I don't know much about youtube advertising. The chemist that runs it is pretty highly respected though on the forum through which the offer came. And there is in essence, nothing to lose. Since I'd be doing things I'd be doing anyway, and they specify quite explicitly, no illegal compounds, and is pretty tight about precursors to same too.
Their channel is large, and they don't mind me not showing my face either. I think I'd insist, on the money going to a prepaid credit card too. Isolable from any other funding I have anywhere, or being paid in bitcoins or another such cryptocurrency.
I have to confess, so to speak, that I am pretty cagey about showing my face. That, I'm not about to do. But hood and gas mask along with goggles, blast-shield etc covering my face and the entire of the rest of my head. Any other identifiable clothing not worn etc. That and the fact that they demanded from the beginning nothing illegal, non-negotiable on that point not that I was going to try. And the fact that if its something I would be doing already, anyway, and thus spending nothing that was not already earmarked to be spent on that selfsame thing, even if it falls through completely, I still don't actually make any material loss no matter what happens or how badly. There is of course the theoretical risk of being melted alive by something, but again, if I'm, already to be working with something that would happily eat your face off given half a micron of extra leash then what do I stand to lose?
At the very worst, them nicking the videos, not crediting me and claiming it as their own work, without paying for it, then at the very least, in a sense, I still gain, by the fact that the work would help teach other up and coming hobbyist and/or clandestine chemists, biohackers and similar tech-punk-ish breeds. Most of who'm just gotta be autistic or pretty close to being on the spectrum in some description....I reckon a fair dash of short-bus genes is in the job description for your average DIY alchemist-sort. The kind that would be happier amongst boiling cauldrons of acid than being waited on hand and foot in a royal palace, we really can't be anything else but with at least a dash of spazz. No? although I don't think this particular individual is likely to fuck me over, because they have a large channel, a long history of it, and a name for themselves. And money coming in because of it, to them. That isn't something that people are logically likely to be inclined to piss away on a whim for something that would vanish in a heartbeat and next be found in the forums heaping opprobrium upon them and howling curses at their good (very good in fact, if its who I am pretty sure I remember it is, and where they are) name. A lot to lose, is what I mean, for very little benefit, and if I was made a victim in such a manner, loses little or makes a slight gain, and would by even a false accusation, not that I am the type to do that to anyone, be capable of doing them immense damage or ruining them outright. To do that falsely of course I'd have to be a malicious bastard and then some. But if treated like shit in such a way myself, I'd be as quick as a snake to turn on them and bite them. Only thing is, if I stab them, I'll stab them in the front, not the back. But I'd certainly poison the blade and twist it in the metaphorical dagger-wound and give 'em a thorough kick in the face as I left.
