Buy the channel, then swap the content: inside the YouTube account black market
scyrusk · x · 2026-08-20
Replying to Arvind Narayanan's question about what happens to sold newsletters and whether subscriber lists get harvested for spam, a commenter points to work by CITP postdoc Alejandro Cuevas on the sale of YouTube channels for scams. The incentive is the same: buy the distribution channel first, then change the content — explaining why accounts with accumulated audiences become black-market commodities.
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