I have a youtube channel with almost 5000 subscribers. I use it to pass on my limited knowledge of restoration to folks who cant afford to pay someone 10 thousand dollars or more for a paint job on their car. I don’t only focus on paint , but wheels, and hydraulics. My channel is very much amateur hour, but somethings in the process I have been doing for 20yrs, never professionally. I reference youtube for a lot of things. I think youtube has put some people out of business. One example would be, wiring up my make shift paint booth for lights and exhaust. I got quotes of over $2000 to wire it up. I did some research and did it myself. I think youtube is geared more towards DIY’ers. You don’t really see professional baseball players watching videos on how to swing a bat…much like you wouldn’t see someone who works at a dealership spraying 6 cars a day, watching videos on some guy painting in his garage at home. Use it for what its worth. I follow a few people, but I get turned off when they start getting paid to promote products. Im not mad at them, but chose to unfollow at that point. I also have no idea how to edit a video and make it fancy. That on top of the fact I only work on lowriders, cadillacs, lincolns and 60s impalas, my audience is extremely limited. Some guys that have 100’s of thousands of subscribers, they are earning six figure income by making videos. I usually buy beer for the shop fridge with the money google adsense pays me.