A shocking dislike discovery

A shocking dislike discovery!

Although I've never touched YouTube's Dislike button, others have every right to do so. Especially for some of the guitar videos I've uploaded over time. However, analyzing my dislikes reveals something strange. For all my videos I received 664 likes and 224 dislikes in total. Of those 224 dislikes, 199 came from Germany and the other 25 scattered from various countries.

Hmm, clearly in Germany someone doesn't - or some people don't - like my videos. Not that I received any negative comments by the way. He / they prefer(s) to stay anonymous. And I know of other YouTube guitar uploaders experiencing similar dislike behavior.

Here is my theory: some German YouTube guitar player (hint 1) playing the same genre (hint 2) thinks he knows how to raise high in YouTube searches. He uses multiple YouTube alias accounts (hint 3) to give Likes to his own videos (hint 4) and Dislikes to other guitar videos. He has every time of the world to do so (hint 5). Remember, logging in and out of multiple alias accounts, visiting all guitar players and disliking them takes a lot of time. Since he has multiple alias accounts, he uses those as well to praise his own videos shortly after uploading (hint 6). If you look at the profiles of those commenters you will see that these other alias accounts never upload anything, take care to not reveal anything about their YouTube behavior and all have similar channel pages (hint 7).

Now I'm the last one to accuse anybody. I'm just doing some crime scene investigation :-)

Press Like if you agree with me, and Dislike if you think I'm just a bad loser.

PS I'm not really shocked, just wanted to catch your attention.

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[klarifoon]

As you just already standed you're not the only one experiencing these strange stats-outcomes. I also noticed on his channel Tenntoad (Joe) had guessed before some German mutiple dislikes upon his uploads.

Nevertheless...just keep on uploading!

[bertbouw]

@klarifoon Dislikes won't stop me from uploading!

[porsche217]

Hi Bert,

do not believe any statistic you did not have created ( or counterfeited ;-) ) by yourself! Never have had a look to these things before but I guess it is not a country neither a group of people from one country only to play this game. There is any frustrated person anywhere trying to change the things. Be confident: Your music is as beautiful as it is. Period!

Don't matter the number of likes or whatever. Thank you for the shares and keep it up pls!

Cheers from Germany to Holland

Bernd

[bertbouw]

@porsche217 Thank you Brend!

[birkenweg42]

Sounds like you are on to me....

Seriously, you might be right about that. I noticed the numbers of your dislikes and it doesn't make any sense.

[bertbouw]

@birkenweg42 Actually I was on to you, but your comment made me change my mind :-)

[M0NAD33]

@bertbouw YT actually does apply rules based on IP activity for what its worth. There is an active struggle by social media companies to retard wholesale hijacking. The true extent of this activity is quite surprising. It is interesting you suspect a Kottke attack. This may be the case of the peculiar pecadillo.

[bertbouw]

@CFLanger You're absolutely right Chris!

[bertbouw]

@M0NAD33 yeah, I used YouTube's standard soundtracks and expected them to be faded out. Not the case apparently.

[bertbouw]

@M0NAD33 I doubt whether same IP addresses would be filtered out. There are too many NAT's (Network Address Translators) on the Internet. Anyway, as far as I know no ex's are involved :-)

[bertbouw]

@andrewlardner Yes, Leo Kottke is the focus area...

[bertbouw]

@Methos06wd I knew I wasn't the only one!

[bertbouw]

@Tenntoad Yes, he dropped by again :-)