Unfortunately, there are some people who are investing into the project that these influencers are recommending because they're just following them. I mean I don't know the logic why there are still people who are relying on these influencers' recommendation of projects and invest on them not thinking of the possible risks that they might face. Relying on these influencers is like throwing your money away.
There will always be people who follow the investment advice of influencers, because their target is people who don't really know how investing in crypto works.
Those who are beginners will only look for people who look smart in crypto and have a lot of followers and quite interesting content.
That's the problem right now. They're being mislead by these "SMART" influencers, and they're attracting their newbie followers to buy the token that they're promoting because after all, they got paid, and they need to do what the project owners said to.
This is why we always say to newbies here and there that they should not invest first if they're lacking knowledge, but they can easily get attracted by the profits that they're seeing online. These influencers aren't smart at all. I've watched some influencers in the past that are promoting new projects (although I didn't invest into any of them), and they're just reading what's on the website, and just adding some flowery words so that these newbies will be attracted hence, investing to it.
It's just sad that we are seeing newbies getting scammed indirectly because of these influencers, but I guess that's how investing works.