Linus Tech Tips, Jacksepticeye, and MKBHD are among the notable YouTube creators who have expressed dissatisfaction with an upsurge in comment spam on their channels in recent weeks. The problem has been severe for all these high-profile creators, who frequently have more nasty trolls imitating them in an attempt to defraud their audience.

Linus Sebastian stated that YouTube is having a problem with spam. From health supplements to crypto scams to free Robux, it gets worse every day on his channel Linus Tech Tips channel.

Spam comments on YouTube can come in a variety of shapes and sizes. Top YouTube creators are frequently disturbed about spam that outwits them, promises viewers something extraordinary in exchange for sending them messages, and then drives people away from YouTube to defraud them potentially.

Marques Brownlee has introduced a new experimental moderation mechanism that will “intensify the severity” of potentially offensive comments which would be marked for review automatically.

YouTube has a number of techniques to counteract spammy comments, and it automatically deletes a large number of them. According to YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi, the corporation eliminated “almost 950 million comments for breaching our standards around spam, misleading, and scams” in Q4 2021 alone, using machine learning and human review. 

Ivy Choi told The Verge that “automated flagging systems first spotted the vast majority” of those removals.

Those mechanisms, however, evidently haven’t been sufficient, and YouTube appears to be aware of this. According to YouTube spokesperson Mariana De Felice, the upgraded feature was first tested in December 2021. The firm initially put out the feature in 2016 to hold potentially objectionable comments for review and remove them from any channel in a simple manner.

YouTube appears to be keeping a tight eye on the situation. “We’ll continue to tweak our technologies to keep current given the growing nature and shifting techniques of spammy content,” Choi told The Verge. 

Both Sebastian and Brownlee noted the “YouTube Spammer Purge” application, which, according to the GitHub description, allows you to filter and look for spammer comments on any channel in many different ways and delete or even report them all at once.

However, for YouTube producers who are now dealing with a torrent of spammy comments, it’s unclear whether there will be any relief very soon.

In 2021, YouTube came up with more such new updates to keep the YouTube creators happy. It included recommending videos more and more algorithmically. In this, most viewers don’t watch in their subscription feed but on the homepage which is why YouTube is thinking about sorting the subscription feed to make it easier to navigate.