“The biggest scam in YouTube history”

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    9 days ago

    There is a YouTube video that literaly said they were scamming from 2020.

    Linus tech tips figure it out a year back and stop shilling it once they figured it out but for some reason didn’t make a video about it?

    • JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      9 days ago

      They didn’t make a video about it because they thought it was a problem for creators, not a problem for consumers. They may have communicated to creators separately to drop honey. They talked about it publicly once they found out honey was also lying to consumers about what they did.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      but for some reason didn’t make a video about it?

      Neither did every other creator who stopped doing paid promotion for Honey years ago.

      They’re not scambusters, they’re a computer/tech review channel.