Comment on Why do hacked channels on youtube always post Tesla/SpaceX stuff?
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 3 months agoScammers want to attract people who are gullible and stupid enough that they don’t see they’re getting scammed.
People who are “worked up” about Elon aren’t going to watch a scam video that purports to be by Elon / SpaceX / whatever and go “by golly I clicked this because I get so worked up about Elon, but he’s saying he can make me rich. Maybe I’ve been wrong the whole time?”
Echo5@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I was thinking more along the lines of a troll hacking an account and then trolling more by posting things they know a lot of people would get angry at. People don’t even have to open the video, just visit/be subscribed to the channel. “Some men like to watch the world burn” kind of vibe.
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 3 months ago
Uh, ok. I mean I do get what you mean, but that sounds so far-fetched that it’s a bit funny.
In any case, the Elon-related scams are pretty much always about crypto, far as I can tell. There’s absolutely a profit motive there, they’re not just doing it to piss people off