Feb 8, 2026 10:00 PM PST

If you ever need motivation to write, all you have to do is watch YouTube videos about your favorite subjects or hobbies. The videos I watch the most include photography, cooking, music, and overall visual arts.

These videos are an endless source for writing reactions or rants if you so wish to practice your typing or just need something to write while you work on your real project. There is so much misinformation that those of us that know better get easily frustrated if not down right furious at the crap that is published for mass consumption.

I have a few essays (I guess that is what we will call them even though the writings are more accurately described as rants) that I have yet to finish and properly publish. The main reason I do not finish and publish is that I do not want to come off as a crazy man that watches YouTube and reacts endlessly to the garbage but I am becoming more and more comfortable with that moniker.

The usual suspects to these infuriating videos are the well produced shills. The ones that try to sell you something by misinforming the public and creating a narrative to put whatever widget they are selling as the saviour of the problems you never had.

Don’t get me wrong. There are some great and educational videos out there that are pleasant to watch and that I continually subscribed to. However, these videos are usually not as well produced meaning that they are not as pretty to look at and they are also not as frequently published as the bad ones. Usually the bad ones are very well produced and adhere to a strict publication schedule usually once or twice a week.

The frustration is not that they have an opinion on anything. I welcome the difference of educated opinions and open conversation. However, what is currently being published is the purposeful spread of wrong facts to gain views and comments. Some of the comments are corrections to the information portrayed yet others are praise and gratitude for the information. This practice has been around for a while but I think there may be a deeper reason as to why some of these videos exist.

In my world, there are a lot of people that have a catalog of work. These people usually want to call attention to their catalog or work for praise and ultimately compensation of some kind.

These people are the worst in trying to teach whatever skill you are interested in. I have come to a theory of sorts regarding these people that misinterpret important technical terms and have ridiculous opinions on works by established masters in their specific fields.

I will write about the specifics in another post but for now, I just wanted to let anyone that needs a source for inspiration or motivation it can be easily found in YouTube videos made by hacks.