It is now confirmed that YouTube views are fake. I always thought it was bullshit was some Nicki Minaj video comes out and it has 50 million views in like 3 days.
>Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show.
“I can deliver an unlimited amount of views to a video,” Mr. Vassilev said in an interview. “They’ve tried to stop it for so many years, but they can’t stop it. There’s always a way around.”
the real number of users is much lower than they want the advertisers to believe.
Hunter Kelly
I tough this was know already
Carter Richardson
I've always suspected that people who "make a living" on "social media" are really trust fund kids who want to LARP as being successful. You can spend about 20,000 dollars a year and have a huge social media presence, creating the illusion that your online activity is profitable.
Cooper Russell
So not only are they talentless but they are insecure losers as well.
Parker Parker
have u guys ever wondered about the celebrities on twitter with millions of followers who only get like 200 likes on their tweets? always made me wonder
most of social media is fake at this point. the only thing that will stop these sites is when advertisers and corps realize they aren't getting their cut and take them down. unfortunately it'll just be something else after that.
Camden Foster
Moar of dem titties!!
Isaiah Hill
Ok, credit where credit is due. Those are some nice tits.
>have u guys ever wondered about the celebrities on twitter with millions of followers who only get like 200 likes on their tweets? always made me wonder
Is it possible that all over social media is fake? Like all of the "Instagram Celebrities" and big twitter accounts?
Henry Jackson
This is a red herring to hide the fact that Google literally has an API to give privileged partners as many fake views as they want on any video.
For example, all normie slop music has its videos released on YouTube under VEVO. VEVO is a spurious front company for the turbojews who controlled all mass media entertainment for normies in the Before Times back when YouTube, Spotify, etc didn't exist yet.
The numbers shown on every single one of VEVO's videos are a hoax. The purpose is to shock and awe you into thinking they have a much more significant influence over culture than they actually do.
VEVO has a backroom deal with Google to inflate all their displayed numbers by 50x or more. The displayed view count, comment count, and like/dislike counts are ALL FAKE. How? Simple. There is code on YouTube's servers causing these fake numbers to be shown to you for all VEVO videos. Google has been legally required to do this for VEVO for over ten years. You fetuses won't remember this, but YouTube was almost destroyed in its infancy. The reason VEVO has this special privilege of displaying fake numbers on YouTube is because the music industry turbojews from the Before Times threatened to sue YouTube out of existence for mass copyright infringement if they didn't bend to their will. You can actually still see residual complaints about the drama that this caused on the site if you look for comments on music videos uploaded ten years ago. YouTube had to submit to their will or be destroyed. Voluntarily faking the view counts was one of the concessions they had to make to be allowed to survive.
>inb4 "some employee would have leaked the secret by now if it were true". No, that's what NDAs are for. NDAs are 100% effective for maintaining corporate secrecy. You'd understand why if you were ever important enough to have been in a position to sign one or make someone else sign one.
She is basically a Jew now. lol look at the nose hehe. Not her best face in this picture.
Jacob Williams
Like seriously this story is only being put out to try to confuse the pro-Trump faction of the intelligence agencies currently investigating Google into thinking that it really is just self-interested third party bot farms and not Google themselves very consciously choosing to subversively manipulate the minds of the people in an act that can only be described as sedition.
Thomas Sullivan
So stop spreading this shit.
Jace King
depends, some of them get a lot of activity and retweets, likes. but i would say, most of them are fake.
Ethan Klein has 2 million followers on twitter and gets on average 15k likes a tweet, sometimes 40k and even 70k likes, John Cena has 11 million followers but ony gets 15k on a popular post.
although, this might be because they aren't that active on twitter and most of their wteets are just updades on mundane things, not their opinions
Matthew Russell
you know who is going to hate to see this? think hard, there is at least one group who is not going to like this news, pro tip: Ads
Asher Reyes
>work at small aerospace company >we have a (((person))) from another country who works there >he's going to college in the USA for computer science >he makes algorithms to get views on videos >runs them for a few days >makes a few hundred dollerydoos on the videos he uploads >after about a week he tells YouTube how he does it and sends them the code >according to him, he made about $10,000 in a week making a 30 second video, and spending a few days writing code and this, my dear lovelies, is how I came to eventually read Culture of Critique
>The numbers shown on every single one of VEVO's videos are a hoax. The purpose is to shock and awe you into thinking they have a much more significant influence over culture than they actually do.
Holy fuck I'm glad I read this.
I work as a classical musician, but I always keep an eye on what Hollywood is making these days. Just out of curiosity.
I just couldn't believe that total dog-shit songs and videos have like 300 million views after being up for a year. I would think "Okay... imagine that I'm a normie... would I like this song?... No probably not". The music has gotten so bad I can't even imagine that normies are listening to this dogshit.
Click on any new Hollyjew music artist and listen to their new music. It's AWFUL. Nicki Minaj, Drake, and whatever new meme artist they have for the year. It's soooo fucking bad, everyone I know tells me they never even listen to the radio anymore.
>It is now confirmed that YouTube views are fake. I always thought it was bullshit was some Nicki Minaj video comes out and it has 50 million views in like 3 days. >>Martin Vassilev makes a good living selling fake views on YouTube videos. Working from home in Ottawa, he has sold about 15 million views so far this year, putting him on track to bring in more than $200,000, records show. >“I can deliver an unlimited amount of views to a video,” Mr. Vassilev said in an interview. “They’ve tried to stop it for so many years, but they can’t stop it. There’s always a way around.” >nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/11/technology/youtube-fake-view-sellers.html
Why are you an idiot? You know how easy it is to write a script to slam a YouTube link? This isn't news, this how the internet works
Ethan Walker
>VEVO has a backroom deal with Google to inflate all their displayed numbers by 50x or more.
it's more likely the companies that make the music are running their own social media bots to pump up the numbers.
I don't listen to radio except for news/talkshow while driving, I don't watch tv AT ALL, and I don't bother with any of the worthless vevo crap on youtube.
I'm more apt to listen to music I heard in a fucking videogame than anything the media cartels have shit out over the past decade. They're a bunch of talentless money grubbing hacks.
Evan Richardson
I should clarify something here >supposedly, YouTube pays him thousands of dollars for his code when he does this, so they know how to "combat" it later dunno if what this (((person))) who told me this is true, but it seamed plausible enough at the time that I remember the conversation
How can Google enter into a contract with VEVO to fake views? This is defrauding advertisers, making it an illegal contract and thus unenforceable as well as making Google liable for astronomical damages. Are you saying the advertisers are getting free advertising on all VEVO videos, or that every company that advertises on youtube is in on the scam?
Benjamin Lopez
post proofs or stfu you boomer idiots are just completely out of touch with the current generation youtube is the new MTV, nearly everyone has unlimited bandwidth so they just put on playlist after playlist of videos in the background or on their shitty phones with speakers and blare it out in public its this constant noise feed the zoomer needs to keep himself distracted from brainfog and OCD
Literally no evidence or source provided whatsoever.
What you say is plausible to me but provide some substance to support it other wise you are just LARPing.
Liam Powell
It's not news that the media is defrauding advertisers
All the MSM sites got caught buying views from china to inflate their viewcounts and bring in more ad revenue. Nothing ever got done about it.
Oliver Cruz
There used to be an add-on that would keep automatically refresh the youtube video every few seconds, but only so many views from the same ip counts. I'm sure you could try and set of a proxy that refreshed every 20 minutes or something to just do this endlessly tho
So how is Vassilev doing this? Entirely software based? How is that even possible from a single computer.
Joshua Carter
You could always buy fake views from chinese bot farms.
Youtube these days just gives preferential treatment to people they like in the search systems, they seed people into random suggested lists and remove those they don't like/
So if they like a certain person for whatever reason, they add their channels into the seed system so that 20-30% of all youtube viewers get the videos listed in suggested.
I can tell you the charts DJ's use are fake, week after week I'm being offered sales of digital music for a fee. I think the BBC or C4 did a documentary on the bangladeshi Facebook and Twitter followers farms.
Charles Martin
not from a single computer with a bot or cloud network like amazon web serives or microsoft azure most probably, also important that there are no 'whois' entries which could identify them as amazon or microsoft then you just install phantomjs in a docker and you're good to go.
>vassilev You know the kikes are going to spin this as more russian interference
Also, the real fuckery isn't with direct video views, but with sub numbers. That's why you see shit like guys with 10 million subs who only get like 100k views per video
Ian Baker
>I can deliver unlimited clicks >has only delivered 15 million clicks this isnt even small news, it is nothing you NYT faggot. go back to you newspaper and fuck your mom with it.
David Butler
fetal alcohole syndrome face
Aaron Cox
The implication is that there are probably many people who do the same thing.
There's a reason why Youtube and these other tech companies are in the mess they are in; they can't properly monetize their network or keep it going so they inflate the numbers for the marketeers (who are in turn all scammers as well, always have been).
They're experiencing trouble that old media has had as well that is generating (free*) revenue with advertisements which has negligible effects (contrary to what they want you to believe).
Jacob Brooks
I thought everyone knew about YT/FB/Twitter botnets? This is old news unless you're a bluepilled normie.
Jeremiah Evans
Yeah, record labels/artists also buy a shit load of their own records too. Doesn't surprise me in any way, especially considering pop music isn't even catchy anymore.
Jeremiah Morgan
>THIS IS HUGE i paid for youtube views on a video about 6 years ago and it wasnt even new then
Andrew Carter
Well I know I stoped watching his shit years ago
Dominic Collins
>Caring about e-celebs
I'd still bang that or like her.
Blake Ward
This is nothing new or surprising. The same exists for twitter likes
Josiah Miller
It's not just russian hackers who do this. People _inside_ the socials can be bought through roughly the same channels. The inside scammers can do deeper customization to your brand new traffic data like target certain demographics or appear disproportionately to people likely to have toxoplasmois. Sinister shit.
it isn't just record companies that do this... Publishers do the same exact thing... you know those NYT best sellers that havn't even been released yet? They are "pre-sales" aka electronic copies that are "purchased"
Ayden Richardson
hey uhhh i needs me some cash. how do i do this? asking for a friend who happens to be my bank account
Caleb Torres
that is a built in function of Facebook ads FYI. If you spend enough on ads you can get them to customize your ads how ever you see fit. The interesting part is having bought ads on Twitter, Facebook, and Google; Both google and twitter fake their shit so fucking much, and rather ironically Facebook is the only platform where you can buy ads hat doesn't actually fuck you over. I checked this via using bit ly links in my ads.
Brayden Long
How retarded does one have to be not to appreciate her cheeky mannerisms and sense of humor? I was smitten at "REEEEEEE!".
Noah Hill
I bet you believed TV ratings were real numbers too. They literally pull a number out of their ass. Nobody is watching.
Adam Bell
I bet you believe the moon landing was real
Oliver Wright
God id sell my house just to sniff her brapper
Tyler Hall
Where the fuck have you been lmao, this is well known.
Also happens with all those weird spiderman and elsa kids videos
faking statistics on a video sharing website is not politics related fuck off to
Samuel Baker
>radio except for news/talkshow while driving Pretty based. I personally like medical and financial shows. The Clark Howard Show is a personal favorite of mine.
Camden Young
Can be if the media says X video is right because millions saw it and commented on it too.
Cooper Cox
this isn't news. it has been known for years you can pay people for views, likes, etc. way to keep up with the times. bots for this kind of thing have been around forever.
Luke Lewis
Of course you dumb fuck, don't you recall Youtube getting all uppity when people were literally buying million of views for 10$? We literally had a leak back then how they can literally edit the view count regardless of how many people actually watched it.
