The interesting part is, that the original was hosted on itch too. And he did not say, that he got the link on discord. He said he was browsing on itch.
It is not merely a try my game problem. It is a malware is visibly hosted on itch problem - and too few people notice and report the scams, meaning, that there are "old" games hosted on itch that are malware.
There should be a warning message for all downloads here. I am serious. People should be made aware that itch does not in any way has even the slightest guarantee that the person uploading the game is the real developer and that the game is not malware or pirated or both. This psa is all good and well, but how many unique users did read this?
Oh, itch does remove things, and I guess many things are not even indexed to begin with, but there are things released without indexing as in the "classic" try my game scam and with all those scams, some of them do get indexed, suggesting a false security as new users do think that games are scrutinized by staff and are thoroughly scanned - and what else should they think?! Itch is not some shady message board. But unfortunately, whatever security measures there are, they get penetrated on a daily basis and it takes user's reports to take down malware after the fact.
The problem with indie games is, that many popular game engines and homebrew solutions tend to provoke warnings, plus games from amateurs are more easily forgiven to be buggy. So when something funny is happening, the first thing people think is not: oh, crap, that's malware. It is, oh well, amateur developer, can't be helped, I just try again. It is just that that youtuber described it. He noticed the scam only, after he got warning that his accounts were compromised. Despite having system warning messages and strange behaviour. Imagine how long it would have taken to realize it, if the scam would have included an actual game bundled with malware...