>>57913477>What benefit do YouTube get exactly from manually removing subs?I think YouTube's behavior makes more sense once you know the types of scams and malware that they're fighting against. Remember the cryptoscam livestreams that were so prevalent in the last few years?
I've dealt with malware botnets that had the main purpose of running an invisible browser process on a victim's machine. They are very hard for YouTube to deal with because they look like the real user except they subbed to a hijacked channel and opened a livestream from that channel. The victim has no idea they're part of a botnet unless they examine their subs and view history.
Vtuber debuts getting hit it is probably a side-effect of looking a lot like hijacked users subbing to a suspicious account
>created a while ago>no recent history>recent profile and name change>and a lot of external subs from sources Youtube can't track and tripping some machine learning algo that YouTube engineers barely understand.