This post is too real to let an AI be its editor, and before you act all fucking smart and talk about the em dash in the title, I use alt + 0151 for em dashes; I have been using them since high school which was 13 years ago. Was ChatGPT a thing back then? No? So shut the fuck up, and continue reading, assuming you can actually fucking read.
Anyway, one annoying sinister pattern I've noticed while watching the scam victims' knights in shining armor AKA scambaiters like KitBoga, NanoBaiter, and Scammer Payback, all they do is promote crappy services like NordVPN, SurfShark, AnyDesk, DeleteMe, Incogni, Honey, etc. When was the last time you saw aggressive marketing for something beneficial to humanity? Let me answer that for ya: FUCKING NEVER! Promoting those shady services is the equivalent of saving someone from drowning, and then waterboarding them before they even get a chance to feel grateful for being saved. What the fuck, greedy YouTubers? Is AdSense money not enough? Or are you going to use your marriage to an Asian lady and having half-Asian kids as an excuse to promote any fucking thing with no due diligence whatsoever? Oh, and as soon as one of those services is exposed, it's not your fault, right? The fact that these YouTubers can be proud of themselves thinking they're doing something noble while they're just as bad as the scumbags they pretend to protect their mindless easily-impressed-and-entertained followers from.
What's funny is that YouTubers like KitBoga even created his own app to sell to the same people he pretends to care about. What the fuck is that all about? Didn't those people suffer enough already, and now you want to sell them your mediocre app instead of just telling them to use a free effective tool like uBlock Origin and/or AdAway. Does KitBoga really have to be one of those sneaky bastards that prey on clueless people's insecurities (not to mention that he sounds so fucking gay and insincere like a big-nosed witch; “[…] Know that you matter.” Oh, fuck off!), and still get to sleep better at night like he's doing humanity a favor? If you truly care about protecting the elderly from scams, you wouldn't build yet another useless tool (SeraphSecure, was it?) to scam them. Just tell them to use a reliable AdBlocker, and that's it. Using “a man's gotta eat” as an excuse to sell useless shit is no different than what Indian scammers do. After all, they gotta eat, too. Obviously, in the hierarchy of scumbags, Scambaiters are less scummy, but they're still scummy nonetheless as long as they keep being whores for sponsors that sell the worst services, note that there are many free open-source apps that are far superior to the slop they promote.
If non-tech-savvy people have to pay for useless crap on a monthly basis using their fears and insecurities as a fuel for certain YouTubers to get richer and richer, tell me again, how's that not fucked up? How's promoting a shitty service any different from promoting a crypto or NFT scam?
The way I see it, if you're a YouTuber that promotes these useless services to your followers, you're no better than fake gurus like Grant Cardone or Crypto scammers like Logan Paul, Ice Poseidon, BitBoy, etc. It's bad enough that even AdSense money is tainted with malvertising. Heck, the entire fucking Internet is one giant stinking cesspool that reeks of corruption everywhere you look.
Even those who encourage their followers to use “Patreon only” to support them tend to lock some of their content behind a paywall, and then have the balls to call out scammers like Andrew Tate for saying stuff like, “Only 5 seats left!” Like, what the fuck? You guys are using the exact same shady tactics. Same applies to those who sell merch, and say crap like, “We have a limited supply, guys! These shirts sell out fast!” Y'all are sucking one giant cock of modern mindless-consumer-friendly capitalism in human form. Y'all are the same, so there's no need for one party to act more holier-than-thou than the other. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!
Y'all make me sick to the point where I'd rather be homeless than follow your example in any way, shape or form. I don't even want to use GrayJay or Invidious to watch your scam-sponsor-like-comment-subscribe-desperation-induced slop anymore. Mic Drop
Dishonorable Mentions:
– Penguinz0 feat. Opera GX; an abominable browser that Charlie doesn't even bother to block ads on. Talk about a spineless shill. This guy also works off his shady sponsor money guilt by giving some of it away to his followers from time to time using only Peter Thiel's PayPal, of all platforms. Typical vomit-inducing celebrity behavior. And he has the balls to see Pokemon scalpers as subhumans as if he's any better than them with his repetitive monotone sleep-inducing monologues — AKA the laziest fucking content there is. Dude himself is Snorlax and Jigglypuff's lovechild, come to think of it.
– Asmongold Feat. Polymarket; a gambling platform created and used by humanity's lowest of the low. It's basically pump.fun but for future events.
– Upper Echelon Feat. Incogni; a service that preys on paranoid privacy-worshiping people like paying for a useless service on a monthly basis makes more financial sense than emptying the spam folder. This sanctimonious giraffe-fetish-having hypocrite tells people that kids are getting dumber while he's promoting useless crap over and over which does nothing but make the brain damage worse for his viewers, yet he fails to see that he's part of the problem.
– Linus Tech Tips, MKBHD, MrBeast, eh3h3Productions, Penguinz0, etc. Feat. Honey; they all promoted one of the greatest scams in Internet history with zero due diligence. Out-of-touch rub-it-in-his-employee's-face private jet owner Linus Sebastian even claimed at one point that Honey was “free-free; not steal-your-personal-data free.” But it's no surprise coming from a guy who literally said using an adblocker is piracy. None of them cared about affiliate commissions being stolen from small creators because they already got paid a lot more for shilling it to billions of people worldwide. If that's not pure evil greed, I don't know what is. I will never ever understand why some people feel the need to get to a certain point where the so-called moral flexibility becomes the norm, and then their lack of empathy and scruples blind them to a point where any kind of valid criticism becomes hate to them. “If you have haters, you're on the right track.” Not if you promote scams and mess with your audience's psyche, you're not! Wake the fuck up!
Ugh, and they act like they're the epitome of common sense. The lack of empathy disguised as humor and “deep knowledge” is just fucking revolting.
Degeneracy makes these people throw self-reflection out the fucking window. To them, it's all about making money; it doesn't matter how they make it as long as they can convince themselves that they're “offering value” to viewers, they'll promote any shady crap to try and create fears and insecurities in said viewers. Whether they do it on purpose — like a cartoonish villain would — or not, that's a different story. The only decent YouTuber I've come across who doesn't try to shove useless products down your throat is, drum roll, please… Louis Rossmann! That guy's a real one. The rest is nothing but spineless “sponsor whores”, since calling them shills would be an understatement. As long as these low-IQ people are allowed to become rich off of doing nothing but shilling useless crap, this clown world show will never end. Also, It's a recurring theme with these degenerates: Profit from chaos and lack of due diligence and regulation, and then act dumb once exposed — something they instinctively learned from their resource-hungry military-obsessed government. Enough already!
UPDATE 1:
All the sanctimonious assholes I mentioned above, they all act like ChatGPT and other commercial LLMs are the worst thing that ever happened to humanity due to certain patterns, and yet they all use cringier brain-damage-causing patterns like always telling people to like, comment, subscribe, check their store, certain dumb catchphrases, etc. It's like a program is not allowed to have patterns, but them using the exact same formula every single time to get the bag is totally fine. “Stop making stupid people famous.” comes to mind.
What's sad about all this is that these people think this is what success is all about, so much so that dumb luck has nothing to do with it, and that their “mindset” is what made them achieve said success, ignoring the fact that once you get past a certain threshold wealth-wise, you don't have to do anything of value anymore to make money, and I genuinely think that's the main reason these degenerates get stuck in an infernal loop of unoriginal thought like it's one giant trend-chasing same-content factory; the inevitability of that is just sad, man. Turned out, this is living proof that money causes stagnation instead of motivation, and there is no such thing as taking risks when the outcome isn't starving to death or getting evicted. My theory is that these people find themselves getting milked by their government a lot each year on April 15th, so I guess to them the end justifies the means no matter who gets hurt mentally or financially in the process, so in a way, while a third-world scammer pays taxes simply by having been born in a shitty country, i.e., the adversity/struggle is the tax, a first-world YouTuber pays a buttload of actual taxes to a country he was indoctrinated since birth to see as the greatest country ever. It makes me wonder if the more your government fucks you, the more justified you feel in fucking your audience.