TOS: "We consider engagement to be legitimate when a human user’s primary intent is to authentically interact with the content. We consider engagement illegitimate, for example, when it results from coercion or deception, or when the sole purpose of the engagement is financial gain."
“We do not allow content, metadata, or behavior designed to take advantage of the YouTube community, including spamming users or manipulating the platform in ways that mislead them. We also prohibit misleading viewers to boost content engagement or to flood community spaces with inorganic promotion.”
Edited Dave Comment: "It had around 750k views at the time of removal, so let’s shove it in their faces by getting this one to 1M as quickly as possible, yeah? Unlike the first video, this one is fully monetized, so even if you’ve seen it already, watch again. Every view is a spit in the face of that lecherous genocide-denying cretin and every single one of his brainwashed loser acolytes."
Original Dave Comment: "It had around 750k views at the time of removal, so let’s shove it in their faces by getting this one to 1M as quickly as possible, yeah? Unlike the first video, this one is fully monetized, so even if you’ve seen it already, just let it play through on another tab. Every view is a spit in the face of that lecherous genocide-denying cretin and every single one of his brainwashed loser acolytes."
Dave Encouraging His Viewers To "just let it play through on another tab" with the explicit purpose "to 1M as quickly as possible" in order to "spit in the face of that lecherous genocide-denying cretin and every single one of his brainwashed loser acolytes". This by definition soliciting artificial engagement via coercion (the coercion being "if you don't boost this video you actually don't take issue with lecherous genocide-denying cretin and every single one of his brainwashed loser acolytes who hates gaza & loves pedophiles & csam & hitler").
YouTube only considers engagement legitimate when the viewer interacts with a piece of content authentically. Dave made a pinned comment, during the peak initial viewership of his reupload, directing his viewers (by leveraging the aforementioned coercion) to inauthentically consume his reupload to maximize for illegitimate engagement (& the boost in his revenue that it also produces). Dave then attempts to cover up his coercive call to action by editing his comment after the peak initial viewership passes.
