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Essentially prank calling scammers gets old fast, and is just an avenue to make money from Youtube. Which means upping the ante to keep viewers, eventually videos reach a grey area where they get as mean as the scammers themselves.

This automated method is cool though, so it makes an interesting video. Could have done without the Kraken shilling though, they are part of the problem.




>Could have done without the Kraken shilling though, they are part of the problem.

That made me a bit sad. That now he's getting paid by crypto - arguably the greatest scammer enabling technology since the telephone.


YouTubers have not made the most informed decisions about who they accept sponsor from, but compared to traditional media, they have proven very responsive to campaign from their fans accusing them of shilling the wrong brand.

They pick widely, and drop the bad ones fast.




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