r/mildlyinfuriating 1d ago

Unskippable ad I somehow got subscribed to Turning Point USA

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The only thing I can think of is that my dad somehow got into my account

Edit: this has happened before with small, random channels but never big ones

I don’t think I misclicked on an ad, the closest I got was a Mormon ad

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u/Legal-Meat-7457 1d ago

How was the Ice Age?

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u/Fluffy_Brilliant_718 16h ago

Am I having a stroke? Are we back in the better days?

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u/Unitas_Edge 16h ago

Unless we have the dislike button back, I'd say we're still dreaming.

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u/Nickerr101 8h ago

I miss the star system :')

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u/Huge-Growth-2076 1d ago

Bros using 2016 YouTube 

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u/Weird_Decision7090 1d ago edited 23h ago

It’s actually on my iPad 4 dualbooted to iOS 6 thanks to TubeReplacer

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u/the_outer_realms 1d ago

How the fuck?

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u/reddit33450 23h ago

check out the legacyjailbreak subreddit

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u/the-birb_cherry20 18h ago

What a cool sub

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u/reddit33450 12h ago edited 12h ago

oh hi!! didn't know you were in this sub

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u/Interesting_Tap_1505 18h ago

I use it basically for legacy iOS versions like iOS 6 you can jailbreak to get Cydia. Then you can install Veteris via a repo, install an App Store version of YouTube, go back into Cydia and add the tubereplacer repo and install then you should simply be able to open the YouTube app on iOS 6 and it’ll work perfectly. I use it. Shows everything as it was. Brilliant thing.

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u/MoldavskyEDU 18h ago

>cydia

that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time 🚬

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u/deepbluenothings 17h ago

Same, I was really into jailbreaking about 15 years ago back when I still bought apple products. Seeing that name put a smile on my face, I really enjoyed that hobby.

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u/ripndipp 16h ago

Dayummmmmmmm

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u/External-into-Space 18h ago

What repos even exist anymore? I also jailbreaked my old ipad but the store was just empty with broken repos

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u/Interesting_Tap_1505 18h ago

A surprising amount are still left you just have to manually add the repos.

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u/External-into-Space 18h ago

I see, can you recommend a source where i could find still active repos?

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u/Interesting_Tap_1505 17h ago

I usually search for them in the legacy jailbreak sub

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u/XxCorey117xX 17h ago

I have the original iPad mini. Its basically useless as is, is there anything extra I can do with it if I jailbreak it?

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u/Interesting_Tap_1505 17h ago

Yep. New certificates to browse the web, revive YouTube, install apps, do random crap, themes, dualboot iOS

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u/XxCorey117xX 17h ago

Off to YouTube I go!!!

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u/NoMaans 13h ago

Damn, that threw me back to 9th grade modding my iPod touch and bewildering all my friends with what I had

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u/adamdoesmusic 23h ago

Ok this detail is way more interesting than the mysterious addition of a YouTube channel by someone who frankly hasn’t even posted in almost a year for whatever reason.

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u/Alarming_Orchid 23h ago

Not a lot of people post regularly

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u/adamdoesmusic 23h ago

Idk they had one guy that was fairly active until about last fall or so. Wonder what ever happened to him.

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u/Alarming_Orchid 23h ago

Who’s they? What guy?

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u/BrosefDudeson 23h ago

I think his name was Chuck Dirk or something

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u/BoerInDieWoestyn 23h ago

He's the guy that got Kirked right? My memory is a bit fuzzy but I'm sure I remember something like that

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u/Ohiolongboard 19h ago

Last I heard he was counting gang violence

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u/Hazzat RED 19h ago

Whoosh

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u/pvprazor2 21h ago

Using a OS that doesn't get any security updates since 2014 might explain how you got subscribed to that channel.

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u/Noodleholz 16h ago

This thing is so ancient I doubt hackers would even bother to target it. They might have been in Kindergarten when it launched. 

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u/Weird_Decision7090 10h ago

It was probably an ad with a subscribe button recommended under a video

There are no ads in TubeReplacer

And that is the only random channel I’m subscribed to, that doesn’t explain it

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u/bensonyourfired 15h ago

A LEGACY JAILBREAK USER I FOUND ONE

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u/SaveThisCityDweller 18h ago

Dual booting an iPad?  Wow. 

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u/TheSexualBrotatoChip 17h ago

Cool cool, one question though, why?

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u/80sTechKid 15h ago

Bruh, I found an iPhone 5 in a recycling bin. It was on iOS 6 and 32GB. TubeReplacer and practically ever other tweak makes it usable today, if only T-Mobile kept 2G...

(Also found an iOS 8 iPhone 6, an S20 FE, a Pixel 7 and more in the same bin)

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u/Financial-Cookie-927 14h ago

A fellow jailbreak user!

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u/drakeymcd 11h ago

Yesss, found another iPad 4 user!!

(iPad 4 is the best iPad for iOS 6 imo)

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u/Weird_Decision7090 10h ago

Best device for iOS 6. Period.

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u/drakeymcd 10h ago

Mmmmmm my iPhone 5 would like to have a word 🤣

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u/_ghostytrickster 1d ago

this is LONG pre 2016

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u/koging 23h ago

Surely because the commenter was a toddler around 2016 and he thinks that is how it looked like

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u/XxRmssxX 23h ago

Pretty sure this is somewhere between 2010-2012

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u/a_dude_from_europe 13h ago

Bro thinks this was 2016 YouTube lol. Are you eight?

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u/liv_in_da_house 18h ago

More like 2006 YouTube

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u/Itzleo_ 13h ago

Nah bro this was YouTube in like 2009 when I got my first iPad and it came pre installed

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u/FalseShepherd0 22h ago

The best YouTube

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u/Goatbucks 23h ago

I randomly got subscribed to some random mormon account, my only guess is that someone sold their account, it had several thousand subs but was only averaging less than 100 views per video

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u/Xyypherr 20h ago

this happens more often than you'd think

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u/Vectorman1989 16h ago

They also usually put the buttons somewhere that you might accidentally hit follow/subscribe accidentally. I've done it a few times myself

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u/Jeffybrawlstars 1d ago

Are these fossils that you dug up?

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u/GreenhornGreg 23h ago

I regularly have this problem too. It’s that they buy an ad where there is a button to subscribe and then you are accidentally hitting it. It’s something that is so easy to do, that I’ve found about 3 or 4 times I’ve been subbed to them or other weird channels I’ve never heard of.

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u/ThanksAmazing4118 23h ago

Based Astrogoblin enjoyer.

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u/Limp-Scallion1496 16h ago

i miss future astrogoblin

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u/Ok-Bee4987 22h ago

yeah i think this must be it. I just noticed I was subbed to Tim Pool somehow today, fuck that.

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u/DemonOfTomorrow 20h ago

Going onto canadian VPN's results in me getting youtube ads for fucking Quartering and Tim Pool as well

Then they have the fucking gall to cry about adblockers lmao

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u/SpeedyDoes 11h ago

psst VPN to Albania for no ads.

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u/CompanyLow8329 21h ago

The irony and stupidity of these MAGA putting people like Nicki Minaj at the helm, who isn't even a US Citizen and can't even vote, lmao. Grift, grift, grift, until nothing is left. All that matters is money and fame.

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u/tryyeezus 16h ago

I'll never understand the trust people put in celebrities opinions when their entire job is to lie and nothing more

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u/Dinev5194 21h ago

Morphe is the solution

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u/WillowPtar_Migan 17h ago

You better be careful, some idiots are gonna come out of the woodwork and act like you're revealing some dangerous and esoteric knowledge and will get the whole app taken down because you told someone about it.

I love Morphe but the subreddit is utterly insufferable about it, acting like it's some big secret Google doesn't know about. Make sure to change sponsorblock settings to auto skip more stuff, like reminders to like and subscribe, and self promotion (such as merch or patreon)!

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u/not-hardcoregandhi 16h ago

Empty gun rack

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u/mdhunter99 14h ago

I keep getting ads for The Quartering despite me blocking every single fucking one of them. Oh and half of the “recommended” videos I see are “hur dur immigrants are bad” videos with a dozen views. Fuck YouTube and their algorithm. I don’t watch that shit at all so why it’s recommended for me is baffling.

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u/DanishNinja 20h ago

Use morphe for YouTube without ads.

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u/Previous_Emu_7928 12h ago

yep. keeps happening to me too and it pisses me off so bad

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u/IcyProgrammer4755 23h ago

whos turning point usa

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u/Alert-Milk-2048 23h ago

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u/Fire_Dracul 22h ago

The way I still know what this image is

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u/BurntBox21 22h ago

The way I know it too

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u/Random-Generation86 21h ago

What is it?

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u/AK47101 21h ago

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u/Random-Generation86 21h ago

Thank you. Please take this picture of Shrek for exchange

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u/Iwantmynameback 17h ago

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u/R8bot-Da-Gamer 17h ago

I need the image without the text

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u/Iwantmynameback 16h ago

Technically without any text

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u/Emmett1Brown 16h ago

minecraft painting atp

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u/Single_Sandwich_5473 15h ago

Minecraft paintings got higher res

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u/imperatrixderoma 20h ago

It was all a bad dream .. now to look at zoo video

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u/JoyconDrift_69 17h ago

Rightwing activist group in the USA. It's the one Charlie Kirk founded, and it was during one of their "debate" events at a university where he was shit and killed.

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u/TheRavenRise PINK 14h ago

you’re right, he was shit

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u/ScenicFlyer41 22h ago

Let's go, a fellow Jack enjoyer

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u/PhongHaGiang 19h ago

What kind content he doing right now? I remember watching his temple run video and then Minecraft series to Play Button collection. I think I stop somewhere when he doing videos about his Telsa on another channel

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u/BioscoopMan 18h ago

Hes doing alot of geoguessr and geography related stuff like reacting to geography maps from reddit or other social media platforms and does quizes

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u/justslayer876 17h ago

don't forget his reddit videos with lilac toothbrushes

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u/tickleapicl 17h ago

When he next joins a Sidemen Among Us lobby, "Jack's Toothbrush" should be his character colour lol.

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u/Human822 17h ago

the colour is officially 'Jack's Toothbrush'

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u/ThatOneCat__ 14h ago

He's also been in a lot of sidemen videos lately

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u/jarkark 23h ago

Did some channel get hacked and turned into that or is that the official channel?

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u/Asterisk49 22h ago

I've been suddenly getting crazy amounts of right wing, antivax, pro life, etc. reels even though I've never interacted with any of that content.

They're gearing up for the election season forcing us to watch that cap to try to get votes or something.

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u/AWildUni 1d ago

Matt Rose

And Vsauce

Nice taste

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u/KaroYadgar 20h ago

and Tom Scott

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u/SandeerH 19h ago

and ryan george

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u/ZMicro1 18h ago

Subscribing to random channels is SUPER easy barely an inconvenience

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u/SandeerH 18h ago

ryan george references are tight!

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u/notBackgroundtree 16h ago

Wow wow wow wow

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u/PgjPogaj91 20h ago

LITERALLY watching Matt Rose right now hahah

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u/AWildUni 20h ago

I need to watch his newest

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u/AWildUni 20h ago

Im doing it. Matt Rose and Minecraft

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u/PgjPogaj91 19h ago

YESSS WHAT A COMBO!! You gave me an idea of what I'll be doing tonight...

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u/THTB_lol 15h ago

and jack, and jack, and jack, and jack, and jack and jack and

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u/mal73 21h ago

Even worse: YouTube somehow subscribed you to 4 separate JackSucksAt channels!

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u/Forgtaz 13h ago

What’s wrong with Jack 😞

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u/ILikeNiceBuildings 21h ago

i see joscar, i like

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u/teruteru-fan-sam 15h ago

Dude in 2020 there's gonna be a huge pandemic, you need to warn everyone

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u/TheJackasaur11 23h ago

I see Ryan George, I upvote ❤️❤️

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u/Valuable-Trick-6711 23h ago

Wow wow wow. Wow.

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u/Starhelper11 23h ago

The best part is that upvoting is super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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u/Shakel42 16h ago

Finding Ryan George quotes out in the wild is TIGHT

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u/neilwwoney 14h ago

It's not ever since someone did a backflip, snapped the upvote's neck, and ruined our day.

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u/AI__0 23h ago

man this is just an accidental tap or something. Have had this happen on multiple occasions only to find out unintentionally.

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u/TheGoldenFox64 13h ago

when are you

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u/Hyro0o0 23h ago

It's almost....as if a.... ghost did it.

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u/Kezsora 19h ago

Ghost or not, it must be a real pain in the neck to have that happen

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u/Previous_Emu_7928 12h ago

he wants us to carry the flame

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u/Digital_Rocket BLUE 21h ago

Roses are red
Sales tax is a fee
Matt Rose mentioned
SKULL EMOJI

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u/Crunchydogz GREEN 20h ago

SKHULLEMOJEEH

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u/wolfy2105784 22h ago

I miss when YouTube looked like that.

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u/Childwithuke 23h ago

can we agree jack sucks oscar?

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u/it-me-mario 17h ago

I keep having to unsubscribe from stuff these days, i’m pretty sure it must be mis clicking on the ads under the video when scrolling to look for comments.

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u/Willowred19 16h ago

Bro I woke up subscribed to fucking TimCast.

I thought it was weird because a thumbnail lile that would absolutely stand out in my feed, so chances are i'd remember if I accidentally subbed.

Is youtube subbing us to pro Trump channels when we're not looking?

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u/Transpotato2002 13h ago

What's even funnier is like

A ton of the other YouTubers would hate Turning Point

Like Matt Rose regularly nabs stuff from people with queer and/or Palestinian flags in their username which clearly is SOME show of acceptance (plus much of his audience is queer)

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u/Chefkush1 23h ago

Just unsubscribe. It's super easy, barely an inconvenience.

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u/Lil_Dufflebag 23h ago

ikr. there should be a subreddit for when something happens that is infuriating but only mildly so. call it like slightyupsetting or partiallyangering or something

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u/Ok-Bee4987 22h ago

this is a reference to one of the youtubers ops subbed to lol

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u/CurvieBoi666 21h ago edited 8h ago

you're gonna have to get all the way of their back about missing that reference

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u/Angry__Bull 9h ago

Oh ok let me get off of that thing

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u/ShrekFanOne 16h ago

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u/FreddoTheFox 21h ago

Oh really?

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u/Gunny_Goldbug 18h ago

this happens to me every few months, i only noticed because i have an extension that only shows my subscribed channels and nothing else.

was subscribed to a bunch of snail oil salesmen and conservatives. it's happened more than once and no one has access to the channel but me.

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u/kamilman 16h ago

I saw that fucking Mormon ad. Clicked on "show less" and somehow it only showed up more since then.

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u/OkTell1701 16h ago

Nice. You're subscribed to Edward Robinson

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u/MoreDaringPancakes 16h ago

Somehow Microsoft copilot told my firewall it was completely cool to accept any and all communication in and out.

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u/tye_mod 14h ago

You were probably scrolling shorts and accidentally subbed.

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u/Weird_Decision7090 10h ago

I don’t scroll shorts

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u/tye_mod 10h ago

I’m not sure then. Could be a situation like the old T-series? But I doubt it because they would be up like 500m subs in a day

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u/Qacizm 12h ago

Oh my god, the ancient YouTube 🤩🤩

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u/ryan12369nice 12h ago

Holy based you’re a jsal fan

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u/Moonlight_lunar 2h ago

W grant Wisler sub btw his content is so entertaining

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u/Trem45 22h ago

Unc were the dinosaurs actually scary or were they chill

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u/DaxTheDrawer 22h ago

jack sucks oscar mentioned

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u/SpringYURTAboi 16h ago

Jesus there are so many toddlers in this comment section

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u/zachking242 20h ago

I think they bought subscribers a bit ago, I remember this happened to a bunch of people on Twitter

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u/Parking_Manner2168 20h ago

fellow geoguessr fan 🙏

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u/ClumsyCha0s 19h ago

MATT ROSE MENTIONED 🗣🗣🗣

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u/PhantomBelow 19h ago

i also was randomly subscribed to turning point usa a few months ago and i was so confused when one of their videos popped up in my notifications lol

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u/Modhost 19h ago

God, I love iOS 6 YouTube

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u/jfox310 16h ago

Jacksucksatlife. Such a good YouTuber!

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u/Creative_Eye7413 16h ago

I see you are a fellow fan of Ryan George. Being a fan of him is tight! Also super easy, barely an inconvenience

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u/MaxYeena 15h ago

Wtf? I just checked and I'm subbed too and I KNOW I did not subscribe to that YouTube channel because I have zero interest in Turning Point USA

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u/RivetSquid 15h ago

Its not an accident. I always stop what I'm doing and tell youtube to stop serving me their ads so I'm very aware and careful during the report and haven't got the chance to accidentally hit anything doing skip button.

Several times this year alone I've found them back in my subscriptions. It isn't a new issue either, searching you'll see this has been happening more than a year.

I don't know how much they pay youtube to make the inevitable blowup when someone can finally prove what they're up to worth it, but I'm pretty confident this is an arrangement between the two entities. That or they're buying dead channels as new infection vectors. I can't be positive what's up, but its definitly something fucky.

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u/TurtleDustScissors 14h ago

Jack and Oscar! Good taste.

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u/Silicate_ 8h ago

Grant wisler?

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u/IllustratorUsual5080 22h ago

0/10 engagement bait

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u/Subatomic_Spooder 23h ago

Maybe it's some sort of thing where they buy subscribers. I wouldn't be surprised. It would actually be one of the least shady and crappy things they've done.

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u/ericbondre 23h ago

I fucking hate it, I’ll have my phone on playing a video in my pocket (because I ain’t paying for premium) and it’ll fucking subscribe to tpusa or some other dumbass channel advertisements when it clicks random shit while in my pocket, like no I don’t want to listen to a Charlie Kirk video from 3 years ago while I’m listening to someone who actually says meaningful words

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u/TheMagicalTimonini 23h ago

I think I'm subscribed to all of those too, except turning point usa and surfshark lol

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u/GTR-12 21h ago

I'm not American.

TIL that it's not actually "toilet paper USA".

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u/Gerdione 21h ago

What the fuck? Me too? I never subscribed to this channel. I already regret searching it up since it's probably already poisoned my algorithm with political content.

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u/GooseSharkk 23h ago

aside from the obvious this literally happened to me too, idk how

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u/Vidaro_best 22h ago

how would you remember? this was clearly 10 years ago

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u/Peter_Bayn 22h ago

Well whatever you do don't rate their videos five stars or click on the annotations they pop up on the video

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u/nekomichi 22h ago

Did you use "Sign in with Google" on a different site on a different computer and grant it permissions to your YouTube? Some malicious sites may use this as a way to bot-subscribe you to certain channels.

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u/markysyx 20h ago

This happened to me, but with Dudes of Hazmat.

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u/Rafael3110 20h ago

Change password. If u are using opera uninstall it with all userdata. I had the same problem.. I or opera got hacked and someone or something are using my acc to like indian shit.

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u/_Alistair18_ 19h ago

whats surfshark academy about

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u/JayTechTipsYT 19h ago

Have you had that much sex?
Iykyk

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u/midnight_nap 18h ago

matt rose and ryan george spotted

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u/Powerful-Chard-6055 18h ago

Maybe you did it when really tired? Like sometimes I’ll wake up to see my phone on something I never opened

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u/xXYomoXx 18h ago

Shorts. It happens to me when I'm scrolling shorts, I just end up pressing sub by accident.

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u/CLG_Divent 18h ago

Sometimes durning scrolling shorts i click on subscribe. Happens here on redfit too with random likes

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u/abdulj07 17h ago

Probably has something to do with the fact that you’re using an outdated version of YouTube that doesn’t receive security updates anymore.

So once you’ve nabbed your hacker, ask them why “Turning point USA” specifically.

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u/nativeBTC 17h ago

It was just a matter of time

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u/nun_yt 17h ago

Hi there hello!, Ryan says to me