I will personally say that I understand people's frustration but have to admit that Sex has always sold.

Go show me top tier advertisements that don't use one of these 3 things: Sex, Fear, Love/Inspiration...and I will show you an advertisement that is 1 in 1 million (that is likely unsuccessful).

You guys are here during the early days so everything will not be as smooth and as perfect as people might want, but it will even out over time. During these days though, the ones who work hard can definitely find ways to make lots of money---if they learn a bit about how to advertise themselves and their content.

Try not to look at it as a lack of idealism---look at it as the reality of what sells in the world. You will never hear marketing people say "we need to omit those sexy swimsuit models in this beer commercial and add a girl who is talking about helping cancer patients" or HBO saying "lets take the softcore porn out of our otherwise solid content".

Do you think Game of Thrones will listen to people telling them to take out beautiful naked women (or men)? They would laugh at us and say "go back to flipping burgers because you don't know what people want until they order it from the menu."

Not worth blaming the platform or whales for what is human nature. Sometimes we just have to roll with it and try to improve things in any way we can! Changing the world though is rarely easy and if we really care about the Ideals, we should consider the fact that we are fighting an uphill battle because we are battling the more raw and engrained aspects of human consciousness. And those parts of human consciousness respond to Sex, Fear and Inspiration (pretty much all advertising can be broken into those categories). Not saying it can't be done---but most times idealists have to be especially good Strategists to make the changes they want to see in the world. And they often do not make money for doing it. But when they do it without asking for money---they INSPIRE people (wait...that is the 3rd of the 3 most important advertising themes!). Yes Humor and other factors come in, but you will always see one of those 3 used in addition.

Wish that wasn't the nature of the world, but it is (at least until something proves me wrong).