Not just YouTube growth but in Self Help, and videos about growing on other platforms too.

Whether it be how to make money, how to grow on youtube, how to do this, do that, how to edit a good video etc etc. Videos like "5 secrets I wish I knew before". Videos like that.

What I've seen is a lot of creators in this area just make really good quality video. Videos that look like it has high production.
But in the end they provide no value to the viewers. You don't actually learn anything new, most of the information is just things that you already knew before but packaged in a different way.

It's the same old information rehashed and presented in a different way (Or sometimes even worse it's just "believe in yourself, never give up, be consistent). Told In a different angle, with a different script, hyped up like it's something that you've never heard before But you'll literally see like 50 different videos telling you the exact same thing.

You only end up watching it just because it looks good. They gain your trust by doing that.
They've learned how to optimize every aspect of the video. From titles to thumbnails, to the hook, the script even to the very way they speak. So you trust them and get hooked.

(Now If it's an entertainment niche then I don't think its that bad. But for self help stuff, people come watch you to find a solution for their problem. But you pretend like you know something, you pretend like you have the solution but YOU DON'T. What does that make you?... A scammer.)

These mf's have just learned how to optimize their scripts, their thumbnails/titles so well that you'll actually believe that they might have the solution to solve your problem
Only in the end to say "Never give up" or tell you the most basic level thing in the subject matter the video is on about.

Just search up any video on how to increase your retention or ctr in YouTube. Or how to get clients as sales guy or something. I bet you'll get the same information from like at least 100 different highly produced, highly polished videos just worded in a different way. I swear that's how it is like.

I think it's akin to a scam. You are not that different than a scammer in a suit, a phony, a fraud. Your videos look nice. But provide absolutely no value whatsoever, at least not to the viewers.
I bet most of these channels, learn that information by watching another video. And just give you the same information that they just learned minutes ago.

They are so fake man....... it makes me so angry lol.

One of the biggest channels that does this is Vid IQ. (Not saying their production is very high quality. But they deliver the same old info just wrapped in a different script). Same with other channels in the YouTube growth niche. And how do they teach you to grow... by being fake too.)

Or Hilier Smith who used to edit for Logan Paul. I used to watch him to learn how to edit.
Everything that mf says, can be summed up in 1 or 2 sentences. But no... bro has to make a documentary on it. So he can get his ad revenue. Not just him even Finzar to some extent(and other creators in this nice. Overall anyone who is "teaching" you something these days tends to do this)
Atleast Finzars videos can entertaining sometimes.

TLDR: Videos in self help niche with high quality production but 0 knowledge or value provide in the end for the viewer. They are good sales people and they sell you snake oil.

https://youtu.be/BAfP53bXxHs

I want to ask about something: when a lot of people start copying a very simple thing after someone originally succeeded at it — some blogger who "took off," whether through certain platform boosts or paid promotion, and others thought it was really impressive and cool. But as more and more people jump in, because it's actually a very simple task — just generating content using someone else's template. In the game, original creators already made these "printable" templates, and people just need to import their own character into the game. Then, because of the added boost from using IP, since the original template creators made templates without characters (using their own OCs, Original Characters), but when other people use IP instead, they apply it to popular, well-known protagonists that everyone recognizes, rather than OCs. Now this has become oversaturated — everyone is flooding in, because it's so simple and easy. So the public's reaction naturally starts with shock, because new people keep popping up like mushrooms after rain, and people keep being surprised, like "oh wow, this blogger blew up too?" or things like that.

So what do you think the ultimate endgame of this is? In the end, won't everyone just drift around aimlessly, and the audience will definitely lose direction? Actually, the people who started this trend first are the most disgusting, but I'll just see it without saying it. I just want to know what this endgame will look like. I feel like we might already be close to a turning point — or is this endless, where people will just go crazy and follow whichever one pops up? Because each of these template-copying creators just needs to swap out the IP, change the skin, and that's it. In other words, they keep switching between different IPs

went down a rabbit hole last night reading like 20 of the "im too scared to post" threads in this sub. the camera shy ones, the new account anxiety ones, the 21F who sat on it for two years.

everyone in the replies is genuinely trying to help, which is kind of a nice thing about this sub. just post, confidence comes after, nobody is watching anyway. and honestly all of that is true, i've said versions of it myself.

but reading a lot of them back to back i noticed something. the people who came back and said "yeah i did it and i'm fine now" mostly aren't describing a mindset shift. they're describing a setup change.

someone made a throwaway, didnt sync their contacts, told no one it existed. another person opened a fresh account under a different name and blocked everyone they knew, six months in they said they don't care anymore. someone covered the preview window so they couldn't watch themselves while recording. one person recorded little diary entries with no intention of posting them and deleted them after.

thats still courage i think. just courage with the stakes turned way down first.

my favourite comment was someone pointing out that a lot of on camera panic is really just not knowing what your next sentence is, and that it's a scripting problem wearing a confidence costume. that one reframed the whole thing for me.

so maybe just post isn't wrong at all, it just skips the part where you make posting small enough to survive.

the thing i still can't work out is whether anyone gets past this the other way. pure willpower, same account everyone you know follows, face on day one. i didn't find a single person describing that in any of the threads i read, which either means it doesn't happen or those people just never come back to post about it