• Mog_fanatic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      26 days ago

      I think I’m blessed if not I wouldn’t have met Swirvel Handgwendt. She is a spectacular financial expert and saved me thousands every month! 💲💵🤑🙏

      • HeyJoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        26 days ago

        I literally just saw a thread of these comments on a video. It was like 100 comments deep as well.

        • BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          26 days ago

          I make $48k biweekly and was only JUST able to buy a house.

          Yes, I will only settle for a massively overpriced mcmansion, why do you ask?

        • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          3·
          26 days ago

          Ah this is a whole different set of bots.

          The ones in the OP seem to be advertising a different youtube channel that then links to a website that supposedly contains nudes. That’s pretty new

          The one in yours, the “multiple people discussing a way to get rich” chain is pretty old by now, has been going on for at least 2-3 years.

  • reev@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    27 days ago

    You know they’re fake because real YouTube commentors only have two modes:

    “Who’s watching in 2025” and “No one: Not a single soul:”

    • Bongles@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6·
      27 days ago

      Don’t worry, sometimes the bots do that first one and use some future year like 2036 to farm engagement.

  • Moonrise2473@feddit.itEnglish
    21·
    26 days ago

    And this is because it works. Horny men see the minuscule thumbnail: “OMG it’s a hot woman!”, then click it, see the link in the profile, and get scammed.

  • whelk@retrolemmy.comEnglish
    20·
    27 days ago

    The worst is when you see a low sub count channel owner respond with the sincerest gratitude, like it really made their day to get such a supportive comment. I never have the heart to tell them, but I do try to leave an actual supportive comment of my own to sort of balance it out

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
    10·
    27 days ago

    Am I the only one who has assumed any account using the format “Firstname LastName” since the early 2000’s is a bot, because real people generally make creative usernames?

    I know it doesn’t exactly work in the age of Twitter, where so many people were never taught basic online safety guidelines, which included NOT USING YOUR REAL GOD DAMN NAME, but old habits die hard.

    • r4venw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      27 days ago

      Google defaults new accounts to use the name they use for their email account unless you make a “brand account” IIRC which is actually fucking stupid

    • melvisntnormal@feddit.ukEnglish
      3·
      27 days ago

      I’ve had my Google account for over a decade. At some point, I noticed my YouTube handle was just my name, and I don’t remember setting it to that.

      On pretty much all websites, I have a default username I try to use, but I don’t remember getting that option when making a Google account

    • idiomaddict@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      26 days ago

      These are all almost names in the same way. It makes me wonder if they’re variants in a language I’ve never seen before or (imo more likely) someone prompted ai for women’s usernames and it got confused by the cutesy ways people used to augment their names for usernames.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      22·
      26 days ago

      There’s a counterpoint to that. In real hard truth, nobody is anonymous and creative handles can be traced back to a name easily.

      But having pseudonyms affects human psychology. And makes people post things they wouldn’t want to be traced to them. And do things.

      There was a time when it seemed that everything is insecure. That time didn’t end. Just with HTTPS everywhere and encrypted everything and with glossy appearances people have genuinely lost all understanding of the real world.

      They think, metaphorically, that if there’s no name written on their door, everyone who asks can’t learn who they are.

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.todayEnglish
    9·
    26 days ago

    I noticed a pattern. So many comments have that same emoji spam pattern, even if they seem different. Something seemed off for a while now.