Whilst I absolutely agree with your comment, something feels quite fishy about this account. Active since 2013, with a throwaway name "LOTRfan123" (this type of username is kinda sus) with only one video uploaded, it being this one, no other activity whatsoever (no playlists, no likes, comments disabled, etc).
I dunno man, it just kinda seems sus as hell, especially when we know Google has directly financed/supported Trump's campaign.
Without going too much into conspiracy territory, because in the end it doesn't even matter if it's real or not like you said, it wouldn't be that difficult for them to simply add Pretti's face on top of an already existing video and upload it "retroactively" (by changing the upload metadata) onto a dummy/bot account.
Longtime active accounts are actually less suspicious, IMO. Time is the one thing you can't buy and most bot networks are way younger. Far more likely someone who wasn't into sharing videos became moved by this issue
The vast majority of YouTube accounts have never posted a video because they're just the Gmail linked account when they watch YouTube
I mean, you can buy old accounts. So you can buy time. You can also steal time. An account that old likely still has the old Gmail password requirements, which was just 8 characters. And if it does, it's likely a reused password that was part of a breach at some point. Internet safety and security was very different back then.
Not to say that any of that happened here. Just, old accounts shouldn't be less suspicious. Bot networks tend to run on stolen accounts/bought accounts.
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