I'm convinced that there are some comments depending on the youtube channel that get astroturfed because I've spotted suspicious behaviour depending on what channel it is and who's appearing. I suspect they do it in order to make the video seem like it's doing better than it really is. On channels that don't have that strange filtering and astroturfing going on the comments are often decidedly different. Don't get me wrong, there are braindead people out there but popular stuff isn't as popular as some might like to think.
I'm convinced that there are some comments depending on the youtube channel that get astroturfed because I've spotted suspicious behaviour depending on what channel it is and who's appearing. I suspect they do it in order to make the video seem like it's doing better than it really is. On channels that don't have that strange filtering and astroturfing going on the comments are often decidedly different. Don't get me wrong, there are braindead people out there but popular stuff isn't as popular as some might like to think.