[Question] Opportunity to work with a YT Channel

So I'm doing my own research on how to make money with YouTube and other methods. I wanted to make this post just to get some feedback.

So I have a coworker who has a YT Channel with about 300k subscribers. The channel's niche is illuminati/conspiracy videos and it is demonitized. The channel's owner told me that if I can come up a way to make money we can work together. Any feedback / suggestions?

I have thought of setting up a website for merch.

Illuminati and conspiracy? Sell/offer them books/etc about freemasonry and conspiracy theories.

Say the channel will shut down unless people can donate. Set up Patreon account, Amazon affiliate links to conspiracy books (or anything - doesn't matter), create a conspiracy discord channel with a bot posting amazon affiliate links. Sell shoutouts on the channel on Fiverr. Get a girl to make one of the next videos and voice over some sad story about how the channel will shut down and needs money. "Don't let greedy YouTube win - it's a conspiracy against us all!!!!"

In one of the videos from YouTube, they asserted that such videos would be excluded from the recommendations. Why so, you can find in that video. So far this works in the US but will be distributed to other countries.