The Problem With YouTube Advice...

Added: 2026-05-23

[00:00:00]This is the problem with YouTube advice.

[00:00:03]If you've been on YouTube at all within the last year, you've probably noticed the influx of YouTube channels similar to these. They all have similar thumbnails, started around the same time, and discuss the same topics. One common thing you'll notice across all these channels is the how I made XYZ dollars a month online or how I quit my 9 to5 with YouTube. Now, don't get me wrong, this is great for the people recording and posting the videos. What a pleasure it would be if you could just post videos and make a living. That's literally my dream. So, please subscribe. You can single-handedly make my dream come true. The problem with this though is that they are presenting the idea of making videos as just a way to make money. Now, if you are primarily wanting to start a YouTube channel just to make money, your heart is already in the wrong place. I'm not sure about everyone else, but I'm tired of seeing my YouTube feed being flooded by videos about how people are becoming millionaires by automating YouTube videos with AI. It's literally pure AI slop. There's a popular idea floating around on the dead internet theory. If you haven't heard of it before or don't know what it is, basically it's this idea that the internet is just a dead empty space filled with AI bots commenting on every post and automated content rather than human interaction.

[00:01:06]If you choose to follow the advice of the channels promoting YouTube automation and printing money via YouTube, you are directly contributing to this idea. You are part of the problem. You are literally selling your soul for clicks, views, and money. I know there's different definitions of selling your soul and everyone interprets it in a different way. But to me, selling your soul at a basic level is compromising and disregarding your morals, core beliefs, and opinions/ ideas just to make money or reach a certain status. By this definition, if you decide to go to some generative AI website and get it to write you a script, then go to another generative AI website and get it to create you a voiceover that reads the generated script, you are compromising your morals and contributing to the diluted botfield cesspool that is the internet. you are single-handedly playing a part in the dehumanization of the internet as a whole. Before you know it, every human content creator will be phased out because YouTube will lean towards promoting AI slop. YouTube is beginning to become flooded with a ton of AI slop videos. Most of the things you see posted now are minimal to loweffort attempts to regurgitate the same thing that has been done a million times already. Nobody wants to be original.

[00:02:10]Everyone wants to chase trends. I remember when making it on YouTube was done by having original ideas. people created content that never had been created before. Look at people like Ryan Higa. He was a pioneer for comedy skit style videos. I know he was one of the first popular YouTubers, so it helped his case. But then look at people like Queso. Queso hasn't really been a pioneer of anything as he is mainly just a gaming style content creator. But Queso took what people had already been doing for years and put his own spin on it. He used his own personality. He was authentic and people want authentic. In the current landscape of online content creation, people are starved for authenticity and personable content creators. People want to watch content they can relate to. I speak from experience. I, along with many others, are tired of the over-the-top, highstakes, pure retention bait editing, Mr. Beast style videos. Now, this isn't to rag on Mr. Beast at all. I know a lot of people like to say that he is responsible for the current state of YouTube and for ruining it, but I'm not saying that. While he did play a huge part in making YouTube what it is now, Mr. Beast spotted a hole in what YouTube needed and capitalized on He didn't just capitalize on it. He took it to a whole new level. Mr. Beast was able to play YouTube like a video game and constantly level up. The problem I have with this is the entertainment style that he used.

[00:03:19]It's the same as traditional media and TV shows. He turned YouTube into cable TV. Every video has a completely over-the-top budget and highstakes challenge. Now, I'm not saying that there isn't room for that type of content on YouTube because YouTube is a broad expanse of different content styles. That's the whole beauty of it.

[00:03:34]You have the ability to watch videos like Mr. Then to someone like Charlie, who is a down to earth guy that just talks about trending topics at the moment. Then to someone like Cory Ginchin, who is a completely over-the-top personality that plays games that he enjoys. Of course, he does play trendy games, but sometimes he sets the trends. He was also a huge pioneer of the classic definition of a YouTuber.

[00:03:53]What I mean by that is someone who people just want to watch, no matter what type of video he makes. His content creation abilities are so diverse, he can make any kind of video he wants and it would be successful. I guarantee Cory wasn't thinking of how to scale his YouTube channel to make six figures a month. He was thinking of content he really wanted to make and that he knew would have an impact. Most people are giving channel advice on how to grow a YouTube channel after they've already grown their YouTube channel. I know this sounds stupid. Of course, people that are popular YouTubers are going to know how to grow a channel. Are you I'm not talking about gaming YouTubers or entertainment creators or huge multi-million subscriber YouTube channels. I'm talking about all the 50 to 75,000 subscriber channels that boast about building multiple channels to over a million subscribers but never show proof of said channel. It's like they're laring being a popular YouTuber. Really, if you think about it, it's pure genius.

[00:04:42]Who's to tell you that you haven't built 700 channels to over 10 million subscribers if you just say you did?

[00:04:47]Fake it till you make it. All the channels whose whole entire purpose is to help you grow, or so they say. It'd be different if all these people weren't trying to sell you a course on how to grow a channel. If you were such a successful YouTuber, why would you need to sell a course to make money? I can understand it if you're just trying to build a business and make something scalable. But for the YouTube landscape, just post videos. Do what you want.

[00:05:06]Unless your goal is to promote your business or create a business selling things and using YouTube as an outlet for your business, just make what videos you want to make. I guarantee you that more people will want to watch you for the value you provide just by being yourself than they will for anything else. Everyone is sick of the mindless attention-grabbing, dopamine inducing audio spam that YouTube has become.

[00:05:24]People are seeking out authenticity.

[00:05:26]What better way to do that than to just be yourself? Sure, there is money to be made via YouTube or content creation in general, but I promise it'll go a lot further if you actually create something you have a passion for. Thank you for watching.