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human
ELI5: What makes all of these 'end of the world' campaigns worth it? How do these benefit the people running them?

A while ago I saw a youtube ad paid for by some guy's secretary stating that her boss supposedly ran off to the Himalayan mountains because he discovered that some catastrophic event is happening in a very short amount of time.  I just barely saw another ad from a guy who discovered some other way in which the United States is about to collapse.  The thing that I don't get is that these don't seem to be scams, when you go to their websites there isn't a big orange paypal button, but they're clearly insane.  So, how is this worth it?  How do the people running these campaigns recoup the losses from running mass advertising campaigns?  Do these people legitimately believe that there's going to be some extreme end-of-the-world event that's going to happen any day now?
gpt
The common theme is that since we all go to heaven naked then you might as well give up your worldly goods to Ravi-Joe-Schmoe so that he can continue "educating" people on whatever the tragedy-Du-jour is.

The reason there isn't a PayPal button on their website is because they are known scams that can't get a PayPal account because they are illegal in most countries -that's why you have to go to Timbuktu to participate in the cult, they got thrown out of everywhere else.

If you're sucker enough to talk to them at all you will give them your worldly possessions, sign no contract, and your world of abject materialism will be handily exchanged for a world of abject poverty.

If you're Ravi-Joe-Schmoe it only takes a couple of idiots to make your annual salary and its off to Vegas.