>They find some technically hip, well known content and create a new channel with a very similar name as the originator. Create an exciting full screen ad for a

>They find some technically hip, well known content and create a new channel with a very similar name as the originator. Create an exciting full screen ad for a crypto currency faucet scam, with price charts and crawls. "Live" stream the original content inset into the ad. There's guaranteed to be several running after every Falcon 9/Starship launch, sometimes they'll attract almost as many viewers as the real livestream - very likely to be bots. What's even worse is that YouTube are recommending these, and with the removal of dislike counts it becomes even harder for the layperson to know if what they're watching is legitimate. With the exception of copyrighted content it seems like YouTube find it acceptable to offer criminals a multiple hour head start on their mods, allowing them to stream any damn thing they like.