PewDiePie's comment section messed up

So yesterday i grabbed a ton of views/subs from pewd's 100Million unxoing video.
for some reason his comment section was stuck on newest first. I saw it when i first watched the video, Then 5 hours later i realized I could have a ton of bots spam a comment saying it would explain the conspiracy and that youtube was trying to hide my comment/video link (which it was due to spam) so i set up 20 accounts per hour on different ip's to spam the comment. in the 3 hours left of the "glitch" i racked in over 30k views and 735 subs. after a little while other accounts were trying the same thing aswell. Has anyone seen this happen before or know why it was going on? i wondered if all his videos would act the same to some extent when released so i tried on his newest video within 15 minutes of posting but no views.

have you seen this happen before?

Whats a glitch you've found that has worked but doesn't anymore?

I'm currently using one "exploit" to generate a good amount of views and finding these seems to be the only way to get my channels any traction these days.

You mean sort by newest comments?
It's located in the settings https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7284070?hl=en

That’s really interesting. Back in the day there was a glitch on YouTube where you could add someone as a moderator to your chat and it would send them an email. If you titled your channel a URL it looked like YouTube was sending you that URL and so people started adding hundreds of thousands of moderators. Method got patched up quick though.