The quality of ads on YouTube has fallen to somewhere beneath the sewer, just as YouTube has launched a scorched-earth campaign against adblockers. Scams, celebrity impersonation, AI-generated nonsense, AI-generated nonsense promoting AI nonsense generators. YouTube's ad inventory is a vast wasteland of festering, unmoderated dreck.
BTW, we are organizing a developers Hackathon and the ad in X is pending for more than one day.
Ads have always been a struggle in this space when working with platforms.
Malicious actors use a lot of compromised or aged accounts, that's why they're difficult to counter.