That's neat, it looks more expensive now after that epoxy thing, it looks like a trophy.
I have this kind of plated coin, mine is silver and bronze, i have some other bitcoin/crypto collectibles too.
No, that is not the point at all I can see many old and highly-viewed videos explaining about Bitcoin and technology behind the Bitcoin, no one was afraid of talking about Bitcoin because of freedom of speech. Unless the technology is banned you can freely talk about it even if a technology is prohibited for education purposes it can be discussed.
There were some censorships that happened to some famous crypto-related content on YouTube back then, vids disappeared, blocked channels, although Google fixed it and the vids are back later on. Even though there are some discussions of Google will do it again, but influencers and content creators still make videos about crypto and bitcoin. Until Google accepts crypto ads again on their platform.