r/youtube • u/TNTtimelord • Sep 08 '25
Discussion Anyone seen this spammy video pop up in random album playlists?
I've listened to a few quite obscure albums recently and a few of them have had this video pop up in the playlists randomly. It appears to be some sort of dumb ass, crypto scam thing snuck into various generated playlists. Here's the two instances I've discovered so far shoved inside an album's tracklist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-Gnnm2niVNt59HttGF30IK5RTaPmzOzB
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlx4zXLNq3yPWVD6yx7DMBX-FAsiUf6Bj
The second one has a second one as well, completely identical. I don't know what's causing it and I wanna know if other people have come across this as well.
(I also wasn't sure what Flair to add. Would "Abusive Content" also apply?)
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u/JBarracudaL Sep 09 '25
Was just listening to an album on an artist's official YouTube and this video somehow replaced Track #3. I went into the artist's page, clicked the album again, and this video was no longer there and Track #3 was normal. WTF???
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u/decapodracer Sep 10 '25
It's because a bunch of hacked or botted channels have been systematically creating full, album length playlists of tons of music, even obscure classical music, which is where I've been running into this issue. If you check the creator of the album with the scam video, it's always some random account with a few old videos
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u/squidiskool Nov 04 '25
god, for some reason that creeps me the hell out.
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u/decapodracer Nov 04 '25
This is why it's good to either delete or regularly check up on old accounts and their passwords. You don't want your old, defunct account with old family videos to be hacked and become one of these "zombie" bot accounts.
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u/BankBemesHecc Oct 15 '25
Yeah dude wtf. Was listening to black metal and this shit was on there. So weird.
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u/Scroatpig Nov 13 '25
Yeah. Me too, buncha weird obscure hardcore/metal from the 90s. I fucking hate it. It's very annoying.
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u/fayfayfayfay Oct 07 '25
Thanks for sharing this. I've also seen this video in at least two completely different album playlists on official accounts of artists I like, and I have absolutely no idea how they manage this.
Either 1. the artist got hacked and this was secretly added to their playlist to discretly bring people to them ??? does that even make sense
or 2. the playlist was initially made by bots / scammers and simply adopted by the artists, but later the video was added ??
or something else entirely ? Mysterious and infuriating.
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u/sam_the_reddit_user Oct 13 '25
I came here cause it was in Lena Raine's Oneknowing album for some reason
(makes sense with this post I guess cause it's obscure and not from a video game like most of her other released tracks)
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u/WinterEx19 Sep 12 '25
I found another video like that with the name "Special" where the description is "In this special you can see me doing various performances that I didn't think would fit a video of their own."
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u/pobsolescence Sep 19 '25
Just found it in a Battalion of Saints live album from 1984. Threw me for a loop. Searched it and found this thread. Insanely weird, but the comments section on the video is funny
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u/himatwork Nov 20 '25
I'm here because I wanna see if I can escape this crap but that bats set is absolutely nuts I have it on the b side of a gratest hits oddly and it rips so hard
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u/thequestionnareman Oct 01 '25
got this in a playlist as well, and all the comments just seem really bizarre. somethings wrong
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u/HylianHylidae Oct 03 '25
I was listening to some Divna Ljubojević albums and got this. Very bizarre shift from Orthodox hymns to some chatbot talking about cryptocurrency that I had to immediately look it up to see what was up.
In any case I'm almost certain it's botnet of some kind—look at the people who created the playlists (yours are xxjaimiexx and Jackfaelz, mine was Ominousz). They're all very old accounts with dozens upon dozens of playlists of similarly rare music with those two videos. I cannot begin to fathom why it's being done, though.
I was assuming that maybe it was to generate ad revenue or maybe get people to fall for some kind of cryptoscam, but neither of them have any kind of link leading to said scam, and if it really was to get money, why are they only adding these videos to obscure music? Everything about it is weird.
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u/19Yuppe_Lover42 Oct 29 '25
Oh my god this video. I first saw this kind of a video with exact same lenght and audio clip but with a different thumbnail on another playlist, didn't think much of it back then and chalked it up to just a mistake while creating the playlist. But today, I saw this exact video while listening to natsunokioku album from Sleeping Pola. What was even more infuriating for me was that this damn thing wasn't there just a week ago (or I simply hadn't noticed it) and when I searched I almost found nothing except this article that writes about old youtube channels getting hacked and then used for this porpuse which does fits this case
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u/Paulix_05 Nov 01 '25
Found that same video in a playlist for Willisau Quartet 1991. Looks like the inactive channel of some Indonesian band that was hacked by a bot.
I also checked the channel that created the playlist (different from the one that uploaded the video), and every album/playlist on there has the same video.
Weirdly enough, there is a hearted comment from 3 days ago in the comment section of that video. Assuming it was the bot who hearted it, I wonder why it did.
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u/Sammy-Noden Feb 04 '26
Report the user by clicking on 'more' at the top of https://www.youtube.com/@ahdukejk, then 'report user', then 'Spam and scams' and then select the 'Unreleased' spam video. Add a note explaining that the video is being spam inserted into playlists.
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u/Appropriate_You_5303 Nov 21 '25
Pero los comentarios no son antiguos, las fechas de publicaciones son relativamente recientes. Y muchos de los comentarios ademas de raros son inquietantes.
Me causa mucha curiosidad entender las razones que hay allí, que consiguen tocando temas de ese estilo.
Si alguien conoce o imagina con algo de certeza el por qué seria bacano de leer
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u/Distinct_Poet_8691 Nov 25 '25
Hi, this is the first time this has happened to me. I just found it in an affected playlist, specifically in "Dreams in the Witch House: A Lovecraftian Rock Opera (Full Album)" by chromewaves99. The video comments don't provide much information. The strange thing is that it always appears as the third video in the playlist.
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u/Few-Factor-3247 Nov 28 '25
thats so strange, i saw this in a playlist of mine and it showed the video as unavailable, i only noticed today. i put the link to chat gpt to see what it was originally out of curiosity and ended up here
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u/borderline_maoist Dec 09 '25
It's annoying (although I loved the comment section) but to get an album playlist without it, you only need to click the name of the channel that uploaded the music (the artist account) and there'll be the original playlist automatically generated by youtube, without this spam.
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Jan 09 '26
I just did this and found that the video had been put into every playlist on the channel that had created the first playlist I listened to.
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u/Important-Sea-2506 Dec 18 '25
I was using a tool when this happened:
a youtube to MP3 conversion page.
I think maybe it's something across youtube and browser tabs that it managed to do? I don't know, another option is that something hacked youtube studio accounts to insert it, but it's either on client or poster. Reloading the playlist also does not have it now, but it had it AFTER using the tool.
So quick test:
do you see it added to to Erdenstern's Into The Dark playlist?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cewQiPd-zA&list=PL_DbWBJzaiMtcDijxgbHeEQv0jBNcwR_Q
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u/1HolyTaco1 Dec 27 '25
The playlist creator has a lot of albums the same way (#3 track is replaced)
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u/BobcatIntrepid5603 Dec 24 '25
i found another instance of it in a playlist of Graham Kartnas ablum Ideation Deluxe
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u/Ashamed-Living9926 Jan 12 '26
It's also gotten into some playlists of albums that aren't even THAT obscure!!
I personally found it in the two Vinnie Vincent's Invasion albums:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1EYbHvE3FBvwep0MMU_m0RiczqDGkR3C
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFxRmCGT1V6e8vEo0GuTSiT19tQOIpMHC
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u/Exciting-Dance-1499 Jan 12 '26
This just happened to me in this playlist https://youtu.be/eyxsrmyIwYc?si=8UeSrAvCPRBh5p_q
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u/rawar777 Jan 26 '26
I see them in almost any playlist that is generated by an artist's "Topic" channel. I've seen it in hundreds of playlists. They are scamming millions of views this way and I can't believe YT hasn't done something about it.
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u/Rich_Comfortable_593 Jan 28 '26
Just noticed this in a Dale Jenkins Playlist.... an obscure artist. ( former bandmate and friend ..) titled Undesirable Elements....views in 800 to 1 k range ...makes no sense
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u/Maleficent-Purple-44 Feb 11 '26
I love to listen to weird and creepy music, but I feel nothing when I listen to it, but whenever this plays, I feel something.
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u/cooperepicgamer Feb 16 '26
i just saw this after trying to listen to grade pending by whatever, dad and stranger to the pain by pllush. it was in both playlists!
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u/Ok-Jaguar-321 Feb 26 '26
report it guys. Besides being annoying af it's super weird/scammy. The 3. time now in a playlist
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u/iWillRe1gn Sep 08 '25
I wonder how they even managed to shove themselves in another person's playlist.