Modern bot marketing meta. This comment was on the latest Kurzgesagt video on YouTube but it could be posted on any video. It's written to seem relevant to the video content without actually citing anything. Follow-up bot replies increase engagement and add notes of scarcity and sentimentality.

Several commenters downwind called it out, but most won't read all that.

This has the same energy as all the stickers around the GTA "[SoundCloud Rapper] Is Coming"

#Bots #Spammer #YouTube

@ruud

@jeroen

@bannanaente

Your instance is being used by a #spammer. You must have several reports by now letting you know.

I don’t want to #block your #instance but I will if you fail to act on the #spam reports.

“My comment/link in the replies” = “I'm trying to track how effective this social media platform is, because I don’t actually interact with any human beings on it; I only use it to promote my business/blog. I’m a #spammer.”

Yep, that’s what they are. Sometimes #spammers we like, but still spammers.

Heh. Just got a #spam email with a subject of “No safety threats found for [my name]”.

For once, a #spammer is *not* trying to sell me something. 😌

Ok, so a spammer has sent spam to a bunch of people without hiding the To: list.

Now... someone who has a brain would just delete the spam and carry on.

One can dream, right?

Because in reality, some of the spammer's victims are now spamming the entire group of victims with messages saying:

"Remove me from this spam!!!11!!11!!eleventy!!!11!!"

How the fuck do they think this works???? You ask the spammer, and the spammer obligingly removes you? Really? Or did you just give reason to the spammer to try other tricks on you?

#spam #spammer #idiots

Is that why I hated to follow your substack? Actually I just found it to be another spam trap. I had a email one use for it, like all websites I have an account with. But they expect you to have one email for all the people who you also have an acoount with. F that, my oppsec doesn't make room for that BS. #substack #substacknazis #spammer #privacymatters

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