Context (for those who might not be in academia): many academic publishing companies (like Elsevier) charge exorbitant prices for researchers to get their papers published as open access. Meanwhile, none of these researchers actually get anything in return for it (except for major street cred if their papers get highly cited)
Angela Collier had a video about this topic a few years ago that was great, I can’t remember which video it was but it might have been her first generation Grad student video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-GKGF-zXi4