To put it very simplistic, there will always be the Wozniak's and the Jobs types in any scene/company/etc. (among others of course). The geo"hot"s of the world, with big egos, who like the publicity, make a rap video and promote "the cause" aggressively. That won't ever change but at least they are going into (and also bringing in) more mainstream media and folks. So there's that.

Something along the line of "there's no bad publicity", because out of the millions of tv watchers and his yt rap video watchers, these brings in a lot of people (at least teens) interested in the scene with a higher percentage of those who remain and go deeper into the technical parts of hacks, then learning about fail0verflow & co.

Many only then realized what the big picture actually is (insert podium meme)

So, for what it's worth, never underestimate how many people REALLY know and appreciate a lot more fail0verflow's work. Thanks again!

p.s. hopefully PS4 will catch up to the good old days of PS3. Pepperidge Farm remembers. Also that last year there was a pseudo-consensus that held-back PS4 hacks will be released only after the PS5 appears. (pretty please)