Should I be skeptical?

[iButtonsi]

Hi Guys! I am Buttons!

I have a slight worry over on my channel, here's how it goes.

Yesterday night (2 am est) I was checking my analytics, and I had 40 subscribers.
Awesome right! I think so.

I woke up at 8am est, and saw I had gained 104, (144 total)
This made my eyebrows raise, I was ecstatic at first then I was worried.
an hour after that it dropped to 118...

So I think someone bought subscribers?
Is that a thing? and can I get in trouble for it, it doesn't bring me viewers, and I would never do it for any reason.

TLDR; I got a lot of subscribers in 6 hrs, dropped a few in an hour, now worried someone bought me subscribers. Will i get in trouble?

 

[BitsOfBen]

Even if someone bought you subs I don't think it's going to get you into trouble! Compared to the bigger things that can get you in trouble on youtube, this isn't even a blip off the radar. I could be wrong but just keep making awesome content!

 

[iButtonsi]

Even if someone bought you subs I don't think it's going to get you into trouble! Compared to the bigger things that can get you in trouble on youtube, this isn't even a blip off the radar. I could be wrong but just keep making awesome content!

What I planned on, I just wanted to know.

Thanks!

 

[BossKnight]

While buying subs for a channel as a prank isn't harmful in the way of you getting into trouble with YouTube, it can be harmful to your reputation and your channel.

You're right, buying subs isn't bringing in views and people will notice. I had 700 subs and was getting around 5k views for my main content on my channel but then I changed the direction of my channel and I get 20 views and I'm down to 630 subs. People have been accusing me of paying for subscribers ever since the major drop in views happened. People aren't going to want to subscribe to someone or engage with someone they think are scamming the system to have higher numbers.

Anyways, people pranking small channels with things like fake subs is a real thing. It doesn't get you into trouble like if they had bought a few thousand views for a video or two of yours since YouTube will see the fake views and shut you down for suspicious activity. Buying subs is a way to keep people from losing their channel and to screw with them. My advice is be careful and keep a close eye on your analytics. People will also buy likes and dislikes and YouTube will see them as fake views as well so you are left without a channel and videos with like 500,000 dislikes to add insult to injury. A friend of mine had someone do 100,000 dislikes to 3 of his videos and his channel is shut down and now if you go to his channel you'd just assume his stuff really sucks because he has 3 videos with over 100,000 dislikes.

Some people just have no lives, man.

 

[iButtonsi]

While buying subs for a channel as a prank isn't harmful in the way of you getting into trouble with YouTube, it can be harmful to your reputation and your channel.

You're right, buying subs isn't bringing in views and people will notice. I had 700 subs and was getting around 5k views for my main content on my channel but then I changed the direction of my channel and I get 20 views and I'm down to 630 subs. People have been accusing me of paying for subscribers ever since the major drop in views happened. People aren't going to want to subscribe to someone or engage with someone they think are scamming the system to have higher numbers.

Anyways, people pranking small channels with things like fake subs is a real thing. It doesn't get you into trouble like if they had bought a few thousand views for a video or two of yours since YouTube will see the fake views and shut you down for suspicious activity. Buying subs is a way to keep people from losing their channel and to screw with them. My advice is be careful and keep a close eye on your analytics. People will also buy likes and dislikes and YouTube will see them as fake views as well so you are left without a channel and videos with like 500,000 dislikes to add insult to injury. A friend of mine had someone do 100,000 dislikes to 3 of his videos and his channel is shut down and now if you go to his channel you'd just assume his stuff really sucks because he has 3 videos with over 100,000 dislikes.

Some people just have no lives, man.

Wow man, that is really despicable... having someone do that to your content that you put hard work into has to hurt... a lot. There are just some people who want to see people unhappy or take out competition which really sucks.

 

[Kelly Gets Fit]

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Hi Guys! I am Buttons!

I have a slight worry over on my channel, here's how it goes.

Yesterday night (2 am est) I was checking my analytics, and I had 40 subscribers.
Awesome right! I think so.

I woke up at 8am est, and saw I had gained 104, (144 total)
This made my eyebrows raise, I was ecstatic at first then I was worried.
an hour after that it dropped to 118...

So I think someone bought subscribers?
Is that a thing? and can I get in trouble for it, it doesn't bring me viewers, and I would never do it for any reason.

TLDR; I got a lot of subscribers in 6 hrs, dropped a few in an hour, now worried someone bought me subscribers. Will i get in trouble?

know that YouTube is having trouble counting the subscribers until 30th of this month x But don't worry about it x Keep making great videos x

 

[iButtonsi]

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know that YouTube is having trouble counting the subscribers until 30th of this month x But don't worry about it x Keep making great videos x

It actually just fixed it self, my phone said 100+ then I went to desk top and it was back where it was.

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[AlexGYQ]

Yes, i woke up this morning to 2 new subs which is very unlikely to have happened. I don't even get views at night usually(I get 0 views when it's sleeping hours), but I got 2 subs. That's weird.

 

[iButtonsi]

Yes, i woke up this morning to 2 new subs which is very unlikely to have happened. I don't even get views at night usually(I get 0 views when it's sleeping hours), but I got 2 subs. That's weird.

2 subs is 2 subs man, never know when people cant sleep!

 

[AlexGYQ]

2 subs is 2 subs man, never know when people cant sleep!

Well, based on my analytics YouTube has been closing inactive accounts so I was expecting a few of my subs to be deleted(since I have 50+ dead subs from a few years back), and I've not been promoting these few days so i was also expecting a dip in views. But yeah, whatever 2 subs is awesome haha.

TLDR - All the data points towards lower views and subs, but I got the 2 subs at night which is also the most unlikely time period.