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There was a YouTuber I used to respect and looked up to when I was a teenager and I hadn't checked his channel for years. Last year I looked at one of his videos after the US election and he was using the fact that it's a dangerous time for queer people as his segue into shilling for BetterHelp. Not a chance any YouTuber is unaware of the issues with it by now, anyone who shills it knows damn well how dangerous that platform is, and I don't think my opinion of someone has dropped as quickly as that. It's bad enough to shill that awful company but to exploit your young queer audience's fears post-election and people's mental health issues and act like they're doing them a favour? Absolutely fuck that.
Never heard about Better Help. What are they and why are they shit?
They're a company that offers therapy & counseling online, and they were fined for sharing their customer/patient data with advertising companies. I think there are other controversies, but that's the one I remember.
I wish they were fined enough to absolutely kill the company, because what they did is absolutely egregious.
Didn't they also get exposed for having fake therapists? Like people who just applied for the role of therapist, but weren't in any way verified? It's been years, but that was the first controversy I heard about with them and it was all over youtube. The fact that they are still making sponsorship deals with creators and everybosy has just seemed to accept them without a thought is super concerning to me.
Yeah I'm pretty sure they did a bunch of other things that should have had them shut down. Like this whole thread is saying, anyone accepting better help sponsorships loses all credibility since they can be payed to abandon their morals (if they have them)