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by kunagi7 1754 days ago
It doesn't feel that detached from reality. I watch a lot of small YouTube channels (some of them don't even reach 100 subscribers) and their comments are flooded by bots. Channel owners remove them quickly though.

Some of them post random timestamps like "i like your video 23:34", "love u 5:49" (but the video is just 2 minutes long), other bots just spam every conversation with the same video links. There's a few that are a bit more advanced that attempt to use video's metadata as a response. On twitter there's a lot of fake activity too.

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Often such accounts posting random bait-ish comments are accompanied by a profile picture of a semi or completely nude woman. Many unsuspecting souls will naturally click
Those may be bible references, not timestamps?
There is no biblical wisdom to be found in obscure tech tutorial videos. Only pain.
I've also never heard of the book of video or the book of u :D