Yes and no. He made serious scratch by pimping HashFast, but he also was upfront about being on HF payroll.
People got pissed once they figured out just how much he made.
Just can't stand to see the other fellow win.

@cockroach: How can you call this "spam"?!

That's, like the worst news ever, Bitcoin is illegal everywhere in the world and is nothing but an internet meme! We've all been had
P.S. Even MP don't wanna play with you kids anymore, how does it feel?