The Platform That Knows No Shame: Why I Don’t Trust YouTube

YouTube is the king of video content.
And like most kings throughout history, it reigns with ego, corruption, and very little accountability.

People praise it like a digital university. I see it as a clickbait casino.

Here’s why I don’t like YouTube — and why, frankly, you shouldn’t either.

🎭 1. For the Creators: It’s All About the Money

Let’s be blunt: Most YouTubers don’t care about you.
They care about watch time, ad revenue, and algorithmic glory.

That’s not a moral failing. It’s how the system is built.

The longer you watch, the more they earn. The result?

• Stretched-out nonsense: Five-minute ideas padded into 20-minute rambles.
• Ad farms: Monetised videos break your focus every few minutes.
• Lazy scripting: “Umm… so yeah… okay let’s see…” — sound familiar?
• Zero verification: Who needs facts when outrage and oversimplification make better thumbnails?

In short, many creators are optimising for the algorithm, not for accuracy or quality.
And they’re making bank doing it — while feeding the world’s largest misinformation machine.

🧠 2. For the Viewers: It Feels Like Learning, But It’s Not

YouTube feels educational. But often, it's just noise wearing a lab coat.

Here’s the problem:

• It’s full of misinformation.
  From conspiracy theories to health “advice” to get-rich-quick garbage — the bad stuff spreads faster because it’s more clickable. And people believe it. They share it. They act on it.
• It rewires your attention span.
  The jump cuts, the quick edits, the autoplay addiction — it’s turning people into skimmers, not thinkers. Long-form focus is being eaten alive by snack-sized dopamine bursts.
• It creates the illusion of expertise.
  Watching someone “explain” something doesn’t mean you’ve learned it. It just means you watched it. And a lot of that watching comes from people with zero credentials and a decent microphone.

🔍 What I See Instead

• Creators gaming a broken system, driven by profit, not purpose.
• Viewers absorbing shallow, often false knowledge, while losing the ability to think deeply or focus for more than 30 seconds.

It’s not just annoying. It’s dangerous.
Because when YouTube becomes your main source of information, you’re not educating yourself — you’re becoming part of a crowd subjected to mass stupefaction and programming.

👥 Now...

I'm not saying every creator is bad.
I'm not saying every viewer is lost.

What I am saying: YouTube, as a system, rewards what’s worst for your brain — and your future.

Watch carefully.
Think independently.
And never confuse attention for trust.

Disagree? Challenge me!