I've recently learned that American Zoomers love to learn about politics, science, and history through YouTube videos. Kurzgesagt, CGP Grey, and many other capitalist funded trash
I've told a friend about France receiving billions in payments from "former colonies" for their "independence" every year and their first instinct was to search up a YouTube video in front of me to learn more while I was trying to Google for a primary source of the hard financial data and agreements signed
People were lecturing me about how Putin thinks and will act based on videos they've seen from CGP Grey (like Rules for Rulers LOL). As if a man like Putin can be so easily understood and predicted from a dumb tech bro who watched an 8 minute cartoon yt video, especially given the context that he is the leader of such an enormous country like Russia
The early internet was a lot less a capital wasteland and was filled with well intentioned academics and hobbyists that were in love with a new technology. A lot less motivated by profit. So the internet itself was an arguably better source of information than the modern internet in general. Zoomers will never know the ad-free, Correct the Record-free, pirating-is-easy-but-dangerous internet