I’ve asking because no one online seems to have noticed but I’ve noticed on youtube return that music channels appear to be:

  • stealing content and posting it on YouTube shorts but putting their music over it
  • commenting on random YouTube videos

I’ve noticed mainly the music channels with the music channel icon besides their name on YouTube that have been doing this

It’s obviously new spam techniques once you notice it

  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    commenting on random YouTube videos

    That’s definitely not new. Comment spam has existed as long as comments have.

    Stealing content is also as old as the internet. It would make sense they would use their own music if that’s what they were selling. People that sell affiliate links to stuff paste their logo and domain on the lower or upper part of stolen reels.

    I don’t discover music on Youtube so I can’t speak to it’s rise in popularity but things like this get adopted widely when it’s proven to work.

    • saltesc@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 day ago

      Blocked Shorts in first weeks because it quickly was full of this.

      And if anyone wants to discover music, get a scrobbler for a good music network. By design, algorithms pigeonhole. That’s just how math works. You need the tried and true method of community sharing and (most) scrobblers are, essentially, a modern take on “word of mouth”. Music has only ever been best discovered and broadened to listeners when recommended from other explorers.

      • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        And if anyone wants to discover music, get a scrobbler for a good music network.

        Do you have any that you find useful? I haven’t used one in decades.

      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
        1·
        1 day ago

        I’ve enjoyed bandcamp’s writeups. They seem to be written by real people.

        I also sometimes peruse the “who else bought my favorite album this month?” listing. Find some gems and wild cards there.

  • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    One thing I’ve noticed lately is when you’re listening to an album in playlist format, and one of the tracks is an endless diatribe about some useless crypto scam, some get rich quick scheme masquerading as an actual song title from the album.

  • scytale@piefed.zipEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    Using their own music, as in songs? Just guessing, but they’re probably using the videos to get people to click, and they earn money from their music being streamed.