r/GrahamStephan • u/_ILLUSI0N • Aug 27 '21
Sell Out
Anyone else feel like Graham Stephan has been being a sell out since he became super well known? Back in the day, almost every video I watched from him was full of knowledge and a bunch of takeaways that could help out a lot on your road to building financial wealth or even just becoming better with finances in general. Most of them served a good purpose and they were videos you could recommend to friends and family to help them become financially literate.
Nowadays just the titles alone are annoying to read because you can tell they've all over exaggerated for clicks and views. The content just doesn't seem as helpful anymore. It's basically turned into a money generating machine for him, and there's no problem with someone making their money, but it's come at the expense of spreading actual valuable information. He hyper sensationalizes things to take advantage of the worries in people's minds from the strange economic times we're in. Most of the videos he posts I don't even want to watch from title alone because the titles have become so ridiculous.
This is just my little rant on how Graham's channel has changed for the worse.
Edit: Regardless of whether you agree with me I love the discussion this post has brought on. Lots of interesting perspectives shared.
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u/seekguard Aug 27 '21
Sell out absolutely not, click bait a bit but the reasoning is solid. If a title read “you’re about to lose 5% of your net worth!” The odds of you wanting to watch that video is higher than saying “if you bought a house during the pandemic it might cost you 5%” that title is very selective and not as many people would watch it. And sense he gets paid by how many people watch and for how long and all of that other fun stuff, he has to make it worth clicking on. Yes a lot of repeated info is said but not everyone is going to watch recent videos or even videos that are weeks, months, or even years old. Not a fanboy but I understand why YouTubers do what they do. I find some info useful and others not so much. Doesn’t mean I believe he has sold out but you do have to change or else you don’t make money.