Claim

Andrew Batey USES YouTube

Andrew says his group loaded muted YouTube videos into pop-under windows to rapidly increase view counts and reach YouTube's front page.

Episode
EP 171 — Melody Fraud
Origin
Explicit
Confidence
99% (extractor score, not a fact score)
Speaker
Andrew Batey
Attributed source
—

Transcript evidence

“We would load it with YouTube videos on mute”

Andrew Batey · offsets 7846–7890

“we could basically break into the algorithm on the front page”

Andrew Batey · offsets 8047–8108

Read the official transcript

Extraction provenance

Model gpt-5.6-luna · prompt 1.5.19 · schema 1.5.19 · 2026-09-13T08:55:52.140656+00:00

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