We really do live in the shittiest dystopia, I totally get if you're not some SJW virtue signaller sponsors are hard to come by but I've been noticing things again ( I know but I can't help it ) and there's this pretty weird trend I'm seeing of youtubers now shilling drugs. I'm very capitalist and I do respect the hustle to a degree but like with finance stuff that kind of thing manages to make even me feel a bit uncomfortable.
Think I'm going to have to name names on this one because I bet as well they're going to be marked up to hell and not necessarily even good products when you can get the exact same shit over the count without any issues. Paul Joseph Watson and Alex Jones went through this shit with those weird supplements they were peddling but now I feel we're getting into the realms of shady where even youtuber chiefs are going "Hey guys! Try this mysterious powder for a better sleep!" and the lotus eaters have gone that route too because wah demonetisation, I'm not shocked this has finally happened. It's enough to make even me nope out of there and then they'll wonder why their viewership is tanking and claim they're being censored.
That does seem to be a trend with certain people and I'm putting out a bit of a warning on this one. 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.
The political commentator crowd especially don't seem to understand that their content just doesn't do that well because it's oversaturated as fuck and it's not even necessarily anything to do with youtube algorithm shenanigans. Do these guys even know what's actually in this stuff? They claim they do, or did they just get a brief from the sponsor in an email and are peddling it because of how much they're getting? Which to me given the history of youtubers that do this seems more likely.
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.
Don't get me started on that with how frankly easy it is to pump stuff out these days if you really put your mind to it thanks to software like Blender and so on. I wouldn't go the live action route, I'm quite biased partially because camera tracking is such a pain in the arse at least I find it that whenever I fiddle with it. 3D Animation though? 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.