While you might like and trust these youtube creators, incentives drive everything.
It's downright silly to believe these creators won't behave rationally, given those incentives (eg. lean more and more toward pushing products with the highest affiliate payouts).
I've observed this myself in pretty much any niche I follow. Every youtuber/creator eventually devolves into an affiliate shill, no matter how honest and high quality their content is at the beginning.
If you're getting paid when you say something is good, you're not trustworthy. Period. What's funny is we all used to understand this! The internet broke everyone's brain.
It's downright silly to believe these creators won't behave rationally, given those incentives (eg. lean more and more toward pushing products with the highest affiliate payouts).
I've observed this myself in pretty much any niche I follow. Every youtuber/creator eventually devolves into an affiliate shill, no matter how honest and high quality their content is at the beginning.
If you're getting paid when you say something is good, you're not trustworthy. Period. What's funny is we all used to understand this! The internet broke everyone's brain.