> hope some Googlers around here can can do something...

Has google ever escalated a low-level issue mentioned on social media, without the need for a huge tweetstorm combined with bad media coverage?

Yes absolutely, just have to have the right SRE see it. That isn't really what should be the workflow though.

Stackexchange answers are creative commons share-alike by attribution, so as long as he would give attribution he'd be in the clear.

https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/347758/creative-com...

I think GP's point isn't that he's violating SE's license, but that he has almost two million videos with new ones uploaded about every three minutes. And his videos are constantly recommended to GP.

This is another clearly automated channel I found recently.

For some reason I was searching for some game music I remembered from childhood (OMF 2097), and came across this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV1F_IwdceU

It was strange, because it was titled like “how to play this music”, except clearly it was just a MIDI file piped through a visualisation into the video; as a musician I know it’s useless for the task at hand.

Looking at the other videos on the channel, I found dozens and dozens of the exact same video intro, except with a new MIDI file: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCiu4h1KfC9ODVz90JRogdg/vid...

Presumably the author has automated this by scraping tons of free MIDI files, rendering them to video, prepending a generic video intro, and hoping to cash in.

Dead Internet

I'm completely sure I've heard that music on an airplane before.

If he’s disseminating and distributing solutions I don’t see the problem with it other than jealousy.

It’s helpful and helps prevent information rot if a platform goes down.

For me at least the main problem isn't so much this person/channel, you can always tell YouTube to stop suggesting a channel. It's the people that now realise this is something YouTube allows (or at least doesn't seem to care about).

For a similar issue there was a plague of "Reply girls" for a while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reply_girl

Relating to reply girls, I really loved YouTube's video response feature. It's understandable why it went away, but it was still really cool to be able to find responses to videos. Now if I watch a video arguing for X and want to see a response I have to search "Response to X" or "X rebutted" etc.

"Although many users would click the "dislike" button on the videos, this was interpreted by YouTube's algorithm as legitimate engagement, and the videos would be ranked more highly."

I literally facepalmed.

You can allow yourself to take the stance of "I know it when I see it" when it comes to internet spam and litter for once.

How is littering yt and screwing with recommendations helpful?

I don't care for what he's doing or his business, but youtube is to blame for recommending him. Also, I just click don't recommend and it works every time my kid takes over the machine to binge watch the entire minecraft community.