I have been watching this phenomena happen for almost 2 years now. What they do is that they hack someone's channel with a decent amount of subscribers, ideally channels with a verified badge to make it more legit. Then they change the name, the avatar, and delete all previous videos, then they start running a loop of videos of interviews, usually assorted scammers such as Vitalik Butterin, Charles whatever (the guy from Cardano), the guy from LINK... all these shitcoins. They also use notorious Bitcoin bulls like the guy from Microstrategy. They run live streams with addresses where you send money and double your money, a giveaway, or the classic scam routine. These guys are making a ton of money given the amount of views and channels they manage to hack. They even use Elon Musk:






Has Youtube given up on trying to fix this madness? I know that Youtube is going to force 2fa on all creators starting November so that's the only hope to see these scams go down in numbers, but im afraid 2fa will not be enough.