You should check out HisTherapist An actual therapist who is "red pill" or "manosphere" focused. Seeing him sponsoring someone like you would be awesome.

Actual better help

What happened to "CareDash" users who were seeking care other than therapy? Where they also redirected somewhere?

TAKE YOUR PRIVACY BACK! sounds like DDGo...

Wow, when Jezebel has the Moral High Ground over a company you know you are dealing with THE WORST!

Was this on CareDash or the BetterHelp site? Best luck on that lawsuit

I wish more videos and articles would report on this. It’s so highly concerning!

I hope they sue Better Help into bankruptcy, they screwed me at a very vulnerable position in my life as a teenager

Wow that’s shitty

WOW .. fraud, much!?

Raycon too.

Raid and Raycon are actually pretty good

the game isnt that bad. sure its pay to win, but you can have fun with it for free. Its not the worst game of its kind.

id take a crypto gambling ad over better help. at least you have a chance to win back the money you lose lol

@@djbobby224 No! raycons are horrible and way to expensive. just get JBLs. They are cheap and very good. the next steps in quality is like 500€ and its just not worth it for outside.

How are you going to prove a KZfaqr never used a service, especially if it's supposed to stay private like with BetterHelp? Even if investigators had magic powers, it would be so easy for these sponsored KZfaqrs to "use" these services for like 10 minutes just to be able to say they used that service... As long as the general population will stay dumb and uneducated these companies will continue to make billions.

every mf saying they personally played raid shadow legends and love it

Yeah, as an Australian when I watch a video from someone I know is living in Australia I hate it when I actually check out their sponsor and it turns out that the product they are peddling isn’t even available in Australia. So like how would they know how good the product is if there is no way they could have tried it? It does make it easier to spot a bad product this way at least but this is just one aspect of how bad sponsorships are becoming these days.

@@duffinthemuffin5792fr like ive seen gameplay of raid and it looks so bad its like 480p 💀

exactly

Babish is currently advertising it frequemtly and people are commenting always a lot. but some creators have contracts and cannot just leave i suppose. but there should always be a limit what we shoulb tolerate.

@@garcipatBabish himself probably doesn’t even read his own comments.

@@andreeacat7071 sadly and probably true

Meanwhile, Jay Foreman’s only response has been to say that he’s stuck in a contract.

I love Danny 💜

That's a really good point. A terrible company like this really needs to be exposed as NOT being real therapy. Because people who've never tried therapy before may never try again after this kind of experience.

The button should say, "Quit therapy, you quitter!!!"

Typical corporate manipulation.

yeah I thought that was the bad thing there, "quit therapy" feels like a "give up your life is hopeless" vibe. I thought the don't quit button was pretty straight forward

ye that's a low blow, but granted, therapy its a scam, so you can view it as "exit scam"

Same, in my experience, only scammers and grifters spend so much advertising money on KZfaq. 90% of the products advertised on KZfaq always end up being some kind of scam or just overpriced crap.

Amen man.

What about Echelon promoting incogni🤔?

@@Youll_Love_It_At_Levitz Best case scenario: you waste some money. More realistic scenario: they are selling detailed profiles of all your online activities.

​@@Youll_Love_It_At_Levitzas someone who's tried Incogni, its actually pretty sweet. It used to be if i googled my name id be able to find my address, phone number and a bunch of other info from those people finder agregator sites. After paying for it for a month them cancelling now when i google my name none of that comes up anymore.

This is the way

I make sure to leave a comment so others know as well. It sends a clear message.

i wish i would do that but i doubt i would care.

I do the same for all VPN sponsorships

good on you, i did the same

Criminal negligence

you cant just banish a quarter to third of the healthcare industry...

@@mugnuz Why not? If it is the peoples will and we're in a democracy and it is passed into law, then why not?

@@jannikheidemann3805 if if if. then do. its just not how it usually goes. would it be rational and nice? sure but its not utopia

@@jannikheidemann3805*Constitutional Republic If you live in the States

Based

I get it .. but it catches up with you.

Like any medication. It's only meant to be a crutch to help you cope until you heal enough that you don't need it. If you stay on any head meds, either prescription or self medication, for too long devastating side effects catch up to you. Doesn't matter if it's SSRI's, benzodiazipenes, alcohol, amphetamines or any of the other 1000s. They're all a band aid patch for your mental health that covers up the symptoms without addressing the actual root cause. Best to just go to therapy (not BetterHelp though) and start eating healthier drinking more water and exercising.

Oh I know friend, ain't it the truth? I used to be severly troubled with mental illness. Now I'm not troubled. Problem solved. :D

@@THE-X-Force not if you use meth to outrun it. boom-tish

Bruh…

Yep. But that's ai search and modern algorithms at work

KZfaq is evil.

Disable 3rd party cookies and get rid of fakebook ..

I get Miracle Bra and Manscaping on the same video. I must be a mess.

Frr they take anything they get

​@@StillNoClue22at this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the KZfaqrs just don't care and just accept the sponsor anyway cuz 'its free money!!1!'

@@Caldera_Scarabcould be like the cs2 gambling site ads situation rn where the companies offer youtubers so much money they can "ignore" the problem (which in cs2s case is its a well known thing the biggest consumers of gambling sites are under 18)

Or they,, go back to the exact same sponsor. Veritasium key example.

A bag is a bag

KZfaq blaming me for using an ad blocker when half the "ads" I get are just mobile games with softcore porn

yt forcing me to look at 18+ ads DIRECTED AT CHILDREN despite me reporting them, but giving me a warning for child endangerment on a vine playlist that's existed since 2019. scummy site run by scummy people

insert something between the two comments above, specially the first one

I keep getting those weird 'gacha heat' ads

has there ever been an easy to cancel subscription?

Now another youtuber will make a video 'The "Incogni" KZfaq Virus is BACK' and have BetterHelp as a sponsor.

Well Incogni isn't for mental health so there's that. They're not claiming to give you health care. It's not just about the subscription.

@@oatmeal710all the ones I've ever had. You log in and click "cancel subscription" and it's done.

Almost true, I just sent them an email and they cancelled. They should make it easier, but an email was enough.

Influencers have no shame. The very word is an accusation yet they are proud of it.

Influncers only care about money you can always see when a sponsor ad season starts when you see like 10 different KZfaqrs read the script with no changes so you can hear the corporate speak And they don’t care to say anything to their community just look at any sponsor video even from just a year ago there’s still videos with links to that Scottish land scam

True and real!

They should be deplatformed tbh

Agreed, there's no excuse when there's other crappy products for them to shill that don't take advantage of people in a mentally bad spot as widely known and as egregious as betterhelp

She's probably paid to forget.

Yikes.

Curious as to the reason your actual therapist would refer you to a supposedly "good" zoom call style (shit) app.

@@Primal_Directive 🤷‍♀️

Money.

Yikes!

That's terrifying

Like Incogni does with your data you mean?

With each passing day, we're hitting another bottom, the feeling that greed has no limit.

That is exactly how I immagine they have that much money to sponsor at such high rates.

I feel no guilt about using SponsorBlock when channels take sponsorships from shady companies.

exactly this !!! id rather be broke and have basic morals than accept a check that requires me to tell people who might trust my opinion to use a product that has directly hurt so many fuckin people. ill take my food stamps any day if gettin money meant i had to let a company take advantage of vulnerable people

Its also not the creators job to make sure the product is safe and effective. Thats your job.

@@sectionsixty4020 Except... If you are getting paid to advertise something... It is, in fact, your responsibility to make sure you arent advertising legitimate garbage. Like i'm sorry I'm going to say it but without an audience, no youtuber would have anything to their name at all. Without an audience, youtubers wouldn't even GET sponsorships. so the least they can do it make sure they aren't selling shit that could actively HARM the audience that pays their damn bills.

@@sectionsixty4020a creator still shouldnt sponsor an obviously bad and dangerous sponsorship. In fact, it IS their job to research the sponsorship atleast a LITTLE bit to see if theyre not advertising a… i dunno… scam???

Good, hold creators accountable.

HUGE ANIME BREASTS

@@KokoroKatsura

Yeah it's real frustrating when it comes from the same source as well.. people that actually covered this lol.. like it's unexcusable either way, they're either too stupid to do a simple search before promoting something so.. clearly any of their content really can't have any value beyond aesthetic... Or they're actively not caring that they're they are directing the most vulnerable subsection of their audience into harm's way for cash.

The sad thing is, if you unsub and stop watching everyone who shills and lies, or did at some point, about raid casino legends, better help and some other scummy scams... You'd have to unsub from 90-95% of channels and blacklist most streamers. Most of the rest, just aren't big enough to get the sponsorships. There is such a tiny fraction of content creators with integrity, it's insane. The ones who have great reputation for being "nice" and good people blah blah. The same, also sooner or later started to shill scams. Even when they already make lots of money.

"But before we get further into the video, I'd like to thank our sponsor: BetterHelp..."

Or "How VPNs don't protect your privacy." I see that surfshark link in the description.

"You couldn't possibly send 100s of emails"

Same. I never buy products or services that i saw in a ad.

I have seen one good ad, but that was for a very niche product and quite a while ago.

Lol no shit right? Seems like it's about a 90% ratio maybe higher.. kind of screws it up for the rest that actually have a product worthy, like you got a filter a little bit.. The $3 earbuds for a fortune, The garbage spyware browsers... The mobile gotcha games... Like it helps if you frame it a little bit more honestly than these services are attempting at, to get that personal connection and personal recommendation from the KZfaq and creator-based model of content delivery.. But, it is what it is and you kind of got to read between the lines a little bit, not too much though. But it's pretty clear at this point, if it's in an advertisement... You're better off disregarding it, or actively avoiding it then you are to actually take a recommendation assuming that a creator actually believes in a product or even says they believe in a product... There are things like HelloFresh and whatnot, those are legit, actually, reasonably up front services that do a thing.. and even some of the VPNs are reasonable for a VPN service, although... All of them should be treated extremely suspect when selecting because it's incredibly region-dependent and One should understand what they're doing with that, and what it offers and what it doesn't and what one has to do on their end before even bothering... But you know what.. The bar is so low, and the creators themselves will talk about it outside of this particular sponsorship video etc.. you basically like okay yeah, all of this is trash until proven otherwise, because you're seeing the absolute trash of the trash, to the point of harmful, sold under the same emphasis More often then not, as anything that's quality.

same, only ad i clicked was Overdrive song promo xD

It's like searching for 1 fish(a good advertised product) in the sea of advertisements

Established titles wasnt even that bad tbh. It was a novelty gift... this is a "mental health" application with may more sinister implications in their activity.

@@UpperEchelon Yeah, at least the worst thing established titles could do was waste your money, betterhelp can do so much worse

*Established titles is 2018's betterhelp.

well at least established titles changed branding for the scam from the last time the same exact scam was ran.

No, because while Established Titles was a con, it did little to harm those it was fleecing, and the take was relatively low. BetterHelp "contracted" subpar therapists, forced them into bad work contracts, signed up people without properly advising them of their rights under HIPAA (if you're in the US), violating their rights under HIPAA (if you're in the US), and bilked them for sessions their patients did not attend. I work for a large healthcare system in the US Southwest. If my employer even attempted a sliver of what they did, the Feds would swoop in and shut us down. There would be no settlement. There would be no billing Medicare/Medicaid. And when state ran health plans and private insurance companies got wind of that, we wouldn't be able to bill them, either. Effectively a death blow. The only reason it's not a death blow for BetterHelp is that BetterHelp does not bill any federal, state, or private insurance as their business is 100 percent out of pocket.

I wish Better Help hadn’t forced Mickey to remove their original video criticizing them. It was one of the few videos I could find (before stumbling on this one) that actually addressed how Better Help had profiles/accounts made of real therapists without those therapists’ knowledge or consent. Better Help (through CareDash) deliberately mislead and essentially stole their clientele/patients from legitimate licensed therapists.

It's a shame, As far as I've read many of these guys have contracts for several videos. If I'm not wrong Ted Nivison still had some videos for his contract when the controversy resurfaced. It's a shame that most youtubers don't do their research. Also I did not expect to see your comment here.

Vsauce is also taking sponsorships from BetterHelp...bruh.

Think Ryan George (the pitch meetings guy) is as well. Or at least he was. Maybe he’s stopped now.

Adding SB737 to the list

Daniel Thrasher is the worst one. He didn't just take a sponsorship. He went out of his way to make full ads for them.

Maybe you were chatting with an AI bot

thats all therpy but you losers pay out the ass for it

xD

I'm so curious to hear more about this

This is bullshit and those are not councilors those are therapists...

Simply put, many still don't.

You answered your own question…. $$$ greed

A lot of content creators are genuinely really dumb

Because 96% if cc are trash that only do it for money.

Yt - we must combat medical misinformation, you are BANNED for saying men don't become women. Also yt - let me tell you about this one weird trick that cures diabeatus

Therapists aren't even supposed to give diagnoses regardless, no? They can identify problems and suggest approaches but normally a psychologist makes the actual diagnosis.

Well to play devils advocate a little, i was a corpsman in the navy, that’s worked in my fair share of mental health departments, we sometimes do make check in calls/text on every patient to catch up with them. However we also saw them in person on a weekly, bi -weekly basis. Not saying you’re wrong just saying there are multiple facets of care depending on the severity of each patient. I do agree that better-help’s strict policy of “socially distant therapist” is very costly on how much they can do for someone.

Nice

U are a good citizen, and i shall be checking out ur channel

I couldn't find an adequate comparison but I hope people realize how unbelievably bad refunding 8% of your revenue is

@@UpperEchelon Considering that those 8% are just the amount they undeniably had to refund in order to avoid higher costs/ lawsuits, customers might have much higher claims (20% or more?) which are either in clearing or they try to try to not disclose in their financials. You would find them in provisions which can always be argued to just be estimations and therefore be not as bad.

@@UpperEchelon AST Computer. I would recommend watching the 8 bit guy's talk on them. They made a 737 max look high quality, and an 8% return/refund rate look microscopic. So yeah, you can always get shittier.

Mental health is infested with predators? Oh my, I hazard to think what mental disease is infested with. :D

Mr Ballen has them as a sponsor now, w his 8.87M subs. If ur not familiar w Mr Ballen, he's the best (imo) storyteller anywhere, and he does stories about "the strange, dark, and mysterious". He's also a Navy SEAL, and when he does his ad read for BH he talks about when he became a civilian again, the difficult transition, and also the PTSD he had from being in active combat. He gives the impression he has used BH for his therapy, which I'm 99% sure isn't the case. I think he's talking about his own struggles and how he needed therapy to work things out as a testimonial to therapy in general. I don't think he'd keep them as a sponsor if he knew all this.

I know that Kyle Hill promoted it 3 months ago. I was kinda iffy about his channel since.

@@LisaMarie042I write a comment EVERY TIME he uses them as a sponsor in the video, warning the viewers about better help. It immediately becomes blocked...and yea, I've checked the "newest" comments tab, and scroll through hundreds of comments to see if I missed it. Creators can block certain words in their comments, and I think that's what is happening. I've avoided using the name, instead using just sponsor, same thing happens. There's no way he isn't aware of the negative issues surrounding betterhelp. And if he doesn't, that's negligence. For things as serious as mental health treatment, SOMEONE on his team should be doing their due diligence looking into sponsorships they accept. They're funneling their most vulnerable viewers to a terrible company, and since he has such a dedicated audience, he has gained a level of trust with them. There's no excuse. And he makes so much money from his videos, podcasts, other sponsors, merch, and other endeavors. The greed has gotten in the way of his better judgment, and he does not have my respect.

Thats all its ever been. Scumbags extracting money from gullible people by pretending they have all the answers.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope the years since then have been better to you

But does Ubisoft pretend to offer medical services and violate every notion of privacy? I'm not saying Ubisoft is a great company by any means, but this part of their sins fails in comparison to the rest of what BetterHelp does. Now, with that said, I wouldn't want to work for either company, seeing their treatment of employees and contractors are the same.

The point wasn't that one is worse than the other, the point was the awful cancellation process

​@@jackielinde7568You like choosing how they F you?

same with GenderGP

​@@scyobiempire4450Very clever 😂

If the avg. person had any long-term memory there wouldn't be a red hat left in the country.

Same, I thought that betterhelp was already bankrupt because I've NEVER seen any of those ads since 2022, only to find that they suddenly popping off again this year

​@@THE-X-Force He's getting re-elected. Cope.

They were fined by the ftc. A few channels kept talking about better help, saying they were even worse than before. But some youtubers just don't care and keep advertising. Oh well

​@@DigitalApex man I feel sorry for Americans. They truly hate their country and themselves so much 😂

Ayo is that the n*zi eagle in the gay flag 😭😭😭

On top of that, they treat their audience as if everyone has mental health issues. I wouldn't be surprised if most of their therapists aren't licensed, because no licensed therapist would think it's okay to treat everyone around them as mentally ill. That's how you create an epidemic of munchausen's(the term for faking a disorder or illness).

Noodle-Bob is such an amzing name!

That is a fantastic name for a snake.

Reptiles are the best

If you are still depressed, that doesn't sound like your therapist helped much.

​@@cosmancho2959Their job is not to help. Their job is to extract money indefinitely. If anything this female therapist has been conditioning him to think and behave like a woman since childhood. No wonder he is depressed.

Ah, I do enjoy a good pun.

Oh no! He's figuring it out

Also, bad therapy is worse than no therapy.

@@travismcnasty4239 I havent seen any study that compares therapy against drinking. I have worked with plenty of functional alcoholics but i never met somebody on meds that wasnt useless and a danger. We have a forklift operator at work that drinks a bottle of vodka and half a bottle of mouthwash every day and he performs perfectly. meanwhile the whole HR department is on SSRIs and they cant even get the shifts right. BUT its very different between ethnic groups so i guess there is something genetical about it. Never met a dry lithuanian, but also never met a homeless one. drinking is even a benefit for them, its turns them from horrible truck drivers into perfect factory worker.

​@@travismcnasty4239nah bad mental health "professionals" cause more mental health problems than they solve.

Try to go to church instead?

SponsorBlock

​@@amicaaranearum so dang useful when Im on my pc sadly not available when on my phone due to using the official app

​@@emiliskogRevanced.

@@NoctisTheBogWitch literally realized to look for it after I made the comment, although i have an issue where shorts (which I watch too many of but still) just wont play fully and or not load which annoys me somewhat

@@emiliskog Don't use the shorts patches.

Ikr 😂

What's wrong with Incogni? (I'm genuinely asking - I did a search and nothing came up, but I haven't looked into Incogni much so it's entirely possible I just missed something.)

“You weren’t supposed to do that!”

yeah MrBallen can't help himself, he needs more money! lol its disgusting when creators act like they personally use the ads they're sponsored by. I don't blame youtubers with little ad revenue taking any sponsor, but bigger channels with millions should be more honest about the companies they're shilling for. As you can make money easily when you have a lot of it, no excuse to take sketchy sponsors money.

@@5thfloor584 I almost watched one of his videos for the first time in ages the other day. glad I decided not to lol

If the channels are interesting enough, I don’t drop them. I just treat every sponsor as akin to those late night infomercials. I take everything advertised online as being bullcrap.

Not everyone has gotten the memo the first time around, and being a KZfaqr is harder than ever and sponsors are necessary, so I won't immediately drop someone for taking a better help sponsorship the first time around. But if they're still doing it after the backlash in the comments, I'll consider it

Was one of those channels Cinema Therapy? I dumped them because one of their hosts/bosses, Johnathan Decker, is listed as a licensed therapist. HE SHOULD KNOW THESE PEOPLE ARE SHIT! Other channels where they're not medical or medical-adjacent areas I'll give more leeway too. After all, if you're not in the industry, it's kind of hard to know the rules.

Well, technically that person was comfortable to work on gay people. Thier work is just quackery.

At least that one only wasted a small amount of money; bad therapy can do far worse.

@@KnakuanaRka Agreed, but my post was joking around and not serious.

But you can still be a Lord.

@@squarerootof2 no you can't!

some bad news for you buddy /s

they're looking for a new audiance, I guess! lmao, the English speaking community exposed them, so now they're trying the German speakers... brilliant plan BetterHelp!

Warte wer? Ist ja ekelhaft, habe es aber zum Glück bei noch keinem mir wichtigen mitbekommen.

Yeah they are targeting the netherlands too

You definitely did. Nothing can replace the modality of in-person care. (EDIT: and good for you for taking charge over your own health!)

I'm glad you sought help, and I can confirm BetterHelp is awful. My therapist didn't even listen to / remember what I'd said to him despite it LITERALLY being a message back in our chat log. Lazy af. He also entirely changed the topic of why I was seeking therapy. Huge waste of my time and money.

​@@subliminal-damage yeah looks like they just see people suffering and see them as moneybags

HBomberGay the sex pest lol.

I wonder what happens to the podcasting industry when Me Undies, Manscaped, Brilliant, BetterHelp, and Blue Apron go under. Doesn't seem that anyone other than cash-burning startups sponsor podcasts en masse. I've never heard of it.

@@KippinCollars Yeah, double-edged sword. But once a creator realize that their sponsor is shady, they "should" make plans to get rid of them.

​@@KippinCollars There's always the next idiot/delusional venture capitalist on deck thinking there stuff will be the one that actually becomes something.

bc they're greedy, most only see their viewers as potential income... and up to 200usd per sign up is an insane amount of money

I still cant believe people are gullible enough to join the scam. 😂

@@metallboy25There are people still wearing masks my guy

@@LoganBRK1 Used to watch Cinema Therapy, but no more. They're already stinking rich, and they: Got 2+ ads on the start of each video. Sponsor from Betterhelp in the middle of the vid. 2 ads after the Betterhelp sponsorship. Bit where they tell us they're paywalling content behind Patreon. 2+ ads after the video. These ultra rich people are squeezing as hard as they possibly can to milk every cent they can from their audience, including accepting super shady sponsorships, when they're already wealthy enough to live lavish lifestyles of luxury, including doing their reviewing in a hecking home theater.

​@@mr.s9783there were people wearing masks before covid, too.

Oh it drives me crazy, especially since Smosh pit has also been taking sponsorships from them on the Reddit reading show, where they literally give advice

@@WishGender god that annoys me so much, and surely even a couple of the people involved in Anthony’s personal channel and Smosh know about how bad Betterhelp is?? Even if they don’t know about the new stuff they’ve surely gotta know about the history, I couldn’t imagine having such a large following and being so okay with encouraging my followers to use a service like Betterhelp

But they exploded twice 😔

Never left

"I understood that reference."

a problem is that normies can't discern if a vpn ad lies to them. the ad read is supposed to cause anxiety for you and 100% of vpn ad briefs are not truthful about what data goes off unencrypted from your pc normally and what encrypted, how https works, how routing works etc.

What??? You don't want to buy a $40,000 Nissan SUV that you were shown for the 327th time???

I feel no guilt about using ad blockers when KZfaq plays ads for scams. I feel no guilt about using SponsorBlock when channels take sponsorships from shady companies.

@lasskinn474 agreed. They often also sell a VPN as a must if you visit public wifi. As long as you visit a https site any malicious person can only see what sites you visit, not what you are looking at in those sites.

@@doufmech4323 yeah. not just often but 100% of the time its' portrayed as that it wouldn't be encrypted and that some rando could see your banking data or whatever. and they don't tell that from the vpn providers datacenter it just leaves as it would have from yours and you have no control on who is tapped into that line and to who that data is sold. nor do they speak about who owns who in the vpn space and how much of that leads back to china - and as almost all tech channels are sponsored by one or another the tech channels themselves will not talk about the subject. my particular pet peeve is that all of them promise countries they don't actually have exit points for. it's on the list sure but it's an ip that will geolocate to austria instead of saudi arabia and not be in a saudi arabia block..

"dystionpianly" 😂

Wtf

To be fair most of us live in that dystopian future everyone was afraid of in the 1930s-1960s sci-fi

some of you need to be banned from using the word dystopia/dystopian

@@fbidumbbee no

As a licensed therapist myself and a previous fan of CT, their explanation for dropping Better Help due to scandals and then accepting sponsorships again was abysmal. There is great harm to be done when you’re speaking about being an expert in the field and recommending a company that provably violates ethical practices.

This is why I do not watch Cinema Therapy. I already had a hard time actually taking what they said to heart since it felt like they were helping with commodifying mental health, and that just killed what little trust I might have had with them.

Butt bots 😂

Mammarie droids

Ass automatons

The arse automatons

Rectum robots

Thats why avoiding ads entirely, is essential.

There are no safe spaces on the internet. Only illusions that make people drop thier guard.

I’m so sorry for your loss 😢

I’m sorry friend, sending good vibes. Don’t let this discourage you from still seeking help. ❤

🙏

Sorry to hear about your wife. Hopefully, you are getting some help and are part of a survivor's support group. And you did dodge a bullet with not using BetterHelp.

Thank you all for your support and well wishes. I lost my wife in October of 2022, so 2023 was a very difficult year. I'm doing a lot better now and have even started dating again--I'm seeing a widow who lost her husband not long after I lost my wife. Interestingly enough, we found each other even though neither of us were looking or had any intention of dating again. So, yeah, 2024 is a much better year, by far.

Navy Seal or not, running around with a name like "Mr. Ballen" should be indication enough of what that dude is all about. And the Veteran community has no lack of shitbags...just like any other collection of people.

Bro. He DOESN'T CARE or he would have never accepted the money. It's nothing but naked greed. And that's why I unsubbed his greedy ass as well. He knows EXACTLY what kind of company they are.

He IS aware. He just doesn’t care.

Yup, these replies are correct. Plus, ever known any sf guy that wasn't a psychopath? I haven't.

​@@calumlittle9828 sf guy?

Good Mythical Morning has started doing this, and that one hurts.

@@NiarahHawthorne I've already unsubscribed from Johnny Harris and Kyle Hill and will probably be unsubbing from Aging Wheels soon because of it. They not only still shill them, but fervently try to defend them in their comments. Economics Explained was shilling them too, but I think he dropped them. I hope so.

🤣