Yeah, many of the gamer/maker youtubers provide a lot of insight into the work involved in creating a successful youtube channel. For every successful youtuber

Yeah, many of the gamer/maker youtubers provide a lot of insight into the work involved in creating a successful youtube channel. For every successful youtuber there are many aspiring ones, mostly kids, who are putting a lot of work into it on both the creation and marketing ends. They already know or learn quickly that it is not a get rich quick scheme, and young people, in comparison to adults, seem to have a better handle on social influence and how important it is for monetization as well as how tenuous and meaningless it is from an actual social viewpoint.