All I can say is that you should keep on doing what you love, I started with pretty horrific skins as well but with every skin you make and put effort into definitely gets better. So don't settle and keep those skins coming (y)
But it still might attract more people to the game despite giving the wrong impression. I mean, if the video has achieved that many views then there's obviously something done right?!
To a certain degree I suppose it wouldn't be bad would it? I remember back in the days we used to use a lot of .vob mods (some S14s here and there), still got videos of them on the web I believe. This ''DRIFTING FROM HELL'' video has 600'000+ views on yT and has just .vob mods! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEWei15vqQk