Hacking YouTube: one man behind the curtain speaks

A web video viral marketing master reveals some secrets at TechCrunch this week.  It's a disturbing, hilarious post, brazenly confessing to a series of dodgy tricks, from astroturfing and sock puppets to deleting critical comments, nudity for hits and light spamming.

A-a-and one might wonder, how much of this is real, and how much... a viral campaign for the author's viral campaigns?  Is this the opening to a rabbit hole?  And this very post might be contributing to it.