I was listening to Vaush in the background, and it really highlights how inconsistent he is. TLDW: he argues that people should have to pay for YouTube Premium to use YouTube at all. He told his chat that using adblock is harmful for funding the maintenance of a website, and that everyone should be forced to pay for YouTube Premium, which would supposedly improve the platform by removing ads and in general.
This is a retarded idea, especially coming from someone claiming to be a leftist. All businesses aim to maximize profit, if everyone switched to YouTube Premium tomorrow, they’d likely find a way to reintroduce ads for even more revenue. By this logic, every website should charge for access, since they all require upkeep. Wikipedia? $10 subscription. News articles? $5 fee. Image hosting? $30 a month.
This is what you get with these big commie streamers—a wealthy guy in Beverly Hills telling his mostly low-income audience they should pay for everything, being so out of touch that he can't comprehend that the average person can't set aside $1500 from their Funko Pop allowance to pay for 50 different internet subscriptions.