The Criticism Industrial Complex

By Leo Gura - February 26, 2026

There is a multi-billion dollar criticism industry on YouTube. These people fell down the professional critic rabbit-hole and they have no idea whatsoever that all of their criticism is just the laziest survival strategy. People do criticism as a career because it is the path of least resistance. It’s the most brain-dead use of a mind. When a mind can’t create anything worthwhile it resorts to criticism to survive. They are not conscious that it is just survival. They get completely lost in it. Do not do criticism as a career. It is unhealthy, toxic, and stupid. You are literally driving your own mind into misunderstanding reality. To continue being a critic you have to continue misunderstanding reality, otherwise you would have nothing left to criticize. It’s insidious.

Why is there such an industry? Because mankind is so underdeveloped and immature that billions of people love to hate on anything that disagrees with them. Rather than taking the time to dive deeper and understand a contrary view, they just attack it like apes flinging shit. Chronic criticism prevents your mind from understanding reality. Understanding reality requires stopping criticism and blaming, instead adopting others’ points of view. Sure, you can become a millionaire on YouTube doing criticism, but at the cost of your soul. That’s what these career critics don’t understand. When I say survival, I mean the careers of every critic on YouTube. That’s how deep survival is.

Consider for example the YouTube channel TYT. They are professional critics and their cognitive development is stunted because they literally cannot understand conservatives because if they did they would be out of business. To be employed at TYT requires that your mind fail to understand conservatives. But no one employed at TYT understands that. To keep being employed at TYT requires that you stop developing cognitively. Is that worth it? Of course not! This applies to pretty much every professional critic.

If you honestly evaluate why you became a professional critic you will see it’s because you couldn’t come up with a better way to survive. Instead of being a critic you could have invented something new and beautiful. But that would require way more work, talent, and intelligence.

Your goal should be to become so creative that you simply don’t have to criticize anyone. Critics are people with way too much time on their hands. That’s because they don’t have enough intelligence to see better uses of their time. Why do I make almost no criticism videos? Because I am too busy creating important and beautiful shit that will advance mankind. I don’t have time to criticize fools on YouTube. That’s a waste of life.

Imagine you get to the pearly gates of Heaven and God asks you, “So, what did you do with your life down on Earth?” And you look him in the face and say, “I was a professional internet troll for 40 years. All I did was criticize reality every day for 40 years and then I died.” God would just do a Picard face-palm.

Just ask yourself, “Is criticism beautiful?” NO! Then stop doing it. It’s that simple. Find yourself a real job.

“But Leo, aren’t you criticizing critics?” I’m telling you how to save your soul from falling into the trap Satan has laid for it. I don’t care about criticizing you, I am too busy guiding you to God.

Note: You should also be careful consuming chronic criticism. This will slowly poison your mind. Not only are critics poisoning their own minds, they are poisoning the minds of everyone who tunes it. Insidious!

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