Honey was the straw that broke the camel's back and made everyone realise that the vast majority of youtube sponsorship's are shady, instead of just a couple
I hate how people still get sponsored by betterhelp
I love how people STILL poke fun at raid shadow legends even in 2025.
I remember watching a gingerpal video sponsoring BetterHelp, or some other crappy therapy company, and the top comment was a comment saying that BetterHelp is horrible due to it's prices and rude therapists. Glad to see people comment helpful information and others get the comment to the top to warn people.
I'm glad that I was too lazy to install Honey. See? Even laziness has its perks.
Remember, kids, if you only heard about the product on YouTube, it's probably a scam.
Honey is owned by PayPal, and now there's another product being promoted heavily on YouTube called Pie. It's some kind of ad blocker that also allows users to earn money by enabling ads when they decide they don't want to block them. Pie is also owned by PayPal, it was originally created by Ryan Hudson, the same programmer who first made Honey and then sold it to PayPal, and it's even named after a sweet food product. It's absolutely a fucking scam.
Raid is an interesting case, because everyone knew from the get-go that they were just shilling YouTubers for clout, but given that YouTube shafts them out of pay on every day of the week that ends with "y", they all delt with it since (to their knowledge) they actually paid them. Too bad their PR team wasn't privy to this fact.
Raid shadow legend is probably the least scammy sponsor unlike the other 4 you mention in this video
Not only honey is a scam, but Markiplier predicted this since 2020
Conclusion - ignore absolutely every single sponsorship, no matter who says it or how real they sound about it. It's safer this way - influencers don't seem to take much responsability and just throw an apology. You lose while they already proffited off it.
I'm so disappointed in honey
"The Worst Sponsorships in YouTube History" do you realize how little that narrows it down
The fact that people are still taking BetterHelp's sponsorship money even after there's a readily available FTC filing on how awful they are & how they've basically used weasel words to hide that they haven't changed their practices is SO frustrating. Doubly so when the people who get called out for doing it either get defensive or try to delete all comments reminding them who they're working with.
I was taught a valuable lesson by my girlfriend after getting scammed by Raycon after I decided to treat myself to a "Luxury" item after seeing a YouTuber being sponsored by Raycon, I had a 1 year warranty on them, they worked GREAT...for that one year...only about a month or 2 after the warranty expired, they ceased working all together, fast forward a few years and I was going to make a mistake and buy another sponsored item. Enter my girlfriend. She told me and I quote, "Never buy a sponsored product from a YouTuber, if the item is sold and manufactured by the YouTuber themself, still approach with caution." and to this day, we have been happily dating for a year now and I have NEVER touched any ad read product again.
0:24 I’m glad I never downloaded this because I “would do it later”
I honestly feel bad for the people who used to sponsor these things, I remember Caddy sponsoring BetterHelp and it just sucks that this guy who has been suffering from depression accepted this sponsorship hoping to help others only for it to be a scam. God these sponsorships suck
It's kinda disappointing since a big channel I watch talked about the Better Help controversy and stood with them and to this day stands with them.
Better help is absolutely disgusting and the people in charge need serious jail time, taking advantage of depressed and sometimes suicidal people is absolutely DISGUSTING, people who do this should be ashamed, because this is no way to treat people.
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