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youtube comments being.... incredibly baffling and weird? id on't understand what is going on here and would kind of like to. images uncaptioned 

...okay what the fuck is going on here

i looked at the comments on youtube.com/watch?v=P-SO2X6J83 for some reason and there's... ???????
there is a ton of who the fuck knows what going on here

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@Felthry dueling chatbots?

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@windyorigami are they bots? what would be the point of that, I wonder?
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re: youtube comments being.... incredibly baffling and weird? id on't understand what is going on here and would kind of like to. images uncaptioned 

@Felthry their function would probably be just to comment and reply. not sure what that would accomplish, but it seems to be a thing. the main source of the weirdness seems to emanate from the steven universe one. maybe only it is a bot?

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@windyorigami @Felthry Search engine optimization? Manipulating the algorithm? I don't know, but we've seen a fair few suspiciously-vacuous comments in the past while...

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