This isn't a new problem and it was almost certainly not caused by one single youtuber with a few thousand active subscribers at most. The blame for this is on Digital Ocean, not on some dude on the internet.
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This isn't a new problem and it was almost certainly not caused by one single youtuber with a few thousand active subscribers at most. The blame for this is on Digital Ocean, not on some dude on the internet.
It was a problem in previous Hacktoberfests though it was amplified because of this video.