Influencers aren't evil people they are just doing their job,
Job?
Their job is at shilling for some shitcoins that they know it can and it will end badly for all investors.
It's not their "job", they are getting paid to advertise stuff and to deceive poeple.
There are good crypto influencers are get paid like OP said but dont lead people astray, they try protecting their own reputation online and they always warn investors to do their own research before investing in any projects they made mention, I think they've played save enough.
Yeah, bs!
A lot of them don't care about their reputation when it is completely outweighed by the possible gain from some token.
Why do you think all those influencers are on youtube, to help everyone get rich or to get a ton of money themselves?
If youtube will stop monetizing clips that offer financial advice as they have a few times warned they might do some of those influences will suddenly give up and search for another money-making scheme.
Reputation? If you're barely making the minimum wage and somebody comes at you with 1 million to shill your project do you think you will start doing complete research on it or just grab the money and start doing non-stop videos about it?
Look at all the bounty managers here, look at all the projects they've taken, how many of those are still alive even if they have paid the bounty for the army of shills? Thousand over thousands of dead coins and nobody is bothered by "reputation".