5 minute crafts is a bot farm scam larger than every other channel on YouTube and they’ve gone to great lengths to hide it.
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Fascinating video. It goes well beyond 5 minute crafts for anyone considering watching.
Is this news to people?
I must admit, 5mc being scam is obvious, but it turned out to be only a tip of an iceberg, the video was wild even though it did boil down to a huge bot farm scam made with Russian criminal funds (and also a web of companies that possibly helped in cyber attacks but this was not covered in details)
This being pretty much a global fraud network is absolutely news to me.
It’s news to me. I haven’t clicked the video, and have no idea what 5 minute crafts is. I now know it’s a scam, but still have no idea what we’re talking about…
They started off as a genuine channel, giving you small crafts you could do, and then fast became absurdist like gluing hooks to your forehead and hanging your coats on it.
I can understand how actual crafts enthusiasts would be offput by the change. Although, I will say…I kinda want to watch the videos about gluing hooks to your forehead and hanging coats. I’m imaging it SNL style. A husband and wife open the door to greet the couple they are going to host for the evening. And as they take their friends coats, they open the closet door, and there’s just a guy in the closet with hooks glued on his face. And they just hang their couples coats, while their friends just look on like “…what?”. And then, they do a tutorial on how to glue hooks to your face, so you can freak out your friend’s friends. You don’t have to be naked in the closet, but…it certainly is a route you could take if it’s that kind of a party! The tutorial would be done by Martha Stewart, in a very serious tone…but she’s just hot gluing hooks to a bunch of 20 year old stoners faces.
And then Martha Stewart could be like “When I hot glue some pretty boys faces, sometimes the glue gun burns their young little faces. It’s a good thing.” As it cuts to her absolutely intentionally burning some guys face with the metal tip of the glue gun while laughing maniacally.
I’d watch that show.
Gluing hooks to their foreheads sounds like something that budget cosplayer would do to make a Loki costume.
Sounds like an episode of Southpark
Apparently to this guy. I thought people knew this year’s ago. It only takes viewing like 2-3 videos to figure this out.
It’s news to me because I’ve never heard of it (or maybe just don’t remember hearing of it), so at least now I know to avoid it.
I knew it was a scam, but the details they went into were new to me.
Without watching the video but the bot thing is the harmless part. It‘s a starting point for a pipeline to Russian propaganda.
It’s news to me that it’s still around.
Good job nurse.
I’ve never heard of it I don’t think? To those who watched it and it was obviously a bit farm - what gave it away?
The comments.
There are quite a few clues and they really went digging, great investigation, but the main giveaway was the gap between account creation and comment time.
What an informative video! I had no idea and this was quite eye opening. Was surprised to hear about bright side as well. That one AI video of how to hold a pencil with over 1 billion views was pretty compelling.
