[Nevermark]

> Ironically this meant that the only remaining matches were 100% scams.

I am wondering if some of this is unmarked paid advertising. I can't imagine any other incentive for Youtube to effectively align its brand with Ick.

Ads, as one of the prophets said, are the Devil.

[imtringued]

The problem with ads is that practically 90% of the cost of a scam is user acquisition costs and the remaining 10% are the labor needed to execute the scam.

When you consider how lucrative scams are, you will realise that the advertising budget of scams is high enough to outbid legitimate ads and since the ad platform only cares about money, they'll deliver said to you.