Your favorite YouTube channels
POSTED BY: AURaptor
UPDATED: Saturday, September 5, 2026 02:39
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Noticing more and more live streams on Friday nights from my regulars. Folks who normally don't have live streams at all showed up with one last night. And FYI, live streams are great ways to donate to their channels. Even if they get demonetized, and stricken from ad revenue, they can still make $ from donations.
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Random question -
I don't upload videos, I just watch stuff. I have zero 'content', and yet, somehow, I have 2 mystery subscribers to my channel.
What's that about?
I don't have any sort of running blog. I do offer comments , from time to time, on videos I watch, but almost always in praise, not in a flaming manner. ( Really, it's a different area for me, and I use YT to relax and have fun, unlike say in a political forum )
Anyone else have mystery subscribers, and if I can't find out who they are , does it matter? Is there a way I can block them, should I need ?
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I’d guess that someone liked your comments and subscribed to you.
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I wouldn't worry about it.
I don't upload videos or have a blog either, but I've got 6 subscribers on my channel.
I know at least 3 or 4 of them were from some super long comment I made where I rambled on about how I didn't want you to like my comment or subscribe to my channel and there would be no reason for you to sub since I will never provide any content. I was making fun of somebody who always requests you "smash that like button and subscribe".
A few people commented back that they subbed me because they don't like being told what to do. 
MOOSE is right. Somebody probably just liked one or two of your comments.
As far as I know, there isn't a way for them to go tracking your comment history once they're subbed.
I've got my channel pretty much on lockdown. The only thing I have open is some playlists that I made, but you have the option to make those private if you want to.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by Moose:
I’d guess that someone liked your comments and subscribed to you.
Well, that's just weird. I have zero uploads which means there's no content to subscribe to. There was just one subscriber, from way back, name blocked of course, and I wondered if that just wasn't some automatic YouTube thing. Then I noticed a 2nd, again, name blocked. For how many folks are signed up, I guess 2 mystery subscribers isn't a thing. If I had a dozen or a hundred... maybe then it's a thing.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
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Topic should get its own thread...
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Originally posted by Moose:
I’d guess that someone liked your comments and subscribed to you.
Well, that's just weird. I have zero uploads which means there's no content to subscribe to. There was just one subscriber, from way back, name blocked of course, and I wondered if that just wasn't some automatic YouTube thing. Then I noticed a 2nd, again, name blocked. For how many folks are signed up, I guess 2 mystery subscribers isn't a thing. If I had a dozen or a hundred... maybe then it's a thing.
Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen
I'm just a red pill guy in a room full of blue pill addicts.
" AU, that was great, LOL!! " - Chrisisall
You can subscribe to anybody on the site, and it's easy to bring up their profile just by clicking on their name when they leave a comment.
Conspiracy Theory Me would tell you it's probably a government agent, but really... are you that interesting to have one of those of your own?
The AI on sites like YouTube is getting more sophisticated every day. They know much more about you based solely on your viewing habits than they ever could by paying a person to watch what you're commenting on videos. And at the end of the day even if you delete your comment and watch history you're only doing so on your end and that's stuck in a database somewhere until the sun burns out.
I don't let Conspiracy Theory Me do much thinking for me anymore these days. He's never once served me well and only makes life suck more.
Push it all out of your thoughts and embrace the internet. Or just get off the internet and the grid entirely if something like this bothers you that much. No sense in taking any half measures either way.
One day I woke up and realized that I'm not important at all in the grand scheme of things and until you have that epiphany, you can't possibly know how liberating that is.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Fact is, outside of here I don't really talk to anyone about YouTube stuff I see. Sure, I'll post some videos, but not all the things I post are what I am subscribed to.
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Been watching some Red Green stuff on YouTube. Need the laugh.
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What's Red Green?
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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