There will be times that a YouTuber that sponsors a website/game/etc., and most likely they're scams, trashy products, or both. Yet whenever a commenter points it out, someone on the replies will defend the YouTuber by saying, "Nah bro he gotta get his bag tho" (< example). It is grating to me because they defend YouTubers who are obviously trying to sell terrible products/services to the viewers, and even if I understand why they (the YouTubers) need to do sponsors (especially if YouTube is your primary job), there are other and better alternatives rather than taking sponsors, like promoting your Patreon for example. This is why I don't plan on becoming a professional YouTuber creator, because you're at the mercy of the rulings of YouTube and Google, and their whims.
Ideally, I would like the YouTubers to have a job outside of YouTube, not because I don't think becoming a professional YouTuber is a "fake job", but because the headaches of trying to appease the algorithm, trying to be quick to the trends, feeling garbage when your video slightly underperforms, being too careful of what you say and post unless you want daddy YouTube to kill you and revoke your source of income, and finally, working too much to the point of burnout so to have a source of income (including accepting sponsorship for bad products/services), can really make your life hellish. Those things are reasons why becoming a YouTuber in this current age of the World Wide Web is not really a good idea in my opinion.
So, what I was trying to say? Right, some people should stop defending YouTubers doing scummy sponsorship with the guise of "they have to get their bread/money" shtick. It makes them look foolish and short-sighted on the negative long-term affects (ethically and financially) of accepting horrible sponsorships. Thank you for reading, and may God bless you.
