Supplements are a massive industry. Some of them are good. Some of them are massive, sketchy rip-offs.
Tons of people are peddling them. From commentators to gaming channels (yea, those "gaming drinks" are supplements, too).
I don't generally have a problem with them except the ones that just feel too snake-oily. Personally I take a few myself. Although I stick to basic stuff like Vitamin D, C and the like. Stuff that doesn't promise to give me the ability to fly and see through time.
Vitamin-wise, there's occasionally a few vitamins that are handy to boost up on, at least a little. Zinc and Vitamin C in particular for a little bit of an immune system boost.
But by boost, I wouldn't say take the standard "2000%" mega pills, so much as add a little more to your diet or include an occasional vitamin supplement every once in a while.
I think most multivitamins are a bit of a crock though. Usually covering far more than is sensible or usable in a person's daily diet.
He had an ad read selling drug emergency kits from The Wellness Company. The kits contain 8 drugs, including Amoxicillin, Ivermectin and Azithromycin.
At least the drugs are real and stockpiling isn't the worst idea in theory.
The slimy thing is that the included drugs are sold for pennies wholesale, but these emergency kit outfits function by packaging them together and facilitating prescriptions, then marking them up to hundreds of dollars.
They're driven to shady advertising deals because mainstream advertisers are threatened and cajoled into shunning them.
And if you were a clueless advertising buyer in Plato's cave being shown only that PJW and Jones are eeeeevil, you wouldn't promote your brand with them, either.
On supplements in general, where do you suppose the drug industry finds their inspiration? Sometimes it's hitting up a chemical process already well known like NO2 processing in the body. Sometimes it's a potentially useful side effect. But usually it's a natural herb or substance that gets studied and the active ingredients get isolated.
Sure, placebo effect is a thing, and there is a lot of absolute bullshit being promoted out there, but if you're careful and if you like to read, there are some gems out there with very few downsides, like lion's mane and fish oil.
I can understand if they are demonetized and need other sources of money. Like 9 years ago.. was making 1.5k usd per month per 1million views. Back when youtube was still cool.
They whine about demonetisation constantly. Do dumb shit for monetisation through other means, then they do try and make it out that oh it must be because of youtube screwing us that our viewership is dropping it can't be because things are starting to get unwatchable now.
Both things can be true at the same time -- and it's not even just the political commentators. There's a automotive engineering YouTuber I used to frequently watch who doesn't engage in any shady ad sales, but has still been hit pretty hard by the algorithm.
The manosphere channels pointing out a lot of the bad behaviours from the slatterns have also been hit really hard. One in particular has to use so many euphemisms due to YouTube demonetising based on certain word-phrases I have to rewatch certain segments several times over because the syntax is so jumbled that it disrupts the flow of the context.
I do agree that YouTubers selling shady drugs is bad, though. There are no two ways around that -- I wouldn't trust a YouTuber with a powder or a pill anymore than big pharma.
However, them complaining about demonetisation is a real thing across the board. But I also agree that there are a lot who over-saturate the space with the same stories, without adding anything new or properly informing people about how to change/fix the situation. A lot of it is just them talking loudly and saying people are tired of "woke crap", which we all know by now but doesn't really help or change anything. They should be focused on building alternative markets and properties instead of just milking outrage; but it's easy shekels for some of them.
It's been disappointing to me how few of these non-woke creators have gone into making non-talking head content.
Yeah, there are some gaming streams, but nobody is doing any sort of fiction or comedy or even educational stuff.
Especially the Lotus Eater/Tim Pool types, where they've branched out into production companies but they're still basically just rehashing political opinions 24/7.
Daily Wire is kinda doing this with Snow White, but we need a place to showcase good writers and comedians outside of the ESG media and I feel there's a lost opportunity here.
Tons of thing you can do and if they wanted to be political or whatever they could absolutely do that, just no imagination.
This really is the nail on the head.
There are some really awesome Unreal/Blender/animated shorts made by random artists that are mind-blowing spread across Vimeo/YouTube.
The content creators who have the money to reinvest in new properties could easily team up with all of these artists to make some amazing new media, but they don't.
When it comes to human health, the right wing has a few snake oil memes out there. Seed oils and processed foods are bad for you, but that doesn't mean faddish lard/paleo/keto/liver king diets are the solution. The solution is keep up with your fiber, avoid processed foods and sugars, whole grain over more refined carbs, fresh foods, water, exercise.
Heart disease peaked in the US long before seed oils. Diet memes on social media are the equivalent of IG trad wives. The blind leading the blind.
If we’re talking about magnesium, that’s hardly a “mysterious powder” though, it’s one of the most common supplements and you can buy multiple variations at every grocery store including Costco (I have a bottle of magnesium biglycinate from there on my fridge right now).
If they're not vetting the product, and the product only wants their reach for the audience, then it's a match made in heaven of not caring about something to get you and I to see it.
Which I think is a testament to how terrible we can be to each other for money.
I'm fine with it so long as they vet the items they promote first. If they do that then it's the same as regular TV promotions.
If they don't do that then they're simply shills and I can't take their promotion at face value.
Supplements are a massive industry. Some of them are good. Some of them are massive, sketchy rip-offs.
Tons of people are peddling them. From commentators to gaming channels (yea, those "gaming drinks" are supplements, too).
I don't generally have a problem with them except the ones that just feel too snake-oily. Personally I take a few myself. Although I stick to basic stuff like Vitamin D, C and the like. Stuff that doesn't promise to give me the ability to fly and see through time.
Vitamin-wise, there's occasionally a few vitamins that are handy to boost up on, at least a little. Zinc and Vitamin C in particular for a little bit of an immune system boost.
But by boost, I wouldn't say take the standard "2000%" mega pills, so much as add a little more to your diet or include an occasional vitamin supplement every once in a while.
I think most multivitamins are a bit of a crock though. Usually covering far more than is sensible or usable in a person's daily diet.
I guess money trumps ethics when it comes to many content creators.
Survival trumps pretty much everything, yes.
And you don't have to buy the supplements.
I don't know. I feel that the world would be a better place if everyone in the western world took Super Male Vitality.
At least Alex Jones would be able to afford his lawyers.
Even Sseth got into shady diet supplement peddling and it's disgusting.
In his case he's blatantly transparent about being a shill.
Watched Glenn Grenwald last night on Rumble.
He had an ad read selling drug emergency kits from The Wellness Company. The kits contain 8 drugs, including Amoxicillin, Ivermectin and Azithromycin.
At least the drugs are real and stockpiling isn't the worst idea in theory.
The slimy thing is that the included drugs are sold for pennies wholesale, but these emergency kit outfits function by packaging them together and facilitating prescriptions, then marking them up to hundreds of dollars.
They're driven to shady advertising deals because mainstream advertisers are threatened and cajoled into shunning them.
And if you were a clueless advertising buyer in Plato's cave being shown only that PJW and Jones are eeeeevil, you wouldn't promote your brand with them, either.
On supplements in general, where do you suppose the drug industry finds their inspiration? Sometimes it's hitting up a chemical process already well known like NO2 processing in the body. Sometimes it's a potentially useful side effect. But usually it's a natural herb or substance that gets studied and the active ingredients get isolated.
Sure, placebo effect is a thing, and there is a lot of absolute bullshit being promoted out there, but if you're careful and if you like to read, there are some gems out there with very few downsides, like lion's mane and fish oil.
I can understand if they are demonetized and need other sources of money. Like 9 years ago.. was making 1.5k usd per month per 1million views. Back when youtube was still cool.
Lotus eaters are literally pushing magnesium which supports sleep. Chill my guy.
Both things can be true at the same time -- and it's not even just the political commentators. There's a automotive engineering YouTuber I used to frequently watch who doesn't engage in any shady ad sales, but has still been hit pretty hard by the algorithm.
The manosphere channels pointing out a lot of the bad behaviours from the slatterns have also been hit really hard. One in particular has to use so many euphemisms due to YouTube demonetising based on certain word-phrases I have to rewatch certain segments several times over because the syntax is so jumbled that it disrupts the flow of the context.
I do agree that YouTubers selling shady drugs is bad, though. There are no two ways around that -- I wouldn't trust a YouTuber with a powder or a pill anymore than big pharma.
However, them complaining about demonetisation is a real thing across the board. But I also agree that there are a lot who over-saturate the space with the same stories, without adding anything new or properly informing people about how to change/fix the situation. A lot of it is just them talking loudly and saying people are tired of "woke crap", which we all know by now but doesn't really help or change anything. They should be focused on building alternative markets and properties instead of just milking outrage; but it's easy shekels for some of them.
It's been disappointing to me how few of these non-woke creators have gone into making non-talking head content.
Yeah, there are some gaming streams, but nobody is doing any sort of fiction or comedy or even educational stuff.
Especially the Lotus Eater/Tim Pool types, where they've branched out into production companies but they're still basically just rehashing political opinions 24/7.
Daily Wire is kinda doing this with Snow White, but we need a place to showcase good writers and comedians outside of the ESG media and I feel there's a lost opportunity here.
This really is the nail on the head.
There are some really awesome Unreal/Blender/animated shorts made by random artists that are mind-blowing spread across Vimeo/YouTube.
The content creators who have the money to reinvest in new properties could easily team up with all of these artists to make some amazing new media, but they don't.
When it comes to human health, the right wing has a few snake oil memes out there. Seed oils and processed foods are bad for you, but that doesn't mean faddish lard/paleo/keto/liver king diets are the solution. The solution is keep up with your fiber, avoid processed foods and sugars, whole grain over more refined carbs, fresh foods, water, exercise.
Heart disease peaked in the US long before seed oils. Diet memes on social media are the equivalent of IG trad wives. The blind leading the blind.
There's a rotating pattern of scammy scummy adds, and those are the only adds some youtubers can take.
Ignore them and blame the cia/google for putting them in that position.
If we’re talking about magnesium, that’s hardly a “mysterious powder” though, it’s one of the most common supplements and you can buy multiple variations at every grocery store including Costco (I have a bottle of magnesium biglycinate from there on my fridge right now).
If your watching dissident channels, do you really think supplement advertising is going to be effective?
If they're not vetting the product, and the product only wants their reach for the audience, then it's a match made in heaven of not caring about something to get you and I to see it.
Which I think is a testament to how terrible we can be to each other for money.