Someone then launch a horde of bots and suddenly views went up to 1100/1300 per hour In the first few hours I had around 30 to 50 views per hour, with an average watch time of 40/50 mn (Most probably coming from my subscribers and end screens or cards from my other videos) Every time I was posting a video of ~2 hours, this was happening: In my case I've been targeted for any long videos I was uploading. I talked with the Youtube support team (As I'm in the YPP) several times, and they just replied with 'It's normal to have very high views, at some point, for some hours after you published your videos and then that it came back to a lower value'. Does anyone else have any experience or ideas regarding bot-view attack prevention?ĭon't know if YT did something for you or not, here is my experience sharing. My channel is almost at 100k and I can't stomach the idea of it all being deleted because some losers decided to mess with my channel. The 'Fake Engagement Policy' is somewhat unclear about what will happen, since they don't specifically mention what happens when you're the target of an attack. All I can do is sit here and wait for YouTube to decide my fate.

But I feel really helpless because I don't know what to do now. I already demonetized the videos with lots of bot views to try to mitigate the potentially issues with AdSense. YouTube said they have a team investigating the issue, but what do I do now? I contacted YouTube Creator Support and filed an Invalid Click form on AdSense. It looks like an organized bot-attack (aka clickbomb) on my channel, probably with the hopes of getting my channel deleted. These views have produced ZERO likes, comments, and other engagement metrics. Over the past 2 weeks, I've been gaining MILLIONS (yes, millions) of suspicious looking views across lots of my videos.

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