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Usually the same technique used to find your channel is shared across bots, so you are very likely to be hit by multiple bots from the same "bad guy". It would be very rare for you to get activity from only one bot. YouTube can use their very sophisticated machine learning tools to identify multiple bots from the behavior of one bot, so often they are removing thousands, if not tens of thousands of bots at a time. Doing so removes the bot's channel, any comments the bot has posted, any views the bot has performed and any subscriptions the bot had registered. What is important to know is that YouTube will always eventually catch the bots. They do this because they realize there is only a small amount of time before either the bot's account is reported for SPAM, or YouTube's system catches it. They run many, sometimes hundreds or thousands at a time. Most bot owners don't just run one bot at a time. It also means it may be artificially increasing your subscriber number. That means when a bot scans your channel, it registers as a "view" of your video.

They may also subscribe and set a notification on that channel so that the bot can add its comment to any new videos that are posted. They then have the bot scan around and post links to the comments section of a channel's videos. They usually put up a few videos (usually stolen, or content pointing to products or malware) and do a basic customization of the channel. How do they work? Well, the bot owner creates a YouTube account for the bot. There are many other types of bots, but these are the most active ones on YouTube. The bots that target YouTube are typically "ad bots" or "malware bots" and are trying to drive people to click on links to either (1) drive ad "click" revenue, (2) install malware, or (3) advertise a product or service (CBD and supplements are common).

I wanted to take a moment to provide a bit more detail on what is happening.įirst, what is a bot? These are programs designed to do something automatically. But sometimes that answer feels a little "insufficient".

People see us respond that YouTube frequently purges bots and this happens to everyone. We get frequent questions about people's subscriber and view count fluctuating.