I’ve asking because no one online seems to have noticed but I’ve noticed on youtube return that music channels appear to be:

  • stealing content and posting it on YouTube shorts but putting their music over it
  • commenting on random YouTube videos (EDIT: It’s not the kind of bot spam you regularly see but they’ll spam comments on YouTube with something that sounds relatable to the video they’re commenting on which is probably made up)

I’ve noticed mainly the music channels with the music channel icon besides their name on YouTube that have been doing this

It’s obviously new spam techniques once you notice it

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Using their own music, as in songs? Just guessing, but they’re probably using the videos to get people to click, and they earn money from their music being streamed.