“I am 100% aware Elecrow knows of my channel, though, as I have over 43 emails back and forth with five different Elecrow marketing reps, spanning from 2020 to today”
Elecrow ran multiple tutorial series on ESP32 and RP2040 narrated by a voice that sounds exactly like Geerling’s. The company had asked him about paid partnerships before. A clone was cheaper. Geerling can’t afford a lawyer and isn’t sure YouTube’s rules even cover it, and that gap is the business model.