YouTube comments have a big spam problem

Our YouTube channel recently hit another milestone – 1. 5 million subscribers and counting with over 325 million total views. That’s just two years after we reached 1 million subs and we are forever grateful for your continued support over the past 15 years of us making YouTube videos. We welcome new ideas, and we value the input of our community. Your comments on our videos are a great form of feedback – we can tell what you liked and what could be improved for future projects and we try to read as many of them as possible.

1. 5 million subscribers and counting

YouTube, the largest video site out there, has many problems. Youtube comments below our videos have been filled with spammers pretending they are us, and using our logos and images for their personal gain. These individuals are trying to scam people via Telegram and WhatsApp by lying you’ve won a prize from us and asking you to cover expenses such as shipping costs.

One of the many spam comments

This is a blatant petty scam. However, we believe YouTube doesn’t take matters seriously enough. That is why we have enabled a hard comment filter option for our YouTube videos. YouTube’s current moderation tools for spam comments are outdated. We have to review each comment separately.

The issue is not isolated to our channel – it is prevalent across the platform and affects numerous creators and celebrities. MKBHD made a great video on the topic which you can check out here.

Various spam comments

These scammers create multiple accounts using our names and images. They are free to comment on as many videos as they physically can simply because YouTube’s system has no comment rate limiter. Kind of like the tale of the Lernean Hydra – you chop off one head and two more appear, comment spammers can keep on creating new accounts with our name after they’ve been reported and banned.

To sum up the situation, YouTube’s spam comment moderation system is not up to par and the new more aggressive comment filtration system will target spam comments which may flag some of your genuine comments in the process. YouTube apologizes for any difficulties you may have in voicing an opinion. We hope YouTube will pay more attention.