The fake commenters use "normal" sounding names with a FirstName_LastName pattern. If someone out there could web-scrape youtube comments and simply count the number of two-word screen names, before COVID, mid-COVID, and now, I think we'll see a SHARP increase in fake commenters.

It would also be interesting to compare first_last screen-name counts for various video topics: COVID, CNN vids, MSNBC vids vs makeup tutorial channels etc.