“don’t forget to like and subscribe”

That seems more like the result of bad parenting.

I think a lot of young people see content creation as the only way they can make the money they want/need. I think many of them idolize streamers/content creators, and so they emulate them however they can. Part of that is dreaming to eventually have a ‘chat’ to say ‘chat’ to.

Makes me pretty sad, tbh.