[evanchisholm]

I am currently in high school, you definitely are right that the majority of people my age do just waste their time on YouTube (I do too sometimes) but there are a few of us that really take advantage of it. I have personally spent a large amount of time on YouTube learning to program over the past few years, I have now become quite competent and built some pretty cool things on my own (search engines, chess bots, personal web apps, competitive programming, etc.) My brother older brother spent a lot of time watching videos about physics and math to the point where he is now doing a physics degree. A lot of my other friends have used it to cultivate other skills and knowledge for free too.

[ianai]

But what is the breakdown? 1 in 100, 1 in 1000, 1 in the entire school that gets YT as a knowledge mine?

(Possibly as simple as how many you know of compared to how much of the school population you know.)

[hyperliner]

Keep doing what you are doing!!!

(Old person here)