Quote Originally Posted by Smoutwortel View Post
Sounds like one of the bot manufacturer made an adware upgrade or the channel administrator made a mistake, but probably b.
This can probably be fixed by sending them a mail. Carefully explaining the issue.

It was something more insidious -- someone hijacked the channel to post Tesla spam, which caused the Discord bot to ping (it pings when the channel updates). Fortunately, the owner got his channel back, but he said it caused him to lose about a 1000 subscribers.