There is a single crypto scam video that is present in literally hundreds (and possibly thousands+) of full album playlists. There it sits in the middle of the album playlist to catch unsuspecting people.

Not going to link and give them link juice. You could search “Sadeo Watanabe Autumn Blow full album” playlist; You will see “unreleased” but use your brain and don’t click! I’ve personally seen it over 200 times over various playlists.

I don’t know how the hell they managed to get that video embedded in thousands of playlists, there must be some engineering behind this feat.

I want that fking video gone. I know how to personally block that using my tools, but that is not the issue. I want it gone off the platform for me and the rest of the world.

We all know YouTube is an opaque black box as it relates to any realistic or reasonable good faith customer service concern, so I feel that going through any front-facing channel/account is pointless. I’ve reported it every time I’ve seen it, I am sure I’m not the only one, yet there it stays.

So … going to any ridiculous extremes and using every last drop of creativity, what is the most likely course if action(s) to get this video removed forever?

  • FilthyHands@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    18 days ago

    I’ve seen it happen once before. I had a reuploaded SNL song on my playlist that eventually changed into some diet ad. I can’t explain it though.

    • Krudler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      There is a specific mechanism for content creators to stealth replace videos! That requires a huge producer such as SNL to have a YouTube manager dedicated to them, where when all the stars align and everything is set up just so, they can do a quick swap - replace for example an old 4x3 video with a 16x9 where the time stamps and everything else is identical.

      Many Lonely Island videos (for example) have done this. So I find it very fascinating that you brought up SNL!!!

      If you understand tech, and you understand how the systems work, it’s very easy for the conspiracy mind to believe that this is an inside job.

        • Krudler@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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          18 days ago

          Verrrrry interesting thread to pull on. I wonder what are the business interests behind that original vid …

          E: this is getting closer to the real area I thought would be most fruitful. There’s something going on, and the dagger needs to be inserted where it’s going to do the right damage to the right interests