From the reports of their activities back in cointelpro they spent real hours infiltrating even small local groups. It would fit entirely within the time and resource budget for a desk agent to occasionally look over a his youtube content and have a few bots boost his streams in rankings just in case they wanted to use him later.
Worth noting though that half a mil viership puts him in line with like NBC News most nights. Or if not them plenty of other such entities.
For an organization with infinite budget turning a dial on the youtube backend so he might develop into a useful asset is such a small investment of time and energy it would be silly for them not to.
From the reports of their activities back in cointelpro they spent real hours infiltrating even small local groups. It would fit entirely within the time and resource budget for a desk agent to occasionally look over a his youtube content and have a few bots boost his streams in rankings just in case they wanted to use him later.
Worth noting though that half a mil viership puts him in line with like NBC News most nights. Or if not them plenty of other such entities.
Subs are not viewers, not even close
For an organization with infinite budget turning a dial on the youtube backend so he might develop into a useful asset is such a small investment of time and energy it would be silly for them not to.