how's it going guys i'm joe and for the past two weeks i've been working on something game changing which is why i haven't really been posting you guys have undoubtedly seen the complete infestation of these scam comments on youtube that impersonate some creator and then leave a ton of replies to every comment on a video telling people to contact them on whatsapp or whatever i've been getting them for months and god forbid you make any kind of finance related content you'll just be inundated i mean just look at this on graham stefan's latest video every single comment has a reply from a spammer same for this other channel alex becker it's absurd now i have of course added elements of these messages to my spam filter over time but they keep coming back with ever more convoluted ways to get around them but if you're a creator you might know that the most frustrating part about them is that youtube offers no way to delete them all at once oh yes there is a function to ban the user from commenting but it does not remove their previous comments meaning that if these spammers show up you have to go through the list of comments and delete every single one by hand which takes multiple clicks each and there are usually hundreds of these so it takes forever but i have finally come up with a solution i hand crafted a program in python using the google api to smash these spammers even harder than you should smash the like button right now i'll show you in more detail in a minute how it works but basically you can literally just type in the video to scan the spammer's channel id and then sit back while the scammer's work gets flushed away in seconds it deletes all their comments and yes it is free and open source so if you hate these spammers as much as i do let your favorite creators know about this program that i made and send them this video whatever now forgive me because first i'm going to rant for a minute so if you want to just get to the solution you can skip ahead with the timestamps but i just have to vent because based on my experience youtube apparently does not give a single three about scam accounts that only leave comments but don't post scam videos or whatever i have reported every single one of these accounts that show up on my channel but not a single one was ever banned until i manually reached out to creator support and reported them for impersonation and spamming in that case youtube will remove most of them after a couple days of getting back to me but really it's hit or miss because if the channel name is too convoluted youtube support will not remove it because i guess it doesn't meet the threshold for impersonation even though i also said hey look at the comments they're leaving it's obvious but they didn't remove it and to really drive the point home here's an example of a spam account where the scammer had changed the profile picture and account name to personate another creator in the time between when i reported them and when it was reviewed by youtube so youtube came back and said for the rest of the channel that you reported we have confirmed that it didn't violate our community guidelines meanwhile i went on the channel that the spammer account was now impersonating check their
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN even harder than you should smash the like button right now i'll END_INTERACTION_TOKEN