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by pembrook 743 days ago
Calling everything a "scam" is quickly evolving into a scam of its own.

It seems everyone on YouTube is doing clickbait thumbnails and Yellow Journalism in an effort to build a get-rich-quick "creator" business ultimately selling ads for junk D2C products and VPNs.

Soon we'll have folks doing hour-long YouTube exposés about the people who create hour-long YouTube exposés in a recursive loop. The winner will be Manscaped.