The project has seen its fair share of criticism from both sides of the spectrum.
In January 2012, [[Vox Day]] reported that the two gay teenagers who had made videos It Gets Better Project died by suicide(see also: [[Mental Health and Homosexuality]]).<ref name="voxday.blogspot.com">http[https://voxday.blogspot.comnet/2012/01/19/it-really-doesnt-get-better.html</ref> Vox Day also indicated that it It really doesn't get better and that homosexuality is ]</ref> Advocates of the [[homosexual agenda]] promote a deviate a deviant lifestyle that homosexual propagandists promote is unhealthy and has higher substance abuse problems (seeSee: [[Homosexuality and choicehealth]]).<ref name="voxday.blogspot.com"/>
Those on the [[right]] have argued that while it is noble to help troubled young people, Dan Savage's video message is wrong and that gay teens need help. Mentally and physically, it gets better by leaving homosexuality(See: [[ex-homosexuals]]). At the least, they say, [[abstinence]] will prolong their lives, not shorten it.
Some of its proponents have suggested that "It Gets Better" should be making things better now, instead of saying it will get better later in the future.<ref name="nowplz">http://www.makeitbetterproject.org/</ref>