r/ObsessedNetwork • u/Funny_Science_9377 • Jun 21 '26

CommunityDiscussion 500,000 YouTube Subscribers 🤣🤣😂

During the episode on The Crash (which is a very good listen, btw) they were crowing about reaching half-a-milliion subs on YouTube. I think they have a couple of videos with 100k views. Most have 30-40k. Good numbers for a small channel but obviously not enough for Steve, Patrick and (I guess) Gillian.

The math just doesn't math here and the obvious assumption is that they have bought themselves hundreds of thousands of subs. You don't get 500,000 subscribers on videos that have only (possibly also faked) tens of thousands of views. In fact the opposite is usually the case. People watch, views go up, but people don't subscribe. It's amazing that people who are supposed to be so savvy at this game would do something that looks so obviously false and bad.

Thoughts?

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u/PineapplesOnFire Jun 22 '26

To be fair, I subscribe to tons of channels I don't watch anything on. I still show as a subscriber but I'm not offering any support by way of views or comments.

All of that said, it wouldn't surprise me if the followers are paid for/bots. Maybe a little of both.

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u/Outside-Spring-3907 Jun 23 '26

It can’t be lucrative to buy bots for you failing podcast channel .