People will get into hunting without YouTube, trust me I know because I did. No one in my immediate family has an ounce of outdoorsyness in their blood. I was obsessed as a toddler, my uncle helped out and got me into bird hunting, I started big game hunting when I could buy my own rifles and gear and go, YouTube didn’t make or break my decision to huntYouTube also gets people into hunting, people hunting keeps the sport alive and keeps funds coming in for conservation etc. My parents didn't hunt, I had no idea about anything hunting and always heard a elk hunt is too expensive for normal people to do. Come across videos 10 years ago explaining public land and buying otc licenses and it's like oh hey I actually can go hunt. Now it's something I do every year and I've gotten multiple friends into it. I understand the hate with alot of the YouTubers but there is also some pretty good ones.
Just my .02