This is particularly relevant because few people have likely seen a hidden alternative YouTube channel called “The Kus India.” It featured the exact same videos as the original channel, but with AI-generated faces and voices translated into Hindi. The result was both comical and unsettling. All the Friday News Pumps and other videos featuring Jay, Crane, and others were translated into Hindi. The YouTube channel had very few subscribers—averaging only about 22 views per video—and the Youtube comments were flooded with the most blatant AI-generated, bot-like, and shill comments I have ever seen.
This India-focused account appears to coincide with The Kus allegedly using OpenGov treasury funds to purchase low-quality views on YouTube and low-quality Google adspend on irrelevant markets or audiences which at best constitutes wasted spend in generating unqualified traffic/leads, at worst, constitutes ‘gaming the system’. We did not vote for you to advertise traffic to low quality indian and vietnamese markets.