Political Juice seems to have either been hacked, or is having an ongoing extension to his previous meltdown.

Discussion

(Keep in mind from here on, when I say "he" I mean whoever has the channel, not specifically Political Juice. I'm still convinced it could be a hacker.)

About a week ago the channel Political Juice, formerly a hand-drawn political explanation cartoon channel, was renamed to "Sexy Cryptocurrency," and uploaded a video about bitcoin. (I didn't watch this one, assuming it came from a different channel I'm subbed to.)

Today he uploaded a video called "Should I Upload Again?", which got some pretty good traction, with half the comments saying "whatever you want, it's your channel," and the other half saying "who are you/why am I subscribed to you?" Having seen this kinda shit happen with other channels before, I commented "Fuck off with your stolen channel."

After commenting, I went to the channel's About page to see who's channel was hacked, and saw the URL was for Political Juice. I then clicked on the "Videos" tab, and it was completely empty. About 10 minutes later I refreshed, and there's 5-ish videos about math and random topics (I assume, I didn't get to view them all as seen below).

I then open them all in different tabs, and start commenting the same thing of "You're not Political Juice. I don't watch stolen channels, fuck off." After commenting on the second video, I move to the third and the comments fail to load. I then moved to the fourth, where I found the comments were disabled. I checked the rest, and found he had disabled comments on all of the other videos as well.

5 minutes later, all of those videos were removed.

Another 5 minutes later, and he uploaded Welcome to my new mathematics YouTube channel which is, well, let's just call it interesting. It's nothing but a black screen, a toilet flushing, background noise, and a radio playing in what seems to be Russian. He posted the videos "Mathematic Applied Circumcerence with the interval *2", "Steady stream of geometric isomorphs within the counter-looped algorithm", and "Top 10 reasons why Ethereum is set for a BIG COMEBACK!" However all of these videos are the same video as before, and comments are still disabled.

Nothing has happened since, about 20 minutes at the time of this post. (2:35PM CST)


EDIT: New video posted right after I posted this at 2:28. It's a 3 hour long video called Lakeside Nature Sounds HD (3 Hours!) It seems to be exactly what it sounds like. A 3 hour recording of a river (not a lake) with ambient bird noises over a stock image of a river. Although it seems to be a quickly made loop, as it seems to replay the same sounds every minute or so. There doesn't seem to be anything else hidden within.


EDIT: Two days later and he's uploaded 52 new videos. And be new videos, I mean the same 1 minute 54 second "toilet radio" videos as before. The time the videos titles started on the topic of Cryptocurency again, but quickly devolved into titles of the following types:

  • bashing capitalism

  • bashing conservatives/conservatism

  • bashing chirstians/christianity

  • espousing neoliberalism

  • promoting "anti-work" values

  • bashing "americanism"/"american values"

  • promoting neo-marxism

  • back to cryptocurrency

  • back to nature-topics

  • advertising books about the previously mentioned topics

He has also re-enabled the old video "Cryptocurrency Explained (Bitcoin!)" with comments enabled. In them he is responding to comments, claiming to be the real channel owner. He claims that he's had a complete and sudden 180 on his political views after "reading some actual history books," and that all of his old videos were based on "completely false conservative views." He also claims that he hates making real youtube videos, and that he doesn't intend to make any again. Allegedly his reason for the shitposting is to try and purge people he doesn't want on his channel, from his channel. In an unrelated note he also claims to be gay. On a related note though, he also refuses to actually prove that he's the real Political Juice, saying that anybody who asks for proof can go fuck themselves, and that they're a "dirtbag" for testing him.

I am now 90% sure this is a hacker.


EDIT 1/29/22: Channel is taken down/privated. Not sure when it happened.

Posted Jan 24, 2022, 8:36 PM UTC · edited

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PedanticAromantic•

I've never watched this person, but I've heard about a number of channels getting hacked by crypto-shills so I wouldn't be surprised if they were just another victim of that.

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ptjoe113•

The comments were disabled but I got it too. No clue what is it

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Bitter-Ad-9115•

I found it very odd as well and came here for answers, I had no interest in crypto, and never watched any content on it. It confused me why a channel like that appeared in my recommended, until I looked at the url of course.

I never even knew about the drama but reading about what happened I kinda understand, albeit I don't know the extent to which he went when he had his meltdown.

Very unfortunate, I think this is an attempt to troll the people left behind that he dislikes. Hackers would do more overtly scammy things I think.

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Scuba_Steve9002•

The saga continues with the great work "Sell your cryptocurrency and become a homeless man" complete with toilet flushing in the background

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RonaldMcMommy•

So I'm here because it looks like he's having a mental breakdown or something and I'm curious if anyone else has noticed.

I didn't even recognize the channel in my sub feed until I looked into the channel.

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tyuoplop•

This saga has been wild. I legit thought my account had been hacked with all the spam I was getting.

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Christoph-•

Everyone chills out. He finally has it. and he took his stuff down, turning his channel into unassuming channel. Still subscribe to his channel and liking some of the vids, who cares about sub box anw. Cheer up brother 👌

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PlatinumSun•

Where was the claim of homosexuality? I read all the comments on the OG crypto currency video.

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tyuoplop•

It was in the replies to some of the comments. It’s all been taken down now it looks like

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[deleted]•

this is very strange. I can't seem to see any channel information below the video.

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