RE: The Truth About the Community [AKA YouFraud]
March 11th, 2010 at 6:14 pm by --KALEB NATION--
This is my response to peachofmeat‘s expose of how he fraudulently gained over 100,000 subscribers in a week. If you’re not an active part of the YouTube community, you probably don’t understand why this is such a big deal, so I give you freedom to declare TL;DR and come back later 
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Basically, for those who aren’t familiar with this story (paraphrasing TheWillOfDC’s video explanation), Mr. PeachOfMeat created one of those Facebook groups like “Fan This Iffin U Hates Justin Bieber” or “The Best Way To Break Up With Your Internet Girlfriend Without Leaving The Basement” that bored people join madly just because it’s there*.
However, in this new type of group, after you join you are asked to “Confirm” your status, but coincidentally are told to also ‘make sure you are logged into YouTube’. This is basically a disguised “Subscribe” button, made to look like a “Confirm” button but coded to make you unknowingly subscribe to PeachOfMeat.
Thus, this guy has fraudulently jumped from being unknown, and into the most-subscribed lists on YouTube, without actually posting videos or entertaining anyone. His explanation of this tactic has the entire YouTube community furious, because it opens a door for any talentless troll to flood the website with junk. People are, understandably, not happy. His latest video, in which he admits unrepentantly to his fraud, is rated two stars.
He fooled over 150,000 people in less than two weeks. Many of my subscribers commented on my video saying they checked their sub box, and to their own shock he had conned them as well. Check your subscription list, and if you see peachofmeat there, unsubscribe and block his channel (this option is on his main channel, beside his profile photo) so he can’t scam you again. Also, if you would like to send a message to YouTube, you can flag his video and contact their support (please don’t email me, I can’t forward your messages in).
It’s amusing how people will always try to find a way to hack the system, instead of actually working hard and building up an audience like everyone else. But as I said in the video: two subscribers on a working channel is worth far more than 100,000 subscribers on one that is suspended.
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*and because they have no lives**
** this is coming from a guy who actually wrote all these paragraphs about Internet srs bsns.
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Tags: PeachOfMeat, The Internet Is Srs Bsns, Youtube Fraud
