As the title says, YouTube is curating comment sections to spark more engagement depending on the channel and it's average viewer in the community. I made 5 different accounts, on five different browsers and five different email services. All in private tabs. Every time I go to youtube to test it, I log on to all of them in private tabs with a vpn on...and bam, magic. Every account gets an entirely different experience. My main actual youtube account gets...well, every time I comment on certain videos about literally anything, my comment gets deleted faster than I can hit reload... I have been doing this for over a year. Every channel has this problem as far as I can tell, and it's not something the creator is doing, it's something that Google and YouTube are doing.
So I tested what they would filter to me, not from me. Every account I used Chat GPT to generate generic messages in the style of a certain personality, aka I asked them to make a slightly mean comment or something that agrees with a hateful point and so on. And sure enough, the accounts posting nice things sees all the nice fluffy comments and then a bit of the bad. The account posting up mean thins saw all sorts of weird comments from people talking about self-destructive things if you catch my meaning....but aimed at the content creator.
The one that got me was the comments I posted on my 5th fake account. I wrote them because I knew the AI couldn't. It's not allowed to say the kinds of things that this account would write out. I won't repeat anything, but needless to say it's the kind of thing that would make the devil weep in shame and fear. And I said them on a very very popular political / gaming streamer / youtuber. Won't say any names, but they don't exactly have a golden reputation like their name.
No jokes, no memes. I typed that crap out and I got proven right. The comments I get to see, that are forced in front of me because of the fake comments in the past? It's just an echo chamber of violence and bigotry. That audience is just straight up vile. You can see comments talking about victim blaming a R**e victim after they uninstalled irl.... It got 17k likes.
I suggest you all stop leaving comments. I noticed that youtube would also just ghost your comments. Go back to old videos you watched that you know you left a comment on and see if you can find it. Then see if you can find it on another account. 4/5 times I couldn't. Most of the time, I would log back on to the other accounts and couldn't find the comments they left either, so they deleted it. AGain, they are doing this before you ever even finish the video. The second you leave the page and try and come back, its gone.
And before you try and say that it's just because mean things were said. Nope. Even the account I made saying nice things had several dozen comments removed without any notice given or any real reason. My favourite one was "I really love the way they can shape something hard like steel, into something so delicate like a butterfly". That one got deleted before I could reload lol.
Youtube is curating echo chambers, and if you don't believe me you can do the same thing I did and it's easy as heck with Chat GPT helping you.
Yeah, I did. It was easy and they didn't drop anything. I reloaded several times to see if they drop anything...not exactly thorough, but still. I don't think they drop anything.