r/SpaceXLounge • u/Jake6192 • May 28 '24

Fake livestreams Same as always

So sad but there are currently 300k people watching "IFT-4" streamed on YouTube. What they don't know is that it's a fake spacex channel (fairly well disguised I will give them that), and in reality they are watching IFT-1. If you get a minute, report @corp-spacex2 for impersonation on youtube. Maybe those 300k people are bots but still, sick and tired of these fake channels

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u/majikmonkie May 29 '24

Nearly all of the viewers will be bots - doesn't look like a credible feed if there's only 23 people viewing, so they'll pad the numbers with fake accounts and bots.

The legit people that are tricked by this will figure it out eventually once Elon comes on talking about how they should buy some sort of crypto.

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u/mfb- May 29 '24

Enough people fall for the crypto scam to make these streams profitable - otherwise they wouldn't exist.

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u/agildehaus May 30 '24

Is that true? Sometime I wonder if the scammers think it's true because there are other fake streams, and then it's just a feedback loop.

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u/TheBlacktom May 30 '24

How long will you continue doing something in hopes of payment, without actual payment?

You know, come work in my garden, you can make lots of money.