Stop following crypto influencers, those of you who like using YouTube videos to pick coins and tokens to invest in you need to hear this, those crypto influencers on YouTube are getting paid to promote those projects they are chilling, why would they promise you 2x or 5x when they aren't part of the team themselves? They did this because that's how they make their own money. He who have hears let him hear.
The so called influencers are an advertising agencies. They use their followers as viewers of advertisement and as crypto influencer have crypto based followers, they are a good targeted audience for new crypto projects that wants it's coins to be sold.
It's not that every project advertising are scam but every projects being advertised by these crypto influencer are not labelled as an advertisement but rather sold as investment advice or endorsement. They just shill it so that gullible people would jump into at a higher price. While in reality the influencer has no interest on the project until they were approached for advertising.