My guess is a crazy youtuber to get extra views. Maybe he can even recuperate the funds with the incremental views he gets 
Would be stupid but have seen worse
Would be stupid but have seen worse
I won't be surprised if this turns out to be true because most times when I'm surfing through YouTube to find solutions to some certain issue I do stumble upon some crazy shit that's been done just for the sake of getting millions of views.
And this might just be one of the examples of those crazy shit done by some crazy ass millionaire YouTuber and then they'll use caption like "How I lost my 4BTC to Satoshi" those shit's stupid as hell.
I don't think anyone would do this to get Youtube views. Do you know how little Youtube pays people right now. Why do you think so many people are doing sponsorships in youtube videos because the ad revenue is just not too high.
Last time I checked if you got a huge big channel and you get 1,000,000 views you maybe make $2000. So unless this guy got over 50,000,000 views he would only break-even. A few years back Youtube was more profitable but now its very difficult to make any money. Seems like a waste of time these days. Way too saturated even for crypto content.
Attention is an important new currency in society right now so it's still possible
But I agree it's not the greatest story ever to broadcast. 1BTC would have done the trick also