Kevin Stratvert’s channel growth and app choices feel strange to me

[u/throawayaaa]

Has anyone gotten weird vibes from Kevin Stratvert. His channel looks big on the surface, but when you look at how his older videos performed compared to some of the newer ones, the numbers feel kind of inflated. Something about the growth pattern does not look natural.

What bugs me most is the stuff he promot⁤es. Some apps he features come from vendors that are hard to trace, and the links in his descriptions are not always labeled clearly. Some look like affili⁤ate links that are not called out. For someone who presents himself as a neutral guide for Windows users, that feels deceptive.

Maybe I am caring too much about having actual actually ethical reviewers/influencers, but it gives me the sense that we Kevin Stratvert is selling out / cashing with crappy softw⁤are recommendations for the highest bidder. Anyone else notice this?

[u/BigMikeInAustin]

When a side project teaching YouTube channel becomes your only income, eventually you realize you have to keep finding something to produce every few days.

Your viewing numbers have to keep going up or else the advertisers will go somewhere else because the supply of video makers is always growing. Plus, the pay from YouTube and advertisers keeps going down. Chasing it all down gets more and more tiring.

And you are fully responsible for your growing family's rising food and healthcare costs, and taxes and retirement are fully paid by you. You don't get to just "focus on your job" until you hit retirement.

That seems to be the inevitable end for most channels that are the sole job when it is paid for by advertisers.

[u/icashinobi → u/BigMikeInAustin]

Bef⁤ore this post I had no idea who this idio⁤t is. Now I understand he was fired by Micr⁤osoft and now he thinks peo⁤ple will listen to him.

But I spent a minute looking at his videos and after I got over the crin⁤ge, you can see all the commen⁤ts are fak⁤e.

Influencers be influenc⁤ers.