YouTube has largely replaced broadcast and cable TV for me. There are some really talented content producers. There is a whole cluster of English Narrow Boat channels I look forward to my Friday evening with Foxes Afloat, a couple of times a month I go flying with Max, once a week or so I go hiking and taking photos with Thomas, and there are a bunch of others. With YouTube there is a greater feeling of connection between the creator and the audience. Even those with 100-200-thousand subscribers often respond to comments, and you get a glimpse into their lives that hollywood never gives. YouTube is a more personal experience.
One of the challenges with this is people will sometimes disappoint. For sometime I have been watching a young blogger from Toronto. He is fun, and nice to look at, and not afraid to say or show much of anything (within the limits of what YouTube will allow, he basically makes a living from the advertising revenue and needs to not get banned by YT.)
He recently announced that he tested positive for Covid. Then he went onto say that he wasn't going to get vaccinated, but he wanted to fly to visit a lover in Sweden, and had to be vaccinated to enter Sweden, so he was and he got sick anyway. Then he tries to say he is not anti-vax, and only had the vaccination because he was forced to. I watched this one late in the day. The more I thought about the illogic of what he said, the more disappointed I was, the more angry I was. You can't say you were not going to get vaccinated, and say you are not anti-vax. His logic is tragically flawed.
I did the only thing I really could do, I unsubscribed. I will miss his offbeat sexy humor, and his killer abs, but I can't put pennies in the pocket of someone who sees nothing wrong with not following science, only following it when he feels forced to do so, and then not really because he wants to protect his health and the health of others, but to satisfy his sexual appetite.
Disappoint me, and I know where the delete key is.
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