>>43583269TL;DR
After e3, poketubers that hopped on the natdex bandwagon saw a huge spike in their channel. Around August at least, we can confirm that dozens of them were unironically hiring people to bash gen 8 and artificially keep the controversy going so that their golden goose kept laying eggs.
Many people have confirmed that poketubers approached them on social media and made offers, with one poketuber actually posting on twitter in August that it's what he was doing, also stating that dozens of other poketubers were doing the same, and those were just the ones he knew personally.
