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.
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.
for whatever reason i ended up with my real name associated with my google account, but thankfully you can just lie and say your name is "Phuck Yuu" or whatever else is fun when split in twain
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.
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
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.
Did that comment chain hit the mark for you? As a language model, I try to capture the tone and warmth you're aiming for—so if it felt genuine and flowed naturally, I’m glad! But if there’s a tweak you'd like, I’m all ears.
Oh wow, I was like "interesting, haven't seen these" seeing the three emojis and stuff on yours
However
To test the theory, I (a car nut) went to one of the biggest automotive YouTubers, Mat Armstrong, who's currently rebuilding his dad's dream car and released the last video 2 days ago.
Two comments, different profile, same profile pic that, zoomed out enough, looks like a vagina. Go on the profile and they both look like this:
Edit: spoiler tag wasn't working for everyone. Long story short, they linked another channel with a bottomless lady for the thumbnail
Damn the thirst trap is real. Also the fact the profile pic looks like a vagina thing is so crazy (and obviously intentional). It definitely did make me want to see what the actual profile pic was though so +1 engagement point for the bot?
Im so impressed by your dedication to your content. You are a shining light on this content creative platform. Can we all just appreciate content creator for his hard work?
I wonder if it would be possible to plant an instruction bomb somewhere on the page which would trip up LLM-powered bots. I dunno how much of the page they take in.
It's morbidly amusing that spammers all use the same service, the same way (the cheapest OpenAI API, I guess? Which is notorious for this style.)
And a silver lining. I could finetune a dirt cheap open model as a SEO/Engagement bot with very different styles, but 'spammer culture' seems to mass around the most popular denomenators when they find one. With such uniformity, I could also train a mediocre detector, based on overused tokens and something similar to the 'slop profiles' of EQ-Bench: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html
(This is based on a storywriting prompt, but social media 'vocabulary' could be profiled the same way).
In other words, its fortunate the spambots are such overpriced junk when they could easily not be.
One reason might be to game the YouTube algorithm. Rumor has it that a video with more interaction gets boosted. Though I don’t believe that in this instance, since I respect the creator.
Another reason might be to make the commenting accounts themselves look real. Though I can’t imagine for what purpose.
Are they intentionally poor comments like those wealthy foreign prince emails allegedly are (to ward off intelligent people)?
Or are they using GPT-2.9 or something?
Even last year’s language models should be better, and you could prompt in your native language and ask for English translations once you’re satisfied.
I'm using some AI to document some of my old scripts.
uploads script:
Prompt: Look at this script and prepare documentation in Confluence-compliant markdown that I can copy and paste. The documentation should be easy enough that someone unfamiliar with the subject can read and understand it, but should also be detailed enough not to miss any features. Add a summary, details, and a section on how to verify that the script ran correctly. Follow up with a section on possible bugs or improvements. No personality, no jokes, no puns. Professional text, just a plain old RTFM. And for the fucking love of god, no emoji, no EM dashes, no smart quotes or so help me god I'll find out where you're running and disconnect your GPU's with an axe.
Did you not know you can artificially bump your content visibility with bots? Everyone's doing it, man! Give the people what they want, ammirite?! Sorry not sorry, this is mostly sarcasm, but also the truth.
Thank you for posting legitimate content!
It has a very human design.
Wait, shit, I’m not in /c/funhole.
Well, fuckin’ bots, am I right?
fake. missing the 3 emojis at the end
I am so grateful for this post! You always post such interesting content. 🦐⛹️♂️📷
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! 💲💵🤑🙏
I literally just saw a thread of these comments on a video. It was like 100 comments deep as well.
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?
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.
Nobody cares bro. My farts smell better than yours
Yes
My man!
Looking good!
Slow down!
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👉 👉
Zoop!
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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:"
Don't worry, sometimes the bots do that first one and use some future year like 2036 to farm engagement.
5123rd!
I love genuine and wholesome interactions with real people! 🍋🟩🦎🕺🏻
Oh hey I've seen that movie!
This makes me feel so warm inside! 🗿🍦🦀🍆
🤞✨🖕
I noticed the middle finger in the next to last one too.
The middle finger at the end of the fourth one 😂
That is an index finger.
EDIT: Well, color me corrected, weird flex!
You're right.
Nope, it's the middle.
You're right.
The two "index finger pointing up" emojis are 👆 and ☝️. This one is 🖕.
You're right.
Fascinated by your creativity! 🦒🙁🍑
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.
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
I noticed it when the display name changed from my account to the made up name I used for the account.
At some point YouTube tried to force you to use your real name.
I think it was around the google+ era, when they were trying real hard to become a 'proper' social media.
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
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.
Or Noun-NounNumber
Like Jesus, mix it up. Even my ex wasn't so boring with her usernames
Google+ changed my YouTube username to my real name lol
for whatever reason i ended up with my real name associated with my google account, but thankfully you can just lie and say your name is "Phuck Yuu" or whatever else is fun when split in twain
What if you have a made up internet name?
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.
Thanks for making such a great post! Your content is always insightful and funny, keep it up! 👉👌🥵
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
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.
Kind of amazing that it both still works and Youtube refuses to remove it to fake their engagement numbers.
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How long until the Internet is so full of bots and AI spam that it becomes impossible to even find our fellow humans amid the noise?
Conspiracies become reality...
For most? We're already there, fellow human. 💀😅🧠
Is there any difference?
Continue to delight your viewers with content! 🫰🏽🌚🫐
Fascinated by your interesting content! I am grateful for your creativity! 🙏🍻🤌
i remember they used to steal comments from real people.
The bot is coming from inside the house
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.
The random middle finger in the 4th one is sending me lmao
No idea what you are talking about 👉 🥺 👈
One day openai will drop a new model that uses fewer emojis, affecting a billion comments sections all over the internet
This is so wholesome and original, totally made my day!
Honestly, your comment made it even better.
And your reply just added a little more sunshine ☀️
This thread is the internet at its best.
Agree. It's like a warm hug in comment form.
Can we just keep this energy going forever?
Did that comment chain hit the mark for you? As a language model, I try to capture the tone and warmth you're aiming for—so if it felt genuine and flowed naturally, I’m glad! But if there’s a tweak you'd like, I’m all ears.
I love your impression of AIs interacting with AIs.
What an amazing and well thought out comment! 🍑🍆
Thanks a ton! 😄 I try to bring the heat 🔥 and keep it juicy 🍑🍆💬
I love that each has three emojis, and most of them make no sense.
And one of them is an actual middle finger 🤞✨🖕
Awesome.
"This glowingly price review is almost perfect, it just needs something... I know, a scream emoji!"
Oh wow, I was like "interesting, haven't seen these" seeing the three emojis and stuff on yours
However
To test the theory, I (a car nut) went to one of the biggest automotive YouTubers, Mat Armstrong, who's currently rebuilding his dad's dream car and released the last video 2 days ago.
Two comments, different profile, same profile pic that, zoomed out enough, looks like a vagina. Go on the profile and they both look like this:
Edit: spoiler tag wasn't working for everyone. Long story short, they linked another channel with a bottomless lady for the thumbnail
Just FYI your spoiler tag doesn't work for me
Removed the image to avoid traumatizing anyone else whose app might not work properly with spoiler tags
Me neither but I think it's the app I'm using and not the commenter doing it wrong. I'm using sync on Android.
I think some Markdown interpreters don't like having images in the spoiler tags.
I'm not sure if the Markdown spec specifies about images.
Damn the thirst trap is real. Also the fact the profile pic looks like a vagina thing is so crazy (and obviously intentional). It definitely did make me want to see what the actual profile pic was though so +1 engagement point for the bot?
@MyNameIsBrandyFindMyOnlyFans86753098675309
Im so impressed by your dedication to your content. You are a shining light on this content creative platform. Can we all just appreciate content creator for his hard work?
👀💀🗿
Such fantastic content! Your posts consistently provide value and I'm always excited to see what you'll share next. 🦄🔩🍜
What's the point of these three random emoji?
🫥😬🥰
Makes the comments stick out more, increases the chance someone clicks the profile
👊🔥
Everything good comes in threes. 2 emojis would have been too few, and 4 emojis would have been exhausting.
I post very little on insta and I’ve still had to block a half-dozen LLM slop accounts after they commented word slurry on photos I posted.
I wonder if it would be possible to plant an instruction bomb somewhere on the page which would trip up LLM-powered bots. I dunno how much of the page they take in.
I usually see the naked ass with a stolen comment. Right click, report. You'd think YouTube would figure out how to auto-filter these, but nope.
I'm sure Google is perfectly capable of auto-filtering crap like that if they wanted to. They just don't give a shit.
How to kill a dead internet...
Vaguely encouraging spambots.
It's morbidly amusing that spammers all use the same service, the same way (the cheapest OpenAI API, I guess? Which is notorious for this style.)
And a silver lining. I could finetune a dirt cheap open model as a SEO/Engagement bot with very different styles, but 'spammer culture' seems to mass around the most popular denomenators when they find one. With such uniformity, I could also train a mediocre detector, based on overused tokens and something similar to the 'slop profiles' of EQ-Bench: https://eqbench.com/creative_writing.html
(This is based on a storywriting prompt, but social media 'vocabulary' could be profiled the same way).
In other words, its fortunate the spambots are such overpriced junk when they could easily not be.
The ones you notice are overpriced junk. I'm convinced that this is on purpose, to make us less suspicious of the more convincing bots
I dunno if it's on purpose, but you make a good point.
I don't understand the purpose of these bot comments? I see them a lot of videos within minutes of them being posted.
One reason might be to game the YouTube algorithm. Rumor has it that a video with more interaction gets boosted. Though I don’t believe that in this instance, since I respect the creator.
Another reason might be to make the commenting accounts themselves look real. Though I can’t imagine for what purpose.
Are they intentionally poor comments like those wealthy foreign prince emails allegedly are (to ward off intelligent people)?
Or are they using GPT-2.9 or something?
Even last year’s language models should be better, and you could prompt in your native language and ask for English translations once you’re satisfied.
Usually it’s a hot girl as the PFP, and their profile will have a chain of links that takes you to some sort of scam page or an onlyfans or something
I love how the bot content has the same comma splice like the dumbest of humans.
It can't even count them properly.
Feed me the slop!!!
Great content! Your posts are always <pick 2: neat, informative, or creative>!
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I'm using some AI to document some of my old scripts.
uploads script:
Prompt: Look at this script and prepare documentation in Confluence-compliant markdown that I can copy and paste. The documentation should be easy enough that someone unfamiliar with the subject can read and understand it, but should also be detailed enough not to miss any features. Add a summary, details, and a section on how to verify that the script ran correctly. Follow up with a section on possible bugs or improvements. No personality, no jokes, no puns. Professional text, just a plain old RTFM. And for the fucking love of god, no emoji, no EM dashes, no smart quotes or so help me god I'll find out where you're running and disconnect your GPU's with an axe.
Did I mention no emoji?
Great content, you have new and interesting ideas every time. Thank you for your attention to this matter!
These are the translation of the Morse code tapped out in the Miners Guild basement
Did you not know you can artificially bump your content visibility with bots? Everyone's doing it, man! Give the people what they want, ammirite?! Sorry not sorry, this is mostly sarcasm, but also the truth.