Your comments are full of scammers pretending to be you.
Fake giveaways. Crypto “investment” replies. “Message me on Telegram” impersonators. A peer-reviewed study of 45,322 YouTube videos found 31.73% were infected with scam-bot comments — and small channels clean them up by hand, comment by comment, every week.
We’re building an affordable auto-cleanup tool for channels that can’t pay enterprise prices. First, see how bad it is on your channel — free.
Enter your channel URL + email. We scan the public comments on your 10 most recent videos and email you the report. No channel login. No password. Ever.
You already know this routine
- A bot copies your name and profile picture, then replies to your viewers: “You won! Claim your prize on WhatsApp.”
- Crypto scammers flood every new upload in the first hour — exactly when real viewers are deciding whether your comment section is safe to join.
- You delete, report, block. Next video, they are back with new accounts.
Creators describe spending hours every week manually deleting spam and reporting scammers just to protect their audience. (Source: creator accounts summarized at removespam.app; scam patterns documented at blabla.ai/blog/bot-comments-youtube.)
YouTube’s built-in filters catch some of it. The impersonators and off-platform lures are designed to slip past keyword filters — that’s why you end up moderating by hand.
What exists today — and why you’re not using it
Automated cleanup tools exist. They are priced for big channels:
| Option | Price |
|---|---|
| RemoveSpam (automated cleanup) | $149–$299 / month per channel (monitoring 5–20 videos) |
| Manual moderation (you, at midnight) | Free, but it costs you hours every week |
Pricing as listed on removespam.app at the time of writing.
If your channel makes less than that in a good month, the math never works. That’s the gap we’re testing.
What we’re building — read this part carefully
Today: a free scan (validation stage)
A Comment Health Scan: we read the public comments on your 10 most recent videos and send you a report — how many look like scams, what type they are (impersonator, crypto, fake giveaway, Telegram/WhatsApp lure), and where they cluster. Read-only. We never ask you to connect, authorize, or log in to your channel.
If enough creators want it — this is what your signup decides
Automatic cleanup for $9–19 / month per channel (founding-member validation pricing). It does not exist yet. Auto-removal would require your explicit channel authorization at that point, and we won’t pretend otherwise. At $9–19, the tool pays for itself if it saves you ~15 minutes a week.
How the free scan works
- Drop your channel URL + email. That’s all we need.
- We scan public comments only — the same comments anyone can read on your video pages, pulled via the official YouTube Data API.
- You get a report by email: counts by scam type, example comments (quoted), risk level per video, and what to do about each type.
- Tell us if you’d pay $9–19/mo to have it cleaned automatically. A yes, a no, and a “here’s what it would need to do” are all useful — this scan exists to find out.
FAQ
Do you need access to my channel?
No. The free scan reads only public comments via the official YouTube Data API. No login, no OAuth, no password, no Studio access. Comments held in YouTube’s own review queue are not visible to us — the scan covers published comments only, and the report says so.
Will the scan delete anything?
No. The scan is strictly read-only. Nothing is deleted, hidden, or reported on your behalf.
Is the auto-cleanup tool ready? Can I buy it today?
The automatic tool — honestly, no, it isn’t built yet. But founding membership is open now: until the tool launches, members get the same result as a manual monthly scan (see the founding options on the free scan page). We’re validating whether enough small and mid-size creators want it before building it. The free scan and the $9–19/mo founding price are how we’re testing that. If we don’t get enough interest, we won’t launch, and we’ll tell everyone who signed up.
If it launches, how would auto-cleanup work?
It would need your explicit authorization (YouTube/Google sign-in permission) to remove comments on your behalf — that’s the only way any tool can delete comments. You’d be able to revoke it any time. Auto-cleanup is a future product feature, not part of the free scan, and this page does not promise a launch date.
How is this different from YouTube’s built-in spam filter?
YouTube filters a portion of spam automatically, but impersonation accounts and off-platform lures (Telegram/WhatsApp/crypto) are built to look like normal comments. Our scan specifically classifies those four scam patterns so you can see what’s getting through.
What do you do with my email?
It’s used to send your scan report and, at most, one follow-up asking if you’d pay for the full tool. No selling addresses, no newsletter you didn’t ask for.
What if my channel has comments disabled or very few comments?
Then the scan will show that — a clean result is a real result. No inflated numbers.
CleanComments for YouTube (working name) — an early validation project by an independent developer. The 31.73% figure comes from an academic study of 45,322 YouTube videos (IMC paper) and describes scam-bot prevalence across YouTube, not a guarantee about your channel — your scan shows your actual numbers.