[toastercat]

Disregarding your sarcasm, I did not call it tiring, and I've also never seen anyone make that misguided assumption.

[the_sleaze9]

4. Without ads, YouTube cannot exist

In my view, you did call it tiring and were thereby stating that you had seen someone make that assumption.

[toastercat]

Saying "without ads, YouTube cannot exist" is not the same thing as saying "services cost nothing to host" at least in my view.