Do you remember McAfee's statements that he will eat his penis if the price of bitcoin is not $ 1 million?) I urge everyone not to forget about it! This jester many times confused the community with his idiotic statements, in June he predicted bitcoin for 15 thousand, advertised scam. Don't believe him)
I don't think anyone cares about what John McAfee is doing right now or what he promises or what he said in the past. The problem with why he got a bit of famous on crypto was that at the time of his speculations and support and what not bitcoin wasn't as known as it is today. Right now everyone has heard about crypto and everyone has done something about it or not.
Mainstream media talked about bitcoin almost everyday for a while and economy channels still do talk about it at least once a day. But couple years ago no one really knew bitcoin that much, it was still known but not this much. So when a famous business man like John came out and said bitcoin will be this bitcoin will be that and he promoted couple altcoins we got excited for a while. Of course it turned out he got money for promoting coins and everybody stopped caring about him.