YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks

Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by cazum on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:40PM (#15725785)

I believe the weird comments are the result of toddlers randomly tapping predictive keyboard suggestions on their parent's iPads as they watch the videos. The fact that they hit "post" after typing their nonsense markovian comments is a statistical inevitability given the millions of views of each video.

Though, if one wanted to hide secret messages on YouTube comments, that'd be the place to put them.

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Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by cmelbye on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:51PM (#15725844)

Probably not, it was in Thai I believe, and was discovered to decode into strange messages when passed through certain translators and keyboards.

(Maybe there are different types of comments though)

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Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by rspeer on Friday November 17, 2017 @04:16PM (#15726028)

You can decode anything as anything if you are convinced there's a message there and have never heard of a null hypothesis.

I saw some of those threads. The methods of "decoding" they were using were worse than the ones the "Half-Life 3 confirmed" joke is based on.

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Re:YouTube terminates exploitive ‘kids’ channel ToyFreaks by viraptor on Friday November 17, 2017 @03:58PM (#15725897)

There are kids using Thai. Why is that an indicator?

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