DangMattSmith Spams Again: If It Ain't Broke, Why Fix It?

I wrote a blog post earlier this month to support JJJacksfilms where he pointed out to viewers than a huge youtuber named DangMattSmith who has been spamming YouTube by uploading the SAME videos continuously.

First, take a look at JJJacksfilms' video uploaded today where he shows the 8th time DangMattSmith has posted the same spammy video.

If you scroll through Matt's videos you can see the same videos again and again and again. Unchanged, all with the exact same thumbnail and if you look, the same content. As JJJacksfilms points out, this is clearly multiple violations of YouTube's Terms of Service but maybe the website doesn't really care because Matt has a YouTube channel with 15 million subscribers.

Wouldn't that lead one to speculate the website might be turning a blind eye because of all that sweet, sweet ad revenue?

What say you Google or YouTube?

Here's a link to my blog post called JJJacksfilms Smells Spam In DangMattSmith's Video if you want to read more and see JJJacksfilms' video.

What to do about a massive YouTube content creator gaming the system like this? Maybe flag the video as spam or leave a comment like Jack did, or go on X (aka Twitter) to publicly call Matt out while telling YouTube what's happening but that public airing of dirty laundry might not be your jam.

Let's take a look at Social Blade to see how Matt's channel is doing in the views department.

It looks like a consistent decline in monthly views since at least January 2023 where Matt's now getting something like 6 million per month. That reduction in views would suggest a corresponding decline in Adsense revenue, but I can't speak on that because I obviously cannot see his revenue totals.

You just have to wonder what's going on with Matt's channel. New subscribers seem to have dried up, ad revenue is dropping alongside reduced viewership.

Maybe the channel subscribers see a "new" video posted on Matt's channel and think "Hey... I've already watched that. Wasn't it posted a month ago?" and click someone else's original, fresh content. That would be my guess.