The Casual Assertions Blog

  Everything I am about to pen down is a result of continuous frustration towards the YouTube algorithm and the plethora of self-help content widely available on the front page of the platform. What I have to say goes something like this. The self-help category has always been an inflated one. Before the internet, the books were filled with titles alike to the ones I’ve pasted here as an example and even more. Let’s analyse what is wrong with each and every one of them. The 'anti-help' self-help The anti-help self-help digs deep into the psychology of an ailing, fear-gripped individual who has already tried tons of self-help content and lost all hope and motivation from it. The self-help guru, here, preys on the vulnerable, dying, pot-bellied mental caricature of a person to rope it in one last time before leaving them dead. This is not to say all self-help content is bad. There is genuine help available out there for folks, but it just doesn’t look like this or is delivered ...