In this informal monologue, the creator recounts his brief involvement in large YouTube networking groups on Skype, where hundreds of small creators exchange likes, subscriptions, and scripted comments to artificially boost each other's metrics. He describes the relentless spam, the feeling of being complicit in a "scummy" system, and the discovery that many channels with sizable subscriber counts rely heavily on these fake engagements, resulting in inactive subscriber bases and scripted comment sections. The speaker expresses strong disdain for sub‑for‑sub, like‑for‑like, and comment‑for‑comment schemes, noting how they erode authenticity even though they may not directly affect his own channel. After a short stint, he quits the chat, reflects on the broader problem of fake engagement on YouTube, and urges viewers to focus on genuine content creation rather than chasing artificial numbers. The video ends with a casual sign‑off and unrelated personal reminders.
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Our like goal for this video is 200 likes. If we could hit 200 likes, that would be amazing. Psych! Like goals are for idiots! Cut. You think that was a good one? Dude, you've already used that joke before. And? So? I might have used it before. I don't care. I can use jokes to, you know, just— you're a hater. Stop being a hater. What? Why are— What happened to all my water? Beast, that intro made no sense. I sawz. I guess I should clarify before I start talking about it. Networking on YouTube is when a YouTuber adds hundreds of other small YouTubers on Skype And every time he uploads, he spams all them, and whenever they upload, they spam all their friends. And you like their video, they like yours. This was a long time ago, but back when I had 3K subs, I was like, "You know what? I'll give it a try." I joined one of those massive networking YouTube chats on Skype, and holy balls, these people will spam you till no end their links. They are so desperate for likes and views. You know, I just tried it out. I was like, "Hey, I uploaded a video. I'll like yours if you like mine." And honestly, I felt scummy doing that. I stopped doing that after, like, you know, a couple days. It feels really scummy doing like for like. Same thing with sub for sub. I despise sub for sub. And within a day I was in this networking chat, and like I said, this was a long time ago. I found out just how, you know, messed up some of these YouTube channels are. There are people who will do sub for sub till they have more subscribers than me, and then they'll realize all their subscribers are inactive. So what they'll do is they'll go to these networking chats, and every single time they upload a video, they will spam just hundreds of people, and they will tell them exactly what they want them to comment. And I didn't realize just how screwed up some of these channels Some of these channels on YouTube with more subscribers than me literally are telling other YouTubers what they want them to comment. They're telling other YouTubers to like it. Out of their hundreds of likes, maybe 5 or 10 of them are like real likes. The other ones are just from this chat, and all the comments are lies. They're exactly what that YouTuber told the other YouTubers to comment on his own video. It is so messed up, and it's just— that's not how YouTube's supposed to work. Quit spending hours every single day in that chat and put that into your content and grow an actual fanbase, you loser. In case you're a little bit lost about what I'm talking about, as I said earlier, a YouTube networking chat is just a huge Skype group chat which has hundreds of YouTubers, and whenever you upload a video, you spam all the other YouTubers, and these channels will subbot and have so many inactive subscribers, but they'll give a false perception by going to this chat and, you know, commenting on other people's videos just so they'll comment back on theirs and liking their videos just so they'll get likes. Back on theirs, and I don't know, it just feels really scummy to me. I hated being in that chat. I left it almost immediately, and my phone just vibrated. Alright, Chris Tyson just sent me a text. I'm going to be home soon, let's play Black Ops 3. Wow, that's ironic. And I'm no joke, I just got that text. To be honest, I've really started to hate people that sub for sub, like for like, comment for comment, any of that stuff. It's, you know, it's really annoying. I just, I don't know why it's annoying to me because like it really does not affect me. But I hate when I click on someone's videos and it's really obvious that all the likes and all the comments are fake. You know, they have like 100 subs but their videos get like 50 likes and all the comments are 100% positive. It's like, "Nah, man, you're not fooling anyone." And I don't know why that annoys me because obviously it doesn't affect me, but just, there's so many YouTubers that do it. I just want you to know, a lot of the YouTubers you watch, like small YouTubers obviously, uh, majority of their comments, they're not real comments. They're just other people they told to comment on their video. A lot of their likes aren't real likes, it's, you know, just from networking chats. You'd be surprised the amount of people that use these networking chats. And I feel like it's kinda scummy, I don't know, I just wanted to talk about it. Yep, that's my opinion on YouTube networking, take it as you want, I don't really care. I'd love to hear what you think down below. And make sure you make your bed, make sure you do your homework, go pick up the towels off your floor, do the laundry for your parents, that'd be pretty nice, make sure you turn off the lights in your house 'cause you wanna save electricity, it's good for the environment. Make sure you charge up your phone because, you know, we all hate when our phone runs out of battery. It's, you know, super annoying. And I think that's everything. See you guys later.
