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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by hattmall on Friday July 01, 2022 @09:46AM (#31946291)
What I don't understand is the posting of these videos on Facebook by seemingly fake accounts. I'm in a bunch of yard sale groups and random unrelated accounts are constantly posting these hack and engineering type videos that are like 20 seconds of 50 different useless things with no explanations or other information. There's no ads displayed, there's nothing being sold or promoted and no links or way to find out more about the video.

Does anyone else experience this? How are they making money or why is this being done?

I guess my theory is somehow facebook rewards total views and then they are monetizing some other content.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by tablespoon on Friday July 01, 2022 @10:49AM (#31947147)
> Does anyone else experience this? How are they making money or why is this being done?

Could they be building an audience to exploit later? IIRC, that's the tactic the Russian Internet Research Agency used -- build an audience with memes and cat pictures, then pivot to political propaganda.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by duskwuff on Friday July 01, 2022 @11:41AM (#31947988)
> Does anyone else experience this? How are they making money or why is this being done?

I suspect these are trying to build reputation for the account posting them. The bizarre, inexplicable videos will get watched by a lot of users wondering WTF they are, which may cause further content posted by those accounts to be ranked higher in feeds.

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Re:YouTube removes criticism of dangerous fractal wood burni... by Nextgrid on Friday July 01, 2022 @04:01PM (#31952010)
The account can later be resold, used to post ads or even sell courses to become a "successful" social media influencer using the account's own metrics as selling points.
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