Post by MarsRSA (owner) on May 10, 2016 14:19:00 GMT 2
It would seem someone might be running some kind of spam bot actively disliking the reveal trailer for the latest Call of Duty game, Infinite Warfare.
Twitter user @longsensationyt tweeted moments ago
-"100% sure the Infinite Warfare trailer has been dislike botted. Just refreshed and it got like 3 likes to 80 dislikes in 20 seconds"
I decided to give it a try myself and found the same result... I refreshed the page within probably 30 seconds and the amount of dislikes went up by exactly 200 and subsequently every-time I refreshed, it just kept climbing. At the time of this post the dislikes sat at 1,508,124 which is roughly 15 minutes or so after the first image below
I also noticed a very suspicious comment posted by YouTube user OperatorAusar quoting:
-"Here's a small loan of a million dislikes"
Whether or not this user is actually taking responsibility for this I have no idea
I find it very hard to believe the trailer received that many dislikes just by pure coincidence when I was refreshing my browser, however when exactly this bot started actively disliking is anyone's guess and I would assume if it continues we might see this trailer which was the 5th most disliked video of all time on YouTube this morning, might reach that number one spot within a day or two if its not stopped
What do you think? What would someone hope to gain by this? Would this be enough to make a statement?
Drop your thoughts or comments below
Twitter user @longsensationyt tweeted moments ago
-"100% sure the Infinite Warfare trailer has been dislike botted. Just refreshed and it got like 3 likes to 80 dislikes in 20 seconds"
I decided to give it a try myself and found the same result... I refreshed the page within probably 30 seconds and the amount of dislikes went up by exactly 200 and subsequently every-time I refreshed, it just kept climbing. At the time of this post the dislikes sat at 1,508,124 which is roughly 15 minutes or so after the first image below
I also noticed a very suspicious comment posted by YouTube user OperatorAusar quoting:
-"Here's a small loan of a million dislikes"
Whether or not this user is actually taking responsibility for this I have no idea
I find it very hard to believe the trailer received that many dislikes just by pure coincidence when I was refreshing my browser, however when exactly this bot started actively disliking is anyone's guess and I would assume if it continues we might see this trailer which was the 5th most disliked video of all time on YouTube this morning, might reach that number one spot within a day or two if its not stopped
What do you think? What would someone hope to gain by this? Would this be enough to make a statement?
Drop your thoughts or comments below
