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Looking at the video this guy paid $30k for (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fc7ugkT2N9E), it got 40,000 views. Assuming these numbers are completely legit - hard when you are literally hiring a scammer -, the person pumping the shitcoin paid almost 1 USD per viewer. I wonder what the ROI for this was.

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$30k to promote the video and they can't record an audio track that doesn't clip? I opened this for two seconds and it sounds like nails on a chalkboard.

I wonder if it's kind of like "Nigerian prince" scammers who intentionally use bad English in their emails. The idea is the class of people who are impervious to their scams are filtered out by these typos. By filtering people at the start of the scam "pipeline", it saves the scammer time.

Maybe the bad audio is here is serving as a sort of filter as well.

There's also the very real fact that most of those scammers can barely speak English, so they don't really have any other option. Even if they source a well written starting email, the facade will fall apart immediately once they have to write something by themselves.

Where would be the pipeline, though? The pump&dumper doesn't spend time working on individual buyers here, do they?

Plus you're targeting people who are not polished and accomplished themselves with the pitch that they can make money at a rate that very few other people are achieving. If the video looks polished and professional it'll be easier for them to realize that they're the mark, they're the ones getting scammed. A poorly produced but heavily promoted video primes them to think that someone like them can make a huge score doing something that conventionally successful and savvy people are overlooking.

It’s like you’re describing my country’s prime minister (Viktor Orban) :(

I thought you were joking, then I opened the video. I've heard clearer audio coming from the captain in a commercial jet over the radio than this guy.

yikes you're right the clipping is insane on this

not that it matters; most people don't care about audio quality

Yeah without knowing if they made a profit this isn't all that interesting.

This is actually one of the least sophisticated/most expensive methods I've seen for a pump.

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