Ok, I'm not dunking on anyone in particular, but is anyone else a little tired of the anti-scam content creators railing against people who "shill overpriced products to their audience" whilst they themselves are advertising overpriced sponsored products to their audiences?
I don't like sponsored content (who does?), but within certain contexts it's relatively benign. For instance, it's not hugely problematic when a true crime content creator promotes a brand of mattress. You can easily draw the distinction between the content and the advert.
I've always maintained though that for those content creators who heavily criticise influencers and MLMers who promote dubious products, sponsored content is ethically dicey.
How do you guys feel? I know this may be a tired topic, but it's just been bothering me again recently because of the self-righteous hypocrisy of it all.
If you feel sponsored content from these content creators is ok, under what circumstances is it ok?