Like, don't get me wrong there are certain channels (even ones I don't care for) that do be making a lot of content that seems like it takes work, or at least a good amount of research.
But then you got people who put out like 2 videos a year of them monologuing in a costume to a camera and maybe citing 2 books, while making 6 figures (or more), and apparently pay someone to do most of the post production work, and then post about "burnout" on Twitter.
I mean like... come on bro.
Depends on the YouTuber.
Esoterica where Dr Sledge is delving through literal medieval books and sources he has personally spent lots of money on and need to be translated just to tell us about a neat demon summoning spell people of the past thought was real or how this one angel was super cool and this one guy saw his sword and man was it a dope sword. He is clearly combining hours, if not days, of actual work reading, translating, and referencing stuffy works in other languages from bygone eras combined with years of academic accomplishment to produce these.
Then you see someone just has a drama/react channel where they stream a few hours a day and pay some editor peanuts to push out clips and it's like, come on, I understand entertaining people is a skill and all but this isn't even really your content. This is just water-cooler banter for people who have no friends or coworkers.