June 2021 Patreon Exclusive VIDEO Oddcast (Patreon)

It’s time for another one-sided conversation from a nutter in an untidy bedroom.

As usual there’s an audio version of this in a separate post for the three people who prefer things heard and not seen.

https://youtu.be/n5G2_XhU-_s

00:00 Start

00:15 Family matters

08:40 Mobile video-making kit

20:35 Comments on comments

45:09 iMac’s missing function

49:48 Throwing good money after bad

54:38 Charles Wright’s TC8 mystery

1:00:21 The End

UPDATE re the random spam 'word salad' comments - their purpose has been determined.

It looks like the mystery has been solved - matsimpsk linked to a video about spamming and it seems that the spammers post these random comments in an attempt to appear as real legit commenters in the eyes of the YouTube spam detectors, so that they can then go on to post spam scam links elsewhere on YouTube without getting auto-detected as quickly.  

If a new account gets created and the first thing it posts is a dodgy link to a crypto pyramid scheme - it'd get auto-spotted and kicked off straight away. However if that's just one of thousands of comments posted by that account over a longer period of time then it'll likely fly under the radar.  So if you see these - report them, flag them or delete them if possible - to help prevent scams.