Are q-tips right or discouraging, and why?

Are q-tips right or discouraging, and why?
To clean your ears, NO. It pushes the wax and pack it inside the ear. It doesn't clean it out.
It depends on anything else you use it for.
But unquestionably correct ----NOT FOR EARS!
As long as you don't put them IN your ear, q-tips are perfectly fine.