Vox is also not your friend.
true that; regardless of YouTube.
YouTube millionaires are not your friends
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#12Celebrities are not your friends. Remember all those celebrities who claimed they'd bought Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs? That was all a scam.[1] It was put together by a Hollywood agent who represented both a long list of major celebrities and BAYC. Now there's a lawsuit against all the parties involved. Kim Kardashian was already fined a few million dollars by the SEC for that sort of thing. [1] https://variety.com/202…
> Celebrities are not your friends.
> Remember all those celebrities who claimed they'd bought Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs?
Well, yeah... This isn't new, it's always been this way.
Remember all those people who said they'd leave the US if Trump won?
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#13“If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost.”
So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos? This seems like a fairly obtuse statement. I don’t watch these hustle porn guys on YouTube but I learn a hell of a lot from smaller tech YouTubers who produce educational content.
The author is clearly quite salty. Vox is just as bad if not worse than these guys on YouTube. Their whole schtick is riling people up for page views with no consideration for the wider societal impact.
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#14What I find distasteful about these fellas is that they’re not adding anything to the world. They’re taking away.
It’s what I love about HN. Sure, most of us wouldn’t mind being rich (sorry, ‘financially independent’), but it’s not the driver. The driver is to make something cool; to make something better.
I couldn’t imagine being the sort of person who sold people cheap Chinese shit just so I could buy a ‘Lambo’. Even if, by the book, that is a successful business.
I have no envy of these people.
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#15Celebrities are not your friends. Remember all those celebrities who claimed they'd bought Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs? That was all a scam.[1] It was put together by a Hollywood agent who represented both a long list of major celebrities and BAYC. Now there's a lawsuit against all the parties involved. Kim Kardashian was already fined a few million dollars by the SEC for that sort of thing. [1] https://variety.com/202…
> Celebrities are not your friends. > Remember all those celebrities who claimed they'd bought Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs? Well, yeah... This isn't new, it's always been this way. Remember all those people who said they'd leave the US if Trump won?
People complaining about politics isn’t the same as securities fraud.
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#16The sigma male grindset is by the funniest meme at the moment. I love how far its been taken into absurdity. It is becoming frustrating having to talk to nephews about the realities of ecommerce and business after years in the industry and them thinking you can flick a switch to become a millionaire over night. The most worrying trend is the attitudes towards women and people of perceived lower status, a victim mindset can hold people back but so can poverty and systemic issues.
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#17“If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost.” So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos? This seems like a fairly obtuse statement. I don’t watch these hustle porn guys on YouTube but I learn a hell of a lot from smaller tech YouTubers who produce educational content. The author is clearly quite sal…
I was going to say the same thing as you. The article has a good title but besides that it completely missed the point. And the sentence you quoted was only the cherry on top.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Celebrities are not your friends. > Remember all those celebrities who claimed they'd bought Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs? Well, yeah... This isn't new, it's always been this way. Remember all those people who said they'd leave the US if Trump won?
People complaining about politics isn’t the same as securities fraud.
Calling an NFT a security might be the most charitable definition ever.
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#19“If you’re taking AI or drop shipping startup ideas from online videos with hundreds of thousands of views, you’ve already lost.” So nobody can find inspiration and learn about new things from YouTube videos? This seems like a fairly obtuse statement. I don’t watch these hustle porn guys on YouTube but I learn a hell of a lot from smaller tech YouTubers who produce educational content. The author is clearly quite sal…
Elsewhere on HN’s front page today: negativity drives engagement. Vox and others on both sides of the political spectrum turned that into a business.
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#20What's sad is that there are so many unmoored men who are drawn to this type of thing; that a true and caring network of real people and relationships eludes them, and that they were not taught to distinguish reality from artifice.
It's deeply, crushingly sad that a flimflam gimmick preying on parasocial affection is a draw - they're so low that it works on them.
How do you even undo that kind of damage?