Look at this pathetic spambot that is running havoc around gaming sites on youtube.
"This video is very great! I have to say that I've viewed it more than once now. For a far better online game (in my opinion) go check this one out . You might like it, I think.
MyFunOnlineG (removing just for extra security) mes (dot) com" <-- do not click link, prolly a virus, can't be bothered to set up a VM to test.
So, having some experience with being on the receiving side of spambots that were equally stupid, I would like to do something about this. In other words,
This is what we need to pass, before we can actually call the spambot industry a succeeding one.
Hence, I present: Keon's Pseudocode Youtube Spambot.
- Take name of youtube video spambot plans to comment on. For example, Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily Stage Acapella, or Minecraft Feed The Beast #57 - Twilight Labyrinth!
- Take string, separate by " " character, the space. Eg, get the words.
- Remove last word and one random word from anywhere in the list, assuming video has more than 2 words. Drop all numbers. Also drop all small words, like the, a , an, etc. So, we have something like "Mega Man Dr. Stage" and "Minecraft Feed The Twilight
- Search youtube for result. Take a hit between #s 5-10. Eg: Mega Man 2 - Dr. Wily's Castle: Stage 1 [Bossfight Remix], or Minecraft Feed The Beast - Episode 4: Twilight Forrest & Dimension Travel
- Post youtube comment on target video (the first one) like this.
"You know, this video reminded me of a cool video I saw once. It was called something like [insert new video name here]. If you want to see it, the link is here. [Link to spambot site, but looks like a video site. Call it, I don't know, "Gamevideos" or something]
- Introduce slight variations, fine tune ideas. Don't do this often enough to really make people mad. Just one here, one there.
- Create many alt-accounts to upvote those spam posts. Post replies like "Holy crap, epic!" and "lol!"
- Same accounts that post these links also post a ton of constructive comments. They reply to the top comment with a thing like "lol" or "hahah" and will copy comments below them. (That is, they see a comment that says "wow, this is awesome budder diesquids" (obv somebody watches a bit too much skydoesminecraft) they will post the exact same thing 20-30 comments later.)
- have alt accounts subscribe to all channels they frequent.
Bam. Looks like an average, kinda stupid youtuber. Guy can look into why they linked to spam website and just see a avid minecraft and cod fanboy. Maybe even have site display a youtube video, but have it also display a bunch of popups and install some kind of adware.
To be clear, I have no plans of implementing this, and even if I did, "GameVideos . fakewebsite" would redirect to the wikipedia page on spambots and malware.
Edit: close paren. Also, I'm a terrible person, aren't I.
