Some have claimed to have had six figure deals with FTX in exchange for promoting it

After FTX’s demise, the YouTube influencer group was quick to issue online mea culpas acknowledging that they had made mistakes in uncritically promoting the service

Wait, what? You wouln't have gotten sixfigures for actually looking into the merits of the service. The apologies seem more than hollow.

On the actual ethical merits of the problem: As long as they disclosed that they were paid to shill that shit, I have no problem calling the people that fell for it, because they saw an influencer of all people promoting it, idiots.