Earlier this year, I set up a YouTube channel to post recordings of me reading fiction, poetry and miscellaneous other videos.
I don’t get a lot of views, but today I received a spam comment on this video that was even funnier than any I ever got here at WordPress:
Hey, A Ruined Chapel by Moonlight! I love your video! Keep it up. 🙂 I want to start making YouTube videos soon, too. [Link to Patreon page here, removed for obvious reasons] It would be so great if you could support me with a dollar to get things started because I need equipment for my videos. There’s no need to feel bad if you can’t, I still think you’re great and I wish you the best for you and your channel. This comment will be marked as spam because of the link, I’m sorry about that. Peace & Love, [Name withheld, again, obvious reasons]
Now, I am all for helping fellow YouTubers who are down on their luck. I might even have done it, too, except that despite the person’s professed love for my video, they didn’t bother to actually “like” it. My feeling is that if they couldn’t be bothered to do that, I really can’t pay them a dollar.
Am I too harsh?
I’d say you were kind to even read the whole thing!
Omg . I’m just imagining these people sitting in their shorts all day scamming for money. Maybe I should start.
Hey, chapel man, I need a few dollars for my goat herding endeavors. 🐐
Next they will be trying to start protection rackets… “Nice video ya got here… it would be a shame if someone disliked it…”
A while back you suggested that we read our WordPress spam because some is hysterical. I meant to do that and never have. Hopefully I will remember this with my mind like a sieve, and if I write a post about it, I will give you credit for the idea. I don’t want to end up in your spam! I would not send $$ to that guy either. Unless you corrected spelling, at least this person spells correctly. For some reason that makes a difference to me. I still wouldn’t send money…
That is a good point–I didn’t have to make a single correction. Shocking for a spam comment.
Still not worth money, though.