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by tehwebguy 1952 days ago
Interesting! Lot’s of more active scams like this happening in merchandising. I started doing merch for YouTubers back in maybe 2007 and in the last 3-4 years the scams have really picked up.

For some time the most well known youtubers would receive spam replies on all of their tweets with links to counterfeit merch sites.

If you search for the the top handful of YT creator names on Amazon or eBay you’ll find loads of bootleg merch (sometimes with hundreds of reviews!)