YouTube coders are spouting NONSENSE: hustle culture, fake apologies, scare marketing
YouTube coders are spouting NONSENSE: hustle culture, fake apologies, scare marketing
Ever wondered what's under the guise of yet another developer tutorial or essay? Learn how "YouTube coders" have figured out monetization and what tactics they use to sell most of their products.
Highlights
Alright, here is purely my takeaway from what I gleaned. It's not comprehensive by any means, so better watch the video first!
- ๐ค Meritocracy
- Misconceptions to make you marketable: "10x dev", "1% top software developers", etc.
- These YouTubers don't want you to know that the world is unfair.
- Students and AI fear as a market.
- ๐ธ Money
- Mere numbers to bait clicks: "75+ LPA", "HIGHEST SALARIES", etc.
- Skill gap is the silent part.
- ๐ Trend chasing
- Fearmongering is popular as ever.
- Videobloggers plant the seed in unsuspecting minds and then retract when it bites them.
- ๐ฉ Bashing specific technologies
- Saying "PHP bad" just because they use framework for unintended designs.
- Switching involves burning previous technology, somehow.
- ๐ Regret videos
- Bad message: software engineering is a race with finish line.
- Trying to be relatable to the viewer by demonstratively showing resignation.
- Regret about not knowing something.
- Regret about using technology.
- ๐ป Scare marketing
- Fake pretence of machine replacing certain or all kinds of developers.
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'22 CS grad here, still jobless. The future is looking really bleak, I kid you not. I've applied to more than 3000 applications. These people love to peddle lies. The absolute truth about the job is that there's only a few seats, that they're looking for a 4+ YOE employee at the cost of a intern, and that there's no WLB.
I've been contributing to FLOSS projects. I've done all of that bullshit these scammer devfluencers have told to, in order to improve profile. Fuck them all. Maybe I should've known better about what survivorship bias was.