Client side leaks are inevitable. They cannot be stopped, but maybe they can be delayed, and that is the goal with this idea.
Alongside the release of one’s game, they also upload a fake leak on an alt account(s). At a surface level it appears to be legitimate because it has a few of the builds and UI elements but anyone looking under the hood will realize there’s nothing more to it. The point is to get would-be leakers to think someone else has beaten them to the punch. There’s nothing exciting about being the second person to leak something.
The other part of this idea, which may not be practical if it breaks the spam rule of ToS, would be to upload dozens of copies of this fake leak with varied titles, and when a real one does come out rename many of them to match the real leak and drown them out of the search results.
Do you think this idea could be effective? If so, how long do you think it would take before the trick is figured out?