; while a spammer can only operate on the platform *because* they know how to bypass filters, avoiding all the tiny little things that get you flagged.
I wouldn't even be surprised if this comment gets caught in the filter because I swore, even though I'm acting with entirely legitimate intent.
Love how your topics are so random. It's nice to see a new generation killing it with making good entertainment on their own terms. Keep up the awesome work.
Straight up seeing NSFW images in some of the spambot pics 😔 I know thats kinda been a thing since the dawn of yt, but these bots are EVERYWHERE now
The problem with spam is that it scales infinitely, but most methods to block it don't.
A strategy that leverages the communities affected to list low and high trust accounts but still lets end users choose to filter or not based on their own rules could be a start.
Then, you can try various strategies like preventing content scraping from new accounts to stop spammers from seeing if their reach has changed.
For another way to add a moderator on a yt live, when ur streaming you can click on the 3 dots next to what they typed in chat and select “moderator”
I remember there was a UA-camr doing a giveaway for a mobile phone and a spam bot was going around pretending to be the UA-camr replying to people comments saying they won the phone. It got to the point where the UA-camr had to make UA-cam post saying that there was a scammer pretending to be them and only way they would announce the winner would be through the winner UA-cam account private chat
Gabi 🙄 UA-cam is such a small up and coming company now they prolly don’t have the resources or money to deal with this type of thing 🤔…. 😅
Also it’s such a horrible problem and the scams have to be tricking people otherwise why would they keep doing it! Creators can’t even read their own comments or chat with out all the spam stuff 😭
Automated content moderation never works perfectly. Language and meaning is very hard to evaluate automatically, it depends on context and social factors that are unknown to the algorithm or the developer. With a high number of malicious comments, it's guaranteed that some will slip through the verification and that some will be misidentified. When we evaluate such algorithms, we talk about probabilities, like x% accuracy. Lastly, people are creative, they'll find ways to circumvent the measures, such as using strange, but similar-looking characters.
I made the mistake of replying to a spam bot pretending to be Atozy the other day and they have managed to send me emails to two different email accounts and try to G chat me. Very creepy
the problem is the way algorithm promote top rated comments. an huge majority of comments that I post are never shown to anyone, cause buried. that's super unfair. i developed some skills to always get few likes, but... unpleasant community still.
yooo you know gabi is legit when she gets a sponsor from the homies at coolshirtz
can we also talk about the stupid channels saying “following everyone back” or practically BEGGING for subs
Hopefully with the new youtube username changes, this can hopefully be fixed.
It's understandable in the past why it would specifically need the youtube user link, since there can be situations where people have the same name, but now since everyone is locked to one account per username, it will hopefully be a lot easier to find a specific person.
And they also don't allow links to be usernames, so no more of those spam comments with links as their usernames.
Gabi seems like the type of person who gives amazing hugs.
Gabi.
Mom.
Ron from uptown.
I just found this channel like 2 days ago and i love it. Now i have so many new videos to watch, also you put out videos quickly love that
11:32 watched on alien-jesus's birthday.
6:21 This used to be simpler on youtube, i did lives in 2018 and all you had to do is click on the user and there was an option to make him a mod
This spam thing has bin going on for over 3 years even the top youtubers tolked to Susan about this and thay have dun jack shit for this.
I remember when my innocent soul clicked on a spam link and lived to regret for the next 3 years of her life.
The reality of watching Miraculous Ladybug, dubbed in French, on a random website which gave my school laptop more viruses than it needed, or some may say every 11-12 year old in 2021.
I would kill to have Gabi's voice as an alarm that says "wake up my king, another day to slay"
"There's always sexy singles in my area, where are they?" *LOOKS AT SAID THE DREAMER* 👀
11:39 I'm watching this during an unspecified holiday that is celebrated April 20th every year.
I also love listening to atmospheric and relaxing lofi beats and vibes to work/study/sleep to! I feel like this problem has gotten a lot better since you made this video, and I'm pretty sure you deserve all the credit for it, so thank you very much.
First things first: you look amazing Gabi 😊 ...and yes the spam accounts are annoying as hell!
This shit is seriously crazy, I had an official youtube sponsored ad pop up on my home feed last month where a MrBeast impersonator was claiming to give away money. Literally no clue how this got past youtube, and no clue how it got recommended to me given that ive never watched a Mr beast video and i literally have his channel set to "do not recommend" lol
If you have the ability to look up LinusTechTip’s video on a UA-cam comment moderation software. It’s a piece of software that uses machine learning and it apparently worked very well when they deployed it. Might be worth looking into ❤
What I found odd is the comments that say something about how their ex cheated on them or divorced them but then they met so-and-so and they got their ex back. And then they tell you how to get a hold of that so-and-so and that you should click their link to help you with your relationship! It's so weird and there are often multiple copies of this comment on the same video. I don't understand because at first I feel bad for them but then they tell you they went back to their ex and I was personally confused. If I had a cheating ex I don't know about you but I would not want to go back to them!!!
Gabi is too adorable for this burning trash barge of a platform. I can't take it.
The fact that she genuinely didn't realise bot names WERE links is hilarious
This is why you should member only streams where only members of your channel can speak in the live chat
1:25 gurl dont do this to me that exactly same boing sound is my notification noise
I’m a mod for hivemind and the sexbots in the streams are insane😭😭 they’re funny if nothing else but omg they spam so much
11:40 yeah it's Easter today Gabi😂love your channel!!
I’ve been watching UA-cam for about 6 years now, with a perfect track record of never being interested in the sponsored section of a video. But, I hate to admit it, Gabi finally broke me
Can’t wait for fake Gabi to reply to this comment lol It’s so annoying when I get notifications of a reply and it’s an impersonator. That’s what I’ve been seeing the most. One streamer I watch calls the spam bots in the chat “sexy bots” and then made an ad for her business using the same format (business name, link with a bunch of emojis lol) 😂 It’s a running gag now. But it’s died down at least in that aspect.
3:35 SHE SAID MY NAME YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
I love how at 3:01 she focuses on English bots while there is a russian one just above saying “wee-nie” in rus
Thank you Gabi, very cool!
Regarding the explicit chat messages, they didnt hyperlink to the scam domains, their username is the link, they just only included the host portion of the URL
Gotta love the telegram scams spamming the best UA-camrs