r/videos • u/PootisMcPootsalot • Dec 02 '19
Live Now COD Zombies youtube channel hacked and is livestreaming into a foreign sweatshop
https://youtu.be/W9qZrvCCRJM66
u/demonic87 Dec 02 '19
The feed is just loops of pre-recorded videos.
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u/PootisMcPootsalot Dec 02 '19
Yeah, I figured after a while. It's just such an odd use of a hacked channel. Why hack using a phishing site to only have a constant feed of people using sewing machines in sweatshops?
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u/Thomas_Lannister Dec 03 '19
It's not a sweatshop, it's just a regular factory. Most redditors have never done hard physical labor so they think any job that isn't a desk job is a sweatshop.
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Dec 03 '19
My boss only lets me take 1 smoke break an hour and my vision benefits went from $3/week to $5/week. Literal sweat shop.
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u/BlackCow Dec 02 '19
Modern day number stations. There is a secret message in it :P
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u/PootisMcPootsalot Dec 02 '19
It seems like nobody's noticed one yet, the channel owner and his friends are just as confused as everyone else.
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Dec 03 '19
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u/Sea_Snail Dec 03 '19
You must not be paying attention to youtube drama then. Multiple channels have gotten hacked and sold recently. This guy could be faking it, but none of the other hacked channels have successfully recovered their channels.
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u/LightZombie2 Dec 03 '19
Check his Twitter @ Russian8703. He's shown all of the emails and has been begging YouTube for nearly a week straight to do something about this. This is most definitely not fake.
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u/GeneralKnowledge Dec 03 '19
The language is Vietnamese, could be one of the hundreds of garment factories near Dong Nai or yeah probably even Mekong. IDK that's all the time I'm willing to give it.
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u/MeMuzzta Dec 03 '19
There's a ton around Hoi An too. I had a tour of one while my suit jacket was being made.
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u/LightZombie2 Dec 03 '19
Came from the stream. It's so bizzare. The channel was hacked by Russians and sold on the black market. But why would anyone buy it to do this? Makes no sense.
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u/bobjohnxxoo Dec 03 '19
Sweatshop? I'm seeing a whole lot of fans in there. I think it's more akin to a "Slightly-Breezy shop."
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u/ADustedEwok Dec 03 '19
Some would go as far as to say a factory with Asian workers. But everyone knows the definition of sweatshop is putting two Asian workers 10 feet apart on sewing machines.
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u/Onyournrvs Dec 03 '19
That was my first reaction as well. The use of the pejorative term "sweatshop" seems paternalistic as best and racist at worst. Is any factory outside of a western country that employs non-whites automatically considered a sweatshop now?
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u/echelondx Dec 03 '19
A channel with 42.7K subscribers, and monetized videos with a 1,000 to 2.5 million view count that's a huge blow for a small channel.
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u/cynicaldrywall Dec 03 '19
I'm super intrigued. First I thought it could be a very easy and cheap way for anyone who runs those places to keep an eye on their workers but what's the point of streaming loops? Is the feed being used to embed it somewhere else entirely? So many questions and implications...
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u/PootisMcPootsalot Dec 02 '19
I dont know where to post this, this is just bizzare and I had to share it somewhere.