Well yeah, if you examine YouTube in isolation and disregard how its algorithm surfaces content, then sure, most people watching YouTube are watching workout vi

Well yeah, if you examine YouTube in isolation and disregard how its algorithm surfaces content, then sure, most people watching YouTube are watching workout videos and game streams. And maybe that's how YouTube is defining itself, and that's fine, but that's not how you create cultural phenomena. Likewise, millions of people drink Coca-Cola every day, but no one really gives a shit about Coca-Cola even though nearly 2 billion servings are drunk every day worldwide. But people still write actual articles about coffee for some reason, and that probably has to do with its relative lack of homogeneity and safety (from a taste standpoint). YouTube wants to sell fizzy sugar water, and that's the sort of relevance they will get. The only reason I point this out as a bad thing is that YouTube long ago represented something else that I think mattered more than cat videos, no matter how small the audience was or is.