This comment spam is terrible. They add some "great article" nonsense even to posts in the wrong language. It does take away the fun a bit and the same goes for the spam articles. It's not just video posters, but also these 1 picture without text articles of which most are annoyingly nonsensical. But then again, I don't think that they have much success with it. They rarely get an upvote, usually they get unfollowed or muted and at the end these posts end up in a void. Or don't they?
PS: Your idea with the no-bots image is not bad. Maybe it could be made a standard that if a specific tag or image or sentence is added, bots stay away from the comment section.
Ha! A #nobot tag.
I'm guessing there are too many upvote whales and such that wouldn't like that. And if it was that simple, the Powers That Be could just shut down the comment and article bots in the code.