the current crop of youtube creators, really in the last 10 or 12 years, produces little of value, anyway. They chase an algorithm leading people who are woodworking middle of the roaders, but usually worse, with little to offer, creating the blast of content that reaches the average woodworker, anyway. One only has to look at reddit or another social media platform to see how much the quality of hobby work and hobby intent (vs. listlessness or wandering) has declined.
While it's true that AI creates a never ending flood of tedious compilations, it will only get better at what it's doing and make it harder for creators to put up their technique video and convince someone who is a beginner that they need to buy some car coating to put on a table saw, or only the sharpening stone, type of steel, or accessory that's at the end of the next "affiliate token link".
Maybe it will get people off of youtube and back out to their shops, thinking less about whether or not they'll learn something good (low to no chance) from stumpy nubs, and more about something less temporal and cheesy that they would like to build or learn about. Maybe even if it requires looking at paper printed stuff from 100 years ago.
I couldn't tell you the name of that guy in the caption, and have never seen him before, and for that, I'm thankful. Any time a James Wright or whoever else shows up on my recommended list on youtube, I click the "do not recommend content from this channel" selection and that's the last I see it but for searches. people think if they don't watch that content, they won't be motivated to make anything, but they neglect to realize if they watch that content, they're going to be listless and not motivated to make anything. it's like pushing a wheelbarrow - you can't stand there and watch someone else do it when nobody else is around - you have to lift the handles and grunt a little to make it work. Watching someone else push a wheelbarrow poorly and yell that you need their type won't make yours move.
