It's not about them or anybody else making money. It's about people shilling for companies under the guise of truth.
Muhammed has clearly defined adds on this site. Many YTers will do sponsored videos that are clearly labeled as sponsored content. Again, more power to them. It gets shady where they start shilling for a particular vendor or product & it's never disclosed why.
And that includes to what amounts to false advertising as well.
For example in the context of this discussion, let's take a OWTM typical YT video:
- 15 minute video with a third to two thirds with him talking to the camera. If I open a video about tractors, guns, knives, cooking or machining work - I want to see a video spending the
vast majority of the time on tractors, guns, knives, cooking or machining work. That's the
whole point of a video. NOT someone's face from forking 6" away. That's just plain old rude and revolting. (Hannah the Noodler is an obvious exception here).
- It's pretty **** hypocritical for Morgan to put his wife front and center of the previews and videos with the obvious attempt at getting better views/subs/$$$ and then come on here and complain when someone makes a comment about his wife. The comment itself was rude and uncalled for. But anybody with a half a brain could have seen it coming from 5 miles away. My guess is that the views/subs/$$$ clouded his vision.
Another term for false advertising is "lack of ethics" or "lack of integrity".
Want to see a YT video with high integrity? Simple: Watch one of Andrew Camarata's videos. What do you see: 20-30 second intro (here's the job at hand...let's get started), 15-30 minutes of action doing what he does best getting stuff done, then a short epilogue where he shows the results of him getting stuff done. Do you see him using a selfie-stick from 6" away. Nope. Ten minutes of useless verbal diarieha(sp) out of a 15 minute video? Nope.
My bet is that now that Morgan sees that TBN isn't going to be safe haven from critical comments, unlike his YT channel where he can limit comments from only his fanbois, he won't be spending much time here.