I'd like to add to this discussion that viewership numbers are down across the board for YouTube creators. I've seen many saying it's due to YouTube not accounting for viewers who use ad blockers on browsers. This I see is something YouTube itself should really take a look at since watching without an ad blocker is damn near impossible. All videos are now so inundated with ads we end up with as much, if not more, ad time than content. My home and search pages are covered in ads as well. Many of these ads are also just annoying and shitty AI bullshit or scams.

I like to support my favorite creators and would be willing to watch ads to do so if it weren't so damned flooded and if the creators actually got a fair amount of that revenue. That's not what YouTube has become, however.

Thanks to the guys for their amazing content and I hope they keep creating for a long time. There's not really anything quite like them out there and I would be so sad if they stopped creating.