Except much of the alt media ecosystem of grifters and influencers are precisely providing people what they want to hear and raise massive amounts of money doing so. They oftentimes do not think they’re grifters because they feel they are responding to a “market need” and so they are providing a service even if they might not even agree ethically with the output necessarily. This is how we wind up with so many conspiracy theorist nutjobs dominating recommendation algorithms again and again across many different platforms. People are highly, highly fallible and what they want may be, in fact, some of the worst things for them. As such I’m convinced that most adults are only physically and legally that way given how incredibly naive and immature people appear to be as a baseline regardless of cultural or even educational background.