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> Roel Van de Paar, at this current time has 2,035,484 videos uploaded. > https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPF-oYb2-xN5FbCXy0167Gg

What the hell. It doesn't seems to be autogenerated video.

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I worked with him and he was as weird as you'd expect. He got let go after getting in someone's face for saying "oh my god", because it's "taking god's name in vain". (:

He used to do that back then too, AFAIK they were absolutely autogenerated.

(throwaway because I don't want him to harass me, he does do that too)

Would you be okay sharing if he is/was he based in the US? His name seems a bit European/Dutch to me.

Australia it seems: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/zCmAXjlJb8g

Also he specifically links Au version of Linkedin in his bio.

Thanks!

>His name seems a bit European/Dutch to me.

We allow those sorts of names in the US.

I'm aware, which is why I asked if they knew/could share info/details.

The videos seem to be done through a turk farm imo.

The start has a random intro to seem more human-like and the Question/Answer is basically copypasted and the font/style of delivery is very mediocre (and very distinctly cheap SEA format). The comments are the biggest giveaway though with multiple "Love from Bangladesh"s.

It looks like the kind of video spam that now shows up in searches for technical questions.

Those seem to be getting more common, it's very annoying. Another genre is autogenerated "product review" or "comparison" videos that are just ChatGPT-generated fluff copy read out by text-to-speech voice over a slideshow of product images, presumably to push an affiliate link in the description. Most of them get few if any views but they're so easy to make they just take the shotgun approach and hope some win the SEO lottery: https://i.imgur.com/xebU9os.png

That channel has some hits, they posted a monitor "review" which pulled 20k views and a few dozen comments from real-looking people seemingly unaware the channel is run by a Python script.

It pays to have an account if you don't - train that shit into oblivion!

These reviews where the whole video is a slideshow + robotic voiceover are so annoying. They contain 0% information, they're just a delivery vehicle for ads.

And there is a ton of them!

Its ok, you can recognize them by looking at number of downvo... oh, right.

I've come across that channel while looking for answers to programming problems and it's so annoying. He just rips stackoverflow questions/answers and puts a little intro at the beginning

Of course it's an autogenerated video lol.

What makes you think its not?

Interesting that YouTube seems unable to sort his videos my most popular - at least on my iOS app.

They are automatically generated I would say. The text is copied from somewhere else.

For instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLWJ0spQ5q0 the text is from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62840146/unix-create-mul...

There are several different intros with him talking but he has the same cold sore in every one of them...

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