YouTube Sponsors - Own Façade Chinese Steel Knives and a square foot of Scottish Plot of Land for $420

[No. 7 cat]

I am surprised that this is getting so much traction, there is nothing ground breaking here. Companies have been selling shitty/gimmicky products forever.

How do people think that they get the budget to be all over the place? You obviously need obscene margins to do that. Buying a shit knife is not a scam. You got your shit knife, it was made where they said it was, with the steel they advertised.

It's getting incredibly meta, where sponsors have basically become the content of the commentary community.

Is that Scott dude the same one who started the previous apocalypse? His name rings a bell. If so, I am really impressed at his ability to shit where he eats.

The problem for me, and likely others, is how scammy these sponsorships are. Better Help is probably the worst by exploiting those tormented in their mind while Established Titles is middling bad in that it only robs the gullible, a tax on stupidity, a lottery without any big prize, while online games are mostly a hazard to parental credit cards.

 

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The problem for me, and likely others, is how scammy these sponsorships are. Better Help is probably the worst by exploiting those tormented in their mind while Established Titles is middling bad in that it only robs the gullible, a tax on stupidity, a lottery without any big prize, while online games are mostly a hazard to parental credit cards.

When it comes to any platform like Better Help, I can tell you that the very model of the platform MUST be built to protect the company. It just so happen that they are more cynical than the average.

Better Help just tried to adapt a new service to a pre-existing model. A model that has proven very successful.

You identify an area with high margin where there is space for someone to take over organic rankings and ads by centralizing and out-bidding everybody on generic keywords.

You build a brand/website that centralizes everything, and you build enough authority to start and dominates search results. If I am a psychologue, my boyfriend's cousin set up a shitty wordpress for me, and except for Google My Business, I don't get much presence, much less traffic. But when I type online therapy from anywhere, I find you.

Then, the way the business is built is that you are not part of the contractual agreement. You facilitate the transaction, and there are two sets of T&C. The provider pays you for a lead, past this point, you have nothing to do with it. You agree to do the bare minimum of due diligences, and you dump the responsibility on the party that carries out the service.

All this to say. They did not invent anything, and they most probably have no legal liability. It's just not a model that can be transposed to mental health without proper supervision.

 

[Cyclonus]

Oversimplified's NordVPN plugs are getting so annoying that even the characters in the video are complaining about them.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

WARNING: JEW SPOTTED.

Hehehe, as if that's a bad thing. Jewsh aka Null is also Jewish. And Jews together strong!

 

[Useful_Mistake]

Hehehe, as if that's a bad thing. Jewsh aka Null is also Jewish. And Jews together strong!

Everyone knows Null is British

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

Everyone knows Null is British

OK, so I did some digging and we were both wrong! As it turns out, Null is an Albanian from Kosovo!

 

[NoReturn]

For some horror, here's the reverse side of the thread topic, a couple videos talking about how to get those sponsorships:

Hehehe, as if that's a bad thing. Jewsh aka Null is also Jewish. And Jews together strong!

Everyone knows Null is British

OK, so I did some digging and we were both wrong! As it turns out, Null is an Albanian from Kosovo!

You're all wrong. He's an uwu anime boy. Why do you think he hates anime so much? He's obviously trying to throw us off the trail.

 

[Brown People are Gross]

THe amino app is a another good one.

That was the worst social media experience I've ever had. You create an account and you've automatically left a like on 16 random posts. The rest of it was a bare minimum functionality app, which there was never a point in using over, say, Twitter.

Also, do you know that 2 out of 3 guys experience some kind of male pattern baldness by the time they are 35?

 

[Smar Mijou]

What surprised me is that one of the first Youtubers that I seen call out the Established Titles scam was Jeremy Hambeast/The Quartering. I figured with all of his demonetization issues in the past, he'd be sucking the sponsorship tit until the milk ran dry, but in this case he actually stood his ground, apologized for it to his viewers, and quit running their ads. That at least deserves some respect.

 

[Brown People are Gross]

We've got the dumbest product idea yet:

Apologies for double posting. But shockingly, Mathew has a sponsor for his latest video. That's right, a real life bonafide sponsor! It's Moviepalette dot com. They make movies into barcodes that you can hang on your wall(?).

Palette barcode posters! So, instead of hanging an actual poster for a movie you like, you can have lines of colors that do not remind you of the movie in any way. It's more expensive and more wasteful, considering how much differently colored ink it takes for one poster!

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

Sponsored by HelloFresh.



Some time ago youtube was recommending me some of those channels that do exposés on financial crimes and crypto scams, the hilarious part is that they were sponsored by very shady looking "investment" sites. You know the ones where you supposedly invest in a 000.01% of an art masterpiece of buy a percentage of a Super Mario game that's supposed to be valued in a million dollars hoping your stonk rises as the thing gains value.




My biggest pet peeve is channels who have a fucking sponsor and you have to skip like 3 minute ads but then they still shill Patreon and Ko-fi and on top of that will still bend over backwards and self censor just to not loose the adsense monetization. Maybe go fuck yourself?

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

It seems Scott Schaffer is getting tired of talking about Established Titles but has to respond to HeavyDSparks.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

What surprised me is that one of the first Youtubers that I seen call out the Established Titles scam was Jeremy Hambeast/The Quartering. I figured with all of his demonetization issues in the past, he'd be sucking the sponsorship tit until the milk ran dry, but in this case he actually stood his ground, apologized for it to his viewers, and quit running their ads. That at least deserves some respect.

Who would've thunk that this neckbeard incel would be one of the first ones to expose something that's actually worth exposing and not some exaggerated SJW BS?

 

[My cravat doesn't flutter]

Haven't seen anyone mention Filmora. My naïve ass actually fell for the YouTubers saying they'd been using it prior to getting sponsored. When Filmora9 updated to FilmoraX, it crashed my PC. After a month of the Blue Screen of Death, I found myself completely reinstalling Windows.

One thing about sponsored products is that even if the creator genuinely loved the product they receive, there's a good chance it doesn't actually reflect the product being sold. Of course companies with send the best they've got to the people they want to promote them.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

What surprised me is that one of the first Youtubers that I seen call out the Established Titles scam was Jeremy Hambeast/The Quartering. I figured with all of his demonetization issues in the past, he'd be sucking the sponsorship tit until the milk ran dry, but in this case he actually stood his ground, apologized for it to his viewers, and quit running their ads. That at least deserves some respect.

Respect that fat fucking grifter? Nope. Never.

 

[Cavalier Cipolla]

That was the worst social media experience I've ever had. You create an account and you've automatically left a like on 16 random posts. The rest of it was a bare minimum functionality app, which there was never a point in using over, say, Twitter.

Also, do you know that 2 out of 3 guys experience some kind of male pattern baldness by the time they are 35?

I'm 22 and have started balding in a visible manner if you look carefully at the right angle. I have accepted it as something men will experience eventually and figured that instead of shelling out money on some anti balding meds, I might as well just enjoy while I still have plenty of hair. And spend the money on hookers or OnlyFans.

OK, maybe not on that, but you get my point. Why give money to big pharma for a condition that barely affects your quality of life 99% of the time? Oh nevermind, if you keep your hair, you won't need to apply sunscreen on your head to avoid sunburns on it!

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Did you know three out of too doods will experience teh bald? Help them out by a subscription to manscaped and dollar shave club, where “billiard ball bald” has multiple meanings!

@LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV] I’ve been seeing those masterworks adds too (I tend to watch a lot of expose/anti-establishment alt news channels because I’m weird). Would be interesting to hear more about them as I think it could turn into a real criminal fraud case (the FTX/Sam Bankman fiasco going on now has caught a lot of people’s attention to alt-investment schemes).

I kind of wish more regular grocery/food products were sponsored. Supposedly a guy on Twitch got sponsored by DiGiorno frozen pizzas and now has a multi-year supply of cheap pizza. Another streamer was eating Subway and comically lamented that “he wasn’t sponsored but wishes he was”. That kind of shilling is more honest and honestly kind of fun. I would love to watch cheesy Minecraft YouTuber and get a 10% off coupon to Panda Express or something.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

I'm 22 and have started balding in a visible manner if you look carefully at the right angle. I have accepted it as something men will experience eventually and figured that instead of shelling out money on some anti balding meds, I might as well just enjoy while I still have plenty of hair. And spend the money on hookers or OnlyFans.

OK, maybe not on that, but you get my point. Why give money to big pharma for a condition that barely affects your quality of life 99% of the time? Oh nevermind, if you keep your hair, you won't need to apply sunscreen on your head to avoid sunburns on it!

More power to you. You'd be putting greasy minoxidil on your hair twice a day every single day, wasting money and it would still fall off eventually. No sense pining over it.

I’ve been seeing those masterworks adds too (I tend to watch a lot of expose/anti-establishment alt news channels because I’m weird). Would be interesting to hear more about them as I think it could turn into a real criminal fraud case

Thats exactly what i was thinking. And it has to be a sick joke they are shilling on these channels. "well, i spend 20 minutes listening about a scam just like this one but surely this Masterworks thing is legit, surely this guy that exposes finantial criminal wouldn't be shilling finantial criminals?"

 

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I'm 22 and have started balding in a visible manner if you look carefully at the right angle. I have accepted it as something men will experience eventually and figured that instead of shelling out money on some anti balding meds, I might as well just enjoy while I still have plenty of hair. And spend the money on hookers or OnlyFans.

OK, maybe not on that, but you get my point. Why give money to big pharma for a condition that barely affects your quality of life 99% of the time? Oh nevermind, if you keep your hair, you won't need to apply sunscreen on your head to avoid sunburns on it!

I know people who are really disturbed by it. I don't really get it tbh.

I guess it mostly applies to people that are not used to having short haircuts. I personally could not care less.

 

[The Feline Solution]

While it's clear that products shilled by Youtubers are garbage i don't mind if the few (actually only two) YTers i regularly watch make some extra bucks from that. God knows i'd go full Krusty if i'd ever become famous enough for advertisers to approach me:

Speaking on the subject. I actively paid an annual subscription for Brilliant (which is often a sponsor for many educational youtubers) which is basically a service for anyone who has no desire on going to college but want to learn and fundamentals of Math, Science and Technology. Speaking from experience, they do offer courses, a wiki on how things work and daily exercises. But I'm for sure it doesn't guarantee meeting requirements for most college courses depending on what the college is. But then again, most people who went through prestigious colleges are freemasons with no real skill whatsoever.

Doesn't Khan Academy offer the exact same thing for free?