YouTube is now trying more ways to fight the Battle of cutting down comment spam and channel impersonation, and creators will now get access to a new setting for comments on YouTube studio. Creators will be able to select an “increase strictness” option which will help reduce the number of spam and identity abuse comments.

From July 29th, channels will no longer be able to hide it as YouTube says that this is a common tactic used by impersonators pretending to be behind larger and more established channels. Impersonators normally leave a lot of comments on different big videos to bring people over to their fake page, You could take the example of a user named MrḂeast [Notice how there’s a special character in place of the B?] Well, you will be able to click into that channel and you’ll be able to see it as only 100 subscribers compared to the actual MrBeast’s 97.7 million subscribers.

YouTube has acknowledged that some creators prefer to hide their subscriber count while they are building up an audience. However, they say that this will make it a lot safer for every user and creator out there. Also, considering these fishy channels that use special characters to imitate More prominent creators this strategy will soon be a lot less effective, as YouTube says that they are now reducing the character said that people can use when updating a channel name, and they say those bad actors won’t be able to modify their name to some weird fishy name after the change.