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Comment on Tell HN: Someone seems to be trying to make people more fearful through YouTubeparent

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It's an illogical thing to do that takes a lot of effort.

It's completely logical. You get people to click on trailer videos and they see this instead. They want to expose people to these and that's a way to do it. Have you missed the last decade of 4chan racist trolling or something? They do stuff like this all the time.

Could this also be done via AI or other means to auto-magically select/cut/stitch the videos together?

You could just do it with a bash script and ffmpeg or something if you already have the collection.

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