VidIQ occupies a real niche — YouTube is genuinely hard to grow on, and creators are hungry for any edge they can find. The extension does surface useful metadata: keyword competition scores, search volume estimates, tags from competing videos. None of that is fake. But there's a meaningful gap between what those features actually are (useful research aids) and how VidIQ markets them (as algorithm-unlocking growth tools). That gap is where most of the complaints live, and it's not a small gap. When you're charging $39 to $415 per year and the pitch is 'grow faster on YouTube,' you own the expe