7773qx *nix Whole point of free T-Shirt event is to promote contributions to open source projects. Scroll to top and you can read clearly: " It is held by Digital Ocean and encourages developers to submit Pull Requests to Open Source repositories and as a reward you get a T-Shirt. There's almost no limits, so if your request is merged into any Open Source repository, you qualify. Amazing. " So by definitions both of you two provided is Digital Ocean responsible for this, by your flawed logic. Because both Digital Ocean and youtuber wanted to promote contributions to open source projects. Both succeded. If you want to blame youtuber, you have to blame Digitalocean too. They did same thing.