they failed as a scam, since no real whale or big investor will choose their site.
and they also failed as a "legit" business, since their reputation is burned and they're not making any profit while wasting money on their marketing.
so, what is this thing?
This could be your own personal opinion. I don't understand from which angle you're looking at it, I may recommend an eye sight checkup OP clearly lied about being censored, lied about not knowing max. payouts, lied about their skype conversation, in fact manipulated it as said in post by dev.