The "BetterHelp" YouTube Virus is BACK | Asmongold Reacts 

I remember years ago Pewdiepie pointed out how BetterHelp is pretty sketchy and a bunch of RU-vidrs came out and apologized for advertising BetterHelp.

AsmonTherapy: "You suck. And that's okay. It's okay to suck. Now try to suck less, day by day."

Web / Mobile developer here. UI is intentionally confusing, and we are talking about users with mental health problems. This company is trash!

Never, EVER trust a company that tries this hard to get their ads in front of your eyes. They want something more than your money.

I contacted them once and asked how Betterhelp respects Hipaa and protects their customers' privacy. I was informed from management, "Hipaa doesn't apply to us. We make no promises about your personal medical information." Talk about a huge red flag.

The one with the 16 year old in a range rover telling me therapy is the best way to deal with a break up is my favourite

I used betterhelp. The therapist on there was actually alright, but... the price model was just too much. So i hit the "quit therapy" button.

BetterHelp is making fucking bank too. I see that african woman telling me in heavily accented english that my feelings are valid a dozen times a day. Over advertising just screams scam to me.

The fact the cancellation button is red and labelled 'Quit Therapy' is fucking insidious. Remember people - they dont give a fuck about your mental health. Just your money

What is mindboggling for me, as a doctor, I have to pretty much spent nearly 10 years in education, and passed the licensing exam, and had to renew them every 5 years, and then we are limited to 3 places of practices (at least in my country), we have strict standard procedure, one mistake and either it cost life or cost YOUR life (i.e your career) but then these kind of 'treatment' provider, alternative medicine, has no regulation whatsoever.

3:09 “Quit” also gives a negative connotation. Possibly a dark pattern for multiple reasons …both the coloring of the cancel buttons and phrasing they are labeled with. “Quit” is likely meant to make the user feel bad for cancelling their subscription when they could be canceling for any number of reasons… dissatisfaction and looking for help in another service, potentially not feeling like they are in need of therapy anymore, or simply can’t afford it. Meanwhile the company is attempting to make potentially depressed people feel bad for cancelling for whatever reason by forcing then to click on something that could make someone who is potentially unwell feel as though they are a “quitter.” I feel like this of intentional. It’s disgusting how people truly looking for help are met with a company who is looking to take advantage of them from the start

How to Psychologically & Financially Manipulate People Who Are Already in a Bad Place Mentally & Financially

general rule of thumb, don’t buy the things influencers sell you

I don't want better help. I want worse help. It's just 3 hours of a guy in a tank top screaming at you in a drunken rage.

FYI a lot of people on YT who take sponsorship from BetterHelp *delete* comments that call out BetterHelp. I regularly comment on BH-sponsored content and find it deleted later.

The red flag that prevented me from using better Help, as the service was when you sign up, it outright tells you that it is not associated with licensed professionals in addition to that it will not take any form of insurance. Other companies that have been out on RU-vid as fraudulent are things like established titles/rocket money and many more

Here's another tip: Raycons are shit and you're better off paying $20-30 for a random earbud off of Amazon.

pro tip: NEVER fall for influencer/youtube ads. 13:09 never cared to begin with.

I worked at a call center where BetterHelp was one of the clients. We acted as customer support for them and I always knew this would blow up one day because almost every customer who called had something to complain about

Discord does exactly the same thing In the ToS they claim your data is not sold by discord. but a little further down there is an information that all your data is shared with their "Partners"

the sole fact that the ad is everywhere tells you everything you need to know about them

The Incogni ad is ironic considering how difficult it is to cancel THAT subscription. It took me 2 weeks of being told "oh we don't handle that service, go here instead" and THAT place telling me "we don't handle that, the people who sent you here handle it".

Attempting to deceive is lying. Too many people think there are semantic loopholes that make deception ok because they narrowly define lying.

since we're here let's go ahead and do a round up of sponsor issues. mobile games(like Raid, Genshin, Dragon city): primary progression is a gambling, gameplay often intentionally grindy through time based resources like energy. VPNs (like Nord, express): benefits of VPNs is over stated and promises they can't keep like -'no logs': impossible due to CSAM/hitman/drug purposes and implementations like RADIUS protocols, there are public court cases where 'no log' vpn log were used. -'increased security': true only against Man in the middle attacks which are extremely rare with modern protocols. -Raycon: overpriced compared to quality for 80 fucking dollars for the cheapest set. -food kits (factor, hello fresh): it's delivery food but once it arrives you still have to cook it, many reports of food arriving stale and over ripe and not lasting long in the fridge, it's way cheaper to buy the ingredients yourself. -Displate: flimsy thin metal that's easily bent, a lot of their catalogue is AI generated so you have to wade through slop.

Betterhelp passed me around faster than the workers in a red light district. I had 30 different people in 30 days. And they wouldn't give me my money back. They're a corrupt, horrible company who doesn't care about your mental health at all.

Praying on the vulnerable and disguising it as help is disgusting

They just settled a lawsuit. People are getting payouts for it soon. I've got money coming back from it too. According to the email I recieved, they're sending out payments starting June 17th 2024, and check payments by July 2024. Seems like BetterHelp was revealing a lot of info to different companies for advertising, despite saying they wouldn't do that. And some of that info was answers to their health questions.

wait.... so they just let anyone do counselor work even if they were not certified? WTF

I tried BetterHelp. The subscription hid that you were paying for 3 months instead of 1 so it charged me way more than I thought, I got matched with a guy who, while telling him the things that were bothering me replied "I don't know what you want me to do.".... Bruv, you're the "therapist" I'm swindled into listening to for 3 months, you fuckin tell me. It takes forever to have a conversation because you go 1 email every couple days, so while it might be cheaper than going and paying hourly, it's gonna take you months to actually accomplish anything if the fuck on the other end knows what they're even doing.

"You also have to press "Quit Therapy" four times to actually stop your subscription." This seems literally illegal in some way. Like, weird hidden instructions?? Not to mention extremely manipulative to make someone with mental health issues doubt their decision.

Sounds like it ends up with your wallet needing betterhelp.

Cinema therapy also uses betterhelp as a sponsor. They dropped them previously and now they’re back.

Kyle Hill was informed about this, in the video "Exposing Science's Biggest Fraud", ironically, and ran defense for them in his comments.

As a rule of thumb it’s probably a good idea to assume most RU-vid sponsors are a scam. I think this is the third time hearing about a sponsorship being a scam. That one where people become a lord in Scotland, and another one I can’t think of.

Talking about hurdles with quiting better help, the people who sign up are people who are already struggling or exhausted mentally and every little hurdle becomes a much bigger issue when youre already struggling mentally

Oh you think this is bad, Disney+ is incredibly difficult to unsubscribe to as Disney indulges in similar tactics on their website to make unsubscribing incredibly difficult. You know a decade ago, this would be something I'd attribute to a shady MMO publisher like the now bankrupt and defunct Trion Worlds, but seeing this sort of behaviour everywhere now, makes me really angry.

That prompt at the bottom of the cancelation page said "press quit therapy 4 times for it to work" that is insane and have never seen a choice or instruction used on the web before. Thought stupid crap like that was the "true secret way" of for sure 100% make sure your subscription is canceled

I vividly remember the first Better Help controversy back in 2018. I would NOT trust this company with any information about me whatsoever.

I remember when Phillip Defranco was heavily shilling for BetterHelp

I had people around me try better help. One of the gems I was told is the therapists stating "the addiction you're describing isn't in my flyer so it's not a real additiction" another was "what happened to you isn't that bad and you should be fine, stop complaining"

It's like a funnel that takes people who need help, and then they scam them. So no help. Just a backdoor scam.

Before this virus it was known that BetterHelp was a scam years ago anyway

The thing that bothers me the most about Trash Taste accepting a sponsorship from them is that I'm 99% sure they've said before that they vet their guests AND their sponsorships so that they don't end up promoting shit like this. If so, that was a fucking lie, which honestly at this point, I'm not really surprised. 2/3 of them have been getting worse and worse over the past year or two, so my trust in them as a collective has gone down significantly.

I think pewdiepie already did this video years ago right?

real ones saw it before it was privated

My sister works for these guys and she's an idiot. I'd never seek her for any type of advice....

thank you for posting this... i really needed to understand how companies work and now i do

So I'm not the only person who remembers BetterHelp getting shat on by all the RU-vidrs then only a couple years later the money is obviously too good to turn down

the advertising strategy of betterhelp is also something that needs to be made illegal. Using actors and influencers to pretend to be your best mate pretending about how they used a mental health service should be hella illegal.

I remember when the controversy with BetterHelp happened, and all these youtubers who took sponsorships from them apologized. Then a few months later they went back to doing BetterHelp sponsorships. Money is all these people care about. Nobody on the internet is what they seem.

8:10 yeah me too bro to clarify I did go to therapy (forced by my parents when I was young, about 10 or so) the therapist refused to see me anymore after about 5 sessions because I didnt have anything traumatizing to talk about we would just talk about the weather and shit.

About ten years ago, home chef food box service would change the cancel button to resign at the are you sure to cancel option.

I'll just stick to drugs... Thank you

I was told I was going to "move on" if I didnt get the coof shot. Man thinking about that stuff makes me loathe my fellow man.

When something becomes illegal, companies find a legal way to keep doing it, like just pay the fines. When something becomes unprofitable, they stop immediately.

After doing gate duty when I was in the military I came to understand not many people pay attention to signs. There was a long road with plenty of time for people to make a u-turn with multiple signs saying that they are entering a military installation and 100% ID check in progress along with random vehicle inspections as well. There would be so many people surprised that they were entering a military base. And many people would also look surprised if we asked for ID. Many would come up with different reasons why they didn't know or didn't have to. Now, understanding that it doesn't surprise me that people get tricked into clicking things quickly because they are so used to the cancel and accept buttons are usually placed in a certain way or have a certain color. Many sites are opening that you do that, heck sites are also wording things in such a way that you don't know what button to push. I have seen it worded where if you hit confirm, where you would think you would be confirming to cancel, you're actually confirming stay on the platform.

2:31 Yes, that is indeed on purpose. It's called "Call to action" and is a useful trick to get users to click on the action you want them to take. Also, the human brain responds faster to colors than to text so making the button you want them to click being green is intentional.

I fixed my depression by changing my diet, being more active, and surrounding myself with good people. If I had tried to use BetterHelp instead I would be dead now.

A huge amount of Michael Rosenbaum's (Lex Luthor in Smallville) podcasts are sponsored by BetterHelp and he is actually making a big deal in his show about ''wellness'' and ''therapy'' being important, often asking relevant questions to his guests. I would not be surprised if the guy was further involved than just taking BetterHelp's money.

That Reel to Reel that the guy kept showing was pissing me off... One side is going double the speed of the other side... How is that even possible if the tape is connected to both reels?

3:05 What people don't understand here is that people click on the green button assuming it is canceled then after clicking that button you are redirected to the main page. Most websites say "Thanks for staying with us" or "Your membership has been canceled" to confirm what you did. BetterHelp doesn't do that, you click the green button and you move on with your day and you can't do shit about it. If the buttons had no colors it would be better to confuse people this much.

A lot of channels temporarily stopped BetterHelp sponsorships and jumped back on the bandwagon when the controversy blew over. Cody Ko, Jacksfilms, Philip Defranco...just to name a few. These people have no actual morality just want that sweet sweet sponsorship money.

The issue is deeper than people give it credit for. Even Asmons example of comparing it to a raccoon implies there's an individual or small group responsible, but it's an entity. If youve ever heard the phrase "being a corporate cog," this should make sense. Once a business, company, corporation, etc. has enough cogs... it becomes a cycle, and a reflection of the operators and the consumers. It is what it is

The sheer amount of ads I experienced from better help on RU-vid just gave me the ick. So I just assumed it was some scammy shit.

Better Help had some WEIRD commercials a while back... they made me feel uncomfortable...

I dont think everyone forgot, I was on RU-vid 6 years ago and definitely didn't hear of betterhelp controversy

The issue I have with these RU-vids taking on Betterhelp adds is they lie and say they used it themselves. That makes them part of the scam.

"Everybody else is crazy"...yep thats how the crazies see themselves.

10:15 “today’s video is brought to you by…” I would have laughed so hard if he said “BetterHelp. No, just kidding…”

These are by far the most annoying ads I've ever come across on youtube. Nothing worse than someone preaching about how not being okay is okay

its ironic that the video is about betterhelp being a bad sponsor yet they have incogni as a sponsor aswell. I have heard that if you sign up you get less spam calls but as soon as you leave you get way more spam than would have before joining.

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I feel your emotions as you are explaining the probable cause. Man. Powerful stuff. Love your videos. Valuable or all us pilots, new or experienced.

As someone who struggled with mental help, and have seen ludicrous improvements in my life after I managed to get a good psychiatrist and psychologist, it pains me to see people being led down the wrong route. Therapy can help you a ton, meds can help you a ton (in specific cases) and it's sad these companies are allowed to operate and ruin therapy image and potentially make people who need therapy never seek it again after such experience.

Went through this with Artesian Builds as my first sponsor. It sucks seeing people get screwed but it sucks even more having that damage on your brand and losing the money you *thought* you were going to make. Triple whammy.

Never Trust anything that is advertised and sponsored by RU-vidrs

I haven't seen any sponsorships in a while since I got that extension so I didn't even know BetterHelp was back.

I'm surprised how easily people forget. The Betterhelp scam was a huge deal in the past. I have seen the ads on other creators videos, too, but I assumed people in the comments were roasting the creators. Never checked the comments for them, I can start leaving more comments about the scam sponsors. Some of the gold scam companies get pushed a lot, too.

I keep listening to creepypasta videos at work that get interrupted by betterhelp ads. One channel has paid in video ads for them. I'm just sick of betterhelp, raycon, manscaped, hellofresh, but betterhelp being the worst of them really says something, and it's the epitome of grifting.

Sponsor block is such a blessing

the video from upper echelon is basically a more drawn out version of a video from Soggy Cereal from March 18th.

I used better help for about 20 months in total. I got lucky and found a really good therapist on the first go. It was life changing. Ultimately it was the therapist that did the work, but being able to attend sessions from my home greatly helped. Bottom line is Therapy is always worth it. Just be warry of therapists that aren't calling you out on your own BS. Going to a shrink to share your feelings doesn't mean shit, if you can't understand how those feelings influence your actions. Then you have to take this new knowledge and CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOUR. The amount of nutty family members that do therapy and never change is insane. They really pay someone tons of cash to vent their feelings., and then remain the same ignorant, broken, and misguided fools.

A good rule of thumb is if multiple youtubers promote something, it's most likely a scam.

I just want to note, that Theo Von has been promoting better help for a long time, actually I'm pretty sure he started doing ads for them right after the first time they were exposed years ago. I remember many people in the comments telling him not to advertise that service, with lots of those posts getting up voted near the top. I like Theo as a comic, but there's no way he doesn't know better help is extremely shady at the least, unless he is totally disconnected from his community entirely. Definitely lost some respect for him for that

The ads did not stop on all channels. However, it seems as if it's had an uptick.

The "we want your data-cooki-confirmation-popups" do the same vile UI tricks. I believe it was called the "Dark Pattern" - Diablo4/Mobile used this I believe.

Betterhelp sponsored Corridor Crew's video yesterday with the spot read by Griffin. I'm seeing Betterhelp popping up a lot of places again and thought that's what this video was addressing. Many of the videos that Betterhelp sponsor have comment threads with people complaining about the sponsorship and other people defending that they may have a sponsorship contract.

Wait…you guys don’t just assume any podcast sponsor is an automatic scam?

Imagine talking to a random person and then paying them to talk to you. Biggest scam in history!

i literally just saw a better help AD on your video featuring Daniel thrasher 😂😂

I can't spend 30 min of RU-vid before I see an ad or two for "betterhelp"

Another thing if I want to cheer myself up I go to Walmart to people watch, my life may not be perfect but at least I still have the will to shower.

For the record, WoW did this account cancell hurdle crap too. I quit the game during burning crusade and wrath. Creating or renewing a sub was one page, payment information and one click. Canceling your sub was a minimum of 6 pages and a survey before the button to cancel would even appear. They scored one extra sub from me with that crap because i was in a hurry and couldn't find the button easily the first time i tried to cancel. After it rolled a new month i was motivated then to find it.

People have also forgotten the drama behind the Established Titles and Kamikoto Knives RU-vid Sponsorship Saga.

Wonder if caredash would have made more money if they did the Classic "No spots available for this therapist, however, if you have the membership you can skip the normal line" then they just direct you to the therapist actual page. Enough people would forget the membership so they could def milk them. About 70% of gym memberships are paid by people who don't even go after all.

What sucks is that a RU-vidr I watch a lot of keeps promoting them, and they get called out a lot, but he just doesn't care. Even with all the problems with BH, he continues to work with them. The RU-vidr is Bigjigglypanda.

Distractible was sponsored too but that was before the drama came out.

3:00 it looks like either someone put in bad colors or text for it. Customers are basically trying to guess, which is never good

Any service/produt, specially on youtube, that needs to sponsor hundreds or thousands of people to get sold, i automatically assume its a scam, this is the right mindset to have lol

I've reported and blocked ad on BetterHelp ads for months through RU-vid, but they still pop back up.