This statement perfectly illustrates the importance of YouTube and the Internet (wikipedia).
Youtube is super annoying to learn anything from. Want to find out how to do the brakes on a 2010 Ford XYZ?
1) The search will show you tons of crap that's not what you want but is "promoted" it takes 5X longer than it should to find something.
2) Even if you find the video, it's take a 1/2 hour to pull out the meaningful facts for a task that could be conveyed in about one page of text and a few figures.
3) Often, the video to want find will exist on youtube, but will be impossible to find from their search because they're trying to hard to steer you towards other things. Then the 5X becomes infinity, unless you go back to a search engine again, dealing with their obnoxious algorithms instead.
That information is now easily accessible to ANYONE in the entire world.
Youtube and wikipedia didn't make that happen. They came around after the fact and de-empasized all the search hits to the older, much better content out there.
There use to be a thriving network of forums, newsgroups and small and or personal websites with tons of great information.
It used to be, if you ran a search for how to do that brake job, you'd have a hit on a manufacturer-specific car forum right at the top. Now you have these giant garbage tech companies cross promoting each other. You'll get some marginally useful youtube hits, and some absolute garbage hits on sites like fixya.com, quora.com, etc.
Then you have the issue that they're super ridiculously slanted in their viewpoint towards those of the globalist technocrats that run them, and have no respect for basic tenets of American culture like freedom of speech, the right to face your accuser, the right to a trial, no ex post facto laws, etc.
The old adage that "Made In China" meant the products were poorly made is no longer true. Tim Cook mentioned that they outsourced to China not because it was the cheapest option but rather it was the technical expertise at the right price.
What do you expect him to say, "Buy our phones at a premium price even though they're made with the same sweatshop quality labor as our cheaper competitors."
I've seen this argument a lot. Obviously, if you have someone what every step of the process, making sure that all the materials are proper, etc, you can produce something decent, usually. But would I buy Chinese rock climbing equipment? Hell no.
I'm always shocked to see Gen Zs in other countries, perfectly synchronized in their dancing/singing exploits on TikTok. What's shocking is that these are foreign kids embracing US culture just because it's cool
Dancing is not what I would call "US culture". The US does have some unique and special culture, but the superficial narcissism of the "look at me" crowd is not it.
If you want to learn something uniquely American, read "William Diamond's Drum"