YouTube My Channel Has Been Botted, What can I Do?

avrona

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I woke up today to find out that someone botted my channel with 1.2k+ subs! I went from having 247 subs to 1600, which later dropped to around 1200. Then another purchase appears to have been made, as it went up again to 1400. What can I do in such a situation?
 

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Oh lord...

You can wait (and hope) for YouTube to revert them within the next few hours or months, other than that there's nothing for you to do sadly. You can't unsubscribe people from your channel and you can't really prove to anyone it wasn't you buying them. As terrible as it may be, this is likely to affect your ability to join MCNs in the future as well.

YouTube usually likes to do subscriber purges towards the end of the month and usually takes 48 hours[source] to perform subscriber spam checks so until then you'll have to wait and hope for YouTube not to nuke your channel...