In the media business and in politics that's calling "putting out a feeler". You'd benefit from some media literacy study, then you wouldn't say I'm weird, you'd say "well spotted, I see what they're doing".

"no no I'm not going to do this thing that likely nobody wants and nobody is asking about but would be really profitable for my pocket in the short term!" -> observe how much pushback he gets -> "guys guys I said I would NOT do it, god some people are weird".