[kgurnani]

I speak hindi, and in fact he is actually encouraging spam and is BSing in the response. He has said to look for repos with low traffic and do a pull request changing the readme and to do it 20 times, so if most will be marked as invalid, at least 4 wont.

[sbmthakur]

One preview image of his video literally said they are distributing free t-shirts, still them.

https://twitter.com/shitoberfest/status/1311843369077764097?...

[saagarjha]

This is literally how DigitalOcean is advertising their program, too. It’s just that they intended their audience to be people who fully understood the goal of what this was supposed to be, and the YouTube video was watched by many who didn’t.