You are so right! its Despicable. Faux besties for a price and they are shitting over themselves at their genius. I say Henry Victor and Charlie have a stake in this grift as well they are in there playing fake friends to the stans. They are now considered just as much pieces of
tit as blob in my eyes
Or their credit card was denied
Fake subs get purged from time to time. No one will say it but (like Disney) Youtube operates on a weird "honor system" - they look the other way when people break the T&C so long as it benefits them in some way. In this case - much like twitter - they can brag/sell they have X sub on the platform so they don't care. Like Disney let's vloggers slide so long as they don't make the park look bad.
Then - when someone bites that hand - they can and do rip it all away. When they want.
And again - buying subs/deleting comments is 100% self defeating. Those fake subs are not watching the videos. Deleting the comments lowers the video engagement - thus lowering the ranking. When they get to 100k - its not some silver bullet that will put them on the gravy train. They will still only get 10-20k views per video - MAX. there are channels out there with LESS THAN 1,000 subs that make EXPONENTIALLY more than these grifters with sponsorships - because the few people that DO watch - watch ALL of it - and are loyal. Yout
Also - as a creator - you don't just get to pick and choose your commercials "I have 100K so I'm gonna put a NIKE AD on my channel and swim in the cash" - no - it doesn't work like that. At all.