Those have been going on on YouTube for 3 years.
I'm astonished YouTube doesn't clamp down on that.
They seem to allow you to change your username and livestream straight away.
People seem to build up accounts with many subs (or they hack other accounts), change the name to MicroStrategy, livestream an old video and promise to give you double your BTC if you send yours first.
Sure.
They've done it with Elon as well.
I flagged many of these a-holes but they kept appearing endlessly and worse: they were always recommended to me as well.
Meanwhile, if you use a piece of music as a tiny youtuber, content match can lead to a strike.
In the past how YT dealt with that was horrendous.
Even cover songs used to get strikes by dodgy music publishing houses.
YT can be pretty rotten for honest people but it is definitely a good resource for information.
YT just needs to deal with real information providers and scammers better.
I just haven't seen improvement.
One simple fix: What they should do is allow you to only livestream if you gain a certain amount of subs over a certain time with a specific username, to validate who you are.
Change your username, that counter is reset regardless of sub count.
You should also not be able to livestream without say 10 existing videos or so.
Often those scammers removed all the history of these accounts first.
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