I am 36, living in Norway working as an analyst. We do not have regular TV and my wife and I usually watch youtube if we watch something at all.
The evenings we have spare time, we fire up the PS3 or PS4 and play something. Much more engaging than TV :)
The kids use netflix etc though, but also a lot of youtube.
There is one thing I miss about youtube from the earlier days though.
People uploading and creating stuff because they wanted to do it, not because they wanted to make money.
It makes such a huge difference.
I still follow a handful of channels that don't feel like they exist to advertise/monetize. They are far too passionate about their content matter for that to be the case. That said I hope the creators are being compensated well for their efforts.
Many of them are probably on Patreon even if they don't shill it constantly in the videos. If you enjoy their content you should try to give them something - I follow several content creators who make over a thousand dollars a month, almost entirely from $1-5/video donations.
The evenings we have spare time, we fire up the PS3 or PS4 and play something. Much more engaging than TV :)
The kids use netflix etc though, but also a lot of youtube.
There is one thing I miss about youtube from the earlier days though. People uploading and creating stuff because they wanted to do it, not because they wanted to make money. It makes such a huge difference.