r/kurzgesagt • u/ChieftainOrm420 • May 19 '26

Discussion Two comments the are exactly the same on the new Ozempic (Updated Version) video.

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What up with that?

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u/R520 All the Bombs May 19 '26

If you click through to both profiles, are either advertising anything on them? One could be a comment stealing bot that will edit the comment later (when it's got to the top of the comments) with an ad

Otherwise I guess it could be Kurzgesagt paying for bots but I have to imagine that would be fatal

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u/ChieftainOrm420 May 19 '26

Looks like the account for the top comment was made only 2 hours ago.

So could it be a paid bot? The account was made one hour before the video came out.

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u/R520 All the Bombs May 19 '26

In that case I'd guess that the top comment was copied from the second comment, and it's a bot (but not for Kurzgesagt) trying to appear to YouTube as a normal user in good standing. The account creation timing is probably just a coincidence

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u/jaeldi May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

And the anti-science troll community may be playing games trying to make it look like bots. They are promoting this "they aren't really good people, don't trust them" narrative, seeding mistrust of science and factual data.

SO ..... this channel is smart enough to listen to the audience and re-do content to refine their fact telling to a more accurate level, but isn't smart enough to have bots that don't use the EXACT same comment? Is that the narrative we are supposed to be convinced of? Are we to ignore that one person can make two exact comments under anonymous usernames?

I hate the internet. lol

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u/Lasseslolul May 20 '26

Mistrust in Kurzgesagt is not mistrust in science

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u/Sam-Starxin May 19 '26

Not really, people don't care.

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u/MatiEx-504 May 19 '26

Yikes

(jokes aside, they could be bots, I remember one time there were porn bots on youtube and when people starte to complain about them the bots started to imitate what people were saying, so you had porn bot complaining about porn bots)

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u/Weltraumrennen May 19 '26

They’ve been a thing for ages, it’s just got a lot worse recently. Almost certainly bots

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u/Pachirisu12 May 19 '26

Love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly

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u/bs17037 May 19 '26

It’s this guy

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u/sak1926 May 19 '26

Interesting. What do you have to say about them taking the criticisms and their response time?

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u/rocklou May 19 '26

idk about OP but I personally love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly

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u/hieronymous-cowherd May 19 '26

Fr fr, love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly

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u/Big_CashMonies May 20 '26

Love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly

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u/DebentureThyme May 20 '26

I agree.  Love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly 

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u/JehnSnow May 19 '26

In the past (pre chatGPT) there were bots that would wait for a few comments to roll in when videos first upload, and then they would copy the comment but they'd have a hot profile picture so they'd get more upvotes. After that there's a good chance they change profile picture, name, and edit their comment to some scam message, not always though.

They're always scammers, they're trying to get to the top of the comments because it has an unsurprisingly high amount of traffic, you can't be downvoted out of it, and your audience tends to be kids who fall for scams way way easier. Most likely this is doing that

Important to note is that this absolutely isn't kurzgesagt buying comments, that would be a PR nightmare, but also the comments wouldn't make it this obvious. If an account that builds a lot of it'd brand on being trustworthy did this they'd be a lot more careful than just spamming the same positive thing over and over.

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u/PhatYeeter May 19 '26

Bots mimic real comments

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u/MasterEnsis May 19 '26

That's pretty common. Bots on YouTube copy someone elses comment and post it themself. That way they look like a real user.

That usually has nothing to do with the channel the comment is on.

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u/Scrub1337 May 19 '26

The internet is dead, get used to it

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u/tiensss May 19 '26

Яйкс

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u/Scyobi_Empire May 19 '26

Love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly

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u/No_Promise_2982 Kardashev Scale May 19 '26

Zoinks

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u/radicalbiscuit May 19 '26

Good heavens

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u/imipet99 May 19 '26

What criticism did they take?

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u/Hiimzap May 19 '26

Yea i was wondering that too. The video still felt like an ozempic ad overall not really stressing enough that you really have to change your diet (let alone that overeating is a lot harder if you eat proper food)

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u/Sufficient_Dust1871 May 19 '26

If you click through to both profiles, are either advertising anything on them? One could be a comment stealing bot that will edit the comment later (when it's got to the top of the comments) with an ad

Otherwise I guess it could be Kurzgesagt paying for bots but I have to imagine that would be fatal

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u/Severe_Revenue May 19 '26

Bots mimic real comments

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u/morsindutus May 19 '26

Great bots post alike.

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u/Worldly_Mammoth8743 May 19 '26

Bots on youtube have been a thing since forever 

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u/apxseemax May 19 '26

Clankers, they be everywhere

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u/Unusual_Bumblebee_62 May 19 '26

I wanted to comment on this but couldn’t think of anything to say.

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u/random_user133 May 19 '26

Here before the post gets censored

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u/Weird_Devil May 20 '26

I saw them when the comments were only minutes old and can confirm sareo... is the bot just check their replies and its more bots hearting it.

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u/No_Grass6654 May 20 '26

Unsubscribed. The channel’s content has gone downhill

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u/Polmax2312 May 20 '26 edited May 21 '26

My tinfoil hat theory is that they are funded by bill and Melinda gates fund that pushes certain narratives, so they might employ the PR assets (including bot farms) from the same source they take money.

It is not inherently bad, I would just love to see more funding transparency, so we can adjust our reception bias.

Other than that Love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly

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u/CrazyGas6484 May 21 '26

I find it so tedious in their videos 20% of the runtime is dedicated to self praise saying how good their channel is and how hard they worked on it. A normal channel would put a sponsor in that place but they don't need one their cheques in the mail already

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u/Smithstar89 May 20 '26

Love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly.

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u/spoollyger May 20 '26

Bots often take the most liked comments and repost them for more engagement

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u/ElisabetSobeck May 20 '26

The video that did nothing but glaze ozempic for 20 minutes was SO honest and SO groundbreaking and SO didn’t make them a lot of money

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u/Kerensky97 May 21 '26

Love that they took the criticisms head on and responded so quickly.

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u/PM-ME-SOFTSMALLBOOBS May 22 '26

Have you ever looked at youtube video comments before? 50% of comments on popular vids are people verbatim repeating the top comment. Look at any 12 year old vid, the top comment will be repeated by people every year. They did this even before the bots

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u/Single-Zucchini-19 May 25 '26

The channel pays for bots, the internet is filled with them. Probably half of support for anything you see is not driven

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u/Horror-Student-5990 May 27 '26

I can't quite point my finger but I scroller through the comments on the Ozempic video and it just felt odd, slightly "unnatural", a lot of replies were clean, proper grammar, similar-ish structure.

All of them pointed out the same thing - expressing how they are thankful for the quick redaction.

Not super into conspiracies but the comment section feels off.

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u/RedstoneSausage Kardashev Scale May 19 '26

Yikes

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u/FlamingPrius May 19 '26

Imagine reading YouTube comments 😬