(I’m aware that I’m giving this spam more attention by posting this, but I really wanted to share this weird behaviour.)
There are accounts whose sole purpose seems to be posting links to a certain blogspot blog. The posts of this blog only consist of YouTube videos, with very basic titles such as “Kangaroo Fight”, “Growing Strawberries”, etc.
Here are some example accounts I found via a web search (unfortunately the URLs of posts isn’t taken into account when searching on lemmy):
- (*) moist.catsweat.com/u/thegeeek / lemmy.world/u/thegeeek@moist.catsweat.com
- (*) moist.catsweat.com/u/katknapz / lemmy.world/u/katknapz@moist.catsweat.com
- europe.pub/u/cloverpi
- is.hardlywork.ing/u/Squog
I also found two other accounts that seem to be part of this, too, but they were already banned:
Another interesting discovery: Compare the two links for each of the accounts marked with (*). You will notice that the posts on moist.catsweat.com link to YouTube, but when viewing the posts from lemmy.world those same posts link to the blogspot. Why is that?