You can thank Hideki Hayakawa, who turned thier Digital Entertainment (home videogames) division into more casino type things, completed around when Hideo left:
The issue with self help content in general is that it can distract you from doing the actual work to achieve your goals while making you feel like you're making progress.
Its probably better to investigate scientifically proven methods of achieving your specific goals rather than trying to use self help content.
Other forms of self help content can have similar issues as self help content on YouTube. It depends on what the motivation is for creating the content in the first place.
For any self help content to be financially successful it needs to be more entertaining than helpful, regardless of the platform it's on.
That said I imagine it's probably a bit worse on YouTube because of the algorithm...
There's been a lot of good games for free on epic, and epic still pays the dev/publisher for it, so it's worth clicking the button even if you don't download it and play it from thier client.
There's probably quite a few famous people in the Epstien files who were just paid to make an appearance or speech or similar at an event before he was infamous...
TIL about pixelfed, tried to sign up on pixelfed.social but I couldn't understand what the captcha was asking me to do 😅