The West isn't dying, it's being murdered
(twitter.com)
its like this with pretty much everything. you start out with a passion for something and decide to make meaningful content to help out others. you gain popularity. so you get motivated to make more content. then you realize that you're making a lot of content and putting in a lot of work and time so why not monetize it. once you start seeing the monetary rewards, it motivates you to create more content, but content in your specific passion is finite, so in order to create more, you start deviating to creating lesser quality content. then after a few years your content has barely anything to do with your actual passion that you started about. now, you're just making whatever is "popular" to get clicks to get paid.