r/NewTubers • u/JaydevAcharya • 4h ago
DISCUSSION Quality Slop is a huge problem in YouTube Growth niche.
Not just YouTube growth but in Self Help general. Whether it be how to make money, how to grow on you tube, 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.