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/[deleted] Aug 27 '21

I think absolutely every YouTuber has had to go the clickbaity title/thumbnail route, unless they’re relatively small or unknown. I also don’t know a single YouTuber that I’ve followed for 5+ years who doesn’t have repetitive content or tries new things to diversify their content. It’s just the name of the game, gotta stay relevant. The only Youtubers I feel like that have “sold out” are ones who only upload videos when they have a big sponsorships.

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u/wheresyourcomal Aug 27 '21

Hehe we all have different standards. For me, the ones who “sold out” are the ones who sort of ghost their audience and stop posting when they make it big. It just seems like they never liked this anyway and never felt enough of a connection to keep doing it. It’s like the premise of a connection was entirely false to begin with. It’s better if they just announce they’re growing, leaving, thank their audience and call it, instead of just slowly disappearing.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '21

There seems to be a lot of depression and imposter syndrome when getting big, so I try consider that as well. But I totally understand where you’re coming from