Full quote, from the above link:
"Wussup normal peeps and 14 year old environmental hypocrite trolls that use gasoline in the cars they drive and the planes they fly and throw away double AA batteries every other month! "
H then goes on to hawk the link to some stupid CGI "art" bullshit that would be inoffensive and whatever, if not for the fact that creating it is ghoulishly greedy and selfish, given it's helping propagate/perpetuate a needless act that's destroying the environment further.
So I agree with your criticisms overall and I'd rather take the anti-blockchain side of the debate I personally think waiving the "YT/Internet is FREE" flag specifically is very much a horrible take.
Claiming the internet is "free" like many liberals and everyone else realy resorts to defend capitalism benefits/advancements, and it is usually us socialists that have to point out that "free" if you don't include, the actual cost of your device, the cost of energy required to power your device, the actual cost of internet access(free WI-Fi is not omnipresent in the vast majority of the world) etc. Even when these costs are low to the consumer, say a cheap phone, they are already externalized, you know how much does it realy cost a society to mass produce cheap smartphones?
For people creating content well you are not going anywhere in terms of popularity without a proper microphone and a proper camera, or maybe you'd be limited to some other platform then YT.