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This is why you shouldn't get your news from clickbait YouTubers. Especially when their source is a three-year-old reddit post that doesn't even support their claim.
This is disappointing for Rossman. I like his content a lot and he's on the right page, but I think he's big enough that he needs to start adopting some journalistic standards. For example, if he reads that some company is doing something stupid, at least bothered to call them and ask for a comment before he drags them through the mud on his channel.
Rossman is a modern day Ralph Nader; he lives on outrage and the money it generates. He's generally correct but when he swings and misses, like he did in this case, it hurts his reputation.
I don't think he makes much from YouTube, and he's said as much. He just uses it as a platform to push pro-Right to Repair sentiment, and he's right way more often than he's not (with a healthy dose of hyperbole most of the time). Any miss here is because he didn't bother doing a bunch of research, because he doesn't really have an incentive to do so.
He owns a repair business and works for FUTO, that's where his money comes from.