The Tech Influencer making money through courses and Topmate is a fad and will fade away in a couple of years.

It is not going away anywhere soon. It is a start of the industry where you are seeing novice platforms with novice mentors opening their shop.

There is a huge demography of potential jobseekers who are looking to Univs, coaching institutes, offline mentors, YouTube videos and elsewhere for skilling up. We don't have enough teachers/coaches from childhood to professional specialialization due to sheer demography. The first generation of white collared skilled workers (2010s) just got online to coach and mentor in the new age skills of Digital Marketing, softwares, finance etc and they are very very few in number to coach the huge population we are seeing to upskill.

Also, self learning is very improbable. There are no good well known books on new age skills, and the GenZ are not bookish learners, videos and sessions with first hand experience is a better way.

The platforms stumbled and failed because they were the first, are very crude and haphazardly made. But in next 5-10y, we will see more polished, more curriculum ready and more experience coaches who will succeed.

This is function of number of IT engineers in India who are unemployed or employed in low paying jobs. Since this number will continue to increase I think influencers will continue to sell more courses.

With competition rising, they will stay, ppl will pay loose money, they will spend on ads get more users sell again and repeat

They are leeches