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What's up with all those spam bots lately in the youtube comment section?
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this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2024
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The same crap is going around Instagram and other social media pages. Often when you check out the profiles, they have some link obscured via url shortener that resolves to some random porn site or flat out scam page.
They try to comment first to get upvotes I guess.
They usually have bot accounts to upvote themselves. On reddit there were a lot of dropship scam bots, on other social media other shady stuff as you said.