[wussboy]

Agreed. But would this be so bad? Would your life and mine be demonstrably worse with fewer Mr Beast videos?

Whole generations have existed without YouTube videos. Perhaps we could exist as well?

I’m not trying to be “get of my lawn”. I’m saying much of the content we have now could not exist and humanity would be no worse off.

[Entinel]

I'm going to flip this question around. Would we be worse off if fewer people were unable to start businesses out of Youtube channels? I'd think so. A lot of novel art and education has come out of realizing Youtube could be a full-time job. You jump to MrBeast as the junk food of Youtube but I can honestly say I have never seen a MrBeast video but I frequently look at things like FreeCodeCamp or even the more educational end of entertainment like Tom Scott or extensive product review channels like Project Farm. I'm glad they exist and I'd happily watch a sponsor spot for them.